raymondpoort.com

Just came back home from last nights party (slept over at Willy’s place)…had heaps of fun hanging out with the vikings!

Willy & Katka took very good care of us and the bar they have in the basement proofed to be a great place for partying. There’s a professional beertap and besides the audiosystem the place also has a beamer to watch (music)videos! Got into norwegian music (Dum Dum Boys) and we watched some ‘Dice‘ (Andrew Dice Clay, an american comedian)…all in all; great times!

Waking up was a bit harder though :), luckily the cleaning up wasn’t all that bad, I guess the viking-era has past!

Having a laid back Saturday and am lovin’ it!

Slept in this morning (I really needed to catch up on some sleep :)), explored the forest behind the house and did some webdesign for a new project.

Tonight is party time, my norwegian friend Willy is turning 39…it will be my first time at a norwegian Birthday party, interesting!

WTF??

So, I receive a copy of all mail send to unknown users in my .com domain (catch-all email address)…since 18.25h today (that is 20 minutes ago!) I have received almost 100 emails which bounced back to me with a delivery failure…all are send from non-existing accounts within the domain, go figure! Then I realized that I have mentioned the domain name in my post yesterday…I guess the domain name got picked up by some spambots (i.e. assholes) and used to spoof spam messages.

I hope no one got offended by receiving a spam message from my domain…what can I say…it wasn’t me!

I’ll migrate my raymondpoort.com domain in the near future from a domain forward package (currently forwarded to raymondpoort.nl) to a hosted service, anyone knows a good deal for a hosting plan?

The (dutch) hosting provider I currently use will charge me around $10 per month, which is not the best deal in town. Also, this plan gives me only 100Mb storage, no MySQL and domain registration costs more than they should be (around $35 per year).

I’d say a better deal must be possible, right? Do I hear GoDaddy??

Did a slight update on the site layout tonight, do you notice? Lemme know if things broke…

I took over the contract of the internet feed in the house (company is paying though :)) and at the same time upgraded it to an amazing 25,000kbps down/2,000kbps up!! Got a great deal with the local provider (NOK375=EUR47=USD64).

Way to go for fiber internet, I’ve got a fixed IP-address again and unlimited data usage (unlike the cable internet I was used to in NL)…YIHAAAA!

Just came back from a nice dinner with Jo (Joanne) and Ries (Richard). Jo I know from when she was born (she’s the daughter of one of my highschool teachers) and Ries trained together with me last year. Was great to see some fellow cheeseheads and talk dutch the whole evening

They’re staying with Erika, Jo’s norwegian friend who spent a year in NL some years back and (still!) speaks almost fluently dutch, now that really gives me hopes up for my language course starting in September! She learned me; blå glatt gateplakat! It translates to ‘blue shiny street sign’ which doesn’t make any sense but is a real tongue breaker !:)

They are the first ‘visitors’ from NL, besides my colleagues from the dutch office of course…kuddos to them, hope they have a nice time in Oslo this week, I guess they’ll know the city better than I do afterwards, uhhh…

Marcel Proust: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

It has been a short trip and completely packed with things to do, all fun…it was great to be home, and…it’s nice to go back home!?!

Today is Waterpop, a music festival in my ‘hometown’ Wateringen, line-up consists of The Psyke Project and Magnapop…heyhey, this weekend is filled with parties, yay!

Before I’ll go there I got some work on the house to do; paint the outside woodwork, aahhhh! Luckily the weather is grrrreat, time to get sunburned!

Sun’s shining, just came back from the hairdresser…it’s time to go!

The stay lasted just 9 days this time…am off to NL for the weekend (wedding tomorrow!).

Back Sunday night!

This Friday my sister will get married. Obviously a big day for the family, especially since she’s the first one marry (I might add she’s also the youngest child :))

Am heading back to NL tomorrow evening and will have just enough time to go to the hairdresser, or coiffeur :)…really looking forward to this special day!

Wow, I’ve just enjoyed Steve Jobs on stage at Apple’s summer Mac product press conference, from uhhh a 2nd row seat (!)…how?

Easy; Robert Scoble (aka. Scobleizer) attended the conference and had his Kyte.tv channel up. He wasn’t allowed to shoot any video nor take pictures, instead he shared some great audio segments as well as text highlights through the chat window! A constant audience of around 250 peeps where following the press conferences through this new way of information sharing, social network style! Engadget covered the event old skool…blogging

So, new iMacs (superthin), iLife ‘08 (including the stunning new iPhoto with ‘Events’ and ‘Skimming’, iMovie to make your own movie within 20 minutes, an enhanced iWeb and iDVD as well as ‘Magic’ Garageband), .Mac got upgraded with a 10Gb storage for all subscribers (finally, yay!), iWork ‘08 (with a new Keynote presentation app, Pages with distinct modes for word processing and page layout, and…Numbers, the new spreadsheet app., done in the style of Keynote and Pages)…according to Robert Scoble, iPhoto, iMovie and iWork ‘08 are killer tools, killer for Flickr and Microsoft :)…can’t wait to lay my hands on them!

The Kyte.tv audience was lucky that Roberts Macbook battery lasted juuust long enough to cover the entire event…Robert Scoble, you ROCK…thanks man!!

Vi ses i morgen - see you tomorrow! (litterally ‘we see tomorrow’)

Nice thing to say when you’re leaving the office