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It’s been a while since I was really pleasantly surprised by a new Belgian group (Moiano comes to mind) but it just happened again. I was humming along to the little pearl “Troubles and Fights” by Lalalover - “Wow, who’s that?” - and then I find out it’s a Belgian group started by Tom Kestens [...]
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A number of influential international writers, journalists and intellectuals have just released a manifesto: “Together facing the new totalitarianism”, stating that we need to protect the universal rights (freedom of expression, equality of man and woman, …) from attacks by militant muslims.
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian [...]
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I wrote about digital cinema earlier. I want to focus now on the distribution of movies to theatres.
FILESIZE OF A MOVIE
The movie’s video signal is compressed and encrypted into a bitrate of max 250 Mbps, which translates in 31.25 MB/second or 112.50 GB/hour footage. So a ’short’ 90-minute movie is something like 170GB, and a [...]
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In November last year, Doc Searls published a lengthy article in LinuxJournal: “Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes“. It is an essential piece of reading.
This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here [...]
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Google has just confirmed to have bought Upstartle, the creators of Writely (Writely Blog/GoogleBlog via Om Malik). Apart from being good news for the founders of Upstartle, this also indicates Google’s determination to make the fat client history and allow users to do all their business through on-line services.
Now buying Writely is in line with [...]
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One of the reasons why I have been posting less the last couple of days, is because I was working on a migration from Blogger to Wordpress. I was still working out some DNS stuff (don’t let me get into that, it’s complicated stuff , to do with how Bluehost’s -my hosting provider- DNS management [...]
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(trailer aflevering 3)
Sofie tegen An: “Steffie heeft in hare brief gezegd dat gij iets hebt gehad met 1 van de beste vrienden van Jan” (op foto #5)
Dat belooft weer voor zondag: An met Lucas, of An met Guido? An met Dick?? Steffie met Jan?
Ik heb al een paar theoriën gehoord:
Jan zit in dat huis in [...]
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I’ve written a post on the BMI (Body Mass Index) of the candidates for Germany’s next Top Model and I have been mentally bugged ever since. Not by images of thin girls, but by the formula of BMI: weight(kg) / length(m) ^ 2. Why the square of the length?
If it were weight/length you can [...]
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Anyone who often works at home is probably familiar with this: sometimes you would like to work somewhere else to finish something undisturbed, to see some people while you work instead of just the PC and the refrigerator, to have a meeting in a pleasant location, to be in another environment. I often do some [...]
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Business 2.0: Souping up search results - Mar. 15, 2006
Subtler is the change being wrought on the very character of tech marketing. "Traditional brand-marketing people are no longer as valuable," says Excite co-founder and JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus. "What you're looking for now are people comfortable with numbers
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Russell Lichter writes the Monthly Mix Challenge blog: interesting monthly lists of songs on particular themes: e.g. titles with the word ‘hate’ in them or female drummers (that I mentioned earlier).
At the end of last year he listed songs with a title that contains a year (number). And it appears my birth year was [...]
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Wordpress Theme Browser
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Het kan aan mij liggen, maar ik denk dat er in aflevering 4 veel uit de kast gaan komen:
Mr Y: Guido, da is toch nen homo, he?
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An: Hebde gulle da nooit meegemaakt dat iets nie kan of nie mag en dat ge het toch niet kunt laten?
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Piet: Ik kan dat perfect uitleggen. Kom sebiet naar [...]
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I wrote about the economics of spam earlier:
P$ = [N * (I% * S% * W% * B% * M$)] - (N * E$) - (L% * C% * R$)
where
P$ = profit, bottom-line
N = number of emails sent (can [...]
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Small rant ahead:
One of Flanders’ fine actors, Peter Van Asbroeck, has let his hair grow. Way too long. And to make sure he doesn’t get any between his teeth, he has resorted to wearing a head band. Not a macho type of hair band - as far as that is possible - but the most [...]
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