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Let’s talk about social media…

When I was a kid, there just wasn’t any internet. If you wanted to speak with someone else, you’d had to pick up the phone or just go visit them. Being social was complex because it involved plenty of...

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One more spammer caught…

Well, it seems that a message about spam attracts other spammers. Fortunately you can also report spammers who try to spam through comments at SpamKlacht. And if the spammer or company mentioned by the...

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The FBI in Lithuania wants to pay me 15 million dollars…

      I do love some of the spam messages I receive. Especially when the spammers try to pretend they’re the FBI or other important organisation and they want to pay me a few millions. And I can’t...

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To Agile/Scrum or not?

The Internet is full buzzwords that are used to make things sound more colorful than they are. Today’s buzzword seems to be “Cloud solutions” and it sounded so new a few years ago that many people...

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Motivating developers…

One of the biggest problems for software developers is finding the proper motivations to sit behind the screen for 8 hours per day, designing and developing new code, new projects. It’s generally...

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Is XML in decline?

I happen to be one of those older software developers who saw the rise of XML. I even remember the older SGML standard, although I never used SGML. Version 1.0 of XML became an official standard in...

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Multithreading, multi-troubling.

Recently, I worked on a small project that needed to make a catalog of image files and folders on my hard disk and save this catalog in a database. Since my CGI and my photography hobby generated a lot...

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Great photography, licensed or self-made…

The Internet has become extremely important in our daily lives. And more importantly, the Internet requires many developers to think more graphically. Twenty-five years ago, computers were mostly...

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Adventures in 3D.

I remember when Blender became first available for me. It was a 3D rendering engine and it looked fun, so I downloaded it, installed it and tried it. This was somewhere around 1999 and I still had a...

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A very generic datamodel.

I’ve come up with several projects in the past and a few have been mentioned here before. For example, the Garagesale project which was based on a system I called “CART”. Or the WordChain project that...

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Betaalverzoek inzake CJIB

Once more some stupid spammer trying to get people to pay them lots of money. It was sent to my sister who could not understand how she had to pay so she asked me how. I quickly discovered that this is...

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MtGox is close to bankrupt.

TodaY I received a PDF file called “Announcement of Commencement of Bankruptcy Proceedings_212014” And basically, it tells me that MtGox, a bitcoin market, is definitely going bankrupt. But that was to...

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Why social media aren’t happy with topless women in pictures…

People generally wonder why Facebook and Twitter seem to ban all forms of nudity, including the display of bare breasts. (Well, female breasts anyways.) Other sites have less troubles with displaying a...

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Tricky spammer!

As usual, spammers trying to fool me and many others, and the best way to protect you against them is by sharing how they operate. (And by using a proper spam filter, which is part of Google mail. And...

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TipsViaMail keeps spamming me…

On October 3, 2013 Adobe’s Database was hacked and about 150,000,000 Adobe users have their data exposed to a bunch of hackers. Anyone who even registered a single Adobe product , like I did,now has to...

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An example of bad development…

I recently received an email from a company that’s doing questionnaires. And well, I subscribed to this and did some of their questionnaires before, so I wanted to do this new one too. Unfortunately,...

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You should buy stock in ‘Inspiration Mining Corp’. (NOT!)

Well, it’s about time that I start to nag about spam again. This time someone really would like people to go trade on the financial market. Preferably in mining company called “Inspiration Mining Corp”...

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The Celebrity Hacks…

For those who are still hiding in some cave, there’s something going on called “The Fappening“. It’s a celebrity scandal that involve ‘selfies‘ taken by some famous people, most of them female and in...

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Just a simple spam overview…

Here is an overview of my recent spambox: And yeah, it’s time to complain about all my spam again. And what you’re seeing is what I see in my spambox. About 35 different messages received within less...

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How you should NOT warn about phishing…

PostNL is well-known company in the Netherlands that specialized in delivering snail mail and packages. And recently, some spammers started mailing fake messages pretending to be PostNL for phishing...

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