Douwe Osinga's Blog: July 2004

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Four bikes in America

I took my bike from Amsterdam when I went to the US. It makes a surprising amount of sense to have a bycicle in Silicon Valley; distances ar...

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Driving under influence

God may be dead and there is not truth out there, but everybody agrees that driving under influence is Very Bad, right? But is it, or is it ...

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

The way of the engineers

Google is an engineering driven company of course and it shows. And with such a large concentration of engineers at one spot, you get to see...

Saturday, July 17, 2004

They probably are Giants

Finally a band that gets it. And one of my favorites on top of that. They Might Be Giants   opened a shop on their site where you can buy th...

Friday, July 16, 2004

Google Talk Fix

Anybody who's played with Google Talk has probably noticed that it sometimes got stuck in a loop. Sometimes that'd be funny, like i...

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

My other blog is a porsche

My regular readers have noticed that I post rather more infrequent than back in the day I averaged 29 a month. Work takes a lot of time and ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Are we too poor for communism?

Poor countries usually have a hard time to maintain their democracies. Democracy doesn't necesarily make a country rich, though most dem...

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Stupid White America Bashers

A popular meme these days seems to be that Americans are stupid . Come to think of it, the meme is older than the latest block buster, at le...

Saturday, July 10, 2004

Greetings from a small island

Life at Google is to some extent like being on a tropical island. There has been a huge storm, the dot-com bubble bust and left and right pe...