Questions, questions is the series where I try to answer questions that appear in the webstats and aren’t already answered on this website. So that discounts those questions about how long it took Darwin to write The Origin of Species (about a year), the basic premise of The Origin and its first and last lines, [...]
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Questions, questions
March 4, 2009 – 21:22
In the web stats for this website, there is a section named keywords. Here I can see what people who were send here by a search engine were looking for. I noticed that a few keywords were actually questions, and that those questions aren’t answered anywhere on this website. And then I though, wouldn’t it [...]
Reflection
March 1, 2009 – 13:25
For those of you who don’t read Dutch and wonder what I was going on about, well, here’s a summary: Non Sequitur by Wiley. It captures this week flurry about creationism in The Netherlands perfectly. The creationists know with what conclusion they want to end up (i.e., their god created the heaven and the earth [...]
Thoughts about this place
January 7, 2009 – 23:06
There’s no way I’m gonna keep up this schedule. Posting seven days in a row is probably just a lucky streak. Tomorrow, I’m planning to make a cautious return to the volleyball field, so I’m pretty sure I’ve jinxed it now. One of my plans for 2009 is to write more, and write better stuff. [...]
WordPress Hacks
July 17, 2008 – 19:00
This is just a note for future reference or a possible quick fix for those who experience the same problem: after upgrading to WordPress 2.6 earlier today, all my special characters became a garbled mess. As I use quite a lot of them—don’t you just love crème brûlée and em-dashes?—that is quite unacceptable. Commenting out [...]
