To live, to love, and to leave a legacy.

Read my easy-to-understand bite-size summary-slogans to use for quick brainstorming.

Jacob writes about performance variability in his Alertbox. Interesting to read why it pay’s to hire a top 25 percentile programmer: he works 3 times as fast. Note to (future) employee’s, I won’t pay more, but I promise you we will give you what you want.

Minister Pechtold (Bestuurlijke Vernieuwing) wil dat de toegankelijkheid van websites van de rijksoverheid gecontroleerd gaan worden aan de hand van een bouwkeuring. Wij zijn er klaar voor!

Something I definately want to see sometime soon: I just found out the world’s 2nd largest building is located in Europe – thanks to Nicolae Ceauşescu. For stats/photo’s/etc, see the web – but this is not easily found: the names the joint had: Casa Republicii (House of the Republic), the original name Casa Poporului (House…

Business Week writes a great (but very subjective) article. I always wanted to work at own an innovative company, but reading this Top 100 I only find a couple companies I would like to work for (iooi): Apple, Google, Microsoft, Ideo, FedEx, B&O, Yahoo, easyJet and Caterpillar.

CyclePods is a unique patented space saving bike-storage system.

Sometimes I wonder if the Graves-model is a good way to represent the different stages. I find it difficult to figure out if I’m more Orange than Yellow or even Turquise (seeing the world in a systemic and spiritual manner from a group perspective) in this generally Blue society I participate in. At the least…

According to Brisk Magazine the three top ways to get into the boardroom are: – Assistent to the CEO: right hand man with all the experience/knowledge – External Adviser to the Management Team: filling the knowledge void – Sales: the best (proven track record) sales people can sell themselves very good too Since “sales” is…

Feather Linux on a 128MB (or larger) USB-stick AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can automate almost anything. In the CT magazine I read and article about: the opendir.blogspot.com and vkmag.com websites. With the words of Douglas MacArthur: there is no security; there is only opportunity…

I just went to Die Zauberflote from Mozart by the State Opera Tatarstan (Russia) in the TheaterHotel in Almelo. Cool to see how technology is entering even a theatrical production: the German opera was “undertitled” in Dutch via a large electronic LED board above the stage.