Doei!-dag, uitpakdag: Linux smartphone 🔗
Het is weer Doeidag! Elke eerste zondag van de maand aandacht voor hoe je jezelf weer een stapje van BigTech verwijdert. Nou heb ik de afgelopen jaren [...]
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Beat Döbeli und das Biblionetz 🔗
Das Biblionetz ist eine einzigartige Website, die mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient. Es beschreibt viele tausende Bücher, Artikel, Texte und Ausschnitte, u [...]
Blog Archiving to Notes and Embeddings 🔗
Last March I made an export from my blog, so that I have all my blogposts since 2002 (some 3800 posts) in my notes locally. This makes it easier to fi [...]
Big Data LDN Impressions 🔗
The past days I was in London to visit the Big Data LDN event and meet with my friend Paolo and his company’s team at Activate Intelligence. It made f [...]
Transparant Lies 🔗
During lunch in Holland Park, London this week, the water bottle had the text ‘ethical glass’. [...]
Die deutschsprachigen Blogwochen 2026 🔗
Die deutsprachigen Blogwochen sind wieder gestartet. Eine Initiative von Robert Lender, Benedikt Müller und Dirk Deimeke, deren Blogs sich schon lange [...]
Treffen wir uns auf der Swiss Data Alliance Konferenz in Lausanne? 🔗
Am 28. Oktober findet in Lausanne in der Schweiz die jährliche Konferenz der Swiss Data Alliance (SDA) statt. Die Swiss Data Alliance ist ein unabhäng [...]
September 18, 2026 3:58 PM
I will be in Lausanne from Monday October 26th late afternoon until Thursday October 29th early morning. I will be in Lausanne for an event by the Swi [...]
September 18, 2026 3:54 PM
I will be in Oslo from Tuesday October 13th early afternoon until Friday October 16th early evening. I will be in Oslo for a CEN/CENELEC JTC25 plenary [...]
Books by Karen Lord 🔗
Earlier this week I read We Will Rise Again, a selection of short sf hopepunk stories and accompanying essays centered on civil disobedience, resistan [...]
September 9, 2026 7:14 PM
I will be in London from Tuesday Sept 22nd late afternoon until Friday Sept 25th morning. I will be in London ao for Big Data LDN. [...]
Saturday Is For Chores 🔗
Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this person fixing their bike. In the midst of shoppers, tools were spread out an [...]
Johnnie Walker van Connie Palmen 🔗
Een literaire memoire van Connie Palmen‘s wording. N.a.v. wat Palmen er in een interview in de Volkskrant over zei had ik heel veel zin in dit boek. W [...]
NOW Page Update 🔗
Service announcement: I have updated my NOW page. A Now page contains the general activities I’m spending time on these days. It contains the things I [...]
Where I Am Now 🔗
This week it’s been a year since my long time friend and business partner Frank died. And it’s been two years and three months since I realised I was [...]
Last First Day of Primary School 🔗
Today school started again, and Y is now going to the final year of primary school, group 8. For each of the school years we took a photo of her leavi [...]
Comparative Literature As Core Need In Desk Research and AI As Tool 🔗
A year ago I read Libraries of the Mind by William Marx, and some of it is still very much on my mind ever since. Particularly what William Marx calle [...]
Brainbaking on Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter 🔗
Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using artefac [...]
August 20, 2026 10:30 AM
Looking at the websites of some AI events and their programmes. Hundreds of sessions over several days. You’d think that they’d expect you to have you [...]
Last Flickr Embeds Finally Removed 🔗
I today replaced the last handful of embedded Flickr images with self hosted copies, that merely link back to the source at Flickr. This way I am cert [...]
Is zoervleisj een soort rendang? 🔗
Gespot in Maastricht afgelopen weekend. Is zoervleisj een soort rendang? Enquiring minds want to know. Wel zoervleisj gegeten vrijdagavond, maar gehee [...]
Eclipse 🔗
Yesterday we saw the sun set at the beach near Zandvoort. We were there because of the 89% or so solar eclipse that peaked around eight in the evening [...]
Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 🔗
The past few days I read two titles by Kurt Vonnegut, because they were mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton that I read last month. The protagonist [...]
On Reading and Influencing EU Legal Proposals – The Timeline 🔗
One hand was raised when I asked "Who has read or looked at the actual EU Inc legal proposal itself?" in a session where we discussed the EU Inc propo [...]
Thessaly / Philosopher Kings Trilogy by Jo Walton 🔗
I came across a recommendation by Cory Doctorow of Jo Walton‘s work, on July 1st. I bought a range of her works then, and in the past month read what [...]