About life, the universe and everything

• Wicked Problems
• Hydraulic diameter
• Reynolds number calculation
• Major loss in ducts, tubes and pipes

The major problem which the medical profession in the most advanced sectors of the galaxy had to tackle – after cures had been found for all the major diseases, and instant repair systems had been invented for all physical injuries and disablements except some of the more advanced forms of death – was that of employment. Planets full of bronzed, healthy, clean-limbed individuals merrily prancing through their lives meant that the only doctors still in business were the psychiatrists – simply because no one had discovered a cure for the universe as a whole, or rather, the only one that did exist had been abolished by the medical doctors. Then it was noticed, that like most forms of medical treatment, total cures had a lot of unpleasant side effects. Boredom, listlessness, lack of – well anything very much, and with these conditions came the realisation that nothing turned, say, a slightly talented musician, into a towering genius faster than the problem of encroaching deafness. And nothing turned a perfectly normal, healthy individual into a great political or military leader better than irreversible brain damage. Suddenly everything changed. Previously best-selling books such as ’How I Survived an Hour With a Sprained Finger’ were swept away in a flood of titles such as ’How I Scaled the North Face of the Megaperna With a Perfectly Healthy Finger But Everything Else Sprained, Broken, or Bitten Off by a Pack of Mad Yaks’. And so doctors were back in business – recreating all the diseases and injuries they had abolished – in popular, easy-to-use forms. Thus, given the right and instantly available types of disability, even something as simple as turning on the Three-D T.V. could become a major challenge. And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft-palettes, speaking lines by dyslexic writers, filmed by blind cameramen, instead of merely seeming like that, it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile.

Life is not about the destination, unfortunately that
is what is commonly believed, life is about the journey.
Life is about the story, the tale. What interest would life
bring if all you were ever told was the end of the story

The point of this is to tell you to enjoy life’s journey
Enjoy where it takes you and let it take you where it
wishes, you may well end up where you belong.
For it is the odyssy that is the great story not at
all the fact that odyssys made it home.
Let its wings take you were it wishes.
Ride the winds and go with the flow

from http://cv122.deviantart.com/#/d2zb3dq

Mijn neef en zijn kameraad hebben de lat voor hun (enige) goede daad van 2008 vrij hoog gelegd. Ze gaan naar een festival. En ik bedoel letterlijk gaan. Helemaal te voet van Noord-Limburg naar dranouter. De sponsoring en giften die ze krijgen voor deze onmenselijke inspanning zullen ze integraal overmaken aan een goed doel. Ook jij kan je steun betuigen voor deze knappe prestatie ! Doe het nu voor het te laat is.

After some hours of checking and sorting i finally got around adding my favorite bookmarks back to my site.

You can find it under the My Links section. If you find a dead link, please report it to wouter@blue-gate.be.

using XWeb, SVG and other xml based technologies to build some static pages was fun, but plainly wrong for regularly updating my website.

So I installed wordpress which will allow me to update my pages dynamically.