http://www.jilles.net Insert witty tagline here Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the second installment of my "Denmark vs. Netherlands" post. In this, I'm exploring some cultural and statistical differences between the two countries. Completely random stuff, I promise. Look here for part I. English I keep telling people back home that the level of English spoken here is even better than ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2009/04/11/denmark-versus-netherlands-part-ii/ Just installed the Synergy application. (Quick into here.) If you have more than one computer you can use this to keep using one keyboard/mouse pair for all your computers on the network. You just move your cursor off the screen and onto the next computer without lifting your hands! Really ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2009/02/23/synergy-tips-for-mac-users/ Inspired by Jurgen from Noop.nl, here is my bookslide. I'll limit myself to the books that I just got though. You can find my virtual bookshelf over at Shelfari. This round of books are a bit sciency more so that others but that is predominantly the case due to George ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2009/02/16/my-book-slide/ What follows is a first (necessarily) relative comparison between the Dutch culture and the Danish one on those aspects that stood out to me. Mind you, I wrote this after being in Aarhus, Denmark for the relatively short period of 2 months. Also, I chose to publish this ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/12/20/denmark-compared-to-the-netherlands/ Looking at this picture, I realized I was seeing a visualization of something I've been telling people around me: that it seems everyone in my social circle is having a baby. What you are looking at is one page of friends on a local social network in the Netherlands ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/16/my-social-network-is-changing/ Moving to a different country gives you more spare time, with which I can play. Just installed PanoLab on my iPhone, and I must say it works great. See the two examples below. This is the Den Bla Avis building (the company that created http://www.dba.dk) from their parking lot in the ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/15/panolab-iphone-application/ I make no presumptions on my blog: I hardly dedicate time and effort to it and just want some place to put some of my thinking on the intertubes. That said, I do know a thing or two about websites so I can't help myself applying some of the practices ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/15/how-do-people-end-up-here/ I felt we should just talk to as many customers as possible, and do whatever they say. But that is a bad idea. It confuses the tactic, which is listening, with the strategy, which is learning. (reference) Exactly! This is quite hard to do, though. What happens when there are multiple ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/09/do-not-listen-to-your-customers/ Recently found a weblog ("Fractals of Change") that occasionally talks about the finance world. There are some really great gems. For example, take this article explaining "the physics of money": The faster we spend, the more money there is available in the economy. Money we put in our mattresses might as ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/08/economic-disaster-seriously/ Just removed my Plaxo account. Used it for a while, and found it useful now and again. But since for over a year or so they started turning into this social network, and I have plenty of those. I keep getting invites from others that do use it, people commenting ... http://www.jilles.net/perma/2008/11/02/plaxoremove/