Moving to Typepad..

Ok, while I may eventually find something new for this blog for now my primary blog will be on Typepad. The new URL is http://jeroenr.typepad.com/.

New Gmail Invites

Hey all, I have some new Gmail invites. Leave a comment or send an e-mail if you want one.

Trying out Typepad

I'm trying out the Typepad weblog service as a possible alternative to the Blogger service. Typepad has several advantages such as more advanced posting options (categorization of posts is built in for example), trackback, Typelists (easily manageable lists of books, music, links and people, better templates, expanded hosting, and integrated photo albums. The drawback is that it isn't free. You can check my preliminary Typepad blog here. It is still in a somewhat primitive state but that is likely to change. If I like it enough it'll probably become my primary blog.

Freedom Tower Will Be Green Giant

Very nice article on Wired.com on the environmental aspects of the Freedom Tower (which will be built at the site of the former WTC).

100 Photographs that Changed the World

Great page at The Digital Journalist featuring some of the photographs of the corresponding book.

Just One Question..

The World's Shortest Blog is devoted to a single question: "How many times have you been arrested Mr. President?". Currently a $1909.00 Bounty is offered to the first person to ask George W. Bush this question in a public forum. Cool!

Re-design in progress

You probably noticed I switched templates (again). I got bored of the old one, and I'm fooling around a bit to what I can come up with. It will be based on this particular template, 'Minima' as my fellow bloggers will probably know, which I like because it is rather clean and unobtrusive. You may also have noticed that there is something different about the links section in the sidebar; I'm using furl to make it a little more dynamic and topical, but more about that later.

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19!!

The Talk Like A Pirate Day 2004 is coming up! Avast ye landlubbers and get ready for this wondrous festivity!

Fahrenheit 9/11 not submitted as Best Documentary for Oscars

Big audience more important than Oscar for Michael Moore.

College Textbooks on Bit Torrent

Interesting post at Assemble Me. It only talks about Calculas texbook, but I'm guessing those overpriced business and marketing texbooks will be easy to find pretty soon as well. Studying from a .pdf would be hell of course, but If you've got access to free printing...

Jackson Talks Kong

A brief, but interesting, article about the upcoming King Kong movie on IGN Filmforce.

Communists for KERRY

Communists for KERRY is just brilliantly funny.

Big tech on campus

Interesting article on the influx of new technologies in American colleges and universities at CNET News.com

Got Gmail?

*Update: Two invites left..*

Dear readers of my blog (yes all 3 of you!), I just opened my very own Gmail account and I've got several invites to give away. If you're interested leave your first name, last name, and e-mail adress in the comments (or send an e-mail) and I'll send you an invite. I have only got three invites left, but I'm guessing that'll be enough.

For those of you who don't know what Gmail is, allow me to give a brief explanation. Gmail is a free webmail service by Google. Of course we all know free webmail, but Google gives you 1000 Mb of storage and allows you to receive and send messages of up to 10Mb. In return you'll have to put up with text ads based on the content of your e-mail. This is all automated though, so there aren't any real privacy issues. It is still in beta so you can only get an account if a current Gmail user invites you. Anyways, if you want an account just let me know.

Shiny Yellow Rubber Duckies Strike Again!

We did pretty well in the Pub Quiz yesterday.

The new Apple iMac G5

Those who know me know I like Apple (even though I don't own any Apple products (saving up for the iPod though)). Anyways, their new iMac G5 is a great looking computer whick makes me green with envy of those who are able to afford one. However, they still have 256 MB SDRAM as the default configuration (they can go up to 2GB). Why on earth would anyone buy a new computer with only 256 MB RAM? Sure you can specify that you want more RAM when you order one, but really 512 MB should be the standard option. That said, I really love the slot-loading combo/superdrive and the fact that even the power supply is built-in.

Holiday is almost over..

So the Introduction week is over and classes start next week. Oddly enough I'm rather looking forward to start studying again. I'll also be online much more, so I'll be able to update more frequently. Yay!

Anyways yesterday was the open stage night, Jeroen Toet and I played two songs. I'm happy to say it went fairly well, I'll see if I'm able to post some pics soon.