3D Printed & Airbrushed. ‘He Who Cannot Be Named’, the main antagonist from the Harry Potter novels.
Lord Voldemort & Nagini (Harry Potter)
Meet the Actions Figures of Team Ito-Okita, Nihon Jiu Jitsu
New season starts 6/9/2025 15:30 @De Kimpel, Bilzen
Arcade Games
I’ve always believed that the best way to learn is to dive in. I had never used a circular saw, designed a piece of furniture, or built an arcade machine — but I decided to take on the challenge.
When the original blueprints proved inaccurate, I started from scratch, adapting the design step by step. It became an exercise in curiosity, creative problem-solving, and learning entirely new skills from the ground up.
Generative AI to create a realistic picture
Probably have seen this on Facebook. Here is the prompt:
Create a vertical 9:16 hyper-realistic bust portrait of a man (referencing attached image) reimagined as a fusion between human and T-1000 Terminator. The bust is showcased inside a premium transparent acrylic display case with a brushed gunmetal frame. Half of his face and upper torso are human, with realistic skin texture, classic Terminator facial scars, a rugged jawline, and a piercing gaze. The other half transitions into polished, mercury-like liquid metal with flowing chrome skeletal structures, glowing blue LED eye, exposed circuitry, and biomechanical musculature beneath translucent synthetic skin.
He wears a futuristic, battle-damaged leather jacket and a metallic-textured undershirt torn to reveal integrated machine components. Lighting inside the case is cinematic: cool bluish tones casting dramatic shadows and metallic reflections. The base is a glossy pedestal etched with “TERMINATOR serif typography. The scene is set within a sleek, minimalist designer studio—white desk, soft shadows, and high-end ambient daylight, evoking an ultra-premium film memorabilia exhibit from a dystopian future.”
Solutions
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
(2019-05-30)
A must read for ICT Managers to keep up with the latest trends. Even though you might have studied it at University. For me it has been a while…
Today’s top companies undergo the most significant transformation since industrialization. Artificial Intelligence disrupts industries, the way we work, think, interact. Gartner predicts that by 2020 AI will create 2.3 million jobs, while eliminating 1.8 million. Machine Learning is what drives AI. Experts in this domain are rare, employers fight for the ML-skilled talent. With this book, you will learn how Machine Learning works. A hundred pages from now, you will be ready to build complex AI systems, pass an interview or start your own business.
All you need to know about Machine Learning in a hundred pages
Supervised and unsupervised learning, support vector machines, neural networks, ensemble methods, gradient descent, cluster analysis and dimensionality reduction, autoencoders and transfer learning, feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning! Math, intuition, illustrations, all in just a hundred pages!
Power of Vulnerability
(2018-09-30)
Have read the book. Very interesting to read and learned new ways to do stakeholder management, knowing what is the ‘normal’, understanding ‘fault & shame’..
This is really a ‘must read’
Is vulnerability the same as weakness? ”In our culture,” teaches Dr. Brené Brown, ”we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love.” On The Power of Vulnerability, Dr. Brown offers an invitation and a promise-that when we dare to drop the armor that protects us from feeling vulnerable, we open ourselves to the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Here she dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and reveals that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
IMES DEXIS celebrating 50 years
IMES DEXIS celebrated their 50 years of business and asked for some testimonials.
Why it’s so nice to work here
Please don’t mind the strange face I’m making. This is only the way I look for half of the day, the other part I’m sleeping…
ELK Stack & Business Architecture Performance Metrics
(2017-08-30)
My teams just finished up a proof of concept using ELK stack, proving trends and safeguarding business by exposing inefficiencies in mission critical environment and fixing it.
There is now pro active alerting when systems tend to fall or go in a diminished performance state before they actually do. Better alerting than standard server/services monitoring !
Big data analyses at its’ best.
Next step is creating a cluster for robust and intense computations…
If you’re working in a DevOps env. focus on business metrics is key. However, you want to derive those metrics and the data to support your meeting those key performance indicators using tools that support effective collaboration with a minimum of misery.
(2017-10-30)
Full blown ELK stack cluster implementation ready and in production
If you want to read more: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack
How to win friends and influence them
(2017-09-30)
This book really helped me in my current function/job. A great tool to understand people, what drives them, and how to interact with those that don’t see your point of view immediately
The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide!
Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. In How to Win Friends and Influence People, he offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding.
His advice has stood the test of time and will teach you how to:
– Make friends quickly and easily
– Increase your popularity
– Persuade people to follow your way of thinking
– Enable you to win new clients and customers
– Become a better speaker
– Boost enthusiasm among your colleagues
This classic book will turn your relationships around and improve your interactions with everyone in your life.
Sonja Rigo doing a skydive
My wife is doing a skydive. Something I not dare to…
Hybrid active/active VMWare data center with Huawei Network Systems
(2014/04/15)
Back in 2013, Huawei was not as well known in the SMB business as it is today. They really needed to get a foothold in the Benelux on that level. I was in need of a new local, small sized but performing data center. Huawei delivered a ‘no cure, no pay’ solution to handle traffic between the data nodes and the edge switches and the clients
Here is the case study:
An excerpt:
Brute Force Attack demonstrated
When I worked at a hospital, back in 2009 , I had trouble to introduce a basic security mindset with co-workers throughout the organization.
The term ‘think before you click’ and ‘safeguard your passwords’ was introduced, together with this video.
Here I devised a simple (single threaded) program on how to beat the Facebooks app Word Challenge.
When people looked at it, and when I showed them the firewall logs on how much we were targetted for hacking, an awareness was born.