Category Archives: rant

note to all web site builders concerning belgians

October 8, 2008 – 21:14

This is something I’ve been running into a few times by now, and it’s getting a bit annoying. This is a tip to everyone who builds a website and who wants to present localised pages to it’s users. This is a tip in particular to deal with Belgians.
Some think Belgium is a made up country, [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in belgium, internet | Comments (0)

still a windows geek

September 10, 2008 – 21:48

Originally this post was called “I’m a Windows geek”, and was about how I installed Ubuntu after not being able to reinstall Windows XP because something was making the hardware detection lock up. Using Ubuntu I did manage to get through the hardware detection, and eventually diagnosed the problem to be able to reinstall the [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in freedbacking, geek, opensource, software, ubuntu, windows | Comments (0)

why youtube rocks… well, sort of

September 4, 2008 – 19:39

Have you noticed that every music video seems to be on Youtube these days? Now Youtube isn’t the most kick ass, neat looking and coolest video service out there, (that’s Vimeo)  but when it comes down to content, they seem to have it all
No matter what video clip you’re looking for, it’s probably there. Like [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in copyright, geek, internet, media, movie, music | Comments (0)

the infection is spreading

April 19, 2008 – 20:23

Photo by Scott Robinson, cc-licensed
I’m writing this post because I want to warn you about a virus that is slowly but surely infecting people’s brain. In the last months I’ve been seen this creep up all over the place, infecting all sorts of people around me.
Do you think it’s normal that for some reason people [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in society, tips | Comments (2)