Elektronische sigaret verboden??

@VVD Elektronische sigaret verbieden want gezondheidsrisico? Waarom zijn echte sigaretten dan nog niet verboden?? #omdatdaaraccijnsopzit

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Voorstel mijnerzijds…

De veroorzaker van een ongeluk waardoor file ontstaat zou drie maanden rijontzegging moeten krijgen. #zouwelhelpendenkik

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Ich bin nicht zu dick…

Ich bin nicht zu dick, ich bin nur zu kurz geraten.

– Gunter Gabriel, 2011

The lesser primate committee thinking experiment

Even though it’s a well known anecdote, it’s worth repeating…

Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, an ape will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the apes with cold water. After a while, another ape makes an attempt with the same result – all the apes are sprayed with cold water. Turn off the cold water. If, later, another ape tries to climb the stairs, the other apes will try … Continue Reading

Says a priest to a philosopher…

Says a priest to a philosopher: “Isn’t philosophy just like entering a dark room in search of a black cat that might not even be there?”

Replies the philosopher: “Isn’t religion just like entering a dark room in search of a black cat that might not even be there and claiming you found it?”

– Herman van Veen, 2011

This is the German Coast Guard

I don’t know if it was actually aired, but this really has to be the funniest commercial ever, if you ask me…

Outlook VBA: detect a promise you make in an outgoing email

I always forget to follow up on promises I make in mails I send, so I wrote some VBA code to inspect all outgoing mails for certain key phrases. If one of them is found, Outlook will ask if it should mark the mail as a task and set a reminder on it.
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Finally…

Well, I guess it was time. I recently checked my old homepage and was shocked to see it was dated somewhere in 2000 (more than ten years ago!). It’s not like I have a lot to say, but ten years… damn!

So here it is: my first WordPress site. Yeuh…