Although it was 4 a.m. got up at 9 a.m. again and feeling OK after Queensnight :-).
Above an artistic impression of the party near Cafe 't Smalle in de Jordaan area. It was busy but not overly crowded. Today it will be very different, will make some pictures and update the website later today.
Pictures are now on Flickr.
Although Queensday is tomorrow, tonight the party is already starting with Queensnight. Tonight most of the town will party. I will go with one of my former colleguaes Mario to the Jordaan area to have a drink .. or two ...
To see what it is like at the day itself have a look at my pictures from Queensday 2004, Queensday 2005, Queensday 2006.
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX and Windows, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more like Squarespace I use. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice rating in the MacWorld July 2003 issue as well as high ratings at VersionTracker.com and MacUpdate.com.With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). The advantage over using your weblog's control panel is that you can compose entries offline and use the extra features ecto offers, such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, and much more. ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.
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Apple Wants YOU To Be An iPhone Tech Support Rep.
Starting next month, Apple will begin to train an army of representatives to handle the influx of tech support calls related to the iPhone. If you’re need of a job, then perhaps you should consider inquiring about Apple’s recent job posting that’s seeking a Senior iPhone Support Representative. What will your newfound position’s duties include? Well aside from re-locating to Austin, TX, here’s what some of the posting includes:
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and also very busy :-).
I had my nephew Joris (5 years old) all weekend. It was the first time he stayed with his uncle in Amsterdam for several days.
Most of the Saturday, after a boat trip, we spent in Artis, the Zoo in Amsterdam. It was the perfect day, not to hot, not to busy and most animals outside. He liked it very much and especially the crocodiles and tigers were favorites. I got him a pluche Tiger when we left.
The Sunday he went with me to my Hockey game and this again was a very nice day, perfect weather, interesting match (although we lost it ...) and ended with my cooked Italian meal.
Something to do again in the future ......
The story goes like this: A Microsoft smartphone strategist said the iPhone will be “irrelevant” to business users because there’s no support for Office and it’s a closed device. Chris Sorenson, who heads Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific smartphone strategy, said business users would be better sticking with Windows Mobile 6-based smartphones because they were developed with business users in mind. OK, that may be true, but does anyone remember Apple claiming that the iPhone would be aimed at business users? Neither do I.
This sure does say something about Microsoft, hating on a product that’s not even out yet. I’m sure they’re not dreading the end of June at all. No sir.
Microsoft slams iPhone as ‘irrelevant’ [ZDNet Australia]
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Chicago is now officially the US city that will compete with Tokyo, Rome, Tel Aviv, Dubai and other cities in the race for organizing the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics games.
An Olympic bid where fresh is flat Los Angeles Times
City gets pepped for Olympic fight Chicago Sun-Times
Sunday against number 2, Xenios. We won last time at home and from the 2 points the champion Bloemendaal lost all season, one was lost to us.
Will be a tough, busy and hopefully very enjoyable weekend as I also have my 5 year old nephew 3 days for the first time alone in Amsterdam.
We did rather well in the burning sun, we won from number 3. We Pinoke are the only C team. Next week against number 2, Xenios.
In front of my house many children, parties, beer and wine ...
Yes it is rather hot :-)
This is not normal, today up to 29 degrees Celcius this early in the season. In the Summer this temperature is often not even reached .... and it is only April ....
After Monday it seems to be "normal" again.
The coming weeks I will be busy internationally, sometimes only a day. This week in Belgium, second week of May in Berlin, Germany. The same week I will travel for some day to friends in Athens, Greece. Two weeks later I will visit our business partners in Sestri-Levante in Italy. Together with some clients I will participate in Training in Action.
I already used Pageflakes as my starting page, but it has several new options as of today. The most interesting one is the RSS reader.
I also added several widgets (News and Mac related) to this page.
Apple to Launch Subscription iTunes?
CNN Money's Media Biz blog reports that they have heard that Apple may be interested in joining the subscription service model for their popular iTunes store.
According to the blog, Les Ottolenghi, CEO of INTENT MediaWorks, has had mee...
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It took some time but here is my first Anker Building. My late uncle left me many sets of Anker stones. Over the last couple of years together with the secretaris of the Club van Ankervrienden I filed and organized the many stones, catalogues etc. Yesterday I took some smaller boxes and started building my first one, a small Church.
Fortune 500 company considers using Macs
Despite Apple's historical tendency to shy away from the enterprise IT market, the company's new Intel-based Macs have begun turning heads at big businesses looking to accommodate a broader spectrum of users. An IT manager of a Fortune 500 company is considering purchasing Macs for mainstream enterprise deployment, according to PC Magazine, as well...
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iPods soothe tempers in Holland
The iPod nano has been turned into an unusual form of stress reliever, according to a news report from the Netherlands. The southeast city of Maastricht handed out iPod nanos to its 280 sanitation workers two weeks ago, hoping to improve their moods by letting them tune into music during their shifts. The giveaway had been prompted by numerous co...
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Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.
In fact, Coop even has an example screen shot of Flock on the wiki page describing the product, along with the description “The design will likely resemble [formerly of Flock] Chris Messina’s mockup for “People in the Browser”, with a horizontal bar containing avatars for a user’s friends, and icons overlaid on those avatars to indicate the presence of new content.”
The Coop product will allow Firefox users to “subscribe” to friends in the browser, bringing those friends into a sidebar. Those friends can share content and web pages with you (receive content from you, and send content to you).
Adding a friend will mean getting access to a broad array of their published web content. Content will be pulled from that person’s Flickr photo feed, del.icio.us tag feed, MySpace status , YouTube favorites, etc. When you want to share content with that user, you simply drag it into their avatar (see mockups below).
As Larry Dignan notes, The Coop could also have an impact on social networks that depend on constant user page refreshes to maintain pageview growth. Having status information on your friends directly in the browser could significantly lessen the need to visit those sites directly.
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PC World ranks 50 best products of all time
PC World has ranked its view on the 50 best products of all time...
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In a major reversal of the music industry’s longstanding antipiracy strategy, EMI Group PLC is set to announce Monday that it plans to sell significant amounts of its catalog without anticopying software, according to people familiar with the matter.
The London-based music company is to make its announcement in a press conference that will feature Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs. EMI is to sell songs without the software — known as digital rights management, or DRM — through Apple’s iTunes Store and possibly through other online outlets, too.
What does this mean for you and me? Not much, but picking out a music player just got a lot easier if you have any interest in the EMI catalog, which includes the Beatles and Queen. DRM-free music, as many folks are pointing out, is a huge gamble for EMI since they’re in dire straits and might be sold to Warner, which considers DRM as important as air.Blogged with Flock
