You just ran out of punch cards

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your computer store can’t supply any more 5 1/4 inch floppy disks

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your 10 MB harddisk starts making rattling noises you never heard before

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your monochrome Hercules monitor starts smoking

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when you try to install windows 3.1 and it complains your system isn’t supported anymore

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When you just broke your coax cable and can’t buy a new one

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when your telecom operator stopped supporting your 2400 baud bulletin board connectivity

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you just bought an update for wordperfect and it tells you that it won’t run on MS Dos 3.3

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You try to buy a new program on a mini-cassette-cartridge but all you can get is cd’s

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your virusscanner won’t get updates anymore since they won’t fit on the diskettes

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You want to buy a math co-processor for your 8088 machine but can’t find one in any store

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your keyboard broke and you can’t get one with this 5-pin DIN connector anywhere

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your computer tells you that march 26 2009 isn’t a valid date

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you’ve run clean out of Borsu 10MB Bernouilly cartridges and no-one has any more for sale

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You can only download working software from sites tagged with ‘abandonware’

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The only organisation offering spare parts is the local computermuseum

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You’ve just set your browser startpage to http://oldversion.com

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you are amazed when you look at all the modern and advanced systems they show you at http://www.old-computers.com

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recently you got addicted to the intricate game of pong

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you just bought a brand new harddisk, but your system bios doesn’t recognize it and when you finally get it to work you find out that fdisk.com and format.com won’t allow you to actually use it…

Cheers…

In my previous post I talked about barcodes and QR-codes. One of my dear commentors, Aldon Hynes, asked me about the Microsoft Tag in relation to my post. I didn’t hear about that before so I went right at it. What’s that all about?

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Microsoft Tag is another system for tagging offline objects with a code or tag and allowing mobile users to connect to online resources that are linked to the tag. You see the MS tag pointing to my domain here. It’s, ahemmm, ugly. I guess taste is personal…
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There are lots of ways to visualize information, concepts, thoughts and systems. In fact there are probably near endless ways to do so. I use some in my day2day work like mindmaps, tree-diagrams and network-infrastructure-maps. I have been using some UML related diagrams and all sorts of layered architectural maps. however, I’ve not used even 10% of available techniques.

I very recently (today) found a website that gives an overview of a lot of available visualization methods in a visual form that is appealing. In fact, visualization techniques within a periodic table. I found this site as it was added to http://Twine.com, a site I am a member of since quite some time and that does come up with great stuff from time to time. This was one of those moments. In fact, this is a new site, but I wanted to share it with you anyways…

Let’s give you the URL now: Periodic table of visualization methods. I would certainly give this site a 10 out of 10. You might, too… If you find methods not listed there, let me know!

I hope you like this post.

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Blogging isn’t necessarily very easy, in fact, it’s pretty hard, especially if you want to create good content and post regularly. On the Entrecard Blog I created a post (and it was in fact accepted!) about my blogging-strategy. Since I’m getting some nice replies, I really want y’all to read that post. I’m not going to create duplicate content, so here you just get the link. I hope you like the post. Don’t hesitate to comment, either here, or on Entrecard.

And here’s the link: The Blogger’s Challenge

Don’t you agree? There is too much information. Too many websites, too many documents and way to much e-mail. There is just too much information. You know why? There are three simple reasons for this.
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Well, Hi there, A new start for a personal blog (as opposed to my professional blog over at wkossen.nl/weblog…