Justin Torres: We the Animals

09:00 mareku 0 Comments

While we are all waiting for the first novel (We the animals) of Justin to be published the end of this month - we could enjoy a short story in the New Yorker - Reverting to a Wild State.
It is  told in a unconventional way: it starts at the end and ends at the beginning...
But it really doesn't matter: anyway Justin tells a story is great :-)

Nike+ sportwatch GPS

14:30 mareku 0 Comments

I am running with iPod Nano/Nike+ for 5 years now and am very satisfied. Altough I must admit that I am a little bit jealous of all the nice maps the runkeeper or the nike+ iPhone app make. But running with my iPhone? Noway: to heavvy, to cumbersome. But now there is a new Nike+/tomtom GPS watch which can do the trick (and is more accurate then my current set up). So I rushed to order it and will start running with it tomorrow - I hope...

Awesome: kindle cloud reader

14:06 mareku 0 Comments

Is this the future of apps? The HTML5 kindle "app". It combines the best of native apps and webbased functionalities offering a seamless user experience. I have deleted my old kindle app and are now using the cloud reader. I can see a lot of other usages for this kind of HTML5 apps.

Gaydar? - The solution

11:05 mareku 0 Comments

I hope that you are not to much disappointed...

The day I left Hyves

11:58 mareku 0 Comments

I realized that have to much unused profiles and accounts on The Internet and that a summer cleaning would be a good idea - I started today with Hyves. Next is Myspace and I wonder when I close down Facebook...

Do you have a gaydar?

12:44 mareku 0 Comments

In today's Volkkrant this little quiz because of Amsterdam Pride - which 4 of these guys are gay?

How to survive a year in the Office...

10:11 mareku 0 Comments

The result of 250 snapshots I took @ The Office in 20082/009 with dailymugshot.com.