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Wow, Huis & Naat’s wedding yesterday was fantastic, it is SO valuable to have a group of friends like this!

Just one of many memorable moments from yesterdays party; a chinese food order via the wedding guestbook (I guess he/she was hungry 😉 )…yeah, it was that kinda party! 😉

Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

Colby Dorr Dam: “Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.”

Right after I arrived in NL tonight I went to Kissy’s new home (she is on vacation) to fulfill my promise to setup a NAS and the AppleTV for her. It’s *so* much easier when you know what you’re doing…uhh, once a geek always a geek! 😉

I anticipated on internet being available making this job easypeasy (I was told that the welcome package arrived last week, and I seriously thought it would be installed by the provider, Ziggo), but that was unfortunately not the case. Instead of a quick ‘n smooth install of the MediaCenter setup, it turned out to be a half half frustrating night as Ziggo doesn’t have their internet activation act together. Anyway, giving up ain’t me, and this blogpost confirms that the internet is up, the TV is working and…I’m almost done with the NAS & AppleTV…quite a techie night. 😉

Frank Tyger: “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

Honestly, how can anyone believe that violence is the solution for peace? Just have a look around and see what is going on in way too many places on our globe…tell me, does it *really* work??

Einstein said it before: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”…this woman makes it even more clear! 😉

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess: “Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.”

The future of interacting with a computer is coming soon, very soon…it is called Leap Motion, the biggest step up since the introduction of the mouse, and it is very promising, and futuristic, and exciting, and intriguing, and affordable ($70), and well, until recently pure Hollywood material!!

Check out the two YouTube clips below that show off Leap Motion, a breakthrough mostly in software that enables you to use gestures by your hands, pen, etc. in 3D to control virtually anything on your computer. Wow! The possibilities seem endless; just imagine this technology combined with holographic projections, etc. (and yes, Apple should definitely acquire Leap Motion 😉 )

Grrrrroovy, iWant!! (indeed, a geek-alert should have preceded this blogpost 😉 )

Hadewijch of Antwerp: “May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.”

Dr. Joyce Brothers: “No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.”

It is Monday, a new week in a fresh month just started and this Song of the Day brings balance to my rocky life! Indeed, work is hectic and life is changing…

Close your eyes with me and enjoy the soft and sweetness of Patrick Watson with ‘Je te laisserai des mots‘…goosebumps, beautiful, eh??

(for those who don’t speak french, the translation can be found below, underneath the YouTube clip!)

I’ll leave words under your door
Under the singing moon
Near the place where your feet pass
Hidden amongst winter holes
And when you find yourself alone for an instant
 

Kiss me
Whenever you want
Kiss me
Whenever you want
Kiss me
Whenever you want

John F. Kennedy: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

James Gordon: “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

I looked into the mirror this morning and said to myself: ‘rabbit, rabbit‘! It is supposed to be the first thing to say on the first day of a new month so it will bring me good luck for the coming month…just what I need for this month of new beginnings…