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Yup, it’s that time of the year again: time to plan my Xmas trip to Carrie & Zach. I’m looking for some cheap flights to Tallahassee, and hopefully I can use some of my well-earned Delta SkyMiles to either upgrade to business class, or to fly cheaper. I wrote an e-mail to Delta because they did not add my SkyMiles yet from July this year. They added them almost the next day. But then I tried to see if I can redeem them for a flight, and their Website said they currently do not support non-us flights (which sucks). Anyway: […]

Guess I have a lot of short stuff to write about, so I decided to throw them together in one big post 😉 It was a long, boring week this week. Work was slow, I was uninspired and in general I was just too easily distracted. Guess it’s the time of year again: fall is always such a drag. The days are getting shorter, the weather gets bad, leaves are falling and it rains most of the time. To top things off the damn traffic jams are getting worse and worse under these conditions. Thursday morning I just didn’t even […]

So we all know that Windows is inherent unsafe. If that isn’t bad enough, Microsoft keeps pushing their shitty updates down our throats. Well the next pain in the ass is called XP service pack 2. This newest patch required about 104mb to download (in my case) and took over 30 minutes to install on my 2.8ghz HT P4. Go figure! Not taking any chances with this service pack I made a backup of my harddisks first.So far so good. Now I have two more machines to go to install this too. Since one of them is my webserver, this […]

Sick and tired of all those security issues involving M$ Internet “Exploder”? Browse the easy way. Browse the fast way:Firefox – Rediscover the web. Simply put: browse without the fear of being hit by some browser-hijacker, spyware etc. In fact: for security reasons you should not even use MSIE.

“Wow”. Thats the right word to describe the new Sony PEG-VZ90 Clié organizer. This new wonder of technology has an OLED screen, build-in Wi-Fi, can play MPEG 4, MPEG 1 video, along with ATRAC 3 digital audio. Sony claims the VZ90 will play audio for 42 hours, with the display blank, and run for 18 days when used as a PDA. Off course: seeing is believing. Before you go running to the store: the bad news is, that since Sony has formally announced its decision to suspend Clié sales in the US and Europe, it seems unlikely we will see […]

While half of Florida is peparing for Ivan the Terrible to strike, I had my own power outage today. When I got home from work, I was groping in a dark hallway. One look into my study reveiled what I had noticed around 3pm today: no power. After I switched my power back on with the flick of a switch, it became clear to me that it must have gone off right after 3pm or so. I was listening to my iLounge radio at my work, but suddenly the music stopped. I couldn’t connect anymore and now I know why. […]

I guess most men (not all) share some enthousiasm about cars, and by now you should now I’m no exception to that rule. So today I went to the King Cruise event. Boy, there were a lot of cool Yanks there. Some of them looked like they fit in a museum, others like they belowged at the scrapheap. Anyway, for a nice look at some photos take a peak at my regular photo album, or the 3D version (Dutch instructions). Blog you later!

I love sandwiches. So I put up my own recipe online for one of my favourites. Just check it out here. Enjoy!

Suddenly, after 3 weeks of recordbreaking rainfall, it’s warm and sunny again. A sudden Indian Summer. But who’s feeling under the weather? Right, me, myself and I. It started yesterday morning, shortly after I got to work. My throat started hurting and my head was pounding. For me clear signs of a outbreak of flu. My girlfriend, supportive as she is, started stating on the phone: “Well honey, it seems that you get sick a lot like that, maybe there is something else wrong?”. Well the reality of it is, that the last time I was really sick, is more […]

Suddenly old 70’s songs get more popular and are getting used more frequent for several commercials. One of them is actually a very good choice: they use this song for the KPN Mobile commercials. Anyway, the reason I put it up here is because the song describes my feelings whenever I fly home after visiting my baby. Off course the lyrics are not that accurate, but it is just the feeling I get from it. Airport (The Motors) So many destinations faces going to so many places Where the weather is much better And the food is so much cheaper. […]