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Google Fight

raymondpoort — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:01:39 +0000

Last year I wrote about the use of Google as a spell checker, today I found a website related to this principle; Google Fight. It gives you the option to have two keywords fight each other, the outcome of the fight is based on the number of Google search results for those specific keywords…NICE!!

I just used it for ’seperate’ and ’separate’, I always mix those two up. (the obvious winner is ’separate’…I knew that, ofcourse! ;))

MGMT

raymondpoort — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:44:35 +0000

I saw a tv-registration of yesterdays MGMT concert at the Lowlands festival in NL, a great new band. They describe themselves as a future band playing 70’s music which is spot on!

Their biggest hit sofar is ‘Time To Pretend’ (also used in the movie ‘21‘)…have a listen (this is an alternative version, with lyrics…where would we be without YouTube? ;)):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BawPtpdaO3E

BTW. the ‘official’ music video can be found here (all MGMT videoclips on YouTube have embedding outside the YouTube pages disabled), the bands YouTube channel has all the vids!

Back home

raymondpoort — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:29:32 +0000

I just came back home after a quit intense week in NL.
The weekdays were what they normally are; filled with shitloads of work…it keeps you busy, eh?
Then Friday, while I was at my parents, the phone rang with the news of the birth of my second nephew, Jurre! A beautiful baby boy…I’m so happy that I was able to see him this fast (nearly 2 hours after the birth)!!

Yesterday was a guys day out; Robbert and I planned to go to the Bavaria City Racing event in Rotterdam…major disappointment since it turned out to be held today instead of yesterday (why check the date on a calendar, eh?)…but hey, at least I got to enjoy a beer (still cheap compared to Norway ;)) in Rotterdam and a nice dinner in Delft, it was great to be back in my old city!
We moved on to The Hague and after a terrific movie (The Dark Knight), we hit our favorite pub ‘De Paap‘, never disappointed there! We topped it of with a visit to ‘De Pijpela’, one of the few places still open after 4am, actually a place you don’t want to be.
Going home wasn’t all that straightforward; a friggin’ flat tire!! Hehe, I guess it was the first time I changed a tire at that time of night/early morning…we finally came home around 7am! Yeah, I guess you can say we had a great day/night!

Some things never change, and today my struggle with luggage between Amsterdam and Oslo reached another chapter; instead of wrecking the suitcase, KLM decided to leave it in Amsterdam…hey, they’re not taking chances, eh? Damn!
Anyway, it’s always good to come home and see that the cats missed me, running around in circles around me, or is it just that they were hungry?

I’m off to bed a bit early, catching up on sleep while another working week is coming up!

Bavaria City Racing

raymondpoort — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:30:08 +0000

I’ll go to a special racing event today; Bavaria City Racing in Rotterdam!

Three Formula1 teams will race their cars through the streets of the second largest city in The Netherlands, Rotterdam…earprotection is a must!

UPDATE…it turns out that the actual races and Formule1 demonstrations are tomorrow, around the time I fly back to Norway, DAMN!

I am uncle, again!

raymondpoort — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:24:46 +0000

Willem-Jan and Patricia (my brother and his girlfriend) just became dad and mom of a healthy baby boy, Jurre, born at 20.45h!! And that…makes me uncle for the second time this year! Amazing!
Great timing too; today was the due date, AND I am still in NL (am actually on my way to them now!!)

QOTD August 14 2008

raymondpoort — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:53:28 +0000

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: “There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

Olympic Games - Beijing 2008

raymondpoort — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:08 +0000

You can’t miss the Olympics these days, they’re literally EVERYWHERE! I have to admit; the games have a tendency to suck you in…I just can’t stop watching, so I’d better not switch on the tv.

The Netherlands have won one medal per day so far, not bad, eh?

Confessions Of A MultiMedia HitMan

raymondpoort — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:39:31 +0000

Wow, wow, wow!

I just finished listening to last Fridays Daily Source Code; Adam starts a new item called ‘Confessions of a Multimedia HitMan’. Believe me, this is visionary stuff…MANDATORY to listen to!

So, give it a try, it takes just 26 minutes of your day…you won’t be disappointed!

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

raymondpoort — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:29:17 +0000

I first saw Jeff Dunham and his ventriloquist act ‘Achmed, the Dead Terrorist’ somewhere last year, and recently checked the clips out again…jeez, they’re timeless (and priceless ;)).

After watching Achmed, you should also look for his other characters; Walter, Peanut, José, Bubba J., Sweet Daddy D and Melvin…hilarious!

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK49WNXDI_g

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkIVUMT3es

QOTD August 10 2008

raymondpoort — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:15:06 +0000

Oprah Winfrey: “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

På hyttetur

raymondpoort — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:14:30 +0000

That is what were doing this weekend; we are på hyttetur! It is the typical norwegian to do in the weekend; go to a cottage in the mountains with friends…hike through nature, make yummie dinners, drink some beers, all in all heaps of fun!

08.08.08 08.08h

raymondpoort — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:08:11 +0000

It’s quite a special day today; August 8 2008.
Well…special?
For some dates are just numbers with some random start point, I however do believe that date and time have influence in life, some call that spirituality or numerology. Anyway, it’s nice to mark today as being just a little bit more special than any other day.

Gas prices

raymondpoort — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:50:57 +0000

I had to fill up the car this morning, since I was close to dry up the tank…the first fill would have cost me NOK 666…I’m not superstitious but to stop at the ‘Number of the Beast‘ would be a bit too much, I still had a 100km drive to go. So, I completely topped it up, bringing me down a little over NOK 700, then I realized; that’s a friggin’ EUR 90, for one tank!!! Jeez, this is only a 50 liter tank!!

Perhaps I should consider a hydroxy booster like Adam Curry recently installed?!? Anyway, I’m glad Adam keeps me/us up to date with the how and why of todays oil prices in his DSC, formerly called Daily Source Code, but since it ain’t daily no more, I expect it to be soon called, uhh, Dandy Source Code?

iPhone software 2.0.1

raymondpoort — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:46:05 +0000

Apple released their first update for the v2.0 firmware this week. No exciting new features, but there are some fixes which make life even better (for instance a decrease in the time needed to open the ‘Contacts’ and ‘SMS’ applications). I can’t wait until the iPhone Dev Team releases an update of their unlock/activate/jailbreak tool, supporting v2.0.1!

AppleInsider has a nice article on the features available in the iPhone OS and its software update pace/process compared to other smartphone platforms.

Uno

raymondpoort — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:04:16 +0000

We have been playing the cardgame ‘Uno‘ a lot during my sisters (and brother in law) visit in the last week. It’s a relative simple cardgame yet HEAPS of fun to play with friends (or family ;)).

My tip; make sure you buy it when you see it in the store and take it with you on your next trip out!