Places blurred out in Google Maps view of the netherlands

Wikipedia has a list of places blurred out on Google Maps. Interesting to see and wonder why.
If you open the site one of the first countries is The Netherlands, blurred out locations are:

52°14′55.40″N 4°26′22.74″E, Noordwijk aan Zee.
52°08′16.98″N 4°30′46.29″E, “apparently” just two buildings in The Hague. The Royal Stables
[1], near Zeist.
[2], a Navy Base just [...]

Interview with Google CEO

Wired News has an interesting interview with the Google CEO. Quite an interesting read actually.

reflection

As we near the end of the year it’s time to reflect. One way is by using the Waybackmachine. This website has been crawling the internet for some time now and can take you back in time to see how websites looked back then.
For example:

MTV.com now versus MTV.com then (22 december 1996). What a difference [...]

Microsoft debuts book search tool

Microsoft debuts book search tool in competition to Google Books. Now hardy microsoft fans can search obscure books found in the british library, the library of the university of california and of the university of toronto. As microsoft believes in copyright (*grin*) it will only publish copyrighted books if the authors and publishers have [...]