New camera

well i have had it for a few days already but now finaly got around to posting about it

I have a new camera. Its my christmas present to myself: The canon 5D Mark II, more info on that here.

It is really very awesomeness :D been making some nice photos with it too [...]

Another near miss dooms day

It seems they got the end of the world wrong AGAIN. Its just not working out for the dooms day people in the world :/

http://science.slashdot.org/submission/1100873/2012-a-Miscalculation-actual-calendar-ends-2220

Hyperserver

Recently starting on building a Hyperserver for TROI. In a nutshell its a webserver with heavy hardware, multiple processors (8 to be precise) and ridiculous amounts of ram (16gb) and storage (8tb). The storage is setup as RAID. So we can use 4TB for the servers and 4TB is a mirror. This way if a [...]

Slomovid

My new phone also supports recording slow-motion (slomo) videos. Made a cool video of blaze in slomo, sorry for the unfortunate angle though

New phone

got it today after 2 weeks of waiting. the samsung jet 8000. some cool features that i like most:
can hook it up to my laptop so my laptop has mobile internet everywhere
can turn it sideways, this makes the usual numeric input turn into a qwerty keyboard.
i have a cable that joins it to my laptop [...]

New laptop

ok not entirely true, iv had it for a few weeks but i been busy

its a toshiba m750 tablet laptop and is really epically cool! touch screen, that already did it for me, but also dual core 2.4ghz, 3gb ram, fast, sexy and powerfull. its just a little thick but i can live [...]

Mobile Dev compy

I'm working on a plan for a mobile developer laptop. Key features will be good battery life and smal/lightweight. Powerful is of course also important but the mobile factor still comes first. I'm looking for something i can program on when traveling/holidays etc.

Had a look at several brands but kept coming back to the ASUS [...]

How your brain creates God

Another fine article by Newscientist.com

"The origin of religious belief is something of a mystery, but in recent years scientists have started to make suggestions. One leading idea is that religion is an evolutionary adaptation that makes people more likely to survive and pass their genes onto the next generation. "

Read full article

New server for myself

Woot i finally have my own personal webserver. Got lots of servers with BEinspired ofcourse but this is my first own one, moved this site to it and a couple of sites beloging to friends and a couple of my personal projects. Going to be fun times  installing all kinds of experimental software on there [...]

BrainsBrainsBrains

No not zombies (this time) but the top 10 articles about Brains from newscientist, some very interesting stuff in there.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16205-your-amazing-brain-top-10-articles-from-2008.html

An excerpt from one of the articles, taken slightly out of context.

WHEN four male experimental subjects were found peeking at explicit images of naked female bottoms on laboratory computer screens, you might have expected disciplinary action, a [...]