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Annie Lennox: “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

Nice one for a day that doesn’t really exist.

Hmm, will this be the (near) future?
I certainly believe that things already are way beyond what we know/realize today…brrr, scary!

The original can be found at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) website, direct link here.

AppleInsider: “Apple today updated its popular MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines.”

Apple also released the 1.1.4 software update for the iPhone. Reports show that this update only fixes some bugs and has no new iPhone functionality…obviously I’ll wait with updating until the unlock is available.

Aha, *now* I know why the cockpit door is always closed these days! I’ll fly Air France exclusively from now on…;)

A shorter version can be found here.

The company mailserver provides me a stunning 50Mb diskspace for email, so I need to archive like crazy to avoid a full mailbox.

Being out of the office with a broken VPN connector doesn’t help…it means I can’t access the server via Outlook and since my Inbox doesn’t need a week to reach 50Mb, I’m stuck with an oversized mailbox…the punishment is that the mailserver prevents me from sending email. Niceeee…uuhhmmm, well, at least I have the night off, no mail from me, workwise!

I ‘hope’ the IT dudette can sort things out in the morning…

Had a nice and relaxing Sunday. Slept in till noon, didn’t do much in the afternoon and went to my parents for dinner. The whole family gathered together and my grandmother (soon to be 88!) was there too…yes, it was nice to be back.

Flying out to Oslo tomorrow earrrrly morning, so…hat, hat, off to bed!

Saturday evening and a sore thumb from playing Xbox this afternoon, anyway, it’s time to go out!

Nice to be back in NL…The Hague, beware…;)

Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Internet in the hotel is sssloowww tonight…guess there are too many lonely guys downloading pr0n. Sjeez dudes, you’re so close to Amsterdam; find some life fun and stop bugging me, I’ve also got ‘things’ to do, hehe!!

I am the webmaster for several websites and usually work with them from my home-pc. Every now and then however I need to update a site when on the road and have to work from my laptop, today was one of those days…

Normally I’m pretty strict on syncing the most recent versions of the sites between my home-pc and laptop, but after updating a websites today I discovered that the laptop version was out of sync. Uhmm, I discovered this *after* changing it on the webserver, aahhhh!

Luckily it didn’t break the site completely, but some of the layout is wrecked.

Can’t solve it now as I don’t have access to my home-pc…damn! Should consider an online backup file for emergencies. Hmm, I guess it’s time to go to bed…

No one will deny that next to making killer design-type products, Apple has a great marketing machine who is bringing the message to the people.

PromOpinion has an interesting post today about the various campaigns Apple has had over the last years to convince users to move from the PC platform to the Mac, wonder what future will look like…“in a world without walls and fences - who needs windows and gates?”

This one is for geeks;

Am in a hotel in NL and guess what? No WiFi in the room…again! Forntunately this room has a fixed internet connection in the room, which works ok from my laptop (it’s not too fast, but hey, you can’t have it all ).

Now, I’d like to access the internet also from my iPhone, which ‘only’ has WiFi.

Hmm, I figured I can use my laptop as a Wireless Access Point by enabling ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) and set up a Computer-to-Computer (ad hoc) network…easy peasy! Well, not really.

The iPhone does connect to the ad hoc Windows network, it even gets an IP-address, but I can’t browse nor ping the internet from my iPhone…even disabling the Windows Firewall didn’t help. Friggin’ Winblows…damn, wish I had a MacBook (Pro), am pretty sure I’d connect seamless!

Anyone any tips?

I’m planning to buy myself an electric guitar and amp to rock this house, seeing this YouTube video is inspirational, wow!

Walter Anderson: “Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

We’ve got visitors again! This time our ‘ex’-neighbors from dutchland flew in (’ex’ since we still own the house in NL, so technically we’re still neighbors! ;)).

Evelien, Ramon and their lovely son Michiel came over for some relaxing in the beautiful environment we live in. They brought some sun with them too, so temperatures will be mild…looking forward to another great weekend!