Douwe Osinga's Blog: December 2003

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Microsoft: the not so evil empire?

Recently I came across this review of different digital music services. The bad news is of course that except for e-music, all services requ...

Saturday, December 20, 2003

The Software bots will takeover the Internet.

The robots will not overtake the world anytime soon, but the software robots might. The googlebot of course already rules a big part of our...

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Google as Url Protocol

After half a year of running this website, I’m finally there. DouweOsinga.Com is the Osinga. Yes, search for Osinga at Google and I’m nu...

Monday, December 15, 2003

Surround sound and wireless current

I love watching movies with my wife, preferably on a big screen with surround sound. At home so far that meant that the rear speakers where ...

Sunday, December 14, 2003

Visited Countries

Visited Countries , my project for this week,  is a little Web App that allows you to enter that countries you've been to and it generat...

Friday, December 12, 2003

Saving the world, plan B

The current plan of saving the world from global warming, called the Kyoto protocol, isn't going so great. The countries that signed, re...

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Didn't help us in War, won't help them in Peace

The US seems to have decided that the countries that didn't help with the war effort, shouldn't profit from the reconstruction. ...

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Disco's and blogging

When I grew up, going out meant going to the Disco. I was never good at it. I felt that disco took away the things I was good at. Intelligen...

Monday, December 8, 2003

Google News Map

I was working on World66 , the open content travel portal, and got my hands on a list of coordinates of countries. Why not use them to proje...

Sunday, December 7, 2003

China and Job Creation

Populist in the US complain about the growing importance of China. A giant sucking sound of jobs appearing overseas, unfair trade policies, ...

Saturday, December 6, 2003

More on ungoogle numbers

Two days ago I was writing about an idea by Hjalmar Gislason : the smallest number that cannot be found on Google and how hard it is to fin...

Friday, December 5, 2003

Infinite numbers

Hilbert's hotel  has an infinite number of rooms and they're all full. A guy shows up and the desk clerk says: we're all full, b...

Thursday, December 4, 2003

Blog To Build: Business Card reader for my Phone

If you have an idea for a product that you think does not yet exist, you can do two things. You can build the product, market it and then ma...

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

The Sum, The Parts and our consumer society

The whole might be more than the sum of the parts, but the whole is cheaper. At least when it comes to dishwasher and such. Mine broke down....

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

What is the smalles ungoogle number?

What is the smallest number ungoogle number, i.e. number that cannot be found on Google? Hjalmar Gislason came up with this intriguing ques...

Monday, December 1, 2003

Caerfai Chemical Simulation Available

Caerfai is a first attempt at simulating chemical reactions. The model is much too simple to be useful for medical research, but it does pr...