Dirks' sox

08:15 mareku 0 Comments


Dirk Scheringa, the guy who lost his Bank DSB last week, was famous for wearing goat woolen sox. No wonder that this week in almost every shop these sox are on sale ;-)

The new Honda VFR1200 - nice bike

The new VFR1200 looks like a great bike. A sports tourer with a V4 engine and a single-sided swingarm with a shaft-drive system. I also like the design. Let's wait and see what it really looks like and how it rides!

Hmmm...

17:51 mareku 0 Comments

Next time I will help him and make the picture for him ;-)

A collection of French movies

17:36 mareku 0 Comments


I thought it would be good to update my french movie collection a little - so I bought at amazon these titles:
  • La Gloire De Mon Pere [1990] - with Phillippe Caubere
  • Le Dîner De Cons - with Thierry Lhermitte
  • Apres Vous [2005] - with Daniel Auteuil
  • Mon meilleur ami [2007] -with Daniel Auteuil
  • Les Témoins [2007] - with Emmanuelle Beart
  • Hors de prix [2007] - with Audrey Tautou
I have only seen Les Témoinsin the cinema - so let's hope the rest is at good as that one!

Windows 7 ? - don't make me laugh...

17:22 mareku 0 Comments


Orders taken before the launch for Windows 7 by Amazon were the biggest in the online retailer’s history, grossing more than even the latest Harry Potter book. So it seems that everybody wants to have a part of the fun.
But what about those 800m PCs still running Windows XP? - Like my HP mini note book? Remarkably, Microsoft has not provided a simple upgrade path for them. We are forced to do what is euphemistically called a “custom install”. That means copying all the data on the XP computer to an external hard disk, installing Windows 7, copying the data back again, reinstalling all the applications anew—which means finding all the old software CDs and their serial numbers—and reconfiguring their settings and find new drivers...
I think I will wait till Microsoft pulls the final plug on XP in 2014 (and buy a new Apple iTablet by then)

London: The SEX capital of the world!

16:37 mareku 0 Comments


In his fascinating study, The Secret History of Georgian London, Dan Cruikshank, an authority on Georgian architecture, removes the bland facade to expose one of London's biggest and most lively industries - its trade in sex. Throughout the 18th century, London had more prostitutes openly plying their trade than anywhere else in - several thousand of them. The forces of law pursued them all with fierce penalties: convicted bawds were pilloried and sodomy and rape were capital crimes. But without any effective police force, the sex trade burgeoned untill the sex trade was chased underground by the Victorians and the British all became prudish like hell. :-)

My biggest project yet... ripping my classical discotheque

20:28 mareku 0 Comments


Years after I ripped my entire popular and jazz music CD collection, I am finally ready to start working on my biggest challenge and project ever: putting my classical music collection to MP3.
This may sound easier then I actually is - tagging the tracks, finding the right recording information, the original art work and merging several CD's back to one piece takes some serious effort.
I set up a separate iTunes library on a separate Hard Disk and started today with Mahler.
I hope that I can finish this somewhere in 2010...

Kees van Dongen - Jeune Arabe for sale

16:31 mareku 0 Comments

One of my most beloved Kees van Dongen's "Jeune Arabe" is at auction at Sothebys, New York November 4th. The estimate is $7 - $10 million - to bad I don't have that amount of cash available right now...
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