IAB’s Transparency Consent Framework, the cookie wall meant to coerce your ‘consent’ to tracking for real time bidding #adtech has been deemed illegal again, on appeal. Applies across EU now. Well done #iccl !
In celebration of my birthday E and Y took me to the Voorlinden museum for lunch and exploring the current exhibitions. The weather was great, it was a relaxed day. E and Y waving from inside a pool (by Leandro Erlich, 2016), me standing at the pool side An attic room, by Hans op de […]
The last days of April and the first days of May, we spent a week in the southern most part of the Netherlands, in the hills of Zuid-Limburg. It didn’t quite take me away from all the stress, driving home I teared up thinking about how I would have to work the next day (and […]
We’re scouting to replace our car (a 2006 Volvo V50). The challenge is finding one that has similar luggage space. The V50 has a box shaped boot, whereas other cars have either very sloping backs or lack depth in the boot. For newer Volvo’s this holds true as well. Cars have generally become bigger on […]
After 7 years and 16 weeks, since week 1 of 2018 it seems my week notes are ending. These past two weeks I simply didn’t feel like it. Today I also realised I wasn’t likely to catch up with my missing notes for last week and the one before, and that in my current state […]
Bought this book by German author Phillip Schönthaler (1976) last February in Switzerland, after already considering it while in Berlin the October before, on paper. The narrator (which is the author) explores various scientists around the development of rockets, atom bombs, and computing, and their connection to fiction writing. This was published in 2024, and […]