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I decided to keep track of my weight for a month, as a 30 day trial. I weighed myself first thing every morning on a cheap digital scale.

The result is the blue line in the chart below.


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Op de Spoorzone Overvecht website heb ik zojuist een artikel geschreven waarin ik probeer uit te zoeken wat nou eigenlijk het kostenplaatje van sloop en nieuwbouw is en hoe dat zich verhoudt tot niks doen.

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Let me explain in a non technical way why Google Wave is a breakthrough. I argue that it doesn’t just revolutionarize the concept of email (only a few decades old), it changes the very concept of mail (thousands of years old).

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Nu ik opzoek ben naar een baan, is het begrip scheefwonen - in een huis wonen dat te goedkoop is voor je inkomen - ineens weer relevant geworden.Als ik straks een baan heb, ben ik dan een scheefwoner? En is dat erg? Sommige van mijn beste vrienden zijn tenslotte scheefwoners.

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Back in February I watched Travis Metcalfe’s talk about the Pale Blue Dot project, where you can adopt a star for $10 and sponsor scientific research. And not just any star; the recently launched Kepler satellite is looking for planets around these stars. Now that’s a cheap ( Read more... )

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I will distribute free copies of Getting Things Done
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Those following me on Twitter may have noticed that I am a little bit skeptic about Earth Hour - an initiative that asks everyone to turn off their lights for one hour to raise awareness about global warming.

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One of the questions in the student evaluation of the Google Summer of Code reads:

If there was one thing you wish you had known before getting started in Summer of Code, what would it be?

It is a very typical evaluation question and we all sortof know what it means and how to ( Read more... )