Anyone seen the Formula One ‘race’ in Indianapolis? What a farce!
Pity that things go like this and damage the sport…I can’t be too
negative on Michelin (they’re a customer of mine :)), but this was just
NOT GOOD! Pity that no one was able to find a better solution that
would have respected the audience and sport a bit more…:(
Guess this would happen one day or another…today was that day OOPSSS!
Anyones credit card got misused already?
Just came back from Norway (6.30 flight, ooff!), guess what? Summer just started!! You can find me on the beach, I’m outta here, yeah! 🙂
So, just arrived in Norway…had a 1.5 hours scenic drive (Norway is
be-au-ti-ful my dear) from the airport and now arrived in the Grand
Hotel in a place called Flekkefjord (?!? ;-)).
The hotel is nice, a bit oldish family style but most important:
someone has an unsecured WiFi-access point in the neighborhood!
Perfect, so I don’t feel disconnected this time 🙂
A relatively short stay here, returning to NL on Friday, but packed with work!
As they say; innocent until proven guilty…in this case NOT guilty!
Just came back from Rotterdam. Today’s event: the Red Bull Air Race!
Great experience to see those small aircraft make their speedy aerobatic moves so close by!
The FIFA World Youth Championship Netherlands 2005 kicked off last night!
…ow, this is all about soccer 🙂
OK, that is it…the Referrer category is out!!
Tried some things to prevent spamming, but still got hit by several of those f*ckers in the last 24h.
Ofcourse they were sex related…aahhh, now *that* I can’t take
anymore…being home alone for 3.5 weeks now, these ‘too hot to handle’
links on my site have to STOP! LoL:)
Will look into this issue when I have more time though!
Not the first post on the net about these topics, certainly not the last…
Check out Steve Jobs' keynote speech…interesting stuff!!
The news about iTunes & podcasting functionality got a bit snowed under by the major announcement of the day: Apple's move from IBM's PowerPC architecture to Intel processors.
With the current market attention on future Apple products and last years delay in introducing improved processor capacity (G5 > 3GHz? G5 for the Powerbook??) I think Apple make the right choice.
Most important is actually that they *made* a decision…whether it will be the right one, well, as always only future can tell. Doing nothing was/is/will be never an option!!
Then the 'iTunes with podcasting feature' news;
No surprise that my friend Adam Curry was 'used' by Steve to introduce the phenomenon. Especially after the meeting they had about podcasting two weeks ago.
It was great to hear Adam talk about it in the Daily Source Code…hehehe, trust me, I *know* the feeling he got when hearing this kind of special moments 🙂
And yes, we all know the podcast development wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for Dave Winer! The 'other' podfather and (for most people unknown) huge force behind podcasting…thanks dudes!
Future is coming closer everyday! …or are we living our future already?? 🙂
I heared of it before and it finally came to me, doesn’t that make me feel happy?
Ahhh, hit by referrer spam over the last days and trying to find solutions for this…none were 100% successful sofar 🙁
As I am testing various options, the referrer category is still listed
on the homepage, but not for long though (am not into ‘she-males’! :))
Just came back from a family-weekend in Zeeland (South West province of
The Netherlands, I guess known internationally mostly from the big
floods in 1953), had a great time there, but am TIRED!
Off to bed for a good night’s sleep 🙂
Pfewww…
Just came back from the Marilyn Manson concert in Amsterdam!!!
What can I say…he *is* the dark side of my character…in one word; FAN-TAS-TIC!
The concert was a bit short, but I enjoyed every moment! The afterparty was nice too 🙂
Watching people is always fun and even better for these type of gatherings, cool designs!
Didn’t post about it yet, but am home alone since two weeks (come and join the party y’all :))
Seriously; Kristel (aka Kissy) went to Canada (Banff) for three months! A
perfect opportunity to reflect life for both of us, pity we couldn’t go
together, maybe some other time! 🙂
She left over two weeks ago and is having a GREAT time (no surprises there!).
I will go there for holiday end of July, can’t wait…the first pictures she sent were amazing!
Check this out:
…the results of the dutch jury:
‘NO’
Over 60% voted against…I guess the statement is made.
It’s not quite clear yet if this shows a general ‘no’ against the EU
and/or the constitution. Perhaps it is more a protest against the
government as a whole or the way this constitution process is handled.
Nevertheless, together with the French ‘non’ and the British
hesitation, the process started by politicians is put to a temporary
hold, needed for reflection!
Besides my dad’s Birthday it’s also Liberation Day here in The Netherlands, we celibrate that World War II ended (for us) on May 5th 1945.
I guess it’s because the dutch are so pleased with the liberation that
we get a day off for this special event only once in 5 years (!!). This
year this day off happens
to be on Ascension Day, which was already a public holiday…bummerrrr
🙂
Today is my dad’s Birthday…he is so much younger than you expect when you say 60!!
…that should be the first thing you say starting a new month, it will make sure you have a good month, YEAH!
Sjeez, got a pretty crazy week behind me, quite eventful…all in all positive, as usual 🙂
Besides working crazy hours in the office, I had a wedding, celibrated Queens-day (and the night before, called ‘Koninginnenach’ in The Hague, then to finish the week off a family-day with cousins in Safari Beekse Bergen! Partying and fun all over!
The wedding on Wednesday was that of Arianne and Jurgen,
heeps of fun! Met some new people which is always good. Annette was one
of them, interesting girl with quite a history with her studies. She
was called Probleem Weezel (in dutch) at the university :)…nice reading material of how protective the established research institutions can really be!
This is cool….I tried www.podscope.com with a search on ‘raymond’…egocentric as I am 🙂
It directly came back with a fragment of The Daily Source Code by my friend Adam Curry. This was the April 22nd edition in which he mentioned my name…amazing!
Even more funny as I even haven’t listened to that podcast yet!! (am
still catching up on older podcasts after my week of wintersport and
the business trip to Norway).
Cool service…something which will become more and more interesting and handy as podcasting takes off!
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