Personal
Marcel de Ruiter started this weblog in January 2006 for the sole purpose of “shaping his thoughts” on, and keeping track of interesting findings on the Internet and, on aspects of life in general. With this weblog as “basecamp”, Marcel hopes to “meet” and exchange ideas with his fellow Earth inhabitants sharing the same interests, and at the same time contribute to the global discussion and learning arena called “Blogosphere”.
Topics of interest that will find their way to this weblog include:
- Social software developments, their real life application and some experience with the tools (wiki’s, weblogs etc.)
- Knowledge Management best practices
- Computer applications
- Webdesign
- Books, Music and Podcasts
- Second Life
Marcel is educated in economics, being a graduate of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has been working in the banking sector for the past 10 years, as an economic forecaster and more recently in the field of credit risk management.
Marcel’s fascination with the Internet has been growing ever since first checking out web sites in 1997.
About this Weblog (the technical part)
This weblog runs on Textpattern is stored in a MySQL database and is hosted at Textdrive.
The layout of the weblog is based on the original Blix port to Textpattern by the late Sivert L. Nielsen and is called “Inspired by Blix”. Blix was created by Sebastian Schmieg. The icons are by Kevin Potts.
The only adjustment to the Blix port, has been the creation of a three column layout and increasing the (fixed) width at the same time.