After a complaint from a local Islamic party the City Museum of Den Hague will not expose this picture of Soorah Hera of two gay men wearing masks of Mohammed and his son in law.
Again a lot of fuzz about nothing. I wouldn't hang them anyway because I think they are bad pictures (and ugly guys)... ;-)
This is perfect! It is a clock
radio, alarm clock, and digital picture frame. You can play your own MP3 music.
Comes preloaded with music. Also has SD/MMC slot, so it's easy to upload picture You can even upload video clips. The built-in FM radio has 20 presets and a dual-alarm function
with gentle wake mode, which gradually increases the music volume. The
7-inch display screen can also display a large time readout and
calendar functions.
$99 by Amazon, € 150 in the Neterlands :-(
The revolutionary new Eye-Fi Card looks and works just like a standard
2GB SD card except it has a tiny secret: Wi-Fi is built in. Now,
docking your digital camera, connecting cables, and fumbling with card
readers are a thing of the past. The Eye-Fi card will wirelessly upload
your photos from your camera onto your computer and the web. So you can take unlimited amount of pictures and all of them are immediately on flickr (or vox)
Why did I have to buy an other Sony? It uses Memory Card... :-(
Spend the whole day preparing for our trip to Thailand in two weeks. Arranging the Thai cooking lessons, the guide at Angkor, the bicycles in Bangkok and the tickets for the Thai Boxing match. Also checking all the gear we have to take with us and buying mosquito repellent...
The Sony DSC-T100 is making great pictures (of a great lady...)
We had a little launch party at De Hemelse Modder with the whole development team of Zomoto. Everyone worked hard the last months and I am very pleased with the result so far.
Today was a big day: we launched Zomoto during a press conference in Amsterdam. The press came in large numbers and the whole event was excellent. Let's hope that they write favorable about our little venture...
We received a letter from the Zurich guys while registering our logo worldwide that were not that pleased with our initial choice. They have no businesses in Holland anymore, but for our future foreign expansion it would be nice to be able to use our Dutch logo. Zurich suggested an other color and for us to stay away from financial services.
So they were very nice in trying to help us, but be decided to develop a new logo altogether. So here it is: the NEW ZOMOTO! :-)
I don't know who started this new trend in which women put shawls around their head: I guess it's Marijn...
Had to take Sjors out of the team and replace him with Steven. (And had to make Steven a little bit taller then he actually is because of the hight of Sjors...) :-)
Sorry Sjors but such is life.
I was very dissapointed lately with the quality of (mostly indoor) pictures of my Blackberry Curve. My Leica D-lux 3 is an excellent compact camera, but just a little bit to big to take with me everywhere I go. So I went searching for a new ultra compact and found the excellent Sony Cybershot DSC-T100. Brilliant reviews and my experience with an earlier T5 model made me buy the camera. My friends at digitalstreet made me an offer I couldn't refuse, so expect better pictures. :-)
My new Levis 513. Better be careful with squats and leg presses... ;-)
Verstuurd met BlackBerry van KPN
I was at ING today to have lunch with my dear old friend Manon. I met Manon when I was director of communications at ING Bank, way way back. We see each other every few years or so and take of always immediately where we left the conversation last time.
Google now also translates English to Dutch - well... they are trying to ! :-))
We had dinner at "Het Arsenaal" with our friends Niek and Noor. Although you cannot see it at this particular (I really need a new extra small camera) picture, Noor "had her eyes done" which means that see has very big eyes now... :-)
The food was perfect, the company even better so it was a great evening.
A very insightful article in the Volkskrant today about Christian Gays in the Bible belt of Holland. In Kampen lives Mattheo (21) e.g. who is convinced Christian but gay as well. He is abandoned by his parents and everyone else he knew. He tried to commit suicide a year ago and only when he met an other gay Christian at his church choir came to terms with his sexuality.
Unbelievable that this still happens in Holland where according to the latest (SCP) rapport 85% of the population think that gay people should live their life the way they think they should. (and only a mere 6% doesn't agree)
It is good to read that Mattheo now lives together with his boyfriend, still believes firmly in God but knows to combine that with an active gay life.
Verstuurd met BlackBerry van KPN
Dianda left the VEH (association of home owners) and started as the CEO of the Rutgers Nisso Groep, the Dutch Expert Centre on Sexuality, which dedicates itself to promoting sexual and reproductive heath. That's something else :-)
I saw my old friends from Funda: Jeroen and Simon and met some interesting new people as well.
Have a look at the future with this demo of Google's Android platform.
Verstuurd met BlackBerry van KPN
At the wonderfull "Stadsarchief" from architect De Bazel, Hans van Dijk - A very well known copywriter presented his book "Zapklare brokken" (Small bites) about how advertising really works. It was great to see a lot of old advertising buddies. At I was happy that Hans gave me his book. (If only he remembers to write a personal note in it...)
- note that my Curve didn't cope with the light in the building and so I have this weird picture -
Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce
in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark,
she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google,
then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the
part-time job, which started out at $450 a week but included a pile of
Google stock options that she figured might never be worth a penny. Although no one keeps an official count of Google millionaires, it is
estimated that 1,000 people each have more than $5 million worth of
Google shares from stock grants and stock options.
National Coming Out Day was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary on October 11, 1988 in celebration of the first gay march on Washington D.C. a year earlier. The purpose of the march and of National Coming Out Day is to promote government and public awareness of gay rights and to celebrate homosexuality. Now the Dutch government has set this day as an official Celebration Day. Starting 2008 October 11th will be National Coming Out Day in The Netherlands. :-)
Verstuurd met BlackBerry van KPN
Virgin just put out a list of the 11 most bicycle friendly cities arround the world and guess what? Amsterdam is number 1. In my own experience I found it strange to find San Francisco here in the list (ok there is this nice Golden Bridge biking tour – but for the rest of the city, cars rule) and not e.g. Bejing - remember Katie Melua’s nine million bicycles...
Amsterdam
Portland
Kopenhagen
Boulder
Davis
Sandnes
Trondheim
San Francisco
Berlin
Barcelona
Basel
"Die Faelscher" (The Counterfeiter) is a German Movie about the real story of jews making British pounds and American dollars in Sachenhausen during WWII. It is an intelligent, moving picture with lots of things to think about.
I just finished installing leopard on all (3) my macs and it is really cool. Preview, smart folders, coverflow, time machine: you name it. It really makes life easier and so much more fun. So close your Windows: The Leopard is loose!
