Making Money (literally)

09:30 mareku 0 Comments

"Die Faelscher" (The Counterfeiter) is a German Movie about the real story of jews making British pounds and American dollars in Sachenhausen during WWII. It is an intelligent, moving picture with lots of things to think about.

eBooks: here I come!

09:39 mareku 0 Comments

I have been thinking of buying the Sony eBook reader ever since I saw it in Tokyo back in uh..2005 I guess.  The thousands of eBooks now available (via shops or torrents) make it rather interesting to have such a device.
Now however a far superior eBook has surfaced: The iLiad from the Dutch (ex-Philips) company iRex. I have read all the reviews and seen it at the local bookshop and am impressed.
So the iLiad it will be, if only this crazy format war in eBooks would stop. There are dozens of different formats (adobe, Microsoft, gutenberg etc. etc.) which demand there own DRM system and codecs. I found some interesting conversion tools already so let the download begin. Oh, you're right better first buy the iLiad... :-)

Dancing Men

10:31 mareku 0 Comments

At the upcoming auction at Bubb Kuyper a nice print  from Basart called dancing men.

reading upside down

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Stick with selling light bulbs

05:02 mareku 0 Comments

The results of Anton Philips collecting antiques is now for sale at Christies. It is the result of collecting the old fashion way: lots of copper, tin, wood and other stuff that we don't appreciate that much anymore.

The speed of internet

10:04 mareku 0 Comments

Turns out that KPN delivers an ok job. Check out your own speed now!.

Apple Leopard is super cool.

11:12 mareku 0 Comments

I just finished installing leopard on all (3) my macs and it is really cool. Preview, smart folders, coverflow, time machine: you name it. It really makes life easier and so much more fun. So close your Windows: The Leopard is loose!

Why aren't we married?

09:35 mareku 0 Comments

Michael in his latest movie: "Why did I get married" ...