http://www.eelco.com Techno Babble Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:43:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I used to love playing those old (now retro) style games. You know, those point-and-click adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Larry, Monkey Island, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Loom, Freddie Pharkas, Full Throttle and lots lots more. The graphic quality was good (i really love the cartoonisch style), nice ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/10/03/a-thousand-games-for-the-iphone/ The day before the day before yesterday, which in this timezone would be monday, we went to SeaWorld Orlando. I always love SeaWorld. It's a clean and beautiful park with marvelous dolphin and killer whale shows. The only thing I don't get is all the Budweiser stuff (I know the ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/08/29/a-hot-high-definition-day-seaworld-orlando/ A little clip with my son having fun in the car here in Florida! http://www.eelco.com/2008/08/24/dancing-in-the-car-in-florida/ I've promised updates but, so far, none we're needed. We've had some rain and wind here the last night (nothing bad though, not much more than what we in Dutch would called "een stevig buitje met wat wind". Apart from the clouds, the weather is fine. No rain since 5 ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/08/21/update-on-fay/ As said before, we're enjoying our vacation in Florida.. however, There's this nasty storm coming along which is causing a lot of wind and flooding. For people from the Netherlands, who are used to nothing in this regards, this storm is quite exciting. Currently nothing much is happening at this ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/08/20/hurricane-fay-were-in-it/ It has been a while since my last post. Sorry about that. Since a couple of days my son, wife and me are hanging out here in Orlando Florida. We've flown with Lufthansa. First we had to go to Frankfurt then a direct flight from Frankfurt to Orlando. The flight ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/08/19/vacation-our-florida-retreat/ It seems the most important of the Amazon's webservices are down. EC2 (the Elastic Computing), S3 (storage) and SQS (the Queing service) are all reporting red on CloudStatus. Hope it comes up soon and i'm very curious about the cause. http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/20/aws-seems-down/ Last week me and my good friend Quintijn (with whom I also did Lasvegas2Miami) went to the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed. A few things we learned: the city Brighton sucks a lot (it's old, everything is broken and the hotels are the worst in the world), old cars can ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/20/goodwood-festival-of-speed-2008/ Everybody has seen it happen before, just after putting live a new (version of your) site, undoing the whole thing becomes necessary or quickfixes need to be applied. The cause is mostly because of a drop in visitors (somehow your ranking dropped?) or the new version won't perform at all. ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/18/website-migration-seo-and-performance-checklist/ So, this morning when walking up to the car to drive our son to the child daycare center (we had to go to work) we bumped into our neighbour who as he said so himself was "on his way to check out this whale on the beach". I live in ... http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/10/a-whale-on-the-beach/