Benny’s Blog

Yesterday, I found this amazing animated gif. It begins by showing our planet and keeps adding other objects, while scaling the other visible objects to reflect its relative size.

Doesn’t that make you feel small? Or am I the only one?

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Earlier today I got a billing notification from Dreamhost for the whole year 2008. Just a few minutes ago, I received a 2nd mail that made me giggle:

Hi Benny!

Ack. Through a COMPLETE bumbling on our part, we’ve accidentally attempted to charge you for the ENTIRE year of 2008 (and probably 2009!) ALREADY (it was all due to a fat finger)!

We’re really really realllly embarassed about this, but you have nothing to worry about. Please ignore any confusing billing messages you may have received recently; we’ve already removed all those bum future charges on your account (#193080) and fixed everything up.

Thank you very very much for your patience with this.. we PROMISE this won’t happen again. There’s no need to reply to this message unless of course you have any other questions at all!

Sincerely,
The Foolish DreamHost Billing Team!

One of the things I like about Dreamhost is their informal excuse emails

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Here I am, making my very first post on my very post blog. Over the last years, I often felt the urge to start my own blog, but never went through with it. Today, I finally did it. There are several little reasons why I decided to do so:

• Interest. I’m a big fan of the new Web and interested in Internet technologies. Although I read dozens of blog on a daily basis, active blogging is something that I haven’t participated in yet. I want to try it.
• Practice. Writing down your ideas and thoughts is good for your brain. I haven’t done this much lately (except for chatting online), so this is my way of catching up. As a native Dutch speaker, it’s also a nice opportunity to practice my English.
• Blogging contests. One of the blogs that I read regularly, John Cow, often holds contests. To participate in these contents, one has to post in a blog.
• Boredom.
• Making Money Online??? At the moment, I don’t plan on making this a “Money Making” blog, but who knows?

Let’s see whether I have anything interesting to talk about…

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