It’s the third month now. And I’m still not going mad. I don’t even mis it. Well, one time only, but that one doesn’t really count. That had more to do with me being lazy … … anyway I’m talking about TV. I don’t have TV anymore. Well, I do have a TV, but don’t have [...]
November 1st, 2009
I hardly surf to websites anymore: I subscribe to them in Google Reader. The great thing about Google Reader -apart from not having to surf to a gazillion websites-, is that the shared items feature and the ability to follow people allow you to constantly encounter new and cool stuff from the interwebs. The new features in [...]
October 30th, 2009
In the not so far away future I’ll have to shop at Ikea again. Not that I have anything against Ikea products (my house is full of that stuff), but the Ikea shops are something that does not tickle my fantasy. Therefore I’ve refined my Ikea shopping strategy. It’s written in pseudo-code, and is fully [...]
October 27th, 2009
One particular evening (read: now) I found myself browsing my favourite gadget webshop DealExtreme. And again I found myself wondering how on Earth they would manage to send me a piece of Chinese electronic junk worth just 2US$ by airmail from Hong Kong to the other side of the world for free? “We ship via Hong [...]
October 26th, 2009
The interwebs of the world wide datastreams are buzzing with Halloween the last couple of days. I never noticed it before. Is it really that big a deal? Then again, it’s mainly in the States (of course) but isn’t it a secular thing? Isn’t that herecy in the Holy State of America? We see all kinds [...]
Big-L’s Reading
November 8th, 2009