Ruminations on the Digital Realm

How diverse and interesting can a single life be? When looking back over the last two weeks I can see many things that would have warranted blog posts. How often is your week filled with meeting kind and good people who suffer from psychiatric disorders as varied as psychosis, paranoia, border line and suicidal tendencies [...]

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I am still puzzled by the succes of Dan Brown. Over the last few days I read both Digital Fortress and Angels and Demons. Together with the Da Vinci Code these books share some common elements. ln all three we find a powerful secretive organisation that turns out to be less powerful at the [...]

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Day 2 of the Ubuntu experience. One of the first things to do after the default install would be to make sure you have all the available security updates. Ubuntu immediately warns about that as well. ln my case 130 updates were waiting. It took only 15 minutes to download the lot. 30 minutes later [...]

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The book itself is not overly well written. The plot has been compared to slices of Emmenthaler cheese: thin and full of holes. The movie is not much better. It isn’t even very popular on the P2P networks, which should be seen as an indicator of true lameness. Not even when it’s free.
Yet, the [...]

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“Jonathan Metzbloke is an internationally acclaimed power consultant. Scores of Fortune 500 top managers have benefited from Jonathan’s personal coaching.” Bin opened the book to check the price on the last page. ‘$ 12,50… way to expensive’, he muttered. He looked past isle 15 to the desk at the end. No, that wouldn’t work this [...]

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