One of the highlights of my USA vacation, was shooting this monster! I very much enjoyed shooting “The Beast”. The MINI-GUN, also known as the M-134. This fires over 4,000 rounds of .308 a minute. This is the ONLY mini-gun that’s running and available to the public in Las Vegas. This is the weapon seen fired by U.S. Forces from aircraft and vehicles from Vietnam to present day. Firing a MINI-GUN is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that you can have right in the heart of Las Vegas, just one block off the Vegas Strip. You won’t want to miss your chance […]
The case of the lost wheelchair
If you have followed my blog, you know by now that I have started to dislike flying a lot in the last few years. Ever since the financial crisis went from Wall Street to Main Street airlines have been trying to cope with the fact that fuel prices went up and fewer people can afford travelling internationally. On top of that their service is getting really crappy as well. Believe me: airlines are trying to pinch every penny. I also think this is wrong; instead of raising prices and lowering service overall to a lousy level (paying $5 for a […]
Forget customer service; just tweet…
I hear a lot of people gripe about companies and how lousy customer service is when something goes wrong. I have some personal experience with that myself. Just search my blog for the word “fail”. It seems that calling or emailing customer support nowadays isn’t getting you anywhere. So what is a person to do about it? Well, I have found that for whatever reason the whole “social media” thing is apparently more important now to companies than good old complaints by email. So lately I have been tweeting my gripes. And it has proven to be more effective than emailing. […]
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) – “Think Different”
Sad – but not unexpected – news when I woke up this morning: Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. A month after leaving Apple permanently, one day after the iPhone 4S was announced and just a few weeks before his (authorized) autobiography will come out. Regardless what you think you know about the man: he changed the industry and the world. Yes, I can say that without sounding dramatic. Just take a look around next time you commute from home to work. How many Apple products do you see around you? How many brands you know that […]
Stop the Google spam!
Ok guys & girls. This post is a full-blown rant aimed against Google and the annoying way they do their offline advertising! Why is it that I can’t open up *any* magazine here in Holland without this annoying piece of paper falling out of it? WTF! It’s 2011 and Google uses PAPER to spam us! I am talking about the 50 Euro credit advertising for Google Ads. Literally for months and months now I am getting annoyed with this! It is just as bad as back in the 90’s when both CompuServe ad AOL where spamming us to death by […]
The tablet (r)evolution
Three months after a very sick looking Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2, I jumped on the tablet bandwagon as well. Yes, I now own an iPad 2. To be exact the white 16GB 3G version (I wanted GPS and for that you need the 3G version). So far I can say that it is by far the best gadget I ever bought. It fills the gap between laptop and smartphone in a way I never dreamed of. Last year I bought an Android powered smartphone (the Samsung Galaxy S) and I love it. It basically can do anything the iPad […]
A trial for Saddam Hussein, a bullet for Osama Bin Laden
When US president Barack Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden (OBL) on national television, he claimed “justice has been done”. The question is of course: who’s justice? Certainly not justice by international standards. If you look at the way things unfolded, there are many questions one can raise with his course of action. In fact: in this case the “justice” that was served was nothing else but revenge. Revenge for 9/11 2001 and the ghost chase the US government was on since 9/11. Don’t get me wrong: I totally understand revenge and I don’t shed a tear about […]
Epic T-Mobile #FAIL
So in February this year I decided to get myself a new phone with my T-Mobile subscription. Since an iPhone 4 was way too expensive, I decided to get a high-end Android phone. The idea is that I give either that phone or my Samsung Galaxy S, to my girlfriend in the US as a birthday present. After some careful considerations I decided to get the HTC Desire HD as it packs almost the same specs as my Samsung. Now, one would think that the easiest way to order a phone would be online: after all it is 2011, right? Well, […]
Android it is
After considering my options for a long time, I finally decided what I am going to get in terms of a new phone. Knowing that a new iPhone is probably around the corner and knowing that there are many new Android phones coming out right now as well, it had to be a compromise of some sort. So I opted for a one year contract instead of two year contract (T-Mobile Flex +Internet) and ordered myself a HTC Desire HD. Yup: I opted for Android – again. Biggest reason for me to do so: it’s a whole lot cheaper than an […]