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As promised, the lyrics of this song (in dutch):

Klein Orkest – Koos Werkeloos

Mijn naam is Koos en ik ben werkeloos
De mensen zeggen ga toch werken Koos
Nou ik wil er best wel tegenaan
Maar dan wel een leuke baan
Want anders hoeft het niet van Koos

Laat Koos maar vissen aan de waterkant
Mij niet gezien achter de lopende band
En Koos gaat ook geen vakken vullen
Zeker om de zak te vullen van de fabrikant

Refrein:
Werkeloos, laat mij voorlopig lekker wer-keloos
Al dat gezeur van ga toch werken Koos
Koos werkeloos

M'n zwager Jan die spreekt er schande van
Die zegt van Koos gebruik je handen man
Maar hij werkt met z'n ellebogen
Heeft z'n schapen op het droge
Nou verbrand maar Jan

Die politieke Haagse maffia
Die blijft maar korten op de minima
Nou laat ze zelf maar betalen
Want bij Koos valt niets te halen
Sorry dat ik besta

Refrein

Kijk je hoort vaak zeggen waar moet dat heen
Straks doen computers al het werk alleen
Maar mensen het gaat toch prima zo
Gratis vrije tijd cadeau
En dat is voor Koos geen probleem

Yeah, it's my official last day today…wow!!

Am growing a small beard these days (haven't shaved since last week Monday during my skiing trip)…I'm preparing myself for coming Monday, my first day of unemployment…I will be 'Koos Werkeloos', sitting on the couch drinking beers and enjoying freedom! ('Koos Werkeloos' is referring to a dutch song describing a guy called Koos, happily being unemployed ('werkeloos') and criticizing society who's telling him what he should be doing.

I'll post the lyrics (in dutch) coming Monday…and perhaps also a picture of my beard, hehe 🙂

The countdown continues!

Came back from my skiing holiday yesterday, really had a great time with lots of snow and sun…

I managed to force myself in a jetlag though; missed out on a good night sleep during the bustrip back (oof, those seats really are killing my back and neck!) and enjoyed last nights Oscars live on TV, with the girl on da couch…popcorn, M&M's and coke…yay!

Time to go to bed now, want to be in good shape for my last four days at work…!

My colleagues arranged a GREAT farewell dinner yesterday. Lot's of speeches, presents, love, laughter and a tear, a very special evening…thx dudes & dudettes, it really means a lot to me!

I do have four days left to work end of Feb, mainly to handover things internally. Before that I'll first enjoy the white mountains near Chamrousse…am SOOO looking forward to ski/snowboard those hills!! 🙂

I'll be back February 25, no posts till then.

Countdown continues!

Came back from Norway tonight, won't be home for long though…am off to Chamrousse from Friday!! Life's a bitch, eh? 🙂

So, I'm back in Norway again…sjeez, I have been more here than in The Netherlands lately, it almost starts to feel like home?!? The hotelroom is not as comfortable as the house though…am really looking forward to be back home with my girl on Valentine's Day (actually evening only)!

Thursday is my last official day in the office and then I'm off to France to ski my brains out, yeahhh!!!

More on Free Trinity: I called in on Adam Curry's 'DSC-listener-hotline' (+44 207 681 3753) last Wednesday while I was stuck in a traffic jam on my way to Germany.

Adam played the comment on DSC #541 (thx dude!), but didn't respond to my question regarding the Free Trinity project: Why don't we hook up and drive her around for a day orso? I'll have some time on my hands from early March!

So…lemme know! 🙂

Change of plans; I will work some more days end of February / early March so my countdown will temporary stop, till I reach T – 5 days again 🙂

It's all good and I'll still be able to go skiing February 16-25, yay!

Steve Jobs, on Apple.com: "Imagine a world
where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open
licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music
purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is
playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for
consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat."

Wow!! Yet another example of Steve Jobs placing a bomb under traditional business practices and creating the new perspective, this time the music industry are challenged.

Just think of the iPod as an advanced CD (incl. player, CD 2.0??)…in the end both are 'just' devices with music loaded on them!

WTF…first time I experienced this;

Google appears to be down, at least, most of their web-based services!!

I first noticed it with Gmail, Google Reader and Google Calendar (the apps I usually have open continuously), started loosing connection around 16:20h GMT.

First I thought it was related to my own internet-feed, but guess what? Other sites are loading perfectly, and I found also google.com to be down hard! (isn't it funny how you start searching the source for a problem at your own end before finding out it is actually located on the other end?!)…wow, it perfectly shows me how much I start to rely (and depend!) on the always available online services, oof!

I enabled Google Apps for Your Domain earlier for my raymondpoort.com domain and configured email. Last weekend I finally found the time to integrate this into my regular gmail-account and am now ready to start using it!

A milestone, right? So, the first one to email me on raymond (at) raymondpoort (dot) com will be rewarded, I decide what & how! 🙂