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 🙂
Just read on the news that half of Netherlands is on their way to the beach, there are traffic jams all over. 30 degrees and a shitload of sun, no wonder!
Am looking out of the window here in Oslo; heavily clouded and around 18dgr…did I make the right choice??
Kahlil Gibran: "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
What better way to end the working week with a bbq and then take the boat out in the Oslo fjord!!! Sun is shining…I’m outta here!! 🙂
I am one lucky dude…found out last night that the internet in the house is still available!
The only thing I had to do was to connect my Airport Express basestation to the ethernet cable in the basement, switch on the modem next to it and voila: high speed internet!!! YEAH!
Not sure for how long though, I guess the owner did cancel his subscription since he moved to the US…we’ll see, am enjoying it as long as it lasts!
Anyone missing out on my Twitter updates while travelling to Norway, check ‘m out here, or below for this one time 🙂
09:19 AM July 27, 2007
Packing the car, too much shit as usual…wow, am almost gone!!
06:58 PM July 27, 2007
Am on da way to…Norway! Stopover in Winterberg, Germany for a family-weekend. Oh, no suprise…the car is fullFULLfull 🙂
01:53 PM July 28, 2007
Hiking through the woods around Winterberg…weather is rainy, refreshing in a way…I *love* nature!
03:45 PM July 29, 2007
Rainy Sunday in Germany…decided to go bowling, sjeez, that’s AGES ago…stiii-rike!!
09:33 AM July 30, 2007
Just left Winterberg, am on da road to a new future…life’s amazing, life is grand!
07:16 PM July 30, 2007
Just crossed the sea between Germany and Denmark. Hmm, this means I’m in scandinavia baby yay…feels like home already!
09:59 PM July 30, 2007
On da road for 12 hours (!!), just entered Sweden. Time to find a hotel for the night and get some sleep!
12:45 AM July 31, 2007
Found a hotel in Gotenburg, just 3.5h from Oslo…almost there, but first: zzzzzz
09:23 AM July 31, 2007
In the car again after a good nights sleep, 3.5h to go…Oslo here I come!
10:23 AM July 31, 2007
Half of the cars I pass are dutch…all friends fleeing the lowlands 🙂
11:25 AM July 31, 2007
Am in Norway baby yeah! There was no one at the border to check the car, a pleasant surprise! Almost there…
01:24 PM July 31, 2007
Home sweet home…I arrived in Hagan! Great timing as usual; the house broker also just came…let’s do some handover!
08:19 AM August 01, 2007
First night in the house…slept like a baby! On my way 2 work, actually looking forward 2 it! Think that’s a good sign.
Everything’s fine in Norway, have had the first night in the new house and just finished the first day at work after the July ‘vacation’…so far so good, except for internet at home…as it seems now I will be probaby without it for the coming uhhh…weeks…aaahhhhh! Also didn’t find any open wifi accesspoint in the neighborhood, darn! 🙁
I guess I’ll be working long hours to get my daily internet juice…or else I’m stuck driving around to find some open wifi.
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