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“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. […]

Besides the fact that today the summer officially ended, its also a fact that August 2004 was the wettest month (in Holland) sind 52 years. We have had unusual weather actually: we had a small tornado (we call it a “Windhoos”), hailstorms and lots of rain. May started out as a cold and wet month. In June and July however, we had an official heatwave. But just as I wanted to buy a A/C it stopped and it started to rain. And rain… And rain… It just so happens that during this month we had a lot of outdoor stuff […]

With the Republican convention in progress in NYC, the democrats are moving forward with their Move On campaign. Real people telling their real opinions about Bush. Off course I’m not an American, but if I was one, I would be a democrat for sure.

I hear you think: “why is this guy so obsessed with his car?”. Well, it’s not so much the car I obsess about, it’s more or less the service – or better said: the lack of service – that surrounds it. So last week I had some stuff fixed. The word “some” sums it up because not all of the problems got solved even though my garage said they did. In particular my A/C still is acting up. So now I have to go to the garage on monday morning again. And I’m pretty sure that they will refer me […]

Sometimes you find that a choice you made turns out less good then one hopes. When I was picking my leased car about 1 1/2 year ago, I was pretty convinced that my sporty looking Fiat Stilo was a good choice. After all: it feels pretty sturdy, has good driving abillities and it didn’t seem as flaky as the older Fiat’s. The combination of the design and all the electronics it has on board (built-in GSM cellphone, GPS-navigation, CD-player, 7″ color screen etc. etc.), made me choose the Stilo over a Citroën C5, and the Peugeot 307. This last car […]