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De verrassing voor de gasten is klaar

Joti — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:24:48 +0000

Mama (Rita) had een fantastisch idee. Jaren geleden hebben we in Friesland iets gezien. Ze dacht dat het misschien leuk was om het na te maken voor op de trouw, maar dan met een trouwthema natuurlijk!

Vandaag liet ze weten dat het klaar is. Wij hebben het gezien op foto en het is echt schitterend, maar wat het is zal pas onthuld worden op 10 september. Dat wordt aftellen jongens.

Passessie bij Kaat Tilley

Joti — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:28:50 +0000

Het ensemble van Kaat Tilley (voor de burgerlijke trouw) is in de eerste ruwbouwstaat. Maar het is ongelooflijk hoe het er nu al uitziet. Ik kijk al uit naar het eindresultaat

Liechtenstein te huur voor 45.000 euro per nacht

David — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:55:51 +0000

Iedereen heeft wel nood aan een appeltje voor de dorst. Mini-staat Liechtenstein heeft daar een heel originele manier op gevonden om wat geld in het laatje te krijgen.

Op de één of andere manier had ik zoiets verwacht bij Boels. Is hun slogan niet “verhuurt bijna alles”?

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2907/Magazine/article/detail/1251951/2011/04/17/Liechtenstein-te-huur-voor-45-000-euro-per-nacht.dhtml

International Humour

David — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:30:31 +0000

Don’t ask for a ‘Spaghetti Bolognese” in its town of origin, Bologna. Locally, the dish is known as ‘Spaghetti al Ragù”.

Likewise, never ask for a ‘Pain Français’ (what we call a baguette in Belgium) in France. You’ll get the spiffy response ‘but all our breads are French”.

International humour…

De Morgen: Home – Bestel geen bolognese in Bologna.

Android 2.2 Froyo on European EPF30 Nexus One

David — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:10:08 +0000

Big news : Google had released the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus One. The mobile operating system that bore the name ‘Froyo’ (Frozen Yoghurt) for its 2.2 incarnation, would bring dozens of upgrades, but two in particular were interesting to me

Faster, less processor usage, which translates in a longer lasting battery
Adobe Flash 10.1

One big problem: my Nexus One is a European model. The US version is sold with system software version EPF27, the European one is known as EPF30. The Update by Google was only for Nexus One models with EPF27 installed. No luck for me as a European.

Vodafone (the operator that has a distribution arrangement for the Nexus One for most of Europe) was apparently doing some extra validations and tests before sending the update to their “clients”. Well, I’m not a direct client of theirs, but still I had to wait (grumble).

I was slowly considering to force a manual update, like mentioned on Blog in Black, but I wanted to be prudent. When you force the update (using a process called ‘rooting’), you void your warranty. In my view, the Nexus One is quite an expensive gadget, so I hesitated a few days longer.

Fortunately we had a dinner planned out of the house yesterday evening, which delayed my tinkering until today. During my research this morning for all the info for the manual update, I stumbled upon the androidworld forums. After I read that one of the users with a EPF30 model had received his update, I decided to check one last time via the official upgrade way.

No luck.

On that androidworld forum, someone posted a little trick to force your phone to check the latest status on the Google servers. You just enter the following code like you do with a phone number you want to call:

*#*#2432546#*#*

Bingo! I immediately received the message that I had a system update waiting. Some 5 minutes after accepting the download via my WiFi at home, I had a Nexus lying besides me with a brand new Android 2.2 Froyo release to play with. I’m quite curious to try it out.

The updates are reported to be starting also in the Netherlands and Germany.

Big Buck Bunny Bloopers

David — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:48:47 +0000

Blendernation has a video with Big Buck Bunny ‘Outtakes’ -- Bloopers. Quite hilarious, and much too short. This reminds me a bit of the Jacky Chan movies, where all the failed shots get added to the end. In some movies, that was the most entertaining part (sorry Jacky).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrMIeN5ttE

Star Wars in Concert @ Sportpaleis

David — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:44:10 +0000

Only in Dutch at the moment, sorry

‘Brussels’ de nieuwe meezinger van Arno nu gratis op 7digital

David — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:40:57 +0000

I accidentally got to 7Digital while looking for the new CD by Arno without having to go through iTunes. Looking at his newest album, I saw the current single (Brussels) can be downloaded for free. You only have to create an account. I did just that, and their MP3s are of perfect quality (320 Kbit/sec for those ‘in the know’).

Arno BrussId : http://nl-be.7digital.com/artists/arno/brussld-1/

Sweet coffee – fokkie op z’n best

David — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:44:06 +0000

Translation coming soon…

Bohemian Rhapsody by The Muppets

David — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:13:16 +0000

Bohemian Mupsody?