posted by Kristof Van Cauwenbergh on 22nd of november 2009 at 14:17
I just had my frontpage and blog herman-haikunized, this is the result.
Het rad van de tijd:
een boomgaard wordt een fruitgaard.
Ik draai niet. Ik daal.
http://www.haikuherman.eu/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsavethepandas.be%2F&x=74&y=25
Daffodils that sway
at Easter by the abbey
bloom with bended head.
http://www.haikuherman.eu/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsavethepandas.be%2Fblog&x=74&y=25
Get your own website herman-haikunized on haikuherman.eu.
And Herman, congratulations with your european presidency.
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posted by Kristof Van Cauwenbergh on 14th of november 2009 at 17:07
Even het verhaal schetsen. Het begon gisterenavond, we hielden een familiefeest in feestzalen Kesseldal te Kessel-Lo omdat mijn mama de dag ervoor haar 50ste verjaardag vierde. Nu dit feest liep op zijn einde, en dus gingen we naar buiten om alles in de auto te laden, zodat we meteen konden vertrekken. Op de privéparking van de feestzalen, die vol met auto's van klanten en werknemers stonden, merkten we echter dat er een ruzie aan de gang was tussen enkele chirojongeren (wel zeker ouder dan 18) en het management van de feestzalen.
Blijkbaar waren de jongeren aan het spelen in de tuinen van de zalen en met een auto aan het racen op de privéparking. De eigenaar van deze auto, een groot, log persoon, "den dikke" zoals de agenten er zelf naar verwezen, was duidelijk ook dronken (en onder invloed van drugs?) en was tegen iedereen aan het roepen en in het rond aan het stampen, ook tegen ons de feestvierders, omdat hij zijn autosleutels kwijt was.
Ondertussen was ook een combi aangekomen met twee jonge agenten in. Deze hadden werden blijkbaar al snel goede vrienden met de agressor in dit verhaal, aangezien zijn vader blijkbaar ook agent was, en namen met plezier schouderklopjes van de persoon in kwestie in ontvangst. Hier begonnen de problemen dus pas echt. Deze beide agenten hadden de situatie helemaal niet onder controle, en dus werd al snel om versterking gevraagd. Deze versterking diende echter niet om de chirojongens en meisjes in te tomen maar om bij de slachtoffers van dit alles, de eigenaars van de zaak waar we feest vierden, een huiszoeking op verboden wapenbezit uit te voeren. Met verstomming geblazen werder wij terwijl aangevallen door den dikke.
Den dikke was nog steeds aan het roepen en tieren en stond oog in oog met mijn familie, en op een bepaald moment ook neus aan neus met mijn mama. Uit natuurlijke reflex duw ik hem dus meteen achteruit, waardoor ik meteen een welgemikte stamp op het linkerscheenbeen krijg. Dit alles terwijl één van de jonge agenten op nog geen meter staat toe te kijken. Ik vraag deze agent dan ook om een aanklacht, maar wordt echter meteen op mijn plaats gewezen, de agent had naar eigen zeggen namelijk niets gezien.
Terwijl brult den dikke zich nog steeds de longen uit het lijf, maar worden wij op een zeer arrogante manier aangemaand tot kalmte, terwijl we onze stem helemaal niet verhoffen. Ik citeer "Toontje lager ... nog één ... nog één".
Na een tijdje beginnen te agenten toch met verklaringen op te nemen, maar in plaats van eerst verklaringen van de slachtoffers op te nemen, worden eerst de daders ondervraagd, en mogen de slachtoffers nog een uur buiten in de kou blijven staan, terwijl je, als je logisch nadenkt, je deze eerst zou ondervragen zodat ze snel naar huis kunnen.
Na lang wachten, kom ik dan toch aan de beurt en wordt er een pv voor slagen en verwondingen opgesteld. Maar hiervan zal ik naar alle waarschijnlijkheid echter toch nooit meer iets van horen.
Uiteindelijk willen de agenten vertekken, en gaan ze den dikke meenemen in de combi, en thuis brengen. Voor te vertrekken probeert de arrogante agent, van eerder in het verhaal, degene die zei dat we een toontje lager moesten zingen, ons echter nog uit te dagen door den dikke uit de combi te laten en te zeggen "we gaan vertrekken, neem nog allemaal snel even afscheid". Hierop komen zijn vrienden aangestormd en staan ze daar voor onze neus nog even te lachen en afscheid te nemen. Hier onder de foto's van dit moment. Op de tweede foto ziet u den dikke in het rood omcircelt, en de bewuste agent omcircelt in het groen.
Hierbij stopt het verhaal echter nog niet, beetje later zegt een andere, veel vriendelijkere en rationelere ordehandhaver tegen de arrogante flik, dat ze toch nog even blijven en zien we de arrogante flik zeer duidelijk diep zuchten. Hierop zijn wij dan eindelijk naar huis kunnen vertrekken.
Het weinige vertrouwen dat ik nog had in het belgische rechtsysteem is bij deze nog lager gezakt. Ik begrijp dan ook volledig waarom het onveiligheidsgevoel in belgië stijgt, en steeds minder mensen vertrouwen hebben in het rechtsysteem en in de ordehandhavers die dit systeem beschermen.
"De politie, uw vriend" zegt men dan.
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posted by Kristof Van Cauwenbergh on 17th of june 2009 at 00:13
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I had some time to play around with the new family of webservices from opera, and decided to share my experiences with you guys. I'll give you a short description what every service does and tell you what I think about it. Of course these services are still in beta, so they'll probably have slight changes or improvements in the final version. But this article will give you a good general idea of what it's all about.
File Sharing
First, file sharing. Of course it's great you can just let someone search your hard drive for the file he or she wants but I think there are easier more secure ways to do it, like dropbox. Here you're computer has to be on, opera has to be running, you have to set up your account, set up a password, and share that password with everyone who wants to see you files. In a time where speed is important this is just too much. Of course you can make file access public, but then everyone can get files you maybe don't want to give free. In this aspect dropbox is much better. You just have to set-up your account, share a directory with some friends, and drag your files to that directory. Because dropbox logs in automatically (which opera doesn't?) it's much easier to get in sync. And although your files are on an external server, I don't think it's less safe.
Media Player
On the contrary to the file sharing service, I like this one. Most of us have large music collections. And it's really practical if you can just share your music library from your computer (with or without a password), and let yourself and other people play that music right from within a browser. So this is great but, there is something missing that they probably can't implement without breaking any piracy laws, a shame for an otherwise great feature.
Photo Sharing
Like with the media player, this can be really handy, but with people sharing more and more pictures through facebook, flickr, or other websites, I don't think this feature will be used much.
The Lounge
The lounge is a tool to invite friends into a chatroom you host, and have like a multichat with all of them. Think this one is good for people who want a secure talk. It's probably a little safer then msn or gtalk because things that are said go directly from you're computer to the one on the other end of the line, without the use of a server, but I don't think regular users need this level of secureness. Maybe a good way for employees in a company, who don't work in the same building or country, to comunicate, without the hassle of setting up an account on a public service.
Web Server
I like this one. Just put whatever website you want online, and have it published with a public url. Before I had to do this by configuring my internetrouter en making a webserver from my laptop. Of course this isn't something you use when you put a website online for real, because your computer has to be on, and opera has to be running. But it's great in development fase when working on and testing a website with several people. If I can give you a small tip. It's great in combination with dropbox (I must love dropbox, this is the second time I mention it). Share a folder, make a website in that folder, set up the webserver for that folder, done.
The fridge
This is the feature, for some unknown reason, I like the most. It's really simple. You have a fridge yourself and other people can put little post-its on it. It's like the wall on facebook, or like a guestbook on a website, and it has a really nice interface, which you see on the photo on top of this article.
In general, I think the guys at opera have some great ideas. It's a lot simpler then setting up your own server, and doing all these things. But I think it's still too hard and too much to handle. They are againts the concept of having a server in between, but this is just the thing that can make, having all these features in one place, great. With a server you could just share and sync, without having to worry about your computer and opera being on or off.
If you want to learn more, visit http://unite.opera.com/
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posted by Kristof Van Cauwenbergh on 06th of june 2009 at 00:00
Yesterday I read an interesting article about how twitter will change our life in the future. You can read this article here. It gives a good impression what twitter is used for, how people use it, and how twitter will change peoples lifes as well.
When visiting twitter for the first time, i thought this was just another stupid invention that would die a slow dead eventually. But then I started using it, and it changed the way I looked at the internet and at social networking. While in the past the first site I visited when opening a webbrowser was facebook, looks like it's twitter now. So it already changed my life for that fact.
Back to my first visit. I thought, well all people with their own website do it, I'll make myself a twitter. So I did and I posted my first "tweet". Okay, that was cool? No it wasn't. After the second tweet I didn't log in to the my account for some time, untill more people started using it. Common people, without a blog, without a website, they all started using twitter, so I picked up where I left and started posting tweets again. Now I must say, I'm already addicted.
But like I did, when going to twitter.com for the first time, you'll think, what's so interesting about it? You got 140 characters to spill your guts, it's like those status updates on facebook. Well honest, I don't know. Maybe it's voyeurism that lies in people's nature, you can easily stalk someone on twitter for that matter. Or maybe it's just the common interest people have in eachother and in things that can make their life easier.
On twitter you have capabilities you've never dreamed of. You can follow celebrities, know everything about them and you can even leave them public or private messages, on which most of the time they will even answer if they're frequent users. People talk to eachother, people that have never seen one another in real life.
Everybody lives in harmony, and all it took was one small, simple internet-application, twitter. No clutter like with facebook, just simple short messages. Twitter is great. I love twitter.
Please make a twitter and follow me @twitter.com/kristofvc. Thanks ;-).
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posted by Kristof Van Cauwenbergh on 27th of april 2009 at 20:45
What's the deal with people you never saw in your entire life adding you as a friend on facebook? What's the deal with people like Sven M (28 friends, this one is just starting), Sawdust B, Steven "Hermes" S (1636 friends!) and Peter K (1245 friends)? What's the deal? Do they want to compensate their lack of social skills in real life? Is it cool to have 500 friends, from which you only know a few?
NO, it's not cool at all. Please stop inviting me when I never saw you, don't know your name and never talked to you. You won't be lucky because I tend to ignore those people's request and send them a hate-message.
On a side-note please stop inviting me to install all those terrific applications and stop telling me which bad-ass supervillain you are or what you're doing every moment of the entire day.
Thank you.
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