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moblogging works!

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

It worked…great!

Now I have another way of posting to the site…it's not completely mobile blogging, since sending email from my GSM is not activated (and I can't activate it myself since my work is not enabling GPRS).

Still it can be quite convenient to post an entry by just sending an email!

The last thing to overcome is to get rid of the standard signature that my provider puts in ('—– Scanned for virus and spam')…

moblog test

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

It would be cool to see this email being posted on my blog, cause it
means that the moblog is set up correctly!! 🙂
—–
Scanned for virus and spam

Busy weekend coming up

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Friday afternoon, sun is still out, this doesn't feel like The Netherlands at all…but I'm NOT complaining 🙂

A busy weekend coming up;

'Da girl' is enjoying Malaga with friends, so I have my hands free…well, uhhh, free?

Tonight a Norwegian colleague with his Slovak wife (and new born boy) will stay over, tomorrow I'll spend the evening with the guys 'left behind' by the 'Malaga'-girls and Sunday I'll be in Amsterdam seeing some Slovak friends whom I met at Pohoda last year…inbetween I have to find some time to clean the shed, the house and work on some websites I maintain, oh…and I would like to watch the Formula One race…oofff! 🙂

Pim Fortuyn & the Big Lie

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Last Mondays DSC #382: Adam referred to an essay he wrote right after the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (four years ago last Saturday) and the Big Lie…still worth reading!

BBQ in the garden

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
BBQ in the garden

BBQ in the garden,
originally uploaded by raymondpoort.

Just came home from work, sun’s still out, BBQ is on!!

Life is a bitch 🙂

BrainWave Generator

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

The BrainWave Generator: "Want to relax? Meditate? Learn faster? Focus attention? Increase your awareness? Try self-hypnosis?"

Let me know if it worked for you! 🙂

email SPAM :(

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

I've been hit with spam on my domain-emailaddress last night. Guess you can call me lucky that it has started only after 1.5 years of having the mailaddress (!!), then again…I HATE IT!

Perhaps my domain service provider changed their spam-filters overnight, letting through some of this junk?

Playing in the sand

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Now that the sun is out for a week already (!!), we can start thinking of enjoying the beaches again.

What else to do than playing in the sand? 🙂

The dutch are great in building sandcastles (mostly referred to as dikes :)), the germans are following us by digging pits to s(h)it in, but all of us can learn from the canadians, check out these amazing sandsculptures!

Apple died??

Friday, May 5th, 2006

As I'm posting regularly on Apple (Appel in dutch) news, this fits in. 🙂

Yesterday the famous dutch artist and painter Karel Appel died at the age of 85. He was one of the founders of the European avant-garde movement 'CoBRA' (Coperhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam).

Garden collage

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

A nice impression of our garden in springtime!

Memorial Day (dodenherdenking)

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

…or actually 'memorial 2 minutes'…:)

Tonight between 20:00h and 20:02h all public life in The Netherlands stops so people can remember the fallen from and since the Second World War.

‘Get a Mac’ ads

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Apple released some great video ads lately in which two guys (one is a 'PC', the other a 'Mac') compare Macs to PCs.

Topics covered are: Viruses, Restarting, Better, iLife, Network, WSJ (Wall Street Journal)…hilarious!

Enjoy and…SWITCH OVER! 🙂 🙂

Native Bittorrent support in Mac OS X 10.5??

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

A rumor that has been picked up by various sources in the last days; the next version of Mac OS X, 10.5 Leopard will support native BitTorrent support via a system-level BitTorrent client built in the OS…geeks and techies agree, it *is* the next logical step! Can't wait 🙂

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is expected to be released by the end of 2006/early 2007, around the time that Microsoft expects to release Vista…ehhhh, a recent Gartner report showed that it could very well be June 2007…hey Microsoft, in need of a Project Manager? 🙂

Summer is coming

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

I had a long day in Brussels filled with customer meetings…INDOOR as usual 🙁

Just came home in time to catch the last bits of sun, temperature is still great! Fixing some dinner with a beer, I'm out! 🙂

Dutch Podcastplatform

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Podcast Platform.com: Our Goal: to make Podcasting available for Everyone!

A new dutch initiative to promote podcasting in The Netherlands, welcome on board, wish you all the best! No RSS-feed though…huh???

Thunderstorm podcast

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Hehehe…Dave thought about the same thing as I did: yesterday a year ago he published his 'thunderstorm' podcast. An great podcast with so much 'said' between the lines…silence can be golden, eh!

Dave, we should hook up again someday…do some 'godcasting' 🙂

Queens Day

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Today is Queens Day (Koninginnedag)!

The dutch are celibrating the Queen's official birthday every year on April 30, since that's a Sunday this year we celibrate it today, Saturday April 29.

It's one of the few national holidays we have. Bad luck this year though…it's weekend and we don't get a public holiday back for it 🙁 🙁

Celibrating it on April 30 is also a bit twisted since the current Queen Beatrix actually has her Birthday on January 31st?!?

She however stated that she wished to continue celebrating it publicly on April 30, as a mark of respect for her mother, Queen Juliana.

Koninginnenach

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Tonight we celibrate the 'night before the day' (in dutch: 'de Nach voor de Dag')…tomorrow is Queens Day!

I'll be in The Hague checking out some bands (not Podsafe though…this is the LIVE-shit :)) and perhaps drink some colalalalas!! Uhhhh…;)

The Ultimate Answer: 42

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

From Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is:

'Forty-two'!!!

Wow, is that all there is to know…42? 🙂

Currently I'm reading the second book (in the series of five); 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'…I love it!

Comment SPAM (3)

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I must have some friends in the Pivot development team 🙂

Two days ago I wrote about the comment spam problems I have, today the developers of the weblog-tool I use (Pivot) released an update, v1.30RC2.

From the release notes: 'Several improvements have been made but by far the biggest improvement is the addition of several tools to prevent and remove spam from your weblogs.'

YEAHHH!! Nice timing! Have just upgraded, let's see if it works!