You know the old joke about the dog that chases cars – “What would he do if he caught one?� I was reminded of that when I read that Hamas won an election victory. I imagine a room full of Hamas leaders looking at each other behind closed doors and saying, “Oh crap, we won.�
And [...]
29 Jan, 2006
Posted by: Remco In: personal
Friday afternoon I started heading to The Hague to have dinner with friends. Serena, Maike, and Johan to be exact. For you that don’t know, I know them all through Webster, but the bond of friendship is now a lot stronger than the bond through Webster.
Johan picked the restaurant, De Resident, because we could be [...]
As most of you know Google lauched a video about a year or so ago. Now it’s widely used to store and display personal or business video. Here is a round-up of some of the videos I found funny:
Worst job ever (can you here me now?)
Mentally confused dog fighting himself
How to not get your ass [...]
We are still busy busy with the preparations for our marriage and one of the steps you have to take to actually get married is to get under marriage. All the dutch people know what this means but for the people from abroad reading this I feel that I have to clarify it a little [...]
Last Thursday it was time for the annual show competition at the biggest winter horse event in the region. I always like to participate, usually it is a lot of fun, although some people can get pretty stressed out. We usually do pretty good to, last year we came second but the 4 years before [...]
24 Jan, 2006
Posted by: Remco In: general
Every year I go through the Bloggies nominee list, twice. There are so many weblogs and websites out there we haven’t discovered, and the Bloggies are a great way for me to discover a new website to read, or a new weblog that interests me. If you have a minute scan through the nominees and [...]
21 Jan, 2006
Posted by: Remco In: personal
About once every 1 or 2 years I will fully reinstall my computer so it will run nice and smooth again. I’ve assigned today and tommorrow ‘reinstall days’. Here I will keep you up to date about how it’s proceeding. If this is of absolutly no interest to you, feel free to chance to channel.
Saturday [...]
21 Jan, 2006
Posted by: Remco In: personal
Recently an update has come out for my Apple iPod Video. It’s the first since Apple came out with the product and is suppose to fix some bugs and add some small new features. Usually I’m pretty update happy, but recently reported problems, especially with the 60GB version (which I have), are giving me doubts. [...]
20 Jan, 2006
Posted by: Remco In: personal
We received the good news yesterday, and put everything in action today. What am I talking about? Our visa for the US! That’s right ladies and gentlepeople; we are now able to come and go as we please…or at least almost.
To make it official we will have to go to the US Consulate next week, [...]
I’m not always as interested as I should be. Really, why would I have to plan every minute of my wedding day? Especially 9 months in advance. I’m just more of a concept-thinker. ‘It should be like this, with this feeling, and these are the things that should at least happen.’
Luckily we are blessed to [...]