Jory's blog » Random blah http://blog.jorygeerts.com Just another WordPress weblog, or something like that Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:57:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Keep Europe free of software patents http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2009/02/02/keep-europe-free-of-software-patents/ http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2009/02/02/keep-europe-free-of-software-patents/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:47:49 +0000 Jory http://blog.jorygeerts.com/?p=48 Software patents suck. Sign the peption, maybe the politicians get it. </link-spam>

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This got me thinking. Why do we rely on statistics this much? I know I don’t trust them unless I can see information on how they where gathered, but when I look around me, I think thats just me being paranoid. (Or other people being stupid. ;) ) When I look around me, I don’t just see people take interpetations of statistics as facts, but just about anything else that looks in any way “official” or has enough impressive words in it. Ad to that the increasing ease of making a source of information look like it can be trusted to be objective and honest, and I worry. Because, if you can get half the population beleave that they need to eat fruit to be healthy, and use product X with its “unique” substance to stop the teethrot caused by that fruit, who knows what else you can do?

]]> http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/29/statistics/feed/ 1 Buurgenootschap ‘t Bergske http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/22/buurgenootschap-t-bergske/ http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/22/buurgenootschap-t-bergske/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:31:34 +0000 Jory http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/22/buurgenootschap-t-bergske/
Just ignore this post, ok?

For our local community, Buurschap ‘t Bergske, I made a website. Its basically a mix of WordPress and Plogger, with some custom coding to make them blend together. Most work actually went into finding out how the backend of WordPress works (I didn’t need to modify much about Plogger) and I still don’t really have a clue. :P I’m fairly happy about how the website for Buurgenootschap ‘t Bergske turned out. The design needs some tweaking, and I need to get rid of / translate some of the outputs, but thats a worry for later. (read: That’ll never happen..)

Ok, so non of you care.. the thing is, this place is at least known to search engines, the new website isn’t. So, now it is. :)

]]> http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/22/buurgenootschap-t-bergske/feed/ 1 Happy new year ^_^ http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/01/happy-new-year-_/ http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/01/happy-new-year-_/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:27:34 +0000 Jory http://blog.jorygeerts.com/2007/01/01/happy-new-year-_/ Yes, I too am doing a `happy new year` entry. Sure, the last nine entries on the ZetaBoards Planet are all titled Happy New Year (almost literally; Aaron added a !, Potter informs us of the year and Tachyon seems to mock companies wishing everybody has a happy new year. The other six are litterally `Happy New Year`. Looks rather odd) but I felt this was a good excuse for a random blog, so there goes…

A new year, some new resolutions

I, like so many others, have some newyears resolutions. Some big, some small, I won’t bore you by listing them all. Some of the more important ones are working on my abillity to finish things, as I have a lot of ongoing projects, all of which I get bored with and therefore never get finished; I am going to try and have a bit more fun, as right now I oftenly find myself being to serious; lastly, I want to start giving more attention to doing small things that I have to, but don’t seem to get around to (This kinda adds to the first resolution I listed, actually). I am not going to strengthen my relation with god though, dispite it seeming to be a populair thing to do. (*turns of pinging just for now*)

My room, new and improved

A while ago (during JOTI-JOTA to be exact), my room got revamped. I don’t have any pictures of how it used to look (or maybe I do.. if I come across any soon, I’ll add them), but this is how it looks now. (2592x1944px, ~250 KB) The new look is much calmer, and makes it easier for me to relax and empty my mind when I’m there. I haven’t hooked up my GameCube or my DVD player to my TV yet, and the sound doesn’t go trough my equalizer/amplifier & speakers yet, mostly because I need to drill a hole in the thing they are standing on. (Mind you, I already did, just to find out the cables are to short; I need to put it all on the top shelve.)

Sinterklaas :D

As you may remember from last year, Sinterklaas is basically our version of Santa Claus, except he brings us stuff on December 5th. (Though due to time constraints, we did half the gift-giving with Christmas..) This year, I got some CD’s (U2 & Nirvana), the comforters you can see on the pictures of my room, a little USB thingy for connecting harddrivers to my PC without having to build them in (not an external HD though) and a new pair of boxers. I also got myself Mario Kart DS, which is great fun. I can’t wait to race against another human being, too.

Writing stuff about PHP

I’m thinking of maybe writing some articles on PHP. I feel that I have enough experience with both PHP in particular and programming in general, that I may be of help to others, so why wouldn’t I, huh? Hopefully I’ll have motivation and time to write out some of the things I have in my head right now, we’ll see.

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