This will be one of those blog entries that I write primarily to document for myself some stuff I found out after some effort, but that might also be useful for others.
When developing applications, I primarily use Java, mostly because it will do everything I want and it’s the language I’m most familiar with. My IDE [...]
Two weeks ago I visited the Zoo in Emmen (links to Dutch site), where one week earlier an Indian elephant was born. Emmen, a small provincial town near the Dutch – German border, is where I was born. What sets its zoo apart from most other zoos I’ve been to is the amount of relative freedom [...]
One of the things that I use this server for, except serving the blog you’re reading right now, is performing calculations for various projects that need computer resources but don’t have the money to spend. Among those projects are Climate Prediction, Malaria Control and SETI. Since my home server is always on and it has some [...]
The picture below is of Amsterdam by night. It was taken by Astro_Soichi on board the ISS, from an altitude of 400 [...]