Let’s add cyberhq.sg to the mix, too. All I’m after now is the .aq version, which might prove difficult to get.

Actually I’m also after cyberhq.int. Anyone out there who can make that happen?

I am now the proud owner of cyberhq.hk. More internationality to come.

Oh and Akismet rocks.

Work of art? Sony?

Yes. Not a product, but the commercial for a product. For the Sony Bravia LCD TV to be exact.

What’s so special? Well, they took 250.000 bouncy balls, and launched them off a hill in San Francisco. They could have done it with Computer Graphics, but they did it for real instead. Add some nice music to it and film it with high speed cameras, and the result is stunningly beautiful. I think it’s also the first television advertisement with a website dedicated to it, including behind-the-scenes footage.

You need Quicktime (or something compatible) to play the videos. Be sure to check out the 2.5-minute extended version in its h.264 high quality version.

Is back! Wooo!

In slightly different form than before (cinnamon icecream vs. vanilla icecream with real cinnamon mixed in), but still. Woo!

… if I took the cookie dough out of the Ben & Jerry’s ‘Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough’ icecream and baked it.

Would the cookies be any good?

If you’ve ever used public transport in Amsterdam, you’ll know that the drivers have a somewhat different attitude compared to PT in other cities. I was confronted with that again, this morning.

Getting to work for me involves getting on a bus, then switching to a train, and lastly I get on a tram. The bus isn’t from Amsterdam. That makes it easy: you wait for it to appear and get on. If you’re still approaching the bus stop when that bus is appearing, you run at it and it’ll stay there so you can still get on. The trains go at regular intervals (or are delayed, but never too early) so you shouldn’t have any trouble making it there in time.

Now the public transport in Amsterdam. They will not wait. At all. Not even a single second. Just this morning, I was approaching the tram. I was literally less than 50cm away from the door when it closed and the tram rode away.

Well, at least I had some time to get something to drink.

I’d say it was pretty cool. Not entirely true to the book (as usual). For instance there are a few annoying love-scene moments (as usual) that need to go (as usual). But apart from that, I enjoyed the hitchhiker’s guide movie quite a bit. Special crowd, too. One dude had part of an orange juicer strapped to his head (explained in the movie), and another raised his towel everytime it was mentioned.

I’ve begun moving over to WordPress. This means the end of my homebrew Zope stuff, which was basically only there to try out Zope. It just stuck a little longer than I expected. It also means I can finally ditch the UserModeLinux virtual machine running it.

Now, I’ve archived all the old stuff of course. Most links should still work. I have no clue how I’m going to make google like all this, but who cares. It’s still the old (table-based, ack!) layout, too. Either way, find it in the archive. (Some links to files and images are broken. Should you need one of them, just poke me).

I hope this will stick for a while. I might tweak the layout a bit more but the general idea should remain the same. Or at least similar. Or maybe not.