Notes on my life

The Life of an IT-Guy in Suriname.

podcast killed the radio star

| 17 november 2008

A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. Though the same content may also be made available by direct download or streaming, a podcast is distinguished from other digital-media formats by its ability [...]

losing a limb

| 2 november 2008

Last saturday I lost my phone. A HTC Touch. It feels like losing a limb. I had about 250 contacts in it. vrom all over the world. Good thing most of them where also on my computer. So The contact info is not lost. Losing my phone made me realise how dependent I am of [...]

webchange/coffee

| 9 augustus 2008

I was thinking (never a good idea). What do I need on my website?? For the most part My weblog is used. And wordpress has all the tools I need for the rest of the site. So I’m considering moving my weblog from http://weblog.rafieksilver.com to http://www.rafieksilver.com Make the weblog my main site. There are a [...]

War on the Internet

| 14 juli 2008

A funny thing happened to me a few days ago. I’m banned from a metal discussion forum that I helped build. If you read that sentence you’ll probably think “What the hell did he do to deserve that??” Well I don’t know. I’ll tell the story here and maybe while I’m telling it I’ll start [...]

msn/hotmail braincancer mails

| 16 juni 2008

I’ve had my hotmail account for almost 10 years now. In those 10 years I recieved a lot of mails hoax mails. Here is a short list. The MSN database is full with users that are not really using there account. You have to forward a mail to every person in your adressbook so that [...]