http://chees.info The personal blog of Christiaan Hees Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jan Hees * 25-3-1947      † 8-6-2008 http://chees.info/2008/06/08/jan-hees/ I found this talk on ted.com and I've been meaning to post something about, so here it is: In the video at 3:50 he talks about Impact Bias: "Winning or losing an election, gaining or losing a romantic partner, getting or not getting a promotion, passing or not passing a college test, ... http://chees.info/2008/04/17/thoughts-on-happiness/ Today I went to the university library cause for some reason I thought that I could get some information there. What was I thinking? This enormous building with 90 km of books has a computer science section. The computer science section is highlighted in red: Yes, that's a whopping 2 bookcases. And ... http://chees.info/2008/03/27/why-the-computer-science-library-is-useless/ I've been sick for more than a week but it's finally almost over. Before I got sick I was working my way through the The Java EE 5 Tutorial which is actually really terrible. It's supposed to be the official tutorial for Java Enterprise Edition but it's full of weird ... http://chees.info/2008/03/19/random-java-and-firefoxiceweasel-talk/ Yesterday when I got home the power was out in my room. When I tried turning it back on again the fuse died. By unplugging all power eating machines and plugging them in again one by one I ended up with my tv. The moment I plugged it in it ... http://chees.info/2007/12/04/explosion-admin-and-music-mashups/ I heard that a number of companies make you do some sort of IQ test when you come for a job interview so I figured it can't hurt to train a little. I ran into this logical puzzle game. I'm not sure if it really helps if I do a ... http://chees.info/2007/11/18/logic-game/ Trillian found a really cool thingy that makes pictures of your last.fm profile. Last.fm keeps track of which music you listen to and in this picture you can see who I listened to over the last 2.5 years: (click to see the full picture) I've always associated certain music with certain ... http://chees.info/2007/10/01/my-musical-photoalbum/ An error occurred while loading http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/: Connection to host yourdomain.com is broken. I just spent 2 hours trying to fix this weird problem with Wordpress. I had just moved a Wordpress blog from my local server to a real hosting company. After some editing everything seemed to work except the admin part. ... http://chees.info/2007/09/25/wordpress-broken-connections/ I ran into this article from Paul Graham a while ago. He's from a venture capital company called Y Combinator (which seems pretty cool btw) and when I read his articles I got all dreamy and motivated and got in my "let's do something great!"-mindset. Usually this ends in me ... http://chees.info/2007/09/13/dreams/ In my work I use a lot of CSS and one of the things I always hate about CSS is trying to get things positioned exactly where you want them. Yesterday I came across this website that clearly explains the differences between a couple of layout properties. It's nice to ... http://chees.info/2007/09/07/css-relative-absolute-positioning/