Tomorrow morning, we’re off to Porto, Portugal! Back next tuesday. Expect no posts in between. Tonight, F.C.Porto plays the Champions League final, against Monaco. I hope they win, it would certainly contribute to the local atmosphere while we’re down there.

This weekend, I was rummaging through some old stuff of mine. I moved out of my parent’s house eight years ago, and left a lot of things in my old room, old toys, old books, etc. For some reason, my father bought a copy of Hal Lindsey’s The Late, Great Planet Earth (we have a [...]

Microsoft agreed to pay Norway’s Opera Software $12.75 million. Microsoft is trying to “simplify” it’s business, by paying of potential suers (so they can begin a new round of leeching). How about the many, many man-weeks I’ve lost trying to work around their poor implementation of (X)HTML, CSS, DOM, ECMAScript and PNG? I’m suing!

People have hobbies. Some read books, watch movies, ski, surf, skate, dance, walk, eat … I mark up. The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell in XHTML 1.1 Strict. Hands-down the finest version of this book on the Internet. Download it, print it, read it.

I’m probably the only Web-developer who didn’t know this: a on-page hyperlink (those beginning with #) also works with any id attribute, you don’t need an A element with a name attribute at the receiving end. The name attribute on A attributes has been deprecated as of XHTML 1.1. I found out trying to validate [...]

Respectful of Otters, Tough on Crime:
How else to explain the chronic neglect of a program that effectively fights some of our most pernicious and recalcitrant social problems? We do, genuinely, deplore child abuse and adolescent promiscuity and juvenile crime - and yet there is somehow never enough money and resources for programs to prevent them, [...]

Congratulations to Michael Moore for winning the Palme D’Or. While awards are stupid displays of peerfucking, Mr. Moore manages to make each winning a personal victory against what ails us all. Although many of his viewpoints are lacking thourough analysis–I think a few chapters of Stupid White Men where just, eh, stupid–his overall vision is [...]

Just like G.W.Bush today, Adolf Hitler believed he was on a divine mission, to rid the world of evil. He survived several assassination attempts. In 1939, a Communist planted a bomb at a beerhall, where Hitler was to speak. The bomb went off, only thirteen minutes after Hitler had left the building. The British Special [...]

As you can see, I’m still busy designing the site. Wordpress is new to me, PHP is new to me, so it will take a couple of weeks to finetune. You probably don’t care, do you?

Today’s reality is that many programmers find themselves having to design the user interface themselves. They don’t want to design the UI, but if they don’t, nobody else will. Alas, most of these fine men and women received no formal training in the basics of Good Laying Out. Consequently, the resulting screens look like the [...]

One of my more controversial motto’s has always been: “Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.” I stole the line from Tin Machine/David Bowie, although he used it in a negative manner. The same dictum is now used by Vlaams Blok’s Philippe ‘I-changed-my-name-to-Filip-because-it-was-too-French’ Dewinter, to justify the party’s racist discourse in the past. A week [...]

I’ve just installed WordPress, and started a new Weblog: The Passive Observer. The name was taken from the original CRASS lyric:
People are so easily deluded into thinking they’ve instrumented choice
Where in reality they’re nothing but passive observers.
My previous Weblog was Conquistadores.com, which I let expire. That domain has been bought by some asshole squatter [...]