Category: Misc
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Why Mobistar and iPhone are a fail, imo.
Besides the poor 3G coverage in Belgium, this is what’s wrong. The lack of “openness” towards customers. I’m talking about last moment notices, quick fixes, delayed press cons, and so forth. Even Apple wasn’t sure about the release date in Belgium, which adds quite a bit confusion and anger to potential iPhone customers. Not only…
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LinkedIn
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Mobistar’s iPhone webshop error code “30001100”
When I tried to order my iPhone a few days ago from the Mobistar webshop (which is using Ogone payments), and I got to its last step “Pay goldz plx !” something happened. Submitting the required (and correct!) info, using my MasterCard, I received this helpful error page (roughly translated): “Order failed. Seller cannot sell…
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Bad Gramma’
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del.icio.us
I never really used bookmarks, but a few days ago, I decided it was time for me, to organise myself a bit more, and get some bookmark application. I decided to give del.icio.us a try. my del.icio.us While surfing delicious, I came upon Wordle, a site that generates a tag/word cloud. Here is what my…
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Liften
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Youtubes
Some old YouTube favourites, while waiting for the day to pass by.
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Requiem for a Crashed Hard Drive
There is no drug or single event in the world that can make a computer person focus more clearly than when a server crashes. The mere act of a crashing hard drive, database or server component can temporarily raise one’s IQ as much as 50 points. You suddenly become more aware of the universe around…
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Mibbit
It has been a while since I had something interesting to say. Anyway, I’ve recently found out, from pretty good sources, that Mibbit is logging all conversations sent trough the website. This might include NickServ/authentication passwords. There is no official EULA stating this is being done, thus being a violation of privacy. (but who cares…