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Co-creation: learn from the masters.

Posted on Friday 29 July 2011 at 10:43 am in category: Whatever
In the past week 21 people read this, in the past month 69 people read this.

Witold Pilecki, the Auschwitz volunteer

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2011 at 7:00 pm in category: Helden - Heroes
In the past week 28 people read this, in the past month 116 people read this.

Nobody really likes war. Wars aren't really fun, people die and stuff. But there's one positive thing you can say about wars, and that is that a good old-fashioned war usually creates a couple of heroes.

One of the heroes of the Second World War (or World War 2) is definetly Witold Pilecki, who is (as far as I know) the only person ever that volunteered to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Old blogs online

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2011 at 2:25 pm in category: Nerds, Whatever
In the past week 5 people read this, in the past month 20 people read this.

Much to my surprise, I've found an old backup of some blogs I wrote before 2008. to my surprise, because I'm not much of a backer-upper. Anyway, they are online now, becasue I was able to import them to this blog, that runs on PivotX.

There's only one problem...picutres in those blogs are not shown until I open the actual blog, and save it again. 

They're all in Dutch, by the way.

A sign in my yard & a tip to save money

Posted on Tuesday 12 April 2011 at 09:09 am in category: USA
In the past week 12 people read this, in the past month 56 people read this.

Today, I have taken my 'being an american' to a whole new level. I now have a sign in my yard. The United States is the only country I know where people express their political views by putting a sign in their yard. Especially when elections are coming closer, almost every house will have a sign (or more than one) to tell you who or what to vote for. In The Netherlands only die-hard partisans would do this. The rest of the population would probably rather have a red hot soldering iron shoved up their nose than tell anybody what their political preferences are.

American politics differ from Dutch politics in a lot of ways. For example, most of the time when voting here in the US, you have two choices for every issue: who is going to be president (choose between these two idiots please), if you are in favor of a tax raise to keep the school going (yes or no), if you agree on having bars serve alcohol on Sundays (yes or no) and a ton of other things.

This is not an April Fools joke

Posted on Thursday 31 March 2011 at 3:27 pm in category: Whatever
In the past week 5 people read this, in the past month 22 people read this.

I admit, it was an easy joke to make. Yesterday I tweeted that I would give away 50 iPads today. As we all know, today is April 1st, historically a day that people publish hoaxes and other stuff that's meant to be funny. So no, it wasn't true. I was just trying to see if it would spread. And it did.

But I didn't expect is that it would take off the way it did. Within a couple of hours, the tweet had been retweeted and re-retweeted and even more often re-re-retweeted. Lots of people started 'following' me. Of course, by the time most people retweeted, the treshold of 50 had already been passed, so most of those re-tweeters would not stand a chance anyway.

However, today I really do want to give something away. I know it is not an iPad, but hey, it's free, and I thought somebody might be able to put it to good use, or maybe know somebody that could use it. It is my trusted Dell Latitude D800 laptop. It's not new, but it isn't really old either. It has a 1.7GHz Pentium Mobile processor, 1GB of RAM, is ready for WiFi and all that stuff, and has a DVD burner in it as well. I'll throw in the original laptop bag it came in as well. And before I ship it, I will do a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10, so we have no issues with licenses and stuff.

All you need to do to get it is this: explain in an e-mail why you want or need it, in English or Dutch, preferably without spelling or grammar errors. If you convince me, it's yours. You can either come pick it up or pay for shipping, whatever you want.

Below is this text in Dutch.

En nu in het Nederlands:

Ik geef toe dat het een makkelijke grap was. Gisteren tweette ik dat ik vandaag 50 iPads weg zou gaan geven. Vandaag is het natuurlijk 1 april, en het was dus een grap. Ik wilde gewoon eens zien hoe snel zoiets zich zou verspreiden.

Maar dat het zó zou gaan, had ik ook niet verwacht. Binnen een paar uur was het berichtje honderden keren geretweet, gere-retweet en zelfs nog vaker gere-re-retweet. Opeens werd ik door een heleboel mensen 'gevolgd'. Natuurlijk maakten de meesten van deze re-tweeters sowieso geen kans, want de 50 retweets waren binnen enkele minuten al gepasseerd.

Vandaag ga ik echter wel echt iets weggeven. Het is dan wel geen iPad, maar er zal best iemand zijn die er iets mee kan, of misschien ken je iemand die er iets mee kan. Het is mijn gebruikte Dell Latitude D800 laptop, met 1.7 GHz Pentium Mobile processor, 1GB RAM, DVD burner, WiFi. Ik zorg ervoor dat Ubunut 10.10 er schoon op geinstalleerd wordt voordat hij weggaat. En je krijgt de laptop tas er ook nog bij.

Hier is wat je ervoor moet doen: stuur even een e-mailtje, en leg uit waarom je de laptop wilt hebben (bij voorkeur met correcte spelling en grammatica). Als je me kunt overtuigen, is de laptop van jou. Het enige wat je dan hoeft te doen is de portokosten betalen. Of ophalen natuurlijk.