Archive for the ‘Interwebs’ Category

The Project

Posted: 15th March 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Over the last years, I built up a few different sites – My blog with its many subsites, several small projects like the recent Jopin, the future gertschepens.be, .. its a lot
The time finally came to move those together, clean them up and organise. Over the last few weeks, I had the pleasure of moving [...]

“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
– George Orwell
Its a quote from Orwells bloody Scary 1984 and when reading the book it sounds far off. (Actually 1984 isnt all that scary, the scary part is seeing parts of it bleed into our world, from the [...]

Microsoft IE Javascript support added

Posted: 24th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

There, after spending a while figuring out why
if ( something.indexOf(select_groups[i]) == -1 ) {
threw an error; I was finally able to restore IE support. (poor misguided souls needn’t miss out on the Javascript goodies)
Apparently (Try to wrap your brain around this) the javascript version in IE doesnt support Array.indexOf()! All other browsers do, just not [...]

Thanks to futtta’s post, I learnt that the add to any service was doing more than any of us bargained for and he kindly provided a way to fix the problem.
So I added the code to the relevant Wordpress plugin textbox and thats that. They could ve made that disable code a bit easier to [...]

Google Buzz

Posted: 10th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Google Mail now has Buzz – More about that on http://buzz.google.com/
I have no clue if I want to use it. Though I AM curious.. Dont think it ll replace Identi.ca/Twitter soon.. So far I lack all connectivity with other crap. Im giving it a go though..
Time will tell..

Internet & Security

Posted: 8th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet, Security

The new technologies bring along a plethora of delightful new options for consumers to sample content. One of those new ways is the music samples some groups put online. A full track or even a full album to build the hype and allow people to sample the tracks and to persuade them to Go out [...]

AskMen top 99 of 2010

Posted: 22nd January 2010 by Gert in Interwebs

Yes Its that time a year again!

And the list starts of Great with Jamie Lynn! She s hot!
Ooooh Pornstar at 97 Kudos for Sasha!
Auch! Angelina at 88! She deserves better
Yes, Cate Blanchet belongs in the list!
Jessica Simpson Meh.. I guess thats ok :s No, she belongs in the list, [...]

Having seen the ChromeOS presentation.

Posted: 20th November 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet

Excited as a little kid on XMass, I went scouting the interwebs for the chrome presentation vid. Apparently its being streamed on some obscure site that offers .wmv and the other crappy format. I am speechless at the fact that I need to watch the new google os being announced on some stream that cant [...]

Picture Of The Day

Posted: 16th November 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

We re trying a Picture of the Day effort with some of the Open-Future peeps..
Post one picture each day. Of Anything.
* Take a picture using your phone. (No recycling, a fresh picture each day!)
* Post it to twitter/Identica
* Mention the #PictureOfTheDay tag in the message.
Picture of the Day
Feel free to join in!

There’s apparently a Koala meme

Posted: 29th October 2009 by Gert in Interwebs

Everyone posting Koalas on their blogs..

Who am I not to..

Mobile Barcoder

Posted: 11th October 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

Mozilla Firefox has a Great plug-in (One amongst many) called Mobile Barcoder 0.2.0.
Its basically the solution for that moment when you find an article you want to read, but want to read it on your mobile instead of your laptop. But dont want to type that long URL. Simple solution.. Make a QR code out [...]

a typical day in the life of Hunter S. Thompson

Posted: 28th August 2009 by Gert in Interwebs

I barely know who Violet Blue is, but the thing she does here .. a typical day in the life of hunter s. thompson, is a great lil clip
Ive been thinking about re-reading The Rum diaries.. Maybe after On The Road..
Anywho; check it out
And lets be honest.. Open Source Sex? Thats [...]