Currently the exchange rate is about 10 $ for 1 euro. This is slightly more than it is but makes for easier, and safer, calculations when buying things.

The kowloon area is a great place to stay. It has many varied areas within it from big brand shopping to nice little markets.

The main road through this [...]

Dear all

Tomorrow I will be leaving for Hong Kong for a much earned vacation and for some business (2 new projects). I will not be reachable on my usual phone numbers but I will, of course, be checking my email.

I will be back on the 27th of february, although I will probably need a couple [...]

Irony, when the "dont swim" sign is drowning.

I'm getting a bit annoyed by the useless security measures i see these days. You know you can call most mobile telephone providers, change someones address and order a new phone chip to that address. All you need to know is which provider someone has, their full name and their birth date. In some extreme [...]

Been looking into a few different geolocation services. These are interesting for info on IP addresses but are also very usefull for multilingual sites to automatically display the correct language.

This one shows a nice google map with about the location of my webserver:

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=194.109.217.182&host=www.thomassmart.com

Its actually the network provider's head office not the physical location of the [...]