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Yummy! Asparagus B’day dinner! Just came back from a family dinner at restaurant “De Witte Bergen” were I enjoyed a nice meal of asparagus. Although it’s not some high-class fancy restaurant, the food is always very good, as is the service. Prices aren’t bad either. Totally enjoyed the company of my stepmom, dad, sister, brother-in-law and his mom and the two kids. Only one missing was my sweety Carrie 🙁 Oh well: I guess I’ll throw a bigger party next year and she will have to come over for it (my brother-in-law is my age and will 40 next year […]

Fossil/Abacus PDA watch Hmm, another year gone! Today I hit 39 years and it is the last year that I can say I’m “thirty-something”. Next year it wil be the “BIG FOUR-O” (man: where does time go?). Anyway, my girlfriend Carrie got me the coolest present so far: an Abacus/Fossil PDA watch! It is a great addition to my watch collection. I love it and I surely will use it a lot. It features the Palm OS and I have owned quite a few Palm Pilots (three to be exact). As far as organizers go, the Palm Pilot is certainly […]

Beautiful Rome I just came back from a eight day vacation to Switzerland and Italy with my girlfriend Carrie. We had a great time. Both Switzerland and Italy are so beautiful. We left on Wednesday morning around 4.30 in the morning and drove straight to our first stop: Locarno Switzerland. I love the mountains and the lakes! It is gorgeous there! What is really funny, is the fact that Locarno (located at Lago Maggiore) is almost subtropical and is really a beautiful place. We enjoyed our stay there a lot. Thursday we left Locarno, and drove for another five hours […]

Since I’ll be gone the next 12 days (I’m going to Italy with my girlfriend Carrie), I won’t be posting much. But not to worry: I have collected a bunch of funny (and not so funny) videos of ‘worldleader’ George W. Bush. So thanks to YouTube you can now spend the next days watching these video’s. So have fun and I’ll blog you later!

Queen Beatrix Today it’s officially our Queen’s Day when we celebrate Queen Beatrix’s birthday, even though it’s not really her birthday but her (late) mom’s, Queen Juliana. Complicated? Yeah well, not only that: we didn’t celebrate her birthday (known as “Queen’s Day or Koniniginnedag”) today because it’s Sunday, and not on Monday because it’s May 1st, but we did it yesterday, on a Saturday. Usually people like to go out on Queen’s Day and sell their rubbish from their attics and there are also a lot of free concerts. I myself hate Queen’s Day because I just hate large crowds […]

Like I wrote yesterday: it is hard to bitch about something that is for free right? So when YouTube was down again – so far I have never seen them announce it or bother e-mailing me about it – I was disapointed. And when they were up and running again later yesterday, I did not see anything special. But when I checked my blog today, something was different. Low and behold: they changed their player. It now contains some more controls and it just looks more appealing in general: Old interface New interface You definately see they are improving here. […]

YouTube or NoTube? I guess that you should not bitch about stuff that is “free” (if there is such a thing), but It is getting really annoying that YouTube is down about every two weeks or so for maintenance. What’s worse: it seems like they do not announce when they will be down. Especially if you use their service to put some movies in your blog etc. it is annoying as hell. I’m sure that thousands of other people who blog experience the same frustration. Also, the quality of YouTube (interface as well) isn’t really that great. If you compare […]

Today I was at the TINE 2006 tech show in Amsterdam to check out our competitors and scope out new trends in IT. While doing so I bumped into a booth run by what appeared to be the Dutch company that imports the I-Jam smartphones. As you might know (and if you didn’t: you do now) these phones are made by a Korean company called HTC and are sold under numerous names (I happen to own a Qtec S100 which is also a HTC made phone). Anyway, they also had some prototypes of new phones there – working! – and […]

Last night I had dinner in Amsterdam with a good friend who I have known since highschool. We always go to the same Indonesian restaurant: Kantjil & De Tijger and we always order the same food: “Nasi Goreng Rames” (fried rice with pork kebabs, stewed beef, pickled cucumbers, and mixed vegetables). It contains everything we like about Indonesian food on one plate and it is reasonably priced. Funny enough there was what seemed a Japanese camera-crew filming the food in the restaurant (unfortunately for some weird reason my video of that event is corrupted, so I can’t show it here). […]

Obsolete? As you might have noticed the consumer electronics world is eagerly awaiting the mass introduction (probably later this year – Sony already ships some devices) of the successor of the DVD. But the problem is that the ‘powers that be’ can not decide among each other which format should be leading (unlike with the DVD). The consumer is off course the one to suffer. Off course I was happy when some manufacturers announced they would produce some models that would play both formats. So I decided that when the time will come, I will play it safe and get […]