What if: Steve Jobs and his iPad in Dragon’s Den

Here in Holland (and in many other countries) we have a series of reality television programmes called “Dragon’s Den“, featuring ‘wannabe’ entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. It is quite a fun format: the contestants always (think they) have a very profitable business idea, but just lack funding (one can wonder why). So they pitch their idea to five (very) rich, successful entrepreneurs: aka the “dragons”. Before each show the contestants name an amount of money that they need to get, and the rules are that if they do not raise at […]

A flight attendants exit strategy

Let me tell you something. I fly internationally frequently. And ‘flight attendants’ – or as we know ‘m: stewards or stewardesses – do not  have the glamorous job people might think they have. Sure, if you look no further than the surface you see mostly young, attractive people flying all over the world to cool places. And people generally envy them for that. Well, reality is that they are mostly playing babysitters to annoying people. People that don’t obey the safety rules on a plane. People who are rude and get abusive because they experienced a delay of simply because they had to much […]

Hunting mice with a rifle: mice win

Hunting pesky rodents can be more dangerous than most people would think. If you choose the wrong tool for the job and couple that with bad decisions and poor judgement; it can end in a tragedy. As was the case with a  52-year old dentist from Holland who tried to get rid of some mice in his vacation home in Jumilhac-le-Grandin, in the French Dordogne (July 26, 2010). Aggravated by the noisy mice that inhabited his French home, he decided to take matters into his own hands and hunt ‘them pesky mice’ down. However; instead of using the usual tools for […]

Obama tells it like it is

News sometimes trickles down kind of slow here in Holland, but this was a bit too good let it pass even though it happened a week ago. What is it that I would like to share here? Well, on Friday Jan. 29th Obama visited a House Republican retreat in Baltimore to answer questions from republicans in, what The Huffington Post calls “The Lions Den”. At the end of the session there was a Q&A session that wasn’t supposed to be broadcast, but the White House pressured the Republican party to bring the cameras in. And Obama got a sterling opportunity to […]

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Semper Fi

Back on my feet again after that nasty A/H1N1 hit me. But enough of that. Thursday night I downloaded Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Now, I am a great fan of the previous installment of the game (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), but I skipped Call of Duty 5 (“World at War”) as it was set again in the Second World War. COD4 to this day remains the game I play the most (multi-player). Before that I played SOF2 (Soldier of Fortune 2) almost religiously and I even was in a “clan” for a while. Anyway: the single player storyline of […]

Motorola Droid and Google Maps: a cool combo

I have about a year to go before my current mobile subscription ends and I will be able to pick out a new phone. People that know me (or read my blog), know that I am a big gadget lover. Many have asked why I do not own an Apple iPhone. I currently own a T-Mobile MDA Vario IV  (HTC Touch Pro) running Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Well, quite simply: Apple is just too trendy, too expensive and too closed-source to me. But mostly the first part: everyone already owns an iPhone or iPod. And most of their owners have […]

All geared up

After seeing some good reviews on the TAC Force tactical crossdraw vest by YouTube guru Nutnfancy, I decided to get one myself. Just for fun – as I did with my Viridian X5L. So I looked online and chased down some Dutch websites that supposedly sell this stuff and I even visited a few Army dump stores. But I soon discovered that none had any tactical vests like this one in-store. Heck, some didn’t even know what I was talking about. So, yet again, I had to order online. I decided not to buy directly from TAC Force as I […]

Nailed it

After about 150 bullets of Magtech 124 grain FMJ 9mm I finally nailed it today and was able to zero in my HK P30L and my Viridian X5L laser perfectly. It took me more effort (and ammo) than I hoped, but that was due to the fact that the batteries that came with my laser bore sight ran out after less than 10 minutes of use. Finding the rights new batteries proved a hassle and it took me till last weekend to do so. So today I finally could go to the range again with that fixed. Sure enough, with […]

Unboxing and mounting my Viridian X5L

Ok folks. After returning from the USA I made some time to make these two 10 minute videos on my Viridian X5L universal green laser/tactical light combo sight. It’s shows the unit itself, how to operate it and how to mount it on my Heckler & Koch P30L. Can’t wait to take it to the range next week!