2011, a look back 2011 was the end of a 5 year contract of an 560 m2 office space producing a revenue of almost 100.000 euro per year and costing me around 15.000 to 30.000 a year. After paying all my dues, that was a book I happily closed. From one long term Freelancing contract… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
About two years ago I started writing on a set of SF stories of which none have finished yet. Today I watched a brief video here on the new bill they try to pass in the US. The line in the video that triggered me is this at 4 minutes in the video: Ordinary users… [Read more…]
August 30, 2011
This morning I woke up from a dream dealing with change. I was on a party held by Boris (from “The Next Web”) and asked for some advice on what to do for my next startup. This time there were no zombies or warzones in my dream, and the sun was shining, so stuff was… [Read more…]
August 22, 2011
In the next 6 months, 3 projects are to be finished: An Android application to log your daily consumption – For a specific target audience and possibly with two or three spin-off products for people who are on a diet HotForestGreen – A framework for real time event handling over multiple devices. Also shortly called… [Read more…]
August 20, 2011
Apple has done some awesome stuff in the past, including a complete turn around from underdog and even dying entity in the 1990′s to a revived force to reckon with. I do not like to write this post for some reasons, one being that posts like this are usually bullshit. Mine included. But anyway. What… [Read more…]
July 4, 2011
In the past weeks I have started to wonder more about the lack of variety in species on earth. Looking at the differences, there are more commonalities than anything else. All mammals have the same basic “construction rules” applied, including the number of fingers and toes and the build up of reproductive organs. Where there… [Read more…]
July 1, 2011
Moving to better writing Closing a 5 year period of: “working for the money” and moving into a new period of craft and creation my blog posts are becoming more relevant as instruments of promotion. Mainly to reach my peers: the people I want to work with, create with, create for. The people I might meet, the… [Read more…]
June 10, 2011
I try to keep this short. In the past years research has been done to look at the effect of new technology and the Internet on kids. One of the results measured is that people seem to be able to focus less on tasks that require a longer attention span: “because of the internet”. It… [Read more…]
June 7, 2011
Starting a company requires a specific type of personality. The type of personality you find in all professional sports where there is no money. It is the type of personality where you risk everything – including your personal relationships and your personal savings – for a dream. To create all kinds of support, like subsidies… [Read more…]
May 31, 2011
Today I started the beginning of the first chapter of the third story in a line of maybe six. The background and protagonist is a dystopian Europe somewhere around 2060 or 2070 where copyright- and patent-lobbies have won and creativity is rewarded with lawsuits. Africa is the new shit, where everything, including post-humanism, is happening. China and… [Read more…]
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