Douwe Osinga's Blog: August 2004

Sunday, August 29, 2004

A penguin saved my butt

A typical scene from a household in moving. Some stuff is already in boxes, a lot of stuff is not and more and more stuff is just randomly l...

Thursday, August 26, 2004

People doing strange things with Software

I made it to the conference and the first day was a bit of challenge, with the minimum amount of sleep I had, but after that it got a lot be...

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Something rotten on the way to Denmark

So I changed the perfect weather of California for the more questioniable variant of North-Western Europe to go to the Readme festival in D...

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Going home

Every party got the end sometime. This Friday I'm flying home. Google Zurich here I come. Google Headquarters is a wonderful place to wo...

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Another Sunday at the Googleplex

Sundays at the Googleplex have a distinct post-apocalyptic feel to them. Three quarters of the population wiped out, with the rest trying to...

Saturday, August 7, 2004

A warm gun for richer or poor

Happiness is a tricky thing. Not only being happy, but also measuring happiness. Robert Frank has an essay about money and happiness, How no...

Thursday, August 5, 2004

Do the Google Dance

Once every so long, Google would push out a new algorithm to its servers and the rankings of sites would vary for a while, depending on whet...

Sunday, August 1, 2004

Not quite a google hack (7319)

I was playing around a little with Google (what else is there to do on a saturday night?) and I wondered what a top 1000 would look like if ...