I’m going to pollute quite a bit of this planet since I will be traveling quite a lot next few months. The past few days I’ve been trying to book tickets and dealing with incompetent travel agencies and air lines. They really need to sort this booking tickets thing out.
The deal is perfectly simple: I’m [...]
Normally when I play with a new browser (like a few weeks ago when I tried out Flock 1.0) I usually post at least something. In the past week I played with no less than three new browsers.
I started out by installing opera mini 4.0 on my N95. Earlier versions of this program were already [...]
Update: a slightly updated version of this article has been published on the Javalobby weekly news letter and on the javalobby site itself after Matthew Schmidt invited me to do so.
Update 2: The serverside has linked here as well. Readers coming from there, the version on Javalobby linked above is the latest and also has [...]
While doing my shopping today I encountered a whole pile of six packs of “Royal Dutch“. On closer inspection of this beer that I never heard of, I learned that it is actually brewed in license of Posthorn, a brewery based in my home town (if there is such a thing), of Breda. WTF! [...]
Tagged beer, finlandI just installed Flock - The Social Web Browser. Right now I’m trying out the blog editor included with it to write this little review. To cut the review short, I’m planning uninstalling it after publishing this post.
Lets just start by saying that this feels like a nice bunch of concepts and potentially useful Firefox [...]
When shooting the panorama in the previous post, I actually shot 7 images doing about a 270 degree circle, handheld. Of course I realized that the fence and hugely distorted angle would make most of the shots unusable. So I just stitched the first three and got the nice panorama posted earlier.
Then, just for [...]
I’ve uploaded two batches of photos to my photo site: photos.jillesvangurp.com from a recent trip to Stockholm and some photos I took from Seurasaari just behind my house.
Here’s a few samples:
This beautiful picture was taken in August when me and my friend Mark who was over for a weekend visited the open air museum on [...]
Tagged photographyIt seems infoq picked up some stuff from a comment I left on the serverside about one of my pet topics (Server side Java).
The infoq article also mentions that I work at Nokia. I indeed work for Nokia Research Center and it’s a great place to work. Only they do require me to point [...]
