Marque The Builder

00:56 mareku 0 Comments

Did the Hard Hat Rijksmuseum tour. It is amazing to see the transformation of the building into its old splendor. It will take until 2010 to restore it and to bring in high tech facilities. But we then have a building with art unparalleled in the world.

Hmmm....

04:28 mareku 0 Comments

I guess I have to train some more... :-((

E-day and the award

04:26 mareku 0 Comments


I was the president of the Jury of the first Adobe Eday Award. SNS Bank won the prize with their innovative Live Advise webcam mortgage services. Unfortunately the organisation of the award was very last minute - read: literally last minute... :-)) 

Simple pleasure

04:22 mareku 0 Comments

Today the Hans van Manen festval started with an excellent program among which the amazing ballet "Simple Things" performed by The NDT. This is a fluid, powerfull and gracefull ballet and was performed by the youngest members of The NDT. I cannot wait for the next 4 evenings.

Top Brand?

08:23 mareku 0 Comments

Now, I don't think the folks that hand out the Top Brand designation, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, are trying to push a Nazi agenda. Odds are they have no idea of the similarity. But given that the award is supposed to strengthen Chinese brands for promotion at home and abroad, they might want to rethink their imagery. I can only guess what the folks strolling a showroom floor in Europe or North America will think if they see an S.S. slapped on the side of a washing machine....

Not so smart phone!

10:21 mareku 0 Comments

This must be the worst phone ever in the entire galaxy.
Its battery life sucks (approximately 6 hours with bluetooth) / Its bluetooth connection with the Prius is hardly existing. / The navigation is terrible - just try to find your call log / when opening the photo gallery or music folder it will take ages and ages for them to initiate / call quality is so-so and worst of all the laughable one-bridge sync function which keeps resetting itself time after time.
Luckily is is only the phone of De Telegraaf and can I make my private phones (and mail and sms and EVERYTHING (!) with my good old BlackBerry...

And the winner is...

10:12 mareku 0 Comments