Jan-Piet Mens

DB Carsharing rental cars call home to indicate low battery? Almost unbelievable!

I was reminded about these wonderful drums last night. Enjoy!

The Mozilla Firefox Add-ons site offers half a myriad of extensions with which Firefox can be altered to offer functionality that I consider useful.

I don't use many extensions, but those that I do use I love:

• whatmon helps me keep an eye on my servers


• del.icio.us (finally updated to be Firefox 2.0 compatible) is a neat and clean interface to del.icio.us bookmarks


• QuickProxy allows me to simply click proxy use on or off. I don't use this often, but when I do, it is a timesaver


• When not at home, I use Sage for reading RSS feeds


• coComment keeps track of where I leave which tracks

whatmon heads the list not only because I wrote it, but because it is most useful to me.

Generalunternehmer.

proprietary software is bad because the developer has power over the users

I fully agree. How many times have you wished you'd be able to fix the software you are running, or it least have it fixed if you aren't able to do so yourself? I know it has happened to me countless times, with a huge number of different programs.

The interview with Richard Stallman is worth reading.

via Linux and Open Source Blog

Have you ever wondered how a woman's brain works? Well, its finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:

Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved.

Looking closer, that is what I feel my brain looks like sometimes.

via Nic.

As previously reported, the Norisbank terminated my bank account, but they obviously didn't delete my address.

Now I'm being spammed by them with letters offering easyCredit crap which doesn't interest me in the slightest. I telephoned with the bank today and politely requested to be removed from whatever mailing lists they might entertain. As reason I told them that they didn't want to do business with me to start with, so would they please can it.

That pisses me off.

Jeffrey Zeldman has an amusing Web 2.0 Thinking Game going with a huge number of quite amusing comments on the comparison between Web 1.0 and 2.0:

Web 1.0: Social drinking
Web 2.0: Social bookmarking
...
Web 1.0: Webmail 2mb storage
Web 2.0: Webmail 2gb storage