The Dutch photographer Laurens Aaij has won best (domestic news) picture with his image of the horses that were stuck last year on a piece of land in Marum. The lighting and composition is excellent. I wouldn't know what to enhance with Photoshop - or could it be that it is already photoshoped? (maybe the white horse was brown to begin with...)
Although I was moaning about google's gmail not being able to have two windows at the same time. The guys of google are helping me to sync between home and work in an other way: the Google browser sync option in firefox. It works brilliantly and all of my search, cookies and bookmarks are always in sync. As with all services of Google it is still in BETA. (everything seems to be BETA nowadays, but that's an other story)
My Gmail account got locked down a couple of times in the past week. The reason given provided no clue as to what I might be guilty of. Since I use Gmail more and more as my primary account, getting it locked down is not a nice thing, to say the least... I wrote to the e-mail address given asking for the reasons. As usual I got the standard reply which asked me to write back if anything in a list of no-no’s was applicable to me. :-( It looks like Gmail will lock your account if it is accessed at the same time from two different places. The problem is that I access Gmail from work and home, and as I reboot the computer at work only once a month at best and at home maybe ones a year, Gmail is always open. But, the problem I feel is with Gmail itself. It automatically refreshes every two minutes. Users should atleast have the option to switch the two minute page refresh off. The message that was displayed when the account was locked said upto 24 hours, but it was unlocked within a few minutes.
Google has a new game (and a new beta service...) It is called Google image labeler and what it does is to let you tag manually images they have found on the internet. So while playing this game, their database is getting richer and richer. :-) You play with at random somebody else online. If your tag and the other persons tag match, you get points. As you can imagine I labeled the pictures above (courtesy from my friends from the naked rugby league) with the tags, beach, sea, tattoo and.. uh.. ;-)
The Wallendorf meissen factory is centuries old but still they are up to date. They just introduces special figurines fro gay marriages... I have not find a place (online) where you can buy them though.
What makes you happy? A question asked by people around the world. There is a way to find out by visiting the happy planet index website and do the test. I seem to be very happy (maybe even gay) :-)
The first part of the sixth season of the Sopranos is on DVD and Eddie and me needed one and a half days to watch all 12 episodes... Vito revealed himself in the fifth season to have some proclivities of the not-so-wise-guy sort. On a construction job, Meadow's boyfriend Finn walked on him performing oral sex on a security guard -- of the male persuasion. Now he is out of the closet and finds love. Consequently he is murdered of course because this is still mafia :-) Never the less: we had some nice scenes of two guys falling in love in a series that usually is showing us two guys killing each other.
I am very happy that after 30 years the comedy series 'T schaep met de vijf Pooten" is remade. It used to be one of my favorite series and I think that the old script has stand the test of time. The only difference is that I now watch the series via Internet at the time when it suits me...
We celebrated New Year's Eve with my mother and brother (and his girl friend) in Koekange way out in Drenthe (in the east of The Netherlands). We expected a quiet evening but were in fact treated by the local farmers at the most and loudest bangs in my life :-)
The photographer Jeroen Kramer has done a "study" on how Arab men interact with each other and guess what? They are far more intimate then we Western guys are... :-)
One of my favorite writers and poets is Leo Vroman. Even now in his middle 90's he writes and makes jokes as usual. He is also a famous biologist in the USA, where he and his wife Tineke (whom is a character in many of his books). My favorite book so far: "Het carnarium". But now he has published his biography which as many ingredients to make it a sure winner. E.g. Vroman fled as a Jew the Netherlands before WWII to the Dutch Indies only to fall into the hands of the Japanese a little bit later...
Of all the best 50 websites of the year lists, I think that the Time's list of coolest websites is probably best. I liked yelp, The9 and Burb as new websites on this list that I did not know yet.
Yesterday we had the last of the Xmas dinner series: with "the girls". We had an excellent dinner at The Grand (yes again...). Mother Mien is getting a new hip in April and she is already starting to worry about that. I guess that when it is done she forgot what the worry was all about :-)
After a quiet day we had dinner with No&Go and kids. I had prepared traditional fare with a modern touch (Lobster warp with cocktail sauce, Turkey burgers with cranberry sauce etc.) We had a great time. We had bought little presents for everybody: here you see Mike with his new Abercrombie T-shirt. Unfortunately I have the cold right now, so things are not running as smoothly as I want them to... :-|
My Gmail account got locked down a couple of times in the past week. The reason given provided no clue as to what I might be guilty of. Since I use Gmail more and more as my primary account, getting it locked down is not a nice thing, to say the least... I wrote to the e-mail address given asking for the reasons. As usual I got the standard reply which asked me to write back if anything in a list of no-no’s was applicable to me. :-(
The Wallendorf meissen factory is centuries old but still they are up to date. They just introduces special figurines fro gay marriages...
What makes you happy? A question asked by people around the world. There is a way to find out by visiting the happy planet index website and do the test. I seem to be very happy (maybe even gay) :-)
One of the more funnier blogs I follow (and one of the most successfull ones is Trent Vanegas blog: Blogebrity. Check it out.
I am very happy that after 30 years the comedy series 'T schaep met de vijf Pooten" is remade. It used to be one of my favorite series and I think that the old script has stand the test of time. The only difference is that I now watch the series via Internet at the time when it suits me...
We celebrated New Year's Eve with my mother and brother (and his girl friend) in Koekange way out in Drenthe (in the east of The Netherlands). We expected a quiet evening but were in fact treated by the local farmers at the most and loudest bangs in my life :-)
The photographer Jeroen Kramer has done a "study" on how Arab men interact with each other and guess what? They are far more intimate then we Western guys are... :-)
One of my favorite writers and poets is Leo Vroman. Even now in his middle 90's he writes and makes jokes as usual. He is also a famous biologist in the USA, where he and his wife Tineke (whom is a character in many of his books). My favorite book so far: "Het carnarium". But now he has published his biography which as many ingredients to make it a sure winner. E.g. Vroman fled as a Jew the Netherlands before WWII to the Dutch Indies only to fall into the hands of the Japanese a little bit later...
Yesterday we had the last of the Xmas dinner series: with "the girls". We had an excellent dinner at The Grand (yes again...). Mother Mien is getting a new hip in April and she is already starting to worry about that. I guess that when it is done she forgot what the worry was all about :-)
After a quiet day we had dinner with No&Go and kids. I had prepared traditional fare with a modern touch (Lobster warp with cocktail sauce, Turkey burgers with cranberry sauce etc.)
While watching the Jane Mansfield DVD collection, I keep on thinking of her husband: Mickey Hargitay, former Mr Universe... I don't know why :-))
