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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??

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.

OK, it’s time…I will be gone for a while…on my way outta here (NL that is)! I expect to have some internet only from Wednesday 🙁

While I’m on da road, you can follow me via the twitter box on the right of this page…heyhey, my tip of the day! 🙂

Time truly flies, today is my last full day at home in NL…wow!

Will leave tomorrow for a family weekend in Germany and drive on Monday to Norway, land of the Vikings…YEAH! you bet the car will be PACKED (clothing, computers, audio and tv stuff :))…hope the suspension holds. 🙂

Check this out!!!

The Khadafi picture I put on when I went to Tripoli end March is the number 1 search result with Google image search…wow! Major breakthrough for my blog, becoming number one with Google with uhhh, the great leader Khadafi…hmm, have to admit it would have been nicer if this was with a butterfly picture instead of the great leader…;)

Back and rested,…slept like a baby :).

This years Pohoda is again filled with good memories to keep;

– reunited with our friends from previous editions (Veronika with her beautiful babygirl Vesna, Michal and Eva who will get married on September 22)

– met new friends (Igor, the swiss born slovak, our camping neighbors Zuzana and Jura)

– nicely suntanned by the 40 degrees bluesky weather, no wind…even the cheap beers going in could not make up for the sweat going out

– saw some great bands perform: Datarock, coming from Norway…these vikings have SO much energy, The Hives with their almost arrogant way of getting the audience on their side…’we know that you have bought the Pohoda tickets only to see us!’ :), Basement Jaxx who made everyone dancing like crazy, semi-agressive Wu Tang Clan hip-hoping around and the flying dutchman Junkie XL going wild for the crowd.

– last but not least; Air performed on their air-instruments, playing music like air…in other words, they didn’t perform, something with their instruments getting stuck in Budapest…:( 🙁

Yeah, you bet we’ll be back next year…pictures to come, some others can be found here and here.

It has been a great weekend, Pohoda 2007…more on this tomorrow, am going to zzzzzzz (calculated that I have slept only 16h in the 135h period from Wednesday morning till Monday evening!!)

Pohoda 2007…here we come!!!

The weather forecast for Slovakia shows 37 degrees (C) and only sun this weekend…YAYY!!…we’re gonna get sunburned at Pohoda!!

Am gonna take grandma out today! She doesn’t know yet (shh, don’t tell her :)), but we’ll be going to a typical dutch ‘pannenkoekenhuis‘ (pancake-house), the same place she and grandpa used to take us to as children…am a sucker for traditions! 🙂

You wouldn’t say she’s 87, the doctor told her she’s strong as a young woman!

BBC News: ‘A Viking Ship is on its way to the British Isles from Norway’. I guess this is my ride…:)

Finally managed to clean out the big storage space we have in the attic (aka TechRoom :)) today, shitloads of old paperwork and magazines are on their way out!

Sjeez, I’ve got three days left coming week and three days in the week after before I’m moving to Norway…the clock’s ticking…

Last weeks DSC#632, around 8:40 in the show, a great audio comment from Dana Law from San Diego who responds to Adam discussion on Live Earth and global warming. Dana likes to refer to this as global hysteria and he places the current attention on global warming in perspective calling it ‘politics of fear’ or ‘fear industrial complex’. Basically the scares that we as world population have been (put?) through in the last decades.

Examples are many;

Overpopulation, herpes, second hand smoke, global cooling, asteroids, heterosexual aids, sars, birhtflu, running out of oil, ozon holes, nuclear winner, zombie computers, millenium bugs, high fructose corn syrup, ebola, african id cali, anthrax, transpaths, cyclomates,
diabetes, Alar, mad cow disease. By now they should all have killed humanity, right?

In his response Adam links the examples above with Guy Debord’s book ‘The Society of the Spectacle‘…I totally dig it, so here’s the transcription;

‘If you think about the Society of the Spectacle and that list that Dana just read, that’s kinda what this is all about and how human culture works. We really are in a type of Matrix, I don’t think that movie was too far off…we ARE connected, only we may not be lying in pots, but we are connected through mobile devices and computers and cellphones…we are really making the machine work, we’re feeding it through blog posts that go up through mainstream media and all the wires are interconnecting. It really is red pill, blue pill stuff…except all you have to do is realize it and that’s the red pill…if you don’t and if you’re just are happily enjoying the instantaneous hit of receiving an email on your Blackberry then you’re a blue pill person.

Hmm, maybe we should move on from scrunchers/folders to red pill/blue pill, because it really has that vibe to it. And think of all those things, all those disasters, asteroids, we’ve solved all of those in the blue pill world with Bruce Willis showing up to save the day. We feel comfortable and we don’t really worry about that…I think we really don’t worry about that because of Bruce Willis. I have to say, right upfront…I’m definately a red pill kinda guy.’

This was right on dude…Adam Curry, I love ya for this!

Indeed, it’s a good time to change from scrunchers/folders to red pill/blue pill…red pill, I’m in!

A 7 day countdown has started…next week I will be partying at Pohoda.

It will be the third time Robbert and I are going there for sun, cheapo beer and great music! This years program includes Air, The Hives, Basement Jaxx, Wu Tang Clan, DJ Shadow and Junkie XL, yay!

Jason Calacanis responds to Google’s dunk of Squidoo, I didn’t give him kudos for ‘bombing’ Squidoo though…uhmm, I did call Mahalo a search ENGINE like Google, even though they in a way are at opposite sides of the search landscape…ok, will call it a search SERVICE from now on!