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• 14 februari 2007 door Christian in taal

  The genitive is in grave danger

  Indo-European languages all had this beautiful case system with at least four base cases, nomenative, accusative, dative and genitive (which is the Icelandic order) and usually a few more.

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• 12 februari 2007 door Christian in sport

  Speed skating and the goal for the end of this season

  Hmm… today, I heard we’re supposed to do 30 rounds (without rest) in less than an hour by the end of the season… That’s next month by the way.

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• 11 februari 2007 door Christian in muziek · tags: youtube

  U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

  I was pointed to this U2 music video (transcoded to h.264) yesterday.

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• 6 februari 2007 door Christian in apple

  Steve Jobs on DRM

  In response to the European countries which are starting to take action against the closed-off DRM software by Apple called FairPlay, Steve Jobs personally responded with an open letter to the European government and the music industry titled Thoughts on Music on the website of the computer company.

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• 6 februari 2007 door Christian in reizen

  First information meeting of Kalmar

  Well, this is filed under holiday, but of course it will be hard work. I applied today for Kalmar, the Scandinavia Study Tour in 2008 of GEWIS. This study tour will visit the cities of Trondheim (world famous for their bike elevator… well at least among Rocketboom viewers, Stockholm and Helsinki.

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• 5 februari 2007 door Christian in web-stuff

  IKEA Hacker

  Obligatory reading material for every IKEA fan!

  
  hip ikea music machine

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• 2 februari 2007 door Christian in reizen

  Back to Berlin

  Als das Kind Kind war, ging es mit hängenden Armen,
  wollte der Bach sei ein Fluss. Der Fluss sei ein Strom. Und diese Pfütze das Meer. Als das Kind Kind war, wusste es nicht, dass es Kind war.
  Alles war ihm beseelt und alle Seelen waren eins.

  With these words starts Der Himmel über Berlin, a movie by Wim Wenders (who is from Düsseldorf). It is set in 1987 Berlin, the divided Berlin. At that time cracks were already starting to show, the Cold War was thawing.

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• 31 januari 2007 door Christian in sport

  News from the skating rink

  Since well over a year now I’ve been speed skating regularly, so maybe it is time for an update on the state of affairs up until now.

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• 6 januari 2007 door Christian in ijsland · tags: podcast

  Uurtje IJsland #05: De Aller Allerlaatste

  Nou, vooruit, dit is dan echt de allerallerlaatste.

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• 27 december 2006 door Christian in geek-stuff

  Unicode mess

  Hurray!

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