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Gene Expression quits (not yet)
A bit off topic, but after ten years blogging Gene Expression quits. I have a few websites as bookmarks I regularly visit. One of them is a science blog called Gene Expression run by a guy called Razib. His posts are mainly about genetics, hereditary of genetic material and the effects of population movement on […]
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Permanent Portfolio check and eShop additions
Well, this is ridiculous. Such a long time not posted a blog. This is no way to increase traffic and try to sell anything. There is a good reason, I work in the financial industry and the last two months of 2011 and January were rather busy. Which left very little energy for other projects. […]
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Jolly Kitty and a cat bell
Some time ago I started to upload designers to Zazzle in the hope to sell them from my Zazzle store. No sale still and the main reason is that Zazzle is a numbers game, the more products you have in you store the more likely it is to make a sale. Of course quality also […]
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Steve Jobs died
Never owned one piece of an Apple product, no hardware no software. Still, I’m very sad that Steve Jobs died last Wednesday. He was one of a very select group of people that changed, touched life’s of so many individuals across the world. Without him personal computing would have looked a lot different today and […]
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Alien planet and how to make one
I always wanted to make space art but I never really go around to start properly. Since I regularly make some sort of computer art I thought I should start something with an alien planet and just try. From a magazine I took a tutorial for Photoshop and tried it in Gimp. With a little […]
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Shortage of engineers
Shortage on your mind? Recently my thoughts were wandering to the state of engineering in Holland these day. I do have a degree in mechanical engineering, though I’m working almost fourteen years in IT as a specialist. Now and then I get a bit nostalgic. Usually I google on “shortage of engineers”, a lament from […]
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Ottoman Patterns in my Zazzle store
After my first attempt to make an illustration and upload it to Zazzle, I was thinking about what would be nice for a line of products. I always had something in mind about patterns. In a bookshop I stumbled on a few books about patterns used in different cultures. And they contained CD’s with jpeg […]
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Putting money where your mouth is
Over the last year I did some writing about propping up your finances. Now, I’m not really a finance guru and my idea was only to write about my own experiences. Specifically about how to save money enough to last a lifetime, because if I want to witness that marvelous “space future” I’m in for […]
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Again, the New Frontier
So I was logged into Facebook and looked what Arno Wielders had posted recently. He always knows to find some gems. This time a YouTube video of a Ted talk made by the one of the founders of Xcor, Jeff Greason. It’s about why NASA isn’t the future and why those space 2.0 startups are. […]
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The Frontier Is Everywhere
Frontier Is Everywhere. I got this one via NRCNext. For those dreaming of a space civilization, watch this one. Because it will sooth your mind. I do miss Carl Sagan. Therefor this wonderful image.
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