“You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
Germaine Greer
Author Archives: Jan Van Haver
Song of the day: David Bowie – Starman
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There’s no doubt an artist like David Bowie would pop up sooner or later in this personal overview of music that touches me. But the tricky part is of course: which song to select? I opted for the easy way out and let coincidence decide, in the form of the shuffle function on my iPod during this morning’s jogging. Bowie’s Starman (released in 1972) was the first song served to me this morning, and I was paricularly struck by a short sequence in it, so… the choice was made. (To find out what effect the sequence has on you: it starts at 0:50)
Brexit referendum? Yes, but not in the UK
Why not organize a referendum about the question whether or not the United Kingdom should still be part of the European Union, the so called Brexit? But: instead of doing so in the UK to find out what the UK population thinks about this matter, I suggest to organize the referendum in the entire EU – in all 28 countries. That way we can find out whether the entire EU-population prefers to keep the UK on board or not. Continue reading
Quote of the day #46
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, and everyone is satisfied with his wit.”
Leo Tolstoy (in Anna Karenina)
Another novelty of this digital age: e-borders
Amazon hates Belgium. Or at least that is the conclusion I’m inclined draw after having been an Amazon customer for quite a few years now. On several occasions I’ve come across services Amazon is offering that sound really great to me, only to find out – a numbers of steps into the signing up process – that the service is not available in Belgium, the country I spend most of my time in.
Now, I do understand that Belgium will never be Continue reading
Quote of the day #45
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
sci-fi writer William Gibson
Song of the day: Feist – I Feel It All
Leslie Feist is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and what I want to present to you this time, is the third single from her third album: I Feel It All. Do check out the full album, The Reminder, if you can, as it contains some other hidden treasures, such as 1234, My Moon My Man (which you might know in the Boys Noize remix) and The Limit To Your Love (covered by James Blake in 2011)
Quote of the day #44
“He was high on intellectualism
I’ve never been there but the brochure looks nice.”
Sheryl Crow in Everyday Is A Winding Road
(proving, by paraphrasing it so delightfully, this line not to be autobiographical)
Spectacular Click Through Rate
As the internet has been growing exponentially over the past 20 years, online advertising has become very big business. Most of it in the form of online bannering: various sizes of squares and rectangles with commerical messages, spread across webpages (usually at more or less fixed parts of the page layout, such as the area in the top middle of the page).
To the companies spending money on advertising, this form of online advertising was presented as very interesting because Continue reading
Quote of the day #43
“Clear communication is a disadvantage if you don’t have anything to say.”
Rik Torfs (Belgian canon law scholar and currently
rector of the Catholic University Leuven)
THE SECOND HALF 