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This Tuesday and Wednesday I went on a business trip to the United Kingdom. My collegue and I flew to London Luton, with Easyjet (mind you: why do they call the aiport “London” Luton is beyond me: London is actually not close at all: it’s over an hours drive!). There we took a rental car and drove to our hotel in Peterborough, about one hour north on the M1. Now, on June 15th I also went to the UK to and I flew with a tiny turbo-prop plane with an airline I had never heard of (Scott Airways). We flew […]

I had such busy week that I didn’t even had time to update my blog. At work my collegue is on vacation (he will return this Tuesday) so I have to take care of lots of things at the same time. One of them is our visit to London, England on Tuesday and Wednesday. Getting all arrangements done in time is a big hassle. I have many things on my head and I’m sure I am forgetting a few important… Oh well. I guess I have this week to clean up my mess. If only I know where to begin […]

Bugs’R’us As promised I was going to do a re-install of Vista Build 5472. Whatever the reason it crashed last time straight after I installed it: this time I have to report a flawless install. Not only that: it was – hands down – the fastest install I ever had done of a new OS. I booted from the DVD and decided to clock it with my stopwatch. Not only did I get to the install screen in less than 60(!!) seconds, the install it self was also blazing fast! Check this out: after less than 15 minutes I already […]

Here is a good thing to know; next time you get on a plane and notice that the person sitting next to you is using a laptop you *might* want to ask for a new seat, preferably next to the emergency exit. Because you *might* need to exit the plane prematurely. Why? Well, as it turns out the latop *might* spontaneously combust and catch on fire. In fact as you can see from the picture on the left (click it to enlarge) the flames are pretty damn scary. “Ah, humbug” you might think. Well, think again: the US National Transportation […]

Revenge! As I wrote earlier, we lost on Friday just with a mere 11-10 from Cuba. But today was payback day. At first it looked rather grim. After three innings we were looking at 6 – 0 and the Dutch team was nowhere close to how they played on Friday. But then in that same inning we finally scored and got into the game with a whopping 5 points. The Cubans made a few errors and after scoring 2 points in the 4th inning at we didn’t let go. And got to a 6 – 8 score in the 6th […]

What a match, what a party! Last night I went to the Haarlemse Honkbalweek (“Harlem Baseball Week”) together with my friend Sander to watch Cuba – Netherlands. Sander and I have known each other since highschool and we always liked baseball but both of us haven’t taken any time to watch matches. I think the last time we both watched a live match together was in New York (NY Yankess vs NY Metz). However, my collegue Sebastiaan is a big baseball fan and in fact played baseball on a semi-professional level for years here in Holland. His father-in-law happens to […]

I ran across two cool and intriguing initiatives during my daily surf sessions. To start with the simplest of the two: this guy called ‘Matt Harding’ from Connecticut, has created a hype of some sort, by traveling across this globe, visiting all the nice places (well, most of them anyway) and then doing a weird dance in front of the camera. He did this to keep a journal for his family while he was all over the place. Now, the cool part is: people started to e-mail each other his videoclips and and soon he became a famous web-person. After […]

I found this GREAT looking Aston Martin DB9 parked in front of my appartment: literally in front of my door. This is a RARE car for sure, especially here in Holland. I contemplated waiting on my balcony to see who would drive away in it. Design-wise I think the Aston Martin is a lot more appealing than anything else on wheels. This is the car I would buy if I win the lottery. If you want to see it riding along check out this YouTube video of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson takes a Aston Martin DB9 to Monte Carlo […]

About an hour or two ago I installed Vista build 5472, the latest build so far of Vista beta. This time the install did actually take about 30 minutes, a huge improvement over the last three to four install attempts. Actually, the whole install went the smoothest so far. And this time I did notice some improvements as well. Performance was better: Vista felt a lot more responsive. I installed Skype, MSN Live Chat and all worked well. Off course my TV-card didn’t work and neither did my scanner or webcam, but I was able to setup Media Center without […]

Bill vs Steve So what’s up with Microsoft and it’s Zune mp3 player? Apparently Microsoft wants a piece of the cake as well. But can they beat Apple? Apple’s iPod has a humongous marketshare of around 87.3 percent (dropping from 92% according to new research from market research company NPD Group). The iTunes Music store has been a huge success with literally over a billion(!) downloads. So where exactly does Microsoft think they are going with the Zune? Well, according to analysts they just follow the money. The fact that there is a lot of money going on in the […]