January 2008
17 posts
Richest Bitches
Forbes has released their list of the “Top Earning Women In Music”. Naturally Madonna is the richest one but thankfully, for Madonna, she isnot the oldest one (Barbra Streisand is). The vast majority collected hefty paychecks from sell-out tours and other merchandise (i.e., perfume, clothes, etc…).the troubled 26-year-old mother of two still managed to eek out $8 million from...
Guess the Original Celebrity Boob →
Funny to see women go from natural to fake boobs.
Unreleased track by Talib Kweli - produced by...
Leffe Beer
One of the sports I enjoy is table tennis. My parents have a ‘real’ table (real meaning: it fits the official dimensions). My father has been playing this game since his youth. Not as a professional, nor have I, but with family and/or friends. For the last six months my father and I have been doing this every Tuesday. Afterwards we drink a special beer which surprisingly most of the...
Feast of Love
Are you in need of love? Then watch the following movie, “Feast of Love”. Yesterday my wife and I watched this movie and we were blown away with love and life lessons. Morgan Freeman plays the lead character, which he does very well, in a meditation on love and its various incarnations. Don’t tell me that you do not like love stories (your life is surrounded by it). You just have...
Learning HTML5 →
W3C has published a draft version of HTML 5. HTML, an initialism of Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages.
Say Kraats Kaas!
A close friend of my father is moving his company “Kraats Kaas” to another city. This is quite a big operation. Today the building’s structure reached its highest point which was celebrated by posting a flag on this point. Afterwards a Dutch buffet consisting of hutspot, sauerkraut, boerenkool, etc… was presented to which we gladly participated. Before the summer of 2008...
First posting using my Macbook, :-). The last two days my Macbook has done a good job. Yesterday Jasper (brother-in-law) & his girlfriend Danielle visited us which was very nice (thanks for the lovely visit). To have some music playing on the background I used Frontrow connected to my TV. Frontrow was also used to watch a movie. One slight problem is that the current version doesnot support...
My MacTop
Another week has gone by and I havenot posted anything. Sorry :-( Last couple of weeks I was working on a (Windows) media center. It was working (Windows 2000 with gbpvr) but I had to move the system everytime because it was also a workstation (…long story). This didnot work well so … drum rolls … I bought a MacBook. I have been using it for two days and I am quite enthusiastic....
Please Try Again
It has been over three weeks since my wife’s miscarriage. The week following the miscarriage was hard. We went to see a doctor just to be certain if everything was going well. The doctor confirmed that she had a miscarriage but that it was a ‘healthy’ one. This means that there are no further complications. To end this ‘not so feel good’-post, I have gathered all the...
Raw Ish [part 1]
Need some new tracks on your walkman or cd-player? The following tracks I think are some goodies: Fat Joe - 300 [includes samples of the movie ‘300’] Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music [nice bouncy house-beats] Lupe Fiasco - US Placers [a very dope track featuring Kanye West and N*E*R*D’s Pharrell] Lupe Fiasco - Superstar ft Matthew Santos [another track by Lupe but again a...
On the Front-row
Update regarding my media center. I installed gb-pvr (the other one required too much) which works fine. It supplies you with an user-friendly GUI but there arenot a lot of options available. What does this entail? Well, at the moment I will use gb-pvr as my media center till I find or buy something better. I still have my eye on a Macbook. If I buy a Macbook it won’t be only as media center...
Gimme Grammy
A few weeks ago I received three “Ultimate Grammy Collection” albums (Pop, RnB + Rock). Shout Factory is releasing a 7-CD series (I am crossing my fingers for the other four) encompassing winners from the genres pop, RnB, Country and Rock. The reason is that the Grammy Awards is celebrating their 50th anniversary. Is it any good so far? Yes. Not only recent songs are added but also...
Downloading does *not* influence Music Sales
Yeah right! Just think about this rationally for a second. When I (illegally) download music in stead of buying the psysical single or album, am I financing the music scene (record label, artist, etc…)? No, of course not. To support this fact, the newspaper NY Times just published an article about this subject (“U.S. Album Sales Fell 9.5% in 2007”). Ok, so we don’t have to...
3D or not 3D?
Ahh, I just got back from “Beowulf 3D”. This is not the normal version but the IMAX version. This means that you have to put on 3d-glasses in order to view the movie properly. I have seen a few other 3D movies in attraction parks but this was my first ‘real’ 3D-movie. I must say I rather enjoyed it. To sum it up: story: 5; action: 6.5; 3D: 7; computer animation: 6.5.At the...
A Time to Remember
Second day in 2008 and it feels like New Year’s Eve 2007 was ages ago. It is a pity because it was a special time. Today was the first day that all the usual stuff had to be done (again). Most companies are back in business. Others will start Monday, January 7th. I had less work to do between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. One of the reasons is, like I already mentioned, most companies...