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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!

Henry George: "Let
no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and
wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a
power."

Today is World Animal Day…a day to celibrate harmony between humans and animals (uhh…aren’t we all animals?!?)…October 4 was chosen since it is the feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

So, do something special today for the animals in your life!

Promoted as ‘MTV For The YouTube Generation’, thePLUS TV will provide a 24 hour video stream from PodShow, featuring the the best killer
content fresh daily, mainly consisting of independently produced video.

The kick-off was yesterday with a ‘backstage pass’ to the DMA (Digital Music Awards) in the UK. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to reach the site as it got blocked by the firewall on my end?!?

Anyway, be sure to check it out…it’s live!

BBC News: "London’s Spice Girls reunion concert has sold out in 38 seconds after fans were notified tickets had gone on sale"

Damn, 38 seconds…I just woke up, guess I missed it by more than just one second! 🙂

Rabbit rabbit white rabbit…hey, hey, it’s the first day of the month and it’s gonna be an exciting one, I can use some good luck!