Archive for the 'English' Category

New job

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I’m now a Test Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor in Mechelen.

Netvista still headless

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I was sure this was going to fix my Netvista X40… But it didn’t succeed.

Testing Firefox 2

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Firefox 2 is looking good, though not that different from 1.5 after all. I do like the spell checker!

Chatting tot MSN contacts in Google Talk

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

This is how you can use Google Talk to chat on the MSN network. It even works inside Gmail.

FOSDEM @ benesol

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Benesol, the hosting company behind this website, is apparently sponsoring the FOSDEM conference.

Netvista X40 goes headless

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Details of an all-in-one PC with a failing display.

Usability for beginners, part 2

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Gmail has a very funny hiccup in its Dutch interface…

Usability for beginners

Friday, May 26th, 2006

How the online PDF reader software of Mediamark is used in a rather unproductive way.

Unible to spell correctly?

Friday, May 5th, 2006

One of the most confusing rules in the art of English spelling!

Usability of the scrollbar declining

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

The internet is full of usability problems, most of which are already thorougly described in books and websites.

One thing that I’ve not yet read about, but that’s been bothering me nonetheless, is the decreasing usefullness of the scrollbar.