I still love Twitter. I’ve been using it since 2009 and it holds a special place. For reasons that I only recently learned to put in to place. Twitter is a protocol. It’s a (unique) way of communicating. I’m also still a big RSS user. Which is a different beast. Very useful, but a much more isolated…
One year with the PS3
This month marks one year of me owning a Playstation 3. What started out as a quest for an ‘easy’ Netflix device, ended in getting a PS3. Maybe it seems I am a bit late to the game, because the PS4 is, and was, already available of course. But for me this presented a great opportunity. Because the…
Thoughts on Heartbleed
This week, part of the internet broke. Again. Some important people even called it an 11 on a scale from 1 to 10. And I don’t disagree. After the recent Apple goto fail SSL bug and NSA RSA debacle this was actually worse. So everyone agreed on that. But 3 things, regarding open source software, stood…
jan.usesthis.com
I always enjoy reading usesthis.com. Especially when it involves software / internet people. And I am always sort of surprised when I read what hardware and software some people use (>) 8 hours a day. Some people use really old stuff. You’d sort of expect when you spend that much time working/interacting with tools you…