No, those are not the essential things in life… It’s what kept me busy today though.
I started out today by doing lots of stuff in front the computer, from reviewing documents, to setting up training material, to preparing presentations and more stuff like that. At 4.30 I kind of was a bit tired of it […]
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Trying out water-proof camera to… prepare a curry
Published November 11th, 2008 in At home. 3 CommentsWell, since I forgot to use the camera this weekend and still wanted to try it out, I decided to prepare myself a curry and record it. Of course, I was inspired by the Man with the Pan, whom I can never equal in his videos, but then again, I did have some fun with […]
I’m sitting at home at the moment, being chilly and all. I hoped to get off to an early start today to do some kiting in the late afternoon. Well, I did get up at 6′ish, but didn’t quite hold out the entire day. I think the sessions last weekend were kind of a bit […]
Yesterday Lars and I had a great session at Wijk aan Zee. Unfortunately the wind was a little too light to go upwind with my 8sqm, so I had to take the 12sqm. The power in this kite is big and the bar pressure is a bit on the heavy side. So when I got […]
I’ve been to Helsinki three or four times. Only once I had kind of nice weather. That was in the middle of winter and it was freezing like crazy back then. I’m heading out there tomorrow afternoon again and it seems it’s going to be one grey week…
When it comes to weather, three sites are […]
This is just great!!!! Commander Keen on the Mac
Published September 7th, 2008 in At home. 2 CommentsNext time I’m on the plane and I don’t have anything to do. I don’t have to play Minesweeper anymore or any of those silly games that come with the Mac. Instead, I can travel in style (err, sort of) and play Commander Keen. I have played Commander Keen for hours and hours back […]
Great session at Slufter beach today + some music
Published September 7th, 2008 in At home. 0 CommentsToday I had a great session at Slufter. I’d never been there before. This spot is close to the ports of Rotterdam, so has a pretty industrial feel to it. There are some waves, areas with chop and also some very shallow and butter flat water.
There’s also a small sandbar quite close by and with […]
The conference season is slowly getting started again. This is my schedule for the coming three to four months:
JavaZone: one of the biggest Java conference in the world is hosted in Oslo. I’m presenting a session provocatively titled ‘Spring == XML, XML == suck therefore Spring == sucks??’. That should be fun.
Straight after JavaZone I’m […]
I finally found some time to make some pictures of my two Gaastra Jekyll bars. People frequently emailed me asking what modifications I had made to one of the bars to make the depower straps work a little better. Without the modification (I explained in a previous post) the depower strap doesn’t work at all […]
I updated the firmware of my camera (Pentax K10D) yesterday night. All of a sudden, the AF of my new lens was about 4 times as fast. I wondered why that was and after searching for a bit, I found out: only the 1.30 firmware supports the fast AF drive my new lense has. So, […]
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