Dirk Jumpertz

I'm Dirk Jumpertz, Belgian, European, Earthling, human, engineer, husband, friend, technologist, philosopher, hobbyist, amateur and some more, very likely in random order.

I've been working in the Internet business since 1997, at the advent of the commercial Internet as we know it today in Belgium. This Internet-thing used to be a hobby of mine; I fiddled around with HTML 1.0 and "surfed" with my little 9600 baud modem at a staggering 1 kB/s, yes that is one kilobyte per second.

The hobby became my profession and during the next years I loaded my backpack with knowledge, insight and experience in this Internet-thing. I saw companies rise and fall, some eaten, some starving. I saw technologies introduced and re-introduced, some flourished, others never germinated. 

I find this Internet-thing fascinating and frightening at the same time as it is changing, morphing, mutating, bubbling and trying to grow at an incredible pace pushed by an industry that invents and re-invents itself every 3 years. 

This website is my personal "portal", a starting point to my professional profile and CV, personal projects, blogs, rants, technical papers, opinions, you name it.

The Tech Blog is a blog I maintain on IT and Internet technology. Some entries are rather technical, others are useful tips and tricks. English.

The ewodju Blog is the blog my wife Ellen and I keep and is of a more generic nature. You might find a scrap book and tidbits on discoveries, opinions, treasure and junk. English and Dutch.

De Tafel Ronde is a project some friends and I started. I contains mainly articles on restaurants, cafes and other nice places we visit and like to share. Dutch.

Don't ask me about Facebook. No really, don't ask me about Facebook.

I tweet therefore I am?