BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?.
Old BMI: 23, new 22.
If it is worth anything, that is.
–jeroen
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BBC News – BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
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Nikkor 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lense + 1.25x teleconverter to make it 1000mm F7.1; wow
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
Some boyish part in me screams “want this, want this, want this” (:
AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR AF-S TELECONVERTER TC800-1.25E ED with a lots of glass with a combined weight of about 5 kg.
Then he realizes the prize of the combination (close to USD 19k)…
–jeroen
via: Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED and 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lenses officially announced | Nikon Rumors.
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Waar mag je nou wel of geen 130 rijden?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
Waar je nou wel en geen 130 mag rijden is voor velen een zoekplaatje, ook voor mij.
Zelfs op de weg is het vaak niet duidelijk met een oerwoud aan borden en onderborden.
Ook on-line is er eigenlijk niet heel veel nuttige informatie te vinden, onderstaand is wat ik heb gevonden.
Veel plezier ermee (:
Samenvatting:
- in de randstad mag je vrijwel nergens 130, zeker niet overdag
- buiten de randstad liggen de grootste stukken 130 in het noorden (kop van Noord-Holland; Flevoland, Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, met uitzondering van een fiks deel A28)
En de links:
- RTL Nieuws – Per 1 september 130 kilometer per uur op snelwegen.
Losse JPEG Kaart van bovenstaande link. - Rijkswaterstaat Verhoging maximumsnelheid naar 130 km/h.
- Rijkswaterstaat Tekstversie met maximumsnelheden.
- Rijkswaterstaat Kaart met maximumsnelheden. (doet het af en toe niet op Mac OS X met Chrome als browser)
Losse interactieve kaart van bovenstaande link. - Waar mag ik 130 rijden? – 130 Kilometer per uur.
Losse JPEG kaart van bovenstaande link. - Waar mag ik 130.nl | Overzicht van 130 km/h snelwegen || Actueel nieuws || Trajectcontroles.
Losse interactieve kaart van bovenstaande link (wijzig de z-8 parameter naar een waarde tussen 1 en 20 om het zoom-level in te stellen).
Facebook pagina voor bovenstaande link (dank aan Paul Hilt).
Helaas zijn de JPEG kaarten slecht, die hadden PNG moeten zijn, maar ja, ze zijn verminkt met JPEG artefacten want veel web editors hebben geen oog voor beeld kwaliteit.
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Going to try PowerLine (next to CAT5, and having used 10Base2, 10Base-T, 100Base-TX and 1000Base-T)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/21
I’m going to try PowerLine.
My story is similar to Les at How Big Is Your Network?.
15 years and still growing
In 1995 I wired the house with thin net coax (10base2 w/ BNC connectors), because it did not require any expensive hubs of the day. Those old wires are still in place. The cable modem connects to a Netgear wireless router with four wired plugs. Two go to computers, one to xbox 360 and forth to Netgear hub 24 10baseT and 1 10Base2 (BNC) ports. Connected to the 24 port hub via cat 5 are another computer, 1 inkjet printer, 1 laser printer and an SMC power line Ethernet adapter. The powerline adapter connects to another SMC adapter and switch in storage building about 100 yards away from the house. This storage building has my old computers, Apple II, C64, Atari , iMac etc. Via the BNC port another 2 computers are connected in other parts of the house. Each room to which the 10base2 cable runs has a 4 port hub with BNC and RJ45 ports to allow for cat 5 connections. Last there is a laptop and an desktop in the house connected to the wireless router.
—Guest Les
I built my first network in my first rental home: a 2-room apartment with a living/study/kitchen/balcony of about 38 m^2, a bedroom of about 16 m^2 and a bathroom/shower of about 4 m^2. A crazy place (for one because the landlord choose to install 16 A D-type fuse in the main fuse box delivering power to multiple 25 A fuses in the apartment, so I once had the main fuse explode).
It was the place where I established my first company, had a BBS called The White House (which was in part true, as most of the house was indeed white), frequented the comp.font newsgroup (as I landed a PostScript/TrueType digitizing font job in about 1990) and comp.lang.pascal group, and was public domain author.
Having a single computer multitasking BBS, work and storage using DESQview (video) wasn’t the best. So when I earned enough money using Turbo Pascal 6 and Turbo Pascal for Windows, and with student editions of DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and Netware 3.x I built my own network. Read the rest of this entry »
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Happy new year! My 2012 blog in review
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/04
Wow, it seems that the most popular posts have nothing to do with software development (:
Happy new year everyone!
–jeroen
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 5 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Click here to see the complete report.
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Nice! @Flickr holiday gift: 3 months of Pro membership…
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/29
Just got my free Flickr holiday gift: 3 months of Pro membership.
If you have a free Flickr account, it will give you three months of Pro to try it.
Yay!
You have now activated your Flickr Holiday Gift.
We’ve extended your Flickr Pro subscription for an additional 3 months at no charge.
Your Pro Account expires on 16th December, 2013
–jeroen
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“Holland versus The Netherlands” a new video by C.G.P Grey – @cgpgrey
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/23
C.G.P. Grey just released a new video: Holland versus The Netherlands:
I love almost all hist videos at
my first encounter to his work was a similar video about the U.K., G.B, England, and a whole lot more:
While watching that I thought “someone should make a video about Holland, The Netherlands and the Dutch Kingdom”. Good to see he just did (:
Still on my wish list: a video on Europe, Schengen, The European Union and the Euro.
–jeroen
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Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets | Photo Rumors
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/13
Yet another thing for the Photography Gadget Wish List: Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets | Photo Rumors.
–jeroen
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Gear Keeper – Retractable Gear Attachment Systems
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/19
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Happy 20th anniversary ThinkPad
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Wow, it feels like yesterday, but on the 5th of October 1992, the ThinkPad 700C saw the light.
My ThinkPad start was in 2000 with a ThinkPad A20p. After that, I almost exclusively used ThinkPad laptops ever since (with the exception of Apple specific equipment: I have been using MacBook Airs):
–jeroen
via ThinkPad – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 