What can you do when you see a friend being unhappy? You can talk to him, try to listen to his stories and be there for him. What if he doesn’t want your help? Should I still try to help him or hold back? I don’t know…. but these things worry me. Seagulls on Ymuiden […]
Archives for December, 2001
9-Dec-2001
Some loose ends… Saw this morning the Harry Potter movie on DivX. A nice and entertaining one, if you’re into fairy tales. Which I’n not really. But was OK. Spend most of the day sorting ensurances out, health, car and other things. Floor is now covered with papers. Hate to do these things. With the […]
8-Dec-2001
The acclaimed digital short (2min58s) about a jumbo jet crash-landing on a busy L.A. freeway. Probably the most amazing factoids about 405 are that it wasn’t created by an army of special-effects artists, it didn’t take years to complete, and it did not cost a million dollars: Check out: 405themovie.com
7-Dec-2001
A good article in WIRED about KPMG’s effort to prevent people linking to their website: Big Stink Over a Simple Link . According to the Blogdex many bloggers linked to their site…. Listen to the hilarious theme song … Ha ha ha. Why not take some time to check the Institute for Applied Autonomy . […]
6-Dec-2001
Oeps, now I have Xanga Premium for free till the end of the year. Thanks folks at Xanga. I will consider upgrading. View on Zandvoort from Ymuiden beach Today was a beautiful day. Cold but with a wonderful sky. Partially blue, with some clouds. And it’s getting cold… I like this weather. Went to the […]
6-Dec-2001
Cat enjoying the light 5th of december: St. Nicolas Celebrated tonight Sinterklaas. For the first time since a few years. Didn’t expect to get so many nice gifts. I must have been very nice to everyone last year… (ha ha). Got a beautiful book from La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), Maxims. Fun to read his epigrams, esp. […]
4-Dec-2001
Best invention since the Apple Macintosh… The latest form of transportation and truly one of the best: IT (aka Ginger) Two wheels and a stick. Stand on it, lean forwards and it wil start moving forwards. The whole machine is driven by the balance of the users. Lean backwards and you move backwards… Read the […]
3-Dec-2001
KPMG is a huge world wide company. But for one strange reason, the don’t want to be linked with certain websites. They want their approaval for every hyperlink made towards the KPMG website. So, if you want to make a linkt KPMG , you have to ask them first… ha, ha, ha, ha. Chris Raettig’s online journal […]
2-Dec-2001
You can learn French easily through the web: check out the French phrases website for the most used french sentences… some great examples: Eating out: “Combien de vos clients sont morts?” (com – byen de vo clee – ent sont moo – ree) “Ce restaurant n’est pas aussi bon que le Mc.Donalds” (se re – staw […]
1-Dec-2001
‘Twas the Night Before Start-up’ By Vinton G. Cerf ‘Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, Not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet. The engineers rattled their cards in despair, Hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare. The salesmen were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions […]
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