Technology
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Command And Control, Eric Schlosser (ISBN 9780141037912, Penguin)
Command and Control is written by Eric Schlosser. I read his bestseller fastfood nation long ago and liked it a lot so when this book came out in 2014 I bought it and read it. It was a scary read at the time and this year while we were on holiday this summer I decided…
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Space – The Human Quest
This week was a school holiday week. This is always an opportunity to do something together as a family and searching the internet we came across this exhibition. It is an interactive display of the history of space exploration, from the first unmanned flights from the Russians and Americans to the manned Gemini and then…
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Lego Technic BMW M 1000 RR
This year there were not so many summer vacation camps going on so I figured it would be a good period to build a new Lego BMW motor. A few years ago I bought a R 1200 GS model but this time it was the M 1000 RR. Built on scale of 1:5 and containing…
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De architecten van ASML, René Raaijmakers (ISBN 978-9082579826, Techwatch Books)
Ik kwam een verwijzing naar dit boek tegen op het LinkedIn kanaal van ASML. Aanleiding was de Chinese vertaling van dit boek. Ik had hiervoor al met veel plezier Natlab gelezen dus was de beslissing om dit boek te kopen en te lezen snel genomen. En ik heb er zeker geen spijt van gehad. De…
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Apollo 13
This movie with Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell came out in 1995. It is about the disastrous Apollo 13 flight and based on the book ‘Lost Moon’ by Jim Lovell. Apollo 13 was the third flight scheduled to land on the moon and so got little prior attention from the press. That changed dramatically after…
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File extensions
Ever wonder where these (mostly) 3 letter file extensions come from ? Here are 14 common ones : .bat : batch .bmp : bitmap .cfg : configuration .doc : document .exe : executable .flac : free lossless audio codec .gif : graphics interchange format .jpg : joint photographic experts group .nfo : information .png :…
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Philips Natlab. Kraamkamer van ASML, NXP en de CD, Paul van Gerven (ISBN 978-082707410, Techwatch Books)
Ik kwam dit boek toevallig tegen in een artikel en heb het gelijk gekocht vanwege de link van Natlab met ASML. Het is een kleine 400 pagina’s dik maar ik heb het deze week voor de tweede keer gelezen en het was in 4 dagen uit. Voor wie interesse heeft in technologie uit de lage…
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Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder came out in 1983. It stars Roy Scheider as police helicopter pilot Frank Murphy and Warren Oates as his superior. It must have been the last movie of Warren Oates as he died in 1982 after suffering a heart attack. Malcolm McDowell plays the bad guy. Of course the real star of the…
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Nest Protect 2
A couple years back we renovated our house and as part of it we needed to install smoke detectors. We went for the standard smoke detectors, nothing special. Two weeks ago the battery in one of them died and I didn’t have a spare battery lying around. Also, we hadn’t placed CO detectors yet. They…
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