I moved my blog to blogger.com, since Livejournal started to show ugly ads on blogs. They should know that people don't want ads, especially if these ads start showing up without prior notification.
My blog now is on christine.nl.
T Mobile introduced the first phone with the new Android os by Google. Download a Twitter client for this phone here.
128 million Brazilians will e-vote for local elections on October 5th.
In 1996 I created a haptic - touch based that is - user interface for a pc. Unfortunately, the market wasn't ready. Vinton Cerf, in an interview with Ed Cone, now says that he expects haptic UIs to become reality. I guess I should plan some meetings with VCs with the working prototype I still have.
I think that in order to break through any kind of glass ceiling, or simply to get through the day, you have to become impervious to the daily gruffness that’s a part of any job. Hannah Seligson in NY Times.
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
Interesting artilce in NY Times:
WRITING in The Financial Times last week, Chrystia Freeland recalled Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay “The End of History?,” which trumpeted the definitive triumph of liberal democracy. The great nightmare tyrannies of last century — the Evil Empire, Red China — had been left behind by those inseparable twins, freedom and prosperity. Civilization had chosen, and it chose us.
So much for that thesis. Surveying the Russian military rout of neighboring Georgia and the spectacle of China’s Olympics, Ms. Freeland, editor of The Financial Times’s American edition and a journalist who started her career covering Russia and Ukraine, proclaimed that a new Age of Authoritarianism was upon us.
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Internet Memes timeline. Kind of, err, hilarious :-)
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