Vincent Velthuizen IT-Solutions

Not everything Boudewijn de Groot recorded was fully original… Below I am making a collection of the songs that were his inspiration.

Off course this doesn’t reflect on the quality of what he did and does. I still think he’s awesome and love his music!

I was at a lecture from Maarten van Rossum yesterday (monday 19-9-2011) where I bought additional lectures of his on CD. Because I want to consume these on my iPhone I wanted to import them.

I found this website: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunsabk.htm with excellent instructions on how to do it. I would how ever recommend using higher setting for encoding. The initial rips where unbearably bad to me, especially compared to the original. I’ve upped it to a sample frequentie of 44,100 Hz and 128 Kbps.

What’s up with KPN and Vodafone complaining about people using their services. They sell mobile internet, to me that means I give them packets that they push on to the internet and packets adressed to me are passed on to my device. That’s what they sell, they’ve been doing it for some time. As we all know (and especially they should…) the possibilities of the internet are almost endless.

Email would be an obvious asynchronous way for smartphone users to communicate with one another however we appear to like to be limited to 140 characters (twitter is another good example of this). That all lead to the immense popularity of service like WhatsApp that use you’re data plan (limited or otherwise) to get out of the €327,68 per Mb we pay (T-Mobile NL I-300 plan, the one I’ve got) for textmessaging (SMS). And now these providers must be thinking something along the lines of: “But Apple, Google and Microsoft are taking away our ability to steal from our customers…”.

I hope it won’t be long untill some new provider stands up and offers internet ONLY just shuffling around bits and not doing anything else. Maybe Microsoft is looking forward to this future as well, they did buy Skype afterall…

ps. obviously Apple and Google are prepared as well with FaceTime and Google Voice respectivly.

I’ve recently been working on the website for Photographer Dirk-Jan Visser. We have not gone live yet but should do so within the next couple of days -update: we are live now-. Very exciting times…

It also give rise to a javascript photo slider that will not actually be used on the site, but i do think is very nice. So I think I will be sharing that soon (it’s not finished yet ).

Go to: www.dirkjanvisser.com to see the site

Welcome,

on the site for my newly created company: Vincent Velthuizen IT-Solutions. Here you will be able to track progress on projects I am undertaking with this company. Also this will be the place I’ll use to vent any issue’s I’m uncertain about: should I publish the code I write, how can I earn back my investment and should just earning it back be enough…