Category: Personal Ramblings

  • Comment spam gets smarter – but not smart enough

    My site DV Hardware has a pretty big admin module and features a page that I scripted a couple of years ago where I can keep track of all the new comments that users have posted on my site. I check this page a couple of times a day to see what visitors say or to…

  • Traditional tech media bleeding, blogs take over the market

    A story over at Forbes caught my eye today. It talks that while Silicon Valley is booming again, the tech media is bleeding. The article states that the advertising revenue of popular magazines and sites like Business 2.0, PC Magazine and CNET is dropping enormously. Compared to a year ago PC Magazine’s ad sales in…

  • Argh. I need a better work schedule

    One of the advantages of being your own boss is that you can do whatever you want. Don’t want to work today? That’s alright. You can go out, do some sports, watch some movies, play some games are do other fun things without having to worry about losing your job. When you run your own…

  • Finally some good weather

    After weeks of bad weather the last three days were pretty nice. This allowed me to finally take a swim and float around a bit on my air mattress in my plastic swimming pool The water was still pretty cold but it was very refreshing

  • Planning to go on a holiday

    Me and my girlfriend didn’t plan to go on a holiday this year but because this summer’s weather has so far been exceptionally bad here in Flanders we’re considering to book a last minute holiday to a more sunny location. The site of Neckermann (a European tour operator) offers some pretty interesting last minute deals.…