Study turns pot wisdom on head. From the article:
Most “drugs of abuse” such as alcohol, heroin, cocaine and nicotine suppress growth of new brain cells. However, researchers found that cannabinoids promoted generation of new neurons in rats’ hippocampuses. Hippocampuses are the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, and the study held true [...]

Tip: veel testpersonen gaan ervan uit dat je als Usability Engineer goed op de hoogte bent van het programma dat wordt getest. Vaak wordt er ook van uit gegaan dat je voor de firma werkt. Het gebeurt heel vaak dat er specifieke vragen over de dienstverlening van het bedrijf in kwestie worden gesteld, waar je [...]

Pandora.com offers music, based on the stuff you already like. And the nice thing is, it works better than expected. In theory, because the database is still rather limited, and needs some additional training and hopefully some more complexity. E.g. music based on the Pixies returns lots of decent stuff, while music based on the [...]

I’m writing this in a tool called Writely. I’m trying to post this to my blog. Fingers crossed…
…And it bloody well worked! The web is truly growing up. If only I could get writely to work in Firefox. (I’m sure that it does, but I’m using the 1.5 beta version, and somehow it doesn’t accept [...]