Category Archives: fun

Ballooning away

Posted on November 5, 2007 by peter

During the weekend I attended a super cool company event: we went flying in a hot air balloon. I really enjoyed the experience! We went up in Utrecht (near Ikea) and landed about 35km (measured in a straight line) in … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Geeks: Groovy!

Posted on August 11, 2007 by peter

At the end of September Finalist will organize an event called: Battle of the Geeks. Main concept of the battle is to convince the audience of the usefulness coolness of the tool/framework which you are presenting. Initially I was asked … Continue reading →

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Electronic music and vintage computers

Posted on June 23, 2007 by peter

I came across the following video on the Computer Music website: Although they claim that we have come a long way, I’m not so sure… The demonstrated C64 software looks like it is really fun to use!

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Vista vs. OsX

Posted on January 30, 2007 by peter

With the launch of Windows Vista today I was reminded of a nice video I came across a while ago: The widget/gadget thingy kept me thinking…. I just had to look it up! Here are the definitions from the Oxford … Continue reading →

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Pixelroller

Posted on January 28, 2007 by peter

I’ve been following the processing framework framework for quite a while now. Processing can best be seen as a DSL to ease the task of programming interactive computer generated images and animations build on top of Java. Most of the … Continue reading →

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Reactable

Posted on November 30, 2006 by peter

A colleague of mine pointed me to UPF’s reactable site: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?media During my Masters year I was in a project with a team from UPF, and we worked on something a bit similar (but, which never got finished and wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Bathroom & Panoramic picture

Posted on October 22, 2006 by peter

Some weeks ago I spend a lot of time building a new bathroom in my house. I promised people to put some snapshots online… but till now I wasn’t satisfied with the pictures I made. This was basically due to … Continue reading →

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osx on ubuntu

Posted on October 17, 2006 by peter

The release of the Intel version OSX a while ago kept me thinking about running OSX on my Dell notebook. Yes, I do have G4 iBook …. but I just wanted to know if it is possible. While searching I … Continue reading →

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Concrete and the spider

Posted on September 10, 2006 by peter

Today I finished 33% of my holiday. 66% more to go! I’m rebuilding my bathroom. I managed to hide the plumbing, central heating and electricity neatly under a solid slab of reinforced concrete. Coming week: create a small wall for … Continue reading →

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EOS350D – New header

Posted on August 1, 2006 by peter

Today the Canon EOS350D we ordered arrived. During the day Danielle mailed me some nice shots she made while experimenting… soon Sjoerd’s weblog will be packed with hi-res 8 megapixel SLR pictures But after dinner I had a go, and … Continue reading →

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