Skiing in Italy

Last week we’ve been skiing in northern Italy for a few days. It’s been the third time that we’ve gone to Santa Christina in Val Gardena and I guess this one is a keeper. It’s a relatively small village, no high rises and it’s a village where still a lot of farmers live. That ensures [...]

Yesterdays newspaper

Yesterday in the newspaper I receive there was an entertaining story on the back of the paper. What made this story interesting to me was the attitude a tram driver in Amsterdam had. His name is Harry Smit and he drives on line 9. I hardly take the tram when I’m in Amsterdam but he [...]

me 2day

A picture of me 2day, just for the fun of it. have to say that I actually need another shave

Is the old media sleeping

That’s one thing I’ve been pondering about, there’s a lot of stuff happening now a days especially by the proliferation of video via sites like youtube, dailymotion, yahoo and google video and several others. These sites, which are mostly user generated are already either having contracts or are getting into courts with the old media. [...]

Some thoughts on Silverline

In the last few days I’ve read some stuff with regard to silverline. Rober Scoble had some nice commentary which I really liked. He compares it to flash which makes some sense. In short his points where:

Microsoft doesn’t want to loose more marketshare
Adobe has more distribution than WPF/E
Adobe’s development platform is more cross platform
Microsofts [...]

Loosing weigth

I guess it’s that period of the year again, the time for loosing weight. I’m currently overweight as i would say it, with a BMI above 27 and my weight being 95,4 kg. If I want to start running again, I definitely need to loose weight especially to spare my knees which are fine, instead [...]

Its been a while

Been busy reading the books I wrote about in my last post, though I’ve not finished them yet, I’m thinking I made the right decissions this time by selecting these books. All three of them make you think, and that’s what it was al about for me.
Last week we’ve had a “severe storm” overhere in [...]

New RSS feed added

As you may notice I’ve added an additional RSS feed from last.fm. So you will be able to see what music I’ve been listening to when working behind my PC. As you may notice, my taste is quite diverse and ranges from Opera towards the lighter genres like Pink, Pearl Jam etc.
For those interested, last [...]

Being European is after all not so bad

Lastly I’ve been somewhat disappointed because a lot of goodies where coming somewhat belated towards the mainland. Especially the Playstation III and the Zune will not be available overhere before X-mas. And if i can believe the media we might be lucky if we get the Zune by next year X-mas.
But then again, when we [...]