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13 Nov, 2008

Obama’s path is familiar for Benjamin

Posted by: Remco In: personal

Benjamin Ola. Akande is Dean of School of Business & Technology at Webster University St. Louis and a good friend of ours. A few days ago he was on NPR Public Radio reading the letter he wrote to his three daughters  the night Barack Obama was elected. You see, Benjamin followed the same path as [...]

05 Nov, 2008

That’s why I love Formula 1

Posted by: Remco In: opinions| personal

As some of you might know I’m an avid supporter of Formula 1 racing. I love the combination of engineering, technology, sport and competition it entails. This weekend was the last race of the season. My favourite team is McLaren and I like the Brit Lewis Hamilton who drives for them. He was up in [...]

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03 Oct, 2008

Crisis in California: foreclosure alley

Posted by: Remco In: opinions| personal

It seems so distant now, but two years ago we were living the good life in southeren California where people were telling us we were stupid if we didn’t by a house. “There is alsmost no interest on a loan and real estate prices are only going up!” we often heard. Even “owning a house [...]

28 Sep, 2008

Friesian foal for sale!

Posted by: Remco In: personal| photography

Last week I made some pictures of a Friesian foal for a friend of ours. She works with Friesian horses and has a carriage and a tram for tours, weddings and such. Actually, the horse tram and horse drawn carriage we had at our wedding are hers.
Sometimes she breeds with them and this female foal [...]

31 Aug, 2008

Visit to Lisbon

Posted by: Remco In: personal| photography

Last week Lisette and myself visited Lisbon for four days. We’ve been to Portugal many times but only spend a couple of single days in Lisbon. This was a chance for us to really explore the city and find out what it’s all about. We stayed in Hotel Britania which was excellent. Should you ever [...]

23 Aug, 2008

A couple of hours from now…

Posted by: Remco In: personal

…we will be on our way to sunny Portugal to enjoy a 2 week vacation. Our plane leaves Brussels at 17.00 hrs so we should be in Lisbon for dinner tonight. During the vacation I will try to upload some pictures to keep everyone posted. You can also keep an eye on my Mobypicture page [...]

21 Aug, 2008

Birthday with lots of cows

Posted by: Remco In: personal

Today is my birthday! I turned a big 32 today. The years are starting to count…but I do feel young as ever. This morning Lisette surprised me with a cow bar. That might need some explanation… You see in The Netherlands we have a candy bar called ‘koetjesreep’ which translated means cow bar. It’s something [...]

19 Aug, 2008

Some more gear and vacation to Portugal

Posted by: Remco In: personal| photography

After my last purchase of gear for my camera I must admit I got a bit greedy. I noticed all these nice little gimmicks that I wanted in addition to what I got before. As I often do I figured I would wait and think about it before I made the decision. After all, these [...]

Today I got a first look at a new Nike commercial. They have a knack for making great commercials. There was take it to the next level during the European Championships soccer which I loved, failure with Michael Jordan is extrordinary, I’ve always loved all their tennis commercials (I still miss Sampras vs. Agassi matches), [...]

07 Aug, 2008

New design?

Posted by: Remco In: personal

Yep, that’s right! It looks like a new design. The pink design I had before was just interim design until I found something new. Yesterday I noticed this team on Smashing Magazine and liked it straight away. I wanted something clean but fun for my personal blog. Something a little less business like and more [...]


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