http://grismar.net Whatever Grismar is up to now Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:52:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I googled "Spring" because I was looked for something on the Java framework. The result inspired me to google the other four seasons as well and take a look at the four image results. http://grismar.net/2012/04/17/googles-four-seasons/ Although I am aware of (and use) wonderful services like Read It Later, Springpad, Evernote and the ability to send myself links through various means such as mail, Twitter, Facebook updates or the old "typing what I read", I find that shooting a QR code beats all of the above ... http://grismar.net/2011/08/16/qr-codes-rock/ If like to keep the PC I use for development as clean as possible, to reduce the odds of "other installed stuff" influencing whatever I'm writing. Whenever I need to install some kind of server-type software on it, I prefer to use small virtual machines to install them in. Like ... http://grismar.net/2011/07/22/virtualbox_running_postgresql/ Remember how mediaplayers were really primitive back in the day? How they always had trouble keeping your music properly sorted and display the right metadata for whatever format you preferred? I bet you do because nothing changed, really. (Yes, I know, "RAEG" right?) When I drop my properly standardized ID3-ed MP3's ... http://grismar.net/2011/07/17/rant-welcome-to-2011-not-unlike-2001/ If you're like me and you trust your wife to be the other admin on your desktop PC running Windows, you may have a serious security hole. I didn't realize until recently, but if you're logged in to Windows 7, or Windows Vista for that matter, and you're an administrator, ... http://grismar.net/2011/05/14/two-admins-and-a-security-hole/ "Quotation is a servicable substitute for wit" is a quote frequently attributed to both William Somerset Maugham and Oscar Wilde. And it's true, it can be. But in the weekend edition of my newspaper the NRC Handelsblad this weekend, there was an article on statistics and results in medical scientific ... http://grismar.net/2011/05/09/nrc-quote-significant/ With the Fukushima situation in Japan still slowly growing further out of hand, discussions about the pro's and cons of nuclear energy abound. Whereas some governments like the one of Angela Merkel in Germany take the opportunity to shut down the local nuclear industry, others like France can't wait to ... http://grismar.net/2011/05/03/nuclear-vs-democracy/ You know how people always tell you they don't have time, or they're too busy to do something with/for you? This is what they're really doing. Oh, and perfection matters, don't try telling me otherwise ;) http://grismar.net/2010/11/06/too-busy/ Thanks to my colleague, who went tripping around Andalusia in the south of Spain and spotted several of these fire extinguishers. Finding the Firefox alone would have been awesome, but the Unix one takes the cake. Between these and the ubiquitous "Bimbo"-brand bread (which is originally Mexican), the Spanish seem ... http://grismar.net/2010/10/25/fight-flames-with-unix-and-firefox/ The first photograph of earth, taken from space dates back to October 24th 1946. The actual image reminded me of frequent recent news stories featuring hobbyists sending camera's into space (if you take the definition of space as starting at 100km above sea level not too strictly). In the past ... http://grismar.net/2010/10/08/pix-in-space/