Updated Twitter logo: the new vs the old: It's a subtle change, but a change anyway. New vs Old, especially for Eddy ;-) Doesn't blend as well with the homepage, so I expect a change there too....

Battlestar Galactica. Why debugging matters.: I've enjoyed a number of extraordinary tv-series on DVD in the last months, including Deadwood and The Wire. The consequence is that I barely watch traditional tv-broadcasts anymore. But when a few weeks ago a local Belgian channel started running Battlestar Galactica , I decided to follow along ... until I missed an episode. No problem, I thought. I'll go out and buy the series on DVD. Then the people at the st...

One should backup data more often: With the risk of losing his life, this person was rescued from the burning Philippine President Line building in Manila, holding a computer in his arms. It happened two weeks ago, but the image is so compelling that I wanted to share it here with you. I keep wondering why the man did it. Did the computer contain data that was of enormous importance to him? Or was it just for the value of the hardware? ...

On Bill Hicks, Dinosaurs and Creationists: I had to think of the late and great Bill Hicks when I stumbled upon these posts about the new Creationist Museum in Petersburg Kentucky. Hicks argued that dinosaurs pose one hell of a problem for fundamentalist Christians, who believe the world is just a mere twelve thousand years old (calculation b...