Category: Tech

An Ode to my Xbox 6

An Ode to my Xbox

I brought you in early 2006. I had worked hard to purchase you. I bought you alongside a great racing game, Project Gotham Racing 3. Together we won every race in single player, so we switched to multiplayer. We kept winning. Eventually, we dominated the leaderboards. Together, we reached the top 200 worldwide. I was proud of us. I bought some other games. PGR3 was dying down. I got Forza 2 for us to enjoy. I put it in your drive, and it was marvellous. Again, we ruled the world....

Now I know why earthquakes aren’t predictable. 0

Now I know why earthquakes aren’t predictable.

The following footage shows data collected by the Japanese. It’s a so-called earthquake visualisation map, and the emphasis is around the big earthquake from last year, which caused a tsunami and the fukushima nuclear disaster. I tried finding a pattern leading up to the big quake, but if scientists can’t do that in a century, I certainly can’t do that in a few minutes. The video starts at around one minute, I suggest turning up your volume to hear the best dubstep ever. Let’s see if you can spot the...

And so it begins… 1

And so it begins…

Today, I wanted to watch the new HIMYM-episode, so I went to ThePirateBay to download it from my favourite uploader. Downloading has always been legal in Holland, but uploading hasn’t. Instead of finding the trusty pirateship, I got a blue screen. Luckily, not the blue screen of death, but it’s comparable. At least, with a BSOD, you know that restarting your PC helps. With this blue page, F5’ing didn’t work. It was a blockade, put up by Ziggo. I knew about this in advance, ofcourse, I followed the news about...

Hey look! I’m a pro-photographer! 0

Hey look! I’m a pro-photographer!

For the last few days, it has finally been freezing. Last night, the first snow of the year fell from the sky. I had to take a haircut, so I walked through the city to take some pictures. Using this simple android app called picplz (which you can download here) I made them look professional, even though they were cheaply shot with my old HTC, which has a crappy (colorwise) 5.0MP camera. Here are the results: The temperature will stay below 0 degrees celsius, but it’ll stay mostly dry. This...