Belly

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Roman Trekel

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Roman sang the part of Wolfram in the DNO production of Tannhäuser. The premiere was Friday night and the audience went berserk. That was also due to the fine conducting of Helmut Haenchen.

New portrait

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This picture was taken for the book about the fastest growing tech companies of The Netherlands.

Hmmm

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Save the Floppy Disk

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Strange: even in the new version of Office 2007 the icon for saving a document, sheet or presentation is a ... floppy disk! wait a minute: who still knows what a floppy disk is? couldn't they better use a 1) USB stick icon, 2) Hard disk icon 3) completely new icon ?
I guess Thijs is right when he suggested that our mutual friend Tjeerd from Microsoft probably did a lot of consumer research and found out that this is what consumers expect it to be.

The WOW! is lost

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The New York Times today published this picture of senior Microsoft management celebrating the launch of Vista. It doesn't look like they have fun os that there is a lot of WOW...
I better wait for vista till my new computer (read in three years).

Interview to the founder of Funda.nl :-)

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Jesus Encinar, the founder and CEO of the Spanish funda: Idealista.com wrote about me in his blog. Because the original text is in Spanish I asked Google to translate it for you guys: This what they made of it...

Joosten marks is without a doubt one of the most likable and peculiar types of which we dedicated ourselves to the world of the real estate vestibules in Europe. He is the founder of Cover, the main real estate vestibule in Holland and one of the 10 pages more seeing in his country.

In this video you can see an interview of 3 minutes in English published yesterday in youtube responds to questions that do people to him of Trulia on the segment of the classified ones online, its form to receive, etc.
In the video it is not appraised but in shoulders it has enormous tattoos, the day that we knew ourselves in Spain was warm and wore a t-shirt of braces. So that soon they say that I am rare:)

Expensive joke

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At the art exhibition at the Naarder Church this weekend, Dolf was showing a painting by the late HRH Prince Bernard of the Netherlands. It was rubbish actually but expensive: he sold it for
€ 11.000...