kees.huyser

Commented on Competition Time!
Inappropriate use of sacrificial livestock for the staff BBQ....
Commented on Making history personal
The house I was born in –Herengracht 234 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands– was built in 1614. I lived there with my parents until I was three years old. The oldest building I've been in is Newgrange in Ireland. A neolithic...
Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
I work at a research institute where all peer-reviewed articles are produced in LaTeX, by people using vi. Sensible, since the articles contain a lot of math formulas and they're easy to format in LaTeX. I, however, produce annual reports,...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)