Next week it’s Tabloid Day at the newspaper were I’m working, last months all hands on every deck having been busy preparing , restyling, learning new tricks, and, pretty important, learning how to write shorter (and better). Temporarily there’s not as much attention for Internet and multimedia as there should be, but that’s gonna be alright, in time to come. If not out by vision, then because of the market: publishers that don’t take part in the Internet rat race, will find themselves empty handed at the finish – that is, if there ever will come and end to the… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Badonkadonk and Death by Milk
Do not try this in Holland, because before you’re around the very first street corner it will be confiscated by grumpy men in black or blue, but in Britain or the US it’s somewhat easier to drive your own soapbox, powered by something that roars.You have to pass some kind of MOT, and if brakes, headlights and steering are doing a decent job you receive some kind of green slip and you’re on your way. One should try to emigrate to the US for less.I doubt if the Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Tank is ‘street legal’, because on most pictures I… >> Lees verder . . . >>
iPhone, YouPhone . . . .
Maybe I should have become a marketeer. Some weeks before Xmas (2006) a song sang in between my ears, when Apple delayed the introduction of it’s cross-breed between phone and iPod. Then, somewhere first week of December, LinkSys, either sensing problems or opportunities, presented a new model of its iPhone, the name than mum Cisco had registered seven years earlier. So, I thought, Apple will come with its own phone, but what will be its name? I don’t what you were thinking, but there’s only one name fitting in Apple’s (what’s in a name?) Front Row of devices and applications:… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Reminiscences of november 1985
My dear Australian friends, Uncle Leon has has enjoyed his one minute of fame on national television. If you miss some of the double Dutch over there; as even you can probably guess after having watched the video, it’s all about soccer. A Dutch television magazine produced an error in an article about a a soccer match way back in 1985, and I’d send them a kind email about it, pointing out it deserved an ‘undo’ in the next issue. When they published it, as a letter from reader, I got a call from another television channel. Like in Australia,… >> Lees verder . . . >>
The 80/90 Zeng Rule
My black Aldi’s, love and admired as well as despised and hated in the editorial desk room where I’m spending way to much of my time, have led to mail and real time listeners. An elder classic audiophile needed only seconds of listening to tell me the boxes (as well as the amplifier) are crap, but some younger colleagues with a tiny budget thought the jet black heavy speaker boxes from the German retailer ‘stellar’. At the Internet corner of the central desk we think they’re stellar too, so from seven to nine (digital starts earlier that paper) it’s morning… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Hoezo, geen verstand van voetbal?
Waar een mailtje met een opmerking over een foutje in de VPRO gids al niet toe kan leiden. En nooit meer zeggen dat ik geen verstand van voetbal heb, want ik wist het echt nog uit mijn hoofd. Ha!
Revolution: (half) live or play back?
Hadn’t checked GoogleVideo for a couple of weeks on ‘Beatles’. Never seen this one before: performing ‘Revolution’ at the David Frost Show. Year? Got my doubts about whether this is (half) live or play back. According to one commenter on GoogleVideo: ‘many people think this is a lip-synced version, its not, its live vocals over the video’. However; according to Wikipedia: A product of the recording sessions for The Beatles (aka The White Album), “Revolution” featured distorted guitars and an electric piano solo by session musician Nicky Hopkins. This track is one of the loudest and most aggressive Beatle songs;… >> Lees verder . . . >>