Herko Coomans' personal weblog. Est. 1996.
I’m a Mac fanboy, and it’s actually a Mac Fanboy Club membership requirement to do a little Microsoft bashing every now and again. So here’s a small video of That Other Steve (Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft), making a grand entrance at a past conference. I know this is old footage, so don’t flame me for it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc[/youtube]
Verschillende websites concluderen ten onrechte dat staatssecretaris Bijleveld in haar antwoord op vragen uit het Algemeen Overleg e-overheid zegt dat de webrichtlijnen niet verplicht worden voor andere dan rijksoverheden.
Eerder deze week publiceerden verschillende websites (o.a. Webwereld en Digitaal Bestuur ) het bericht dat Bijleveld de webrichtlijnen alleen verplicht wil stellen voor de rijksoverheid. Dit baseerden zij op de zinsnede: “Een wettelijke verplichting voor medeoverheden acht ik op gespannen voet staan met de eigen verantwoordelijkheid van de medeoverheden.” Deze is te vinden in de brief die Bijleveld aan de Tweede Kamer stuurde in antwoord op vragen uit Algemeen Overleg e-overheid van 5 november 2008. (more…)
Vrijwel direct nadat Barack Obama de presidentsverkiezingen had gewonnen, is zijn team aan de slag gegaan met de transitieagenda. Dit is de wijze waarop de zittende president de macht overdraagt aan de nieuwe. Obama wordt pas op 20 januari ingezworen, maar hij is al volop bezig. En daarbij maakt hij gretig gebruik van Internet. (more…)
I’m an Apple Fanboy, a switcher and a believer, but now I’ve had a nasty encounter with a flaw in the MobileMe service that is there by design. I’ve just been told that the engineers are aware of the issue and are working to solve it. (more…)
On December 1 2008, representatives of Dutch state, provincial, waterboard and local government signed a treaty called the National Execution Programme electronic public service. By doing so, they formally committed the entire Dutch government to implementing the Dutch Webguidelines (among other goals). (more…)
Today I bought the Steinski album ‘What does it all mean? 1983-2006 retrospective‘ (itunes link). This is an album by hip-hop legend Steve Stein, on which he collected some of the mixes he and Douglas DiFranco (also known as Double Dee) made back in the early days of hip-hop. (more…)
Yesterday we went to a concert of Róisín Murphy in Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall. Róisín is the former Moloko singer. We saw her before twice: once as part of Moloko, and once as part of a Groove Armada concert. Both times she brought great energy and a tight performance to the stage, so our expectations and hopes were high.
The show started a bit slow and tame, like she didn’t really feel like performing but was doing so anyway. Still, her voice is flawless, her band is incredible, and her background singers are awesome, so even then it was still a good concert. Not great tho. (more…)
One of the blog posts that was on my to-do list was one about the value of privacy in the interconnected world (hence the apt title of this blog post). I thought long and hard about what I wated to write and research to convince you that privacy is undergoing a major transformation at the moment. And then I found Nat Torkington‘s presentation called ‘Web meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud‘. And that is exactly what I wanted to tell you! So please take some time to go through this excellent presentation (make it full-screen so you can read the notes, which contain the text of his presentation).
I would like to write a bit about Heroes. And as much as I am a fan of the sci-fi drama series, I’d like to write a bit about my own heroes. People who inspire me, and who teach me something about myself. Since I’m easily inspired, and know very little about myself, I have many heroes. But some are extra special, and they deserve some sugar from me on this blog. Especially since they’re family.