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Folle lok en seine!
As they say in the part of Holland I come from: Folle Lok en Seine!
or in plain English: Happy New Year! :)
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
I would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, or in other words: Happy Holidays!
Here a small christmas message from us, with the Pier of Scheveningen, and part of the beach, that's 300meters from my house.
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Yes! EU Software patent directive stalled!
More here. This is great news!
All credits go to Poland. Of course my own minister (Brinkhorst, The Netherlands) was asked by the parliament to do the same thing as Poland's minister did but refused to do so, to avoid losing credibility among fellow ministers...
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Darwin in full effect
Peter Torr did spend a lot of time to tell the world why he doesn't trust Firefox as a browser.
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Sometimes rants are funny :)
Via Scoble I stumbled into this rant today. I must say, it was a great read and he has a point. I'm not sure if it will ever change though. I mean, most people find it even too hard to setup a TV, despite the tremendous effort manufacturers put into the setup logic.
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WinFS delayed again: corporate politics or incompetency?
Friday, Microsoft brought the news that WinFS, the highly anticipated new filesystem annex object store, is delayed again. It is now said they hope to release a test version in late 2006 and it will not be present in Longhorn server as well.
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VS.NET 2003 C# code-editor tip of the day
Three tips actually. All color coding related. Open VS.NET, click Tools - Options and then Environment - Fonts and Colors
- Under display items, browse down to Operator. Select 'Maroon' for foreground color and check 'Bold'.
- Under display items, browse down to String. Select 'Dark Blue' for foreground color.
- Under display items, browse down to Xml Doc Comment. Select 'Custom' for background color and select a very light grey, like RGB 245, 245, 245. Do this also for Xml Tag
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Object^H^H^H^H^H MSN Spaces
No... no objectspaces, but MSN Spaces! and no O/R mapper, but a blogging site!
. Of course, I created a spot, err... space, over there: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fransbouma. I'll use it for off-topic rambling, but I'm not sure if anyone will ever visit that blog 
. Oh well...