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Benjamin Disraeli: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Apple will unleash Leopard, their new operating system on October 26…the countdown has started!

I guess that everyone has a story to tell when they encountered with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or equivalent agency outside the USA. Having your valuable fluids (perfume ad so on) taken from you since they don’t fit in this too small plastic bag, or contain more than 100ml..aahhhh.

The guys from Saturday Night Live made a nice show out of it. Check it out, it’s hilareous:

I had my first norwegian class tonight!

The typical starters sentence:

‘Jeg heter Raymond og jeg kommer fra Nederland, men nå jeg bor jeg i Norge’

Have rediscovered Command & Conquer this past week, playing Tiberian Sun, since my PC’s hardware will not run Tiberian Wars.

Still, am enjoying it a lot…GDI go!!

To quote the source:

When Brand Infection works…you know it must be Apple Inc.

Picture taken in the Missouri School of Journalism.

My mother in law will visit us this weekend. She’s our first guest from NL staying over in the house…cool!

Hope weather is nice enough for some hiking.

Chuck Palahniuk: "The things you own end up owning you."

We totally missed the 3-year anniversary of the encounter between me and Adam Curry, aka The Podfather, last Sunday October 7…it was back in 2004, a time when podcasts were not called podcasts yet, the ‘Curry Manor’ was still ‘Curry Castle’, the Condo didn’t exist, nor did Podshow, or thePLUStv and the Daily Source Code was truly DAILY

Adam lived in Belgium while I was still enjoying Holland, we ‘met’ in a traffic jam on the dutch highway ‘A4′…three years does a lot in a mans life! Sjeez, I wasn’t blogging at the time, but posted the one year anniversary in 2005.

Adam, I guess you should add this ‘famous’ clip to your DSC-channel!

Yay…the couch arrived!! IKEA delivered it today, the house is becoming more and more ‘home sweet home’!

Hehe, will need to try if it sleeps as good as it sits…come by and test it yourself

(IKEA rulezzzz!!)

Apple did it again…:)

MacNN: "Apple has once again topped PC Magazine’s annual reader satisfaction survey, significantly leading the pack of Windows PC manufacturers."

A latest topic of discussion in Adam Curry’s DSC; ‘follow the money’.

I like these kind of simple taglines to catch a difficult multi-angular topic…’follow the money’ and find out where our leaders will take us in the (near) future! (and therefore, what our future will look like!)

The discussion in the Daily Source Code (actually nowadays more a ‘Twice-a-week’ Source Code :)) was inspired by the ZeitGeist movie (again…check it out!). It will be interesting to see where this discussion is heading to.

My contribution; check out Opensecrets.org - money in politics data.

According to the ‘Who We Are‘: ‘The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research
group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its
effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based
research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics,
activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating
a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive
government.’

It’s still all pretty U.S. oriented and should move to a more global standpoint, especially looking at the current shift in economic powers (have you been following the Euro/Dollar trend, crazy! And what about China/India?)

Have been working on a web-project lately; design and builing the new site for Best & West, a dutch organization specialized in providing personnel for many different sectors.

Some more content will follow in the coming weeks as well as the english version, but the design is ready…let me know what you think!

Am hooked on Luciano Pavorotti, listening to his ‘Pavorotti Forever’ album…great music, what a voice!!

Buy it!

Nice post to coincide next to my Marilyn Manson post earlier

Just found out that Marilyn Manson will perform in Oslo coming December 18…YAY!! Anyone wanna come, coz I’ll definately go!