Kay & Dimitri Dhuyvetter

Kay & Dimi off on adventures yet unknown

  • Why I deleted my Facebook account and that was just the start

    Why I deleted my Facebook account and that was just the start

    Since just about everyone I know is now on Facebook (there are only 2 people I know who refuse to make a Facebook account), there will be a lot of questions why I decided to delete my account. As I posted before, Jonas Jacek’s post Why is Facebook bad? is quite good at summing up…

  • I did it: Account scheduled for deletion

    It took me about half a day to delete all my friends, photos, videos, profile info, pages, etc. but it’s done, I’ve pushed the delete button and in two weeks time my Facebook account will be gone, gone, gone, forever.

  • Green hosting

    This website and all other websites I make are hosted at Greenhost, a Dutch hosting provider that is 100% climate neutral. They use the newest, greenest servers and put them at Evoswitch the most durable data center of the Benelux.

  • Dude, where’s my Android 2.2 update?

    My Motorola Milestone is still stuck with Android 2.1, even though the US version, the Droid got the 2.2 update months ago and that update was promised for Milestone in Europe an equally long time ago. The main improvements in 2.2 are installing apps to SD in stead of internal memory, something I desperately need,…

  • Encrypting e-mails

    Using Thunderbird and Enigmail, it is not too hard to encrypt the mails you send (and decrypt those you receive). There is a quick-start guide at http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/quickstart.php.html to help you get, well, started. So when sending me mails, please feel free to encrypt them using this key: You can also use this key to verify…

  • Taking back control of your data

    I won’t be deleting my Facebook profile for now, but I’m glad I’m on Diaspora and Friendika to. These alternatives to Facebook aren’t there yet in terms of functionality, but it’s good to have distributed, open source alternatives. There are a lot of reasons to find Facebook evil, but the most important to me are…

  • Accepting Bitcoin

    For future work I will be accepting Bitcoin payments. If you don’t know Bitcoin, be sure to check it out, I think it is awesome and will become as important as PayPal in the near future. http://www.bitcoin.org http://www.bitcoinme.com https://www.weusecoins.com/ edit: Unfortunatly youtipit.org doesn’t exist any more, it was a Bitcoin version of Flattr and where…

  • Say No to Online Censorship!

    Say No to Online Censorship!

  • Defining SharePoint Content Types in Code

    The sample code on Defining SharePoint Content Types in Code posted on “Wrox Article : Creating Content Type Metadata for SharePoint 2007 Document Management Solutions : Page 2 – Wrox” contains an error.

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