Amat victoria curam!

Still a little bit groggy of the time difference we drove to Frisco along Highway 1: a beautiful road along the pacific coast with big waves, lot's of birds and other animals - thousands of motor bikes and small coastal villages. The famous golf courses of Pebble Beach are all in immaculate condition and the houses seem to be twice as big as in Carmel. Lush green vegetation - it is a sort of paradise and I can understand why people pay a lot to be able to live (and play) here.

For budget reasons we fly BA - so a pretty long flight via London and leave on a Saturday (why do we have to include two Saturdays for a better air fare rate is still a big question for me...). But then again it will give us some time to adjust to the timedifference and to see something pretty on our way to Frisco.
First stop after a smooth flight (thx to BA) is Carmel by the Sea. This famous "art village" is actually very nice indeed. The only thing you DON'T want to see is the "ART" they try to sell on every corner. It is super kitsch.

Marijn and I are on our way to San Francisco for our yearly "Internet update". To learn what's hot, hear and see the new trends and meet old friends. This year it seems that the expo is bigger then ever - but I wonder is the label 2.0 still valid? Shouldn't we be talking about Web squared or an other label?
I guess in hundred years this event will still be 2.0 just because of its reputation - it's really awesome!

No it isn't the crappy Apple iPad case. It's an ordinairy acrylic art plate stand!
It's fully adjustable, foldable can take your iPad portriat or landscape style - will allow for connection / power cable and costs a mere...$5... :-)
I love it!

As offered at the new RM Monaco auction for a mere $3 million...

Emerce (a Dutch Internet magazine / website) published a list of the 25th highest rated Dutch professionals in e-commerce - and Lo and Behold! - I am in it :-)

Thanks to all the readers of Emerce and quite an honor to be in this prestigious list and in excellent company of people who are the real professionals.

Michael Neeves from MCN is testing the Kawasaki Z1000 (my bike!) this summer. Some remarks he makes do ring a bell (limited fuel range / stupid fuell meter) - others I cannot agree with like the tires or suspension. But let's see what his verdict is at the end of the summer.

Jag kunde inte låta bli och jag hämtade ändå Pippi av DVD med Inger Nilsson som Pippi... (Den ursprungliga dubbning på nederländska var verkligen mycket roligt - (Annika och Tommy: Oh, Pippi dat mag je niet - O Pippi det får du inte!)

Pippi var en den mina favoriter i Astrid Lindgrens värld när jag växte upp, jag hade nog Pippis äventyrslust i mig, men också inslag av den något ängsliga och präktiga Tommy.
Nu kan jag äntligen läsa böcker i den ursprungliga texten. Jag började i bok ett: "Känner du Pippi Långstrump?" - med bilder av Ingrid Nyman.
Det är mycket lätt (och röligt)!

One of the many museums of Frank Gerry can be found in Herford - home of a couple of famous furniture makers (Whom paid for the museum).

Everywhere in Germany you will find "Eis salons". I wonder what they sell in the winter. But anyway: the Germans really crave Ice cream and usually it is the busiest place in town.

The Teutoburgerwald is also famous because of the defeat of the Roman commander Publius Quintilius Varus (above his mask) against the Germanic tribesmen of the Cheruscian leader Arminius in 9 CE. Three legions were annihilated and Germania remained independent from Roman rule ever since. No wonder the Germans like to remember this!
There were so many coins found, that the people of Bramsche called the site Goldacker (field of gold).
Funny fact: a little town called Varseveld (= Varus' field) can be found in eastern Holland.

We had a nice motor trip to the Teutoburger forrest near Osnabruck, Germany. It's a great hilly quiet area - super for serious motor riding. So no wonder we saw hundreds of motor bikes :-)

Thanks to the always wonderful host Peter Paul of Ogilvy Amsterdam I was invited to an exclusive Sushi workshop at Yamazoto (Okura Amsterdam). One star chef Akira Oshima shared his secrets of how to make the perfect Sushi - and behold! - it really worked. They did not just looked great -they tasted awesome too :-)
Oh - and the secret is: take the best ingredients, your sharpest knife and take your time...

Had a great evening presenting to students of Tilburg University about entrepreneurship - something I should know about by now, but realize every time again that it is probably something that you never really learn or understand but just have to do and enjoy. Nice talk by Niels Peteri of Quooker about the long, long way his company / family had to take to finally achieve the fabulous success the have now.

I will be presenting at the Road to Quote conference in Tilburg this evening. Question is of course: would you want to be in the top-500 of Quote anyway? Not sure yet what I will present...

After a meeting today - I forgot my (3G) iPhone somewhere in the south of Holland. Unlike Gray Powell - who lost his (4G) one last week, I don't think it will have any other consequence then not to be able to be reached by phone for a couple of days... Thx to mobileme by the way I could track and trace the whereabouts of my phone by the minute: cute!

I New Yorker den här veckan en mycket bra beskrivning om August Andrée, svensk ballongfarare känd för Andrées polarexpedition, sitt misslyckade försök att nå Nordpolen med vätgasballong, under vilken alla tre deltagarna omkom...

The Audio Bullys are back (finally!) their new album "Higher than the Eiffel" sounds like good old "Ego War" so very useful when I am stuck at 12 km running and still have a couple of km to go. And with tracks names as "feel", "dynamite", "drained out", "smiling" and "kiss the sky"(my favorite and new power song on my iPod) what can go wrong?

Marijn & I got our iPad's today and it was awesome to "play" with our new gadgets. The speed of internet browsing is truly amazing and some apps are terrific. Don't have time to go any deeper into it: got to go back to my iPad... ;-)

Nike Air Classic BW - it took quite a while for I found them somewhere in England and had them shipped over ASAP.

Jan Johansson var svensk pianist och jazzmusiker. Sin största publik har han nått med sina versioner av svensk folkmusik i kombination med jazz, framför allt Jazz på svenska som har blivit en modern klassiker och som i olika utgåvor fram till nu har sålt i närmare 400 000 exemplar!
Han ochså skrev signaturmelodin - Här kommer Pippi Långstrump - till TV-serien (senare filmen)byggd på Astrid Lindgrens barnbok Pippi Långstrump.

A Cool present from Marijn: a notebook with all my tweets from last year in it!

We had a nice brainstorm session with our friend from Autoblog on the beach of Bloemendaal. Although the weather was very excellent - we unfortunately did not had any time to go for a stroll along the sea shore... Maybe next time.

Idag jag björde min konversation sessions med min ny lärare Piet Hein. Han är en valdigt bra musikant, konstnärlig tecknare och talar mycket gott svenska darför att sin fru är svenska. Jag tycker om den första "lektion" som vi talade på sverige och lystede på musik från Jan Johansson.

This time with an awesome new series on BBC TWO in which he circumnavigates the globe along the Tropic of Cancer.

I kväll titade jag halv åtta hos mig och såg det röligt kreativ lösning för bockerskåg: dess står de i färgordning!

The Roman Church & the pope are really getting in trouble now that they keep on denying that on a large scale abuse was going on (or is it: still going on) in the name of that very same church. How hypocrite can you be? Well I guess with windows like this - we should have know earlier that something was happening...

Wait, oh yes wait a minute mister postman
Wait, wait mister postman

Mister postman look and see
If there's a iPad in your bag for me
I been waiting such a long time
Since I ordered one in the States through a friend of mine...

A brand new website just went public: Equallywed with tips / facts / trends for same sex marriages. Typical American I guess: for some people it is all about business...

Norrie May-Welby became the first person in the world to be classified as genderless after officials in New South Wales, Australia, altered May-Welby's birth certificate to specify the neutral gender. What's next? Gender: None?

The Face research organization wants to know how we look at people and what we appreciate in certain faces more then in others. There are all kinds of (funny) test your can do on their website so try it out!
I myself found out that I like masculine guys more then feminine LOL :-)

After I saw some Julian Opies in London a couple of weeks ago, I thought that a little update of my own avatar was due: So here it is. I made 2 versions with a little preference for the top one.

I have so many ideas for iPhone / iPad apps that there are not enough people to build them - so I thought: "Why not make them myself?" So I watched a couple of tutorials, actually bought a book (!) and joined the Apple developer community. With the new SDK 3.2 beta I am now in the process of building my very first app.

The iPads are shipped - so with only a couple of days to go we have to make sure everything is ready for our new baby... So I was very pleased when I got this very nice hardgraft iPad sleeve from Marijn.

I really am a fan of Richard Briers. Ever since "The Good Life" his unique humor makes me laugh out loud. Now with the complete DVD collection of "Ever decreasing circles" from the late 1980's he is doing it again. In it he plays Martin Bryce who lives in a quiet suburban close with his wife Anne (Penelope Wilton). He like organising everyone and runs umpteen different societies. Paul Ryman (Peter Egan) his neighbour, is everything Martin is not – adventurous, laissez-faire, flippant, witty, handsome and charming. Also hilarious are Howard and Hilda (Stanley Lebor and Geraldine Newman), neighbours of Martin's who share some of his obsessiveness while having plenty of quirks of their own (such as always wearing "his and hers" matching outfits)...

Jag titar ibland på TV4 programet "Halv åtta hos mig". Det är ett matlagningsprogram där amatörkockar får visa sina färdigheter vid spisen och inte svårt som att förstår. En central roll i programmet har den humoristiske och lätt sarkastiske kommentatorn, skådespelaren Helge Skoog. Lyckosam ochsa: det är undertexter...

During the dark (cold!) days of winter you really don't notice that the visor of your helmet is actually full of scratches. With the first rays of sun it became clear that I had to change to a new pair. So I did and the world it looking so much better now!

My new Z1000 is getting rave reviews all around the globe. Ultimate Motorcycling, MotoMagazine, Motociclismo etc. They all agree: this is the ultimate naked bike... :-)

OK Barack came up with the idea - but it was Nancy who realized it. She relentlessly chased her fellow democrats and tried to keep of the jumpy frogs into the bucket. And it worked!
See a nice time line of health care politics in the NYT here.

Barack did what he does best and had a nice speech to celebrate:
“In the end what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American dream,” the president said. “Tonight, we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us. When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenges. We overcame them. We did not avoid our responsibilities, we embraced it. We did not fear our future, we shaped it.”

Blogger just released a new feature with which you can change the blog template - so I did... :-)

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