Ron Mertens’ blog

We’re going on a short (one week) vacation to Crete… Hopefully we’ll get some good rest. Anyway, I’ll take heaps of photos, as usual (I’m armed to the teeth with pixels!).
The exciting thing is that we are to get married in Crete. It’s pretty cool, even if it won’t be in the “greek orthodox church”.
But [...]

I just finished reading the Earthsea cycle (yeah, 6 books) by Ursula Le Guin. I read them when I was little (the first three, anyway). They are still a great read. I especially liked the last one. Recommended to all fantasy fans!

My latest site, Spintronics-info is now published. Spintronics is the future of electronics, done with electron spin rather than charge. There are already some spintronics products available (such as MRAM, and Spin-Valves used in sensors and hard-disks).
I now have 5 different content sites on-line. I don’t think I’ll be adding any in the near future… [...]

Freescale is now selling the world’s first MRAM chip. It’s only 4Mbit, and it costs 25$, but it’s a huge achievement. There’s a big traffic spike for MRAM-Info, lot’s of people are talking about this. I got several nice links, even one in an article by the BBC, which was on the front page (I [...]

I was having problems with my blog for the past week or two. I moved my server to PHP5 and MySQL5, and wordpress (The open-source software that powers my blog) broke… The blog still displayed okay, but I couldn’t publish new posts.
It still makes some problems, but at least I’m able to post now. It [...]

Lot’s of people (well, two, actually) have asked me about Hosting options… I did some ‘research’ myself, and finally decided to go with HostGator. I’m really happy with them so far, they have fast support, good prices, and a cool alligator as a logo