Dirks' sox
Dirk Scheringa, the guy who lost his Bank DSB last week, was famous for wearing goat woolen sox. No wonder that this week in almost every shop these sox are on sale ;-)
The new Honda VFR1200 - nice bike
The new VFR1200 looks like a great bike. A sports tourer with a V4 engine and a single-sided swingarm with a shaft-drive system. I also like the design. Let's wait and see what it really looks like and how it rides!
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A collection of French movies
I thought it would be good to update my french movie collection a little - so I bought at amazon these titles:- La Gloire De Mon Pere [1990] - with Phillippe Caubere
- Le Dîner De Cons - with Thierry Lhermitte
- Apres Vous [2005] - with Daniel Auteuil
- Mon meilleur ami [2007] -with Daniel Auteuil
- Les Témoins [2007] - with Emmanuelle Beart
- Hors de prix [2007] - with Audrey Tautou
Windows 7 ? - don't make me laugh...
Orders taken before the launch for Windows 7 by Amazon were the biggest in the online retailer’s history, grossing more than even the latest Harry Potter book. So it seems that everybody wants to have a part of the fun.
But what about those 800m PCs still running Windows XP? - Like my HP mini note book? Remarkably, Microsoft has not provided a simple upgrade path for them. We are forced to do what is euphemistically called a “custom install”. That means copying all the data on the XP computer to an external hard disk, installing Windows 7, copying the data back again, reinstalling all the applications anew—which means finding all the old software CDs and their serial numbers—and reconfiguring their settings and find new drivers...
I think I will wait till Microsoft pulls the final plug on XP in 2014 (and buy a new Apple iTablet by then)
London: The SEX capital of the world!
In his fascinating study, The Secret History of Georgian London, Dan Cruikshank, an authority on Georgian architecture, removes the bland facade to expose one of London's biggest and most lively industries - its trade in sex. Throughout the 18th century, London had more prostitutes openly plying their trade than anywhere else in Europe - several thousand of them. The forces of law pursued them all with fierce penalties: convicted bawds were pilloried and sodomy and rape were capital crimes. But without any effective police force, the sex trade burgeoned untill the sex trade was chased underground by the Victorians and the British all became prudish like hell. :-)
My biggest project yet... ripping my classical discotheque
Years after I ripped my entire popular and jazz music CD collection, I am finally ready to start working on my biggest challenge and project ever: putting my classical music collection to MP3.
This may sound easier then I actually is - tagging the tracks, finding the right recording information, the original art work and merging several CD's back to one piece takes some serious effort.
I set up a separate iTunes library on a separate Hard Disk and started today with Mahler.
I hope that I can finish this somewhere in 2010...
Kees van Dongen - Jeune Arabe for sale
One of my most beloved Kees van Dongen's "Jeune Arabe" is at auction at Sothebys, New York November 4th. The estimate is $7 - $10 million - to bad I don't have that amount of cash available right now...
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE
At the London Automobiles auction of RM I found this nice Dodge Challenger for a mere 70.000 pounds. The Dodge Challenger and its Plymouth Barracuda stablemate were the last entrants to the “pony car” club already occupied by the Chevrolet Camaro, AMC Javelin and Ford Mustang, but it has that unabashed muscle car character, especially in this Sublime Green color.
The day when Zomoto became Motomedia
Almost two years after Marijn and I started the company we thought that the name Zomoto isn't really representing what we actually are doing - so starting from today we are calling the firm "Motomedia".
Motomedia is a online automotive network and consists of sites like (zomoto.nl, autoblog.nl, auto.nl, carwoman.nl, and hopefully many more in the near future). To celebrate this event we had dinner at Restaurant The Goudfazant - which was very tasty and nice :-)
Uhm... Kindle Buyer's remorse?
While I am still waiting for my Kindle to arrive - I must say that maybe, just maybe the Nook would have been a better option. Wifi, Epub, color display, Micro SD slot, swanky design: it seems the Nook as got it all. You can even lend ebooks to en from friends...
My iLiad definiately is complety worthy for museum purposes only. They only thing that keeps me happy still with my Kindle is that outside of the USA you cannot order a Nook. So in the end, the Kindle is the best (read: only) option!
Finally it is official - I am a writer and just published my first book.
Thanks to the nice people of blurb I received the first copy of my first book - an account of my blog which I started way back in 2003. The first couple of years I didn't post everyday yet but only when I was traveling. So the first volume of my collected Blog posts book is covering 2003 - 2005. I am very very happy with the way it turned out and the easy with which burb "slurped" my blog post and compiled it into a book. Although every single post is still online and print is completely something form the past - I do like to have so many sweet memories in a book :-)
I am currently editing my blog 2006, part I - so when this is finished I"ll show you the end result.
Chris Messina - the hero of Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia, the movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell has actually one hero: Julie's husband Eric, played by Chris Messina. It is absolutely awesome what this guy accepted of and did for Julie Powell. This woman is really a big mess, dropping things, being hyper and depressed at the same time. But everytime there he is, comforting her and suporting Julie: My buddy Eric...
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With the motor club in Zeeland
Roland and I joined our buddies of the motor cycle club for a weekend in Zeeland. Although the weather wasn't that great (rain and wind), it was fun to meet everybody and to make a tour around the islands in search of windmills - of which they have more then plenty!.At some we stopped and had a little chat with the local miller. Usually strange, eccentric blokes, like these two.
What happens when you become 6?
In our local post office today I noticed that you can celebrate every birthday you want, but when you turn 6 - you probably will not receive any congratulations...
The Lost symbols of Dan Brown
This engraving by Durer plays an important role in Dan Brown's new novel - the lost symbols. The symbols here are a magic square in the right top corner of the drawing. If you click on the picture, you can see that the numbers 1 to 16 are organized in such a way that every row or column sums up to 34, even if you divide the square in 4 smaller squares - the sum of that square is 34 again - sweet! Unfortunately Dan's book isn't that great. Professor Landon is over and out I am afraid!
Gay-Straight Alliance
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