Amat victoria curam!

I found a nice website where people share their Moleskine note book art/doodles

Because I bought the complete works of Dutch movie maker Bert Haanstra, I came across a film he made with (and about) Simon Carmiggelt called "You used to laugh about it". Simon wrote after the second world war every day a short story in a newspaper. These stories (Kronkels) were very funny and populair. Some of them are fixed in the collective Dutch memory. I started rereading them this week and most of them didn't lost their charm at all, even after 50 years or so.

A king size bed aboard the new Singapore airlines A380... Pity that they don't operate this machine from amsterdam.

Finally: the Zomoto File Gadget is live. After weeks of hard work we managed to put the gadget all together and today we informed the press and friends and other curious people that they could start using the gadget.
For a long time we called the gadget a widget, but it turns out that all the major players on the net call it a gadget in stead of a widget...
The gadget show the actual time to travel on pre-programmed routes and so helps you to avoid traffic jams. If their is a traffic jam it turns into an other color and shows the lenght of the journey. If you click on the gadget it redirects you to locatienet.nl and show you how long the traffic jam is en where you can expect more jams...

Saw Shoot 'Em up today. Strange movie with about 500 killings. Feels more like a game then a movie. Nice!

Remember that guy in the newspapers that appeared on disgusting child porn with his face distorted which an expert team from Interpol tried to uncover (which they really did a good job at see above)? I tried it myself with Photoshop CS3 and it turns out to be a simple "trick". An other proof that whenever you make alterations with photoshop do not be so sure that other people cannot recover the retouch. Guess I have to be more carefull in the future... :-)

The Nobel Prize for peace will be announced tomorrow in Oslo and Al Gore is head and shoulders above the other 181 candidates. After he will get this award (next to the Oscar and Emmy) there is no way that he can resist to run for president, and after doing that, being the next president of the U.S.A.... Let's cross our fingers!

In the German Historic Museum the Karl May exhibition was very interesting and in the Lust Garden we found statues by

Because of the terrible time schedule of as well the airlines as the trains we chose to drive to Berlin by car - uhm... by prius!. It turned out to be an excellent decision: a very smooth drive and 7 hours later we were in Berlin. We were very hungry so tried to find a restaurant close to our hotel on Alexander Platz. We noticed by the limited choice that berliners really love their Curry wurst. Luckily there was this Thai family whom started their own Thai restaurant with perfect food...

Marijn and I are in Berlin to help our friends of Immoscout to grasp what is happening in The Internet these days.
We have put together a sort of workshop about Web 2.0 and other trends and hope that that will give them enough insights. Immoscout is really successful in Germany and maybe even so successful that they have not always time to make changes to their website. I hope that the nest days we can convince them to make some alterations and that Marijn and I have a nice time in Berlin.

So now it is official: I only work on macs. It all started with my Macbook, then I installed a Mac Pro at home and now at the brand new Zomoto Head Quarters I am proud to work on a new iMac 24". It's GREAT! never had a better computer...