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Michal & Eva in Amsterdam,
originally uploaded by raymondpoort.

Robbert and I met up with Michal and Eva whom we know from Pohoda last year. Great to see them in our country! They love Amsterdam…uhhh, despite of or thanks to the coffeeshops?

three-wheel car,
originally uploaded by raymondpoort.

A car you don’t see that often anymore, a three-wheel car (or tricar for the British), picture taken in Amsterdam today!

It worked…great!

Now I have another way of posting to the site…it's not completely mobile blogging, since sending email from my GSM is not activated (and I can't activate it myself since my work is not enabling GPRS).

Still it can be quite convenient to post an entry by just sending an email!

The last thing to overcome is to get rid of the standard signature that my provider puts in ('—– Scanned for virus and spam')…

It would be cool to see this email being posted on my blog, cause it
means that the moblog is set up correctly!!
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Scanned for virus and spam

Friday afternoon, sun is still out, this doesn't feel like The Netherlands at all…but I'm NOT complaining

A busy weekend coming up;

'Da girl' is enjoying Malaga with friends, so I have my hands free…well, uhhh, free?

Tonight a Norwegian colleague with his Slovak wife (and new born boy) will stay over, tomorrow I'll spend the evening with the guys 'left behind' by the 'Malaga'-girls and Sunday I'll be in Amsterdam seeing some Slovak friends whom I met at Pohoda last year…inbetween I have to find some time to clean the shed, the house and work on some websites I maintain, oh…and I would like to watch the Formula One race…oofff!

Eckhart Tolle: "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."

Last Mondays DSC #382: Adam referred to an essay he wrote right after the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (four years ago last Saturday) and the Big Lie…still worth reading!

BBQ in the garden,
originally uploaded by raymondpoort.

Just came home from work, sun’s still out, BBQ is on!!

Life is a bitch

The BrainWave Generator: "Want to relax? Meditate? Learn faster? Focus attention? Increase your awareness? Try self-hypnosis?"

Let me know if it worked for you!

Gloria Swanson: "Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it."

I've been hit with spam on my domain-emailaddress last night. Guess you can call me lucky that it has started only after 1.5 years of having the mailaddress (!!), then again…I HATE IT!

Perhaps my domain service provider changed their spam-filters overnight, letting through some of this junk?

Now that the sun is out for a week already (!!), we can start thinking of enjoying the beaches again.

What else to do than playing in the sand?

The dutch are great in building sandcastles (mostly referred to as dikes :)), the germans are following us by digging pits to s(h)it in, but all of us can learn from the canadians, check out these amazing sandsculptures!

As I'm posting regularly on Apple (Appel in dutch) news, this fits in.

Yesterday the famous dutch artist and painter Karel Appel died at the age of 85. He was one of the founders of the European avant-garde movement 'CoBRA' (Coperhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam).

A nice impression of our garden in springtime!

…or actually 'memorial 2 minutes'…:)

Tonight between 20:00h and 20:02h all public life in The Netherlands stops so people can remember the fallen from and since the Second World War.