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At Apple's last special event, after introducing the new iPods, Steve Jobs added this: "We've got some new packagings for the new nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically redu… more »

Google.be 28-sept-06 Everybody's been saying lots of things about the Google.be case, especially that the Belgian newspapers should have used robots.txt to tell Google what not to index. And that the fact they did not use robots.txt clearly show all t… more »

Unique IPs / 5 minute intervals My post on iPod car integration got slashdotted last night. That really caught me off guard! It is pretty incredible how fast the hordes of new visitors arrived. I only noticed about 1 hour later that the server had… more »

On the last Apple special event, Steve Jobs was almost bragging about the fact that 70% of new cars sold in the US this year had (optional!) iPod "integration" available... Obviously, he didn't talk about the rest of the world. But most of all, what… more »

Okay, this time there's no turning back! I have booked my Flight! I'm off to San Francisco on October 4th! B) Wow! It's actually been 12 years since I left Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. And I've not been to the US once ever since. D… more »