It’s been a while since I’ve made a new post here. The reason is that I’ve been very busy with a project: a web shop!
Now that it’s finally finished, I’m very proud to announce Budget Toko!
Budget Toko sells all kinds of cool gadgets, watches, audio/video equipment and a whole lot more. Go check it out on www.budgettoko.com.
You can also like us on our Facebook page, we appreciate this very much. Feedback is also very welcome.
I recently started renting a virtual private server. As an operating system I’m using CentOS.
For now I’ll use the server to host my websites, but I’m planning on experimenting with Java applications in the future.
It’s an interesting experience to manage everything by myself for a change. There are a lot of things that need configuration and tuning. Especially security is a challenge.
It’s not easy, but I’m confident I’ll make it work and help me get a better understanding of webhosting and Linux.
When I’m done playing with the server and have some free time, I’ll move this website to it as well.
Last Friday I participated in the “First Lego League 4 Grown Ups”.
We were supposed to build and program a robot in about three hours time, after which we could test them in a friendly competition. Having seen children do this in the past, it was a welcome change to try this myself some time.
Three hours is not enough to build and program a serious robot for a competition, but it was nice to see some old colleagues and acquaintances.
A few years after making my first age progression morph video, I decided to make a second, up to date version.
The video is now finished, and can be watched here.
To improve the quality of the transitions, I’ve improved the following things:
More about this video on this page. Enjoy!
Last Saturday was family day at Hightech ICT! Employees and close family were invited to go on a quest through the city.
The quest was based on the movie “the game” and was organized quite nicely. It started with us getting texts from unknown numbers, a few days before Saturday. The texts were quite random, and at first I thought it was a wrong number. The day after that I got a text from my own number!! After discussing it at work, it seemed that my colleagues got the same kind of weird texts, and we connected the dots.
The day itself started with us getting a key to a safe containing a suitcase with mobile phone, gps tracker and other neat gadgets. We had to use them in various assignments that were giving to us. The assignments took us all over the city and while we were doing them we got texts saying things that could only be known if we were followed, making the experience complete!
We concluded with the publishing of the score and a nice barbeque. Very well organized and fun day for all ages!
For a few months now, I’ve been participating in the Exellior sales/behavior training. The training was organized by my work and is meant to make people aware of how certain behavior can affect others in a positive or negative way.
The training is originally used for salesmen, but there are a lot of things that can be applied in everyday live.
Last Thursday I received my certificate.
I just added the appendices to my graduation thesis download page. They are in Dutch, but for the people that are interested, you can download them over here.
A few years after making my first age progression morph video, I decided to make a second, up to date version.
This time, I’m changing a few things to improve the video:
These improvements will make the transformation a lot better looking, but also take a lot more time to create. To give a preview, I made this video to show the extend of the improvement.
When the new video is ready, it will be posted on this page.
After having my driver’s license for over two years now, I decided to take an all-day road safety training last Thursday.
We learned to control and get out of a slip, emergency breaking and even getting out of a car that is upside down. We also got some great theory course and I really think I learned a lot about controlling a car in traffic.
It was a great experience!
Yesterday I got my Basic life support including automated external defibrillation (BLS-AED) diploma!
It was a very nice experience to do something that has to do with something entirely different then computers or software. Also, it might help me to save a life someday.