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A Good Year, A Bad Movie
I really like Peter Mayle and almost all of his novels. But when you cast Russell Crowe in a comedy you are asking for serious trouble. This movie sucks. To bad because the photography isn't that bad.
Levis 511, skinny jeans
After a fruitless search here in Amsterdam, I bought them in Poland. They fit! :-)
Cycling in Frisco
The Tour of California started a couple of days ago. The prologue reminds me of the trip Marijn and I made last year when we were cycling in San Francisco. The only difference is that these guys do it in a couple of minutes instead of us in hours... ;-)
Narrow Escape
For the Provincial Elections I did the online test. Luckily this time my old VVD friends agree on almost everything I think that needs to be done. D66 is a good number two. So what I"ll do now is to have a look at the candidates before I make up my final decision.
Adi Nes
During an upcoming auction of Sothebys a picture of Adi Nes (a famous Israeli photographer) will be offered. Unfortunately it isn't the greatest picture he ever shot - like last supper.
Tempo Doeloe
Because of my birthday we had dinner with No&Go in Tempo Doeloe (slow down). As usual it was perfect. :-)
Danny Hoekzema
Danny Hoekzema want to join the gay parade through the Amsterdam Canals this spring. Small problem however: He's only 14 years old. (You wouldn't say would you?)I hope he can join because why should there be any discrimination and should gays wait to come out till they are 16? Straight guys don't :-)
Funda serverly injured
On Friday, 9 February 2007, Funda Müjde was injured in a traffic accident in Istanbul. The taxi she had taken rolled over. Funda is in Intensive Care. I hope that she will recover soon.
Funda was the star of our own Funda Lustrum party last year.
Wesley and his Nike plus
Today we had dinner with the guys of our Funda Directory Services in cafe Roux. As a little present we bought them new Nike plus running shoes with a new Apple Nano.
Finally: Local Live in The Netherlands
Vrijthof by Google Earth
Vrijthof by Local LiveBommel radio play
The NPS is airing a new radio play based on the cartoon character Olivier Bommel. After the success of the dramatization of the novel "Het Bureau"(The office) we have an other (almost) daily 15 minutes we can look forward to. You can also download the podcast of course...
Pat's Table
Pat van der Wall Bake taught me all kinds of new culinary tricks yesterday. I was pleased with the result of my lemon pudding, baked "au bain-marie".Did you know that Marie la Juive was the inventor of this Alchemy trick were the food is baked at a temperature that cannot rise higher then 100 degrees Celcius...
The Art of Blending
This is the Philips HR2094 blending machine. I saw it today at The Bijenkorf for 99 euro. Luckily I have internet at home ;-)So I bought it at Redcoon for a mere 69 euro. Actually I bought 3 because I found out the a seperate jar costs 59 euro...
Roman Trekel
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
This picture was taken for the book about the fastest growing tech companies of The Netherlands.
Save the Floppy Disk
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
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 :-)
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
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...
Maup looking sad
Maup is a apprentice at Corus. he was featured in a NRC newspaper article. I keep on wondering what's wrong, why is he looking so sad? I guess because of the horrific overall he has to wear. LOL...
Tjeerd Hoek
Remember Tjeerd? Marijn, Thijs and I met him at the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle when we were there couple of years ago. He was working with a staff of 35 people on the design of Vista (AKA Longhorn). He must be happy that after all those years Vista hit the market this weeks.
Think about it
It is a plague: more and more (bronze) statutes are being stolen just for the value of the metal.The statue in front of the NVM offices in Nieuwegein (a copper ostrich egg) was stolen a couple of weeks ago and this Rodin was nicked from an Art museum in Laren.
Funda under attack!
In the latest issue of marketing tribune (A Elsevier Reed publication) the cover story is about Funda. It states that funda is under attack from the NVM and that the NVM like a pitbull terrier tries to slow funda down and to stop her in advancing.On the picture we are the Doberman I think. I wonder who the sad dog left in front is: the consumer? :-)
The End of Blue Ray
Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow porn movies to be released on Blu-ray. I cannot imagine any guy buying a blue ray DVD player now that he knows that he cannot his favorite movies on such a device...
History repeats it self. Sony should know better.
Funday
In the new "pakhuis" media center we had our yearly FUNDAy with everyone from funda. We were talking about the budget 2007, the future and the brand. Afterwards we had dinner at Fifteen, the local version of Jamie Olivier's restaurant.
Protein
I started this week with anew diet: Protein Power. The diet is based on the assumption that men never used Carbs only until the last 100 years or so. So we have to leave out as much carbs as possible (sounds familiar...) The nice thing is that you can eat as much as you like without the blown up feeling and that I have lost 2 kilos already. Probably that is mostly water. The problem is of course that I don't want to lose weight: I want to GAIN weight. Let's see how the situation is a couple of weeks into this diet.
Ice skating
In search of higher ratings Dutch television is getting completely bonkers. Both RTL and SBS have scheduled exactly the same show (ice skating with (B) Stars) at the same time slot of Fridays. SBS is winning in ratings but RTL has a secret weapon: He is called Joel Mans, or should I say Brad Patton. This second rated holiday on ice skater had an other career on the site as a gay porn star. So we do not have to be sorry for him when he falls on his bum during skating, because that bum is used to some serious pounding already... :-)
Nokia strikes back
The Nokia Aeon concept phone shows us that Nokia -as Apple- is thinking of touch screens and large displays. I guess our cell phone will change revolutionary in the coming two years.
New Year Party
We had a virtual New Year's party this afternoon at our own chalet in Second Life. More then 100 "people"showed up and we danced, drank and talked. Here you see me with Rain Ruska (aka Marijn)
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