OS X on a Dell? Yuk! Question and answer formed the two first sentences of this column – a.k.a. ‘Interface’ until September 2004 – on February 29, 2002. Feed question and answer to Google and you’ll find it over here (in Dutch). A lot has changed in four years. While I made my entrance into the Mac-parish it has become possible – although not officially allowed by Redmond or Cupertino – to install and operate OS X on a Dell without too many sleepless nights. Even crazier, which I couldn’t have dreamed in 2002, the other way is officially possible,… >> Lees verder . . . >>
In memoriam Donald Dukeman
Bad news these days arrives every so often over the internet, one way or antother; web, VOIP, sms, chat, rss, any possible way over the ever increasing GooglePlex, copper or wireless.This time is was Gmail that prepared us for the death of Donald Dukeman, followed by a sad post on Easter Sunday under one of my old Baggy Maggy postings: ‘Donald Dukeman has passed away’. It was the internet where I met Donald for the first time, exactly two years ago. ‘I was the flight engineer on that fateful day’, he e-mailed, only days after I started an internet search… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Sugar
Everywhere, in every country, you have a lot of nice people, and some assholes. I really don’t know what kind of guys the three pickpockets are who robbed me of my Digital Ixus in La Paz (hence no pictures of La Paz over here). Maybe they’re very nice guys for their family and friends, and they were professionals for sure; it all happened in a second or so, no knife, no pain, pooofff, boom, and gone they were, with my camera. Well done, boys! I also don’t know which moron spray painted this little white dog in Sucre, but he… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Andrey Gofman of Andrey Anufrijenko?
Hoop rekeningen bij de post na zes weken Zuid-Amerika, maar ook een cadeautje: ‘De Blokjesleggers van Turijn’. Dat het eraan kwam wist ik al, na het volgende mailtje dat ik ergens in Paraguay of Bolivia in een internetcafe in mijn onvolprezen Gmail tegenkwam: Geachte heer Krijnen, U heeft ons een oplossing gestuurd op onze ‘Afgrijzelijk moeilijke schaatsvraag‘. Helaas was die oplossing niet goed, maar u was wel de enige die in de buurt kwam. (Er waren in totaal twee inzendingen). Hoewel u voor Gofman Andrej Anufrijenko had moeten invullen willen wij u toch een exemplaar van het boek ‘De blokjeslegger… >> Lees verder . . . >>