Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Seems like not only (I)Guy heard my pray for a more mashed up Web.

The nice folks over at FireEagle actually seem to have implemented some of the features we discussed yet.

Waiting for the invitation !

About 2 months ago I sent a mail to Dries, telling him

I`m losing an argument with Dag , because I can't tell him how great Mollom is :(

Luckily Dries contacted Dag ,and now we can tell the world.. Mollom is great, Mollom allowed me to open up my comments

Now if only I could do the same for trackbacks :)

It's funny how lots of oldskool demoscene people tend to be involved in different interesting startups. Back in the ninetees we were travelling Europe to party at our favourite demo events and now we are all meeting again. You'll also recognize Uncle Bob, Emperor and others in this bunch of antique articles

It was Uncle Bob who introduced me to Dries about a decade ago, at the sunny terrace of Den Hill iirc

It's a small world .. and it ain't growing bigger ..

My slides for my rant on 10 years of non web evolution are online.

This was a really good Barcamp session with the audience really starting to launch solutions, ideas and discussion.

We'll see in a couple of weeks if more people have gotten ideas from it !

The local Trends Magazine has a big article about Open Source and Free software.. sadly it's mistitled "Gratis software becomes real business"

Apart from mentioning the usual suspects ,the obligatory Acquia mention, and the fact that everybody who is in the business wonders where the so called market analists get their figures, the biggest surprise in the article are the things that are NOT mentioned.

It seems that these days you have to be ashamed for not wanting to use Open Source ..

Translated: "Also other and often big software companies see the advantages of using open sourcemodules in their packages, although the are not making it public. "We are a big proponent of Open Source , but I don't see how you can live from it", says the managing director of a Flemish Information Services Group, who prefers not to have is companies associated with open source"

Pretty pathetic, Yes we are using Open source, No our customers shouldn't know,
No you don't get to know who we are, we want to remain anonymous.

I've got a pretty good idea which company this might be .. do you ?

Close but no Sigar, LinkedIn enabled RSS feeds only to provide us with a Semi broken feed, Titles with no content. Questions and Recoomnendations come trough with content, but network updates have an empty body and a header link to my connections

Please Try Again !

Virtual,Video,Vague,Visual,Vegetarian. It ends with Lan .. so it must be right ..

Yesterday I was just exhausted ,

Wednesday was a thrill, after a great Plugg organised by Robin, we organized an Ad Hoc Brussels Geekdinner chez Henri in order to finish up with Open BeerClub (BTW Bruno how many points do you get for that ?)

It's weird how I keep running into demoscene people that are all starting or already running interesting projects. About 15 years ago we were all partying at Assembly, The Party, Wired etc .. we lost touch , stopped calling eachothers BBS's
and now years later ... we meet again

I wonder if my old Buster BBS account is still working at it's younger version :)

Yesterday after from locking myselve out of my house and car (thank god for wifi) I made it to LinuxWorldExpo Brussels , a the usual Linux suspects combined with a bunch people selling overpriced disks and a some irrelevant software vendors that think security still is a product that can be bought , pathetic.

The fun part is running into the whole Belgian IT crowd, the sad part is it's the same people over and over again.

Well.. it was fun.. met some new people ... got some really good news ... but now it's time to get some work done again ...

I`m exhausted, after one long day of Plugg and another day of LWE I`m about to crash.

I wasn't really happy with my openQRM presentation today .. dunno what went wrong one of the worst presentations I gave so far. And it's not like it was unprepared or the first time I gave that presentation.

Weird...

I was just chatting with Tom from Shareomatic
and realised I wasn't using Shareomatic enough .. Probably because as far as I knew there was no Drupal module for it.

So I grabbed the DiggThis 5.1 code and modified it to support Shareomatic.

Tom still needs to modify some things and I also need to .. but the initial draft is here enjoy !

Kris has a blog these days .. t
His last post shows how NOT to apply for a job with us