Douwe Osinga's Blog: November 2004

Monday, November 29, 2004

On the dangers of drinking tea

So I'm back from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it used to be called has a certain claim to fame when it comes to tea. The grow a lot...

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Illusive reality

This is very weird . Click the link and follow the instructions. It's a simple game, you see a movie and count the number of times the p...

Saturday, November 20, 2004

Off to Sri Lanka

Tonight we're flying to Sri Lanka for a week of relaxing and looking at old temples. Yeah, I know, a week is too short to appreciate a c...

Friday, November 19, 2004

Googles not so secret sauce

People often ask me what it is I do for Google. Hmm, that's secret. Google has a lot of secrecy going on, for good reasons most of the t...

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

The chair for the office

  Since today the Zurich office is a complete Google office. We have our own massage chair. From buying to actually receiving the chair, it...

Saturday, November 6, 2004

On stupid programs and stupid humans

The multimedia side of our new appartment is shaping up. What previously was our main computer will from now on just serve mp3's and mov...

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Vote advise for American readers

All bloggers seem to do it, so it here it goes. I think Bush is a man with a plan, who loses no time over executing it. He wanted to cut tax...