Today was a special day. It would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He didn't even live to celebrate his 70th. As a technical engineer, specialized in thin layers, he worked for Philips. His first main project concerned the inner coating of CRT tubes, his second was taking part in the development of...

Working all day with screen, keyboard and mouse is quite a stress to some parts of your body. Over the years, getting old, you have to pay the toll. Sore wrists and tired eyes can become side-effects of your hard work. So far I'm surviving quite well but I do pay a lot of attention to anything which...

Everything is going digital over the last couple of years. Which revolutionizes the way we work with information. But digital is not a substitute for everything. Take digital photography. The number of mega-pixels of the camera (in your phone) is rising by the month. But when I see the loads and loads...

Today was the final of the RoboChallenge where robots compete on the ability to find and catch differnent colored balls. Amongst others the event is sponsored by Microsoft: .NET was used amongst the platforms used for the robot software. Amongst others I saw Eclipse and Delphi. Some robots were a PC...

Going to the Cebit ICT trade fair was a day well spent. Visited the show on a trip organized by Groniningen ICT with ICT people from my part of the country. Hannover is a 4 hour bus ride which flies away with good company. The fair itself is an ocean. The amount Far Eastern producers of blue-tooth headsets...

A computer can be noisy, most of the average desktops are not that far from a vacuum cleaner sitting on your desk. The main reason for the noise are the fans to get away all the heat generated. As Trubadour demonstrated this heat is enough to fry an egg (I found this first through Sahil ). When you take...