For the ones that are into horror and stuff… i now know why we get the eerie feeling with certain characters..
it’s the Uncanny Vally

This is really uncool. Recently i started looking for a nice laptop and of course i don’t want to buy a new one because they are still too expensive. So i checked sites like marktplaats.nl, 2ehands.nl, speurders.nl to see if anything was around. It did not take me long to find a nice asus w3j for only 500 euros. The only thing i could think of was “I WANT IT”. So after sending the seller an email i got the reply like:
My name is Brian Coleman and i live in London Uk.The last price for this item is only 499 euro.
The item is new ,in box with 12 months international warranty .
Here is how I want to go about delivery and payment for the product which will be through Chronopost International and will also give you the chance to inspect the product before I receive the payment for it.
I will explain to you step by step how this will work.
A. First you have to send me your shipping information (your name and address).
1. After I receive your shipping info, I’ll go to a Chronopost International Location and leave the product onto your name and with your address as the intended receiver.
2. Chronopost will check the product, also the legal papers to see that everything is OK with it.
B. You will receive a notification from Chronopost as a confirmation that the product is in their custody and also, that the product has been tested.
1.Chronopost International will verify the Money Transfer, and if everything is in order, they will deliver the product to your door step.
2. After you will receive the product and you will be completely satisfied with it, you will instruct Chronopost to release the payment information to me, so I can collect my money.
C. If by any reason, you will not be satisfied with the product, you will return the product to Chronopost with no expense.
I will pay for shipping and you for the amount transfer.
Let me know if we can do this.

So all well.. but i got bit suspicious about the chronopost, and checked if there

Na opgravingen in de Russische bodem tot een diepte van 100 meter hebben Russische wetenschappers resten gevonden van koperdraden, met een geschatte leeftijd van zo’n 1000 jaar.
De Russen hebben hieruit de conclusie getrokken dat hun voorouders reeds 1000 jaar geleden beschikten over een koper netwerk!
Om niet achter te blijven zijn Amerikaanse wetenschappers ook hun bodem gaan afgraven waarbij ze op een diepte van 200 meter resten van glasvezels aantroffen.
Deze vezels bleken na onderzoek zo’n 2000 jaar oud te zijn, waaruit de Amerikanen concludeerden dat hun voorouders reeds 2000 jaar geleden al een zeer geavanceerd digitaal glasvezel netwerk in hun bezit hadden. En dat zo’n 1000 jaar voor de Russen Een week later hebben de Belgen het volgende rapport gepubliceerd:
“Na opgravingen in de Belgische bodem, tot op een diepte van 5000 meter, hebben Belgische wetenschappers helemaal niets gevonden.”
De Belgen concluderen hieruit dat zo’n 5000 jaar geleden de oude Belgen reeds in het bezit waren van een draadloos netwerk

As i spended another day on making some page printer friendly, and running into trouble over and over again almost questioning my competence, i started looking for answers and ended up with this page . There seems to be some sort of control over the pages you want to make printable. Up until now i’ve only seen it working on IE, so half the problem is fixed.

As most people get rid of their printing devices, some people still want to print out some things once in a while. Now as part of the design of a web page one should not leave these people out, but instead try to serve them as much as possible. So that leaves you with no other option but to make a printable page. A view options will arise but the most cleanest one of them all is changing the stylesheet you are using. By including a stylesheet with the parameter media=”print” you can alter the way the page looks once printed. This is a really nice feature with stylesheets. But be carefull not to set sizes of div’s and tables and so on, because your browser most likely won’t be able to scale the page to printable pages leaving you (or the printing person) with an awfull looking page.

Case: write a cookie using for example with javascript. Now normally if you have an array of id’s you would just write them plain and simple in the cookie using an array to string respresentation. This is all good…. but if the array to string method is using a comma to seperate the elements there is a problem if you want to use the getCookies method in de javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest class of java. It somehow thinks it needs to read every comma seperated element into a different cookie, so what you get is a boogus result. So instead of using comma seperated elements, try using dots or some other sign ;)..

Last week i was working on a new project which involved using a java mvc framework. I’ve been working with struts mvc for over 2 year now, so i pretty know the ins an outs of this framework. Ofcourse you always have to keep an eye open for new things to arrive and since it is pretty much clear that we were going to use some other features of the spring birds nest , i thought lets use it’s mvc as well. Now this turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. It seems that the things you might hate about struts are actually very easy for use. For example the way struts uses tiles is somewhat verbose but it works. With the spring mvc there is a option to use tiles but the description is about 10 lines of text so a bit fragile to use in a commercial environment. Also the way they created controllers is a bit freaky. In struts you get the whole package, a form, a view, a method(action) based controller. Now with Spring they use a different approach, they have a form, a action, a command and many other controllers. But all you want is to do it all in once. I have to say that i might change my mind, because i’ve only been testing the spring mvc for a small week now……

Hmm i was looking for the description of what a rootkit really is and on my search i stumbled upon the discovery of the famous Sony rootkit incident. Sony had put a rootkit into the player they included in their audio CD’s as a part of DRM. The man who discovered this nasty piece of malware was Mark Russinovich who worked at sysinternals, and on his blog you can read the whole story.

“I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'”
–Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Soms heb je een droom die zo ongelovelijk leuk was dat je s’ochtend niet wakker wilt worden om zo door de kunnen gaan met het verhaal. Zo’n droom had ik vannacht ook. Ik had het gevoel dat ik een meisje tegen was gekomen die perfect was. Ik had het overwelmende gevoel van verliefdheid..Is dat mogelijk? Verliefd worden op personen uit de dromen. Personen die dus niet echt bestaan, waarbij geur, aanraking geen enkele rol speelt. Waardoor wordt dit gevoed? Het kan toch niet zo zijn dat je een complete personlijkheid kunt creeren in je hoofd en daar ook nog verliefd op worden. Het zou dan toch aannemelijker zijn als er iemand is die aan dat beeld voldoet. Kan het dan ook zo zijn dat er ergens op het zelfde moment iemand een soorgelijke droom heeft het zelfde voelt maar dat vanuit het oogpunt van de ander?..2 mensen worden verliefd in hun dromen, maar geen van 2 weet van het bestaan van de ander af.