: Make your own end of year lists. Choose your own important memories. Pick the songs you loved and …
: Embracing flexibility in Tana As a productivity expert, I’m always on the lookout for tools that can adapt to my …
: Currently reading: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt 📚
: Finished reading: Aprende a tomar notas con tu Cerebro Digital: Leer es perder el tiempo si luego no …
: 📸 A staircase made to impress (Casa Navàs in Reus)
: January 1st is the correct time to wrap up the year. As always, Spotify and Apple Music jump the gun …
: Currently reading: Aprende a tomar notas con tu Cerebro Digital: Leer es perder el tiempo si luego …
: Finished reading: Do Hard Things by Steve Magness 📚
: This is so exciting: the first beta version of the Tana mobile app is finally available! Now I can …
: What if you can’t fit all your big rocks into the jar?
: “You waste years by not being able to waste hours” — Amos Tversky I make sure to waste a little …
: Life any other tool, you should first learn what it can and can’t do. While AI struggles to do any …
: Una consejo muy atrevido en la guía de Microsoft Outlook: No es necesario (y en el caso de grandes …
: Modern work is unconfined work In the past, work was often simple and predictable. There were fixed processes and predictable …
: Photos: Building Human Towers in Spain One of the most impressive parts of Catalan culture that …
: Currently reading: Do Hard Things by Steve Magness 📚
: Finished reading: Optimal by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss📚 This was a bit of a letdown, as it …
: No malgastes tu tiempo en cursos para aprender a escribir el mejor «prompt» para la inteligencia …
: Messages on my iPad has a notification issue.
: Three concerts in The Netherlands, but only one in Spain? Come on Pixies!
: Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar …
: Discovering the new Reeder For years, I’ve been a loyal user of the Reeder app to keep up with my favorite feeds. The …
: Doing nothing is more fun than we think Research shows that people often underestimate how much they enjoy just sitting and thinking. In a …
: “Our meditation apps might become redundant if we spend half an hour a day actually making …
: “I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was …
: I have 5 invites for Tana, the platform I use to manage my work, my knowledge and my contacts. Ping …
: “A meeting is indispensable when you don’t want to get anything done” — Thomas Kayser
: Speed up informative videos Speeding up informative videos can be an efficient strategy to save time without significant loss of …
: The struggles and small victories of a DIY novice I’ve never been particularly handy around the house, and it mostly boils down to a lack of …
: Spend at least 2 hours per week in nature Spending at least two hours per week in nature can have significant benefits for health and …
: Transforming my digital garden: a new approach to organizing thoughts For years, I’ve been cultivating a digital garden—a collection of notes and thoughts that I …
: August productivity Every year, I look forward to working in August. It might sound odd, but there’s a unique …
: Start meetings on time for higher satisfaction and effectiveness Starting meetings on time significantly contributes to both the satisfaction and effectiveness of …
: Samsung created a blatant copy of my beloved Oura ring.
: I wish I could look at Siri’s log files to see what it thought I said and why it decided to …
: I forget about this one all the time. There’s not much point in packing light unless everyone is …
: Currently reading: Optimal by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss 📚
: When I need to focus, I listen to the same album every time: a recording of Canto Ostinato by Simeon …
: Efficiency is getting stuff done. Effectiveness is getting the right stuff done. Technology aids us …
: Finished reading: The Song of Significance by Seth Godin 📚
: 📸 Miravet Disconnection, reflection, nature and history…
: Whenever I listen to interviews with Seth Godin, I feel inspired to write more on my blog. While I …
: Who wants to invite me to Airchat?
: The problem with uniforms is that people are not uni-form.
: Currently reading: The Song of Significance by Seth Godin 📚
: Finished reading: Solve For Happy by Mo Gawdat 📚
: After a lengthy hiatus, I decided to revisit Twitter. Two observations emerged from this return: …
: After adding my list of blog recommendations to my Micro.blog profile, I now have created a …
: Email is not your manager. YOU decide what you do according to YOUR objectives. E-mail is at best an …
: Murphy’s Law struck again: I was trying to get everything ready for this morning’s …
: I am extremely busy today, so what did I do this morning? Exactly, add recommendations (AKA …
: Do not set SMART goals The use of SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) is a popular way to …
: Good sleepers are more productive and earn more Various studies on sleep habits and work performance show that good sleep has a significant impact …
: I truly appreciate the conversation awareness feature of the Apple AirPods. However, it would be …
: Currently reading: Solve For Happy by Mo Gawdat 📚
: Finished reading: Drive by Daniel H. Pink 📚 The self-determination theory holds significant …
: The reason I stayed in bed for an hour longer today: No list, app nor productivity app will work if …
: Prevacation You derive most of your happiness from anticipating and planning the holiday trip. Related: Take …
: Well-rested people are more positive People who sleep well are often more positive, and this is due to how sleep affects their brains. …
: I still haven’t found any use for the desktop widgets in macOS. The only widget I would …
: Currently reading: Drive by Daniel H. Pink 📚
: Finished reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport 📚 Already a classic work, explaining a concept which is …
: It looks we returned a week too early from the Netherlands. I would love to be able to skate on …
: Having fun preparing a trip for my wife’s 50th birthday. Her wish is to wake up in a place she’s …
: A minimalist traveling in company always ends up lugging around other people’s stuff.
: I finally had a moment to follow Frank’s example and create my own Funkopop. It took a few …
: Currently reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport 📚
: I decided to take it slow for the remainder of the year. I will focus on the absolute necessary …
: Finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚 Very well written book, with lots of …
: Nice! Day One has included journaling suggestions.
: What a great advice: Try to be surprised by something every day. It could be something you see, …
: Time buckets Allow small tasks to accumulate until you can efficiently complete them in batches. Related: Do the …
: Morning productivity In general, productivity is higher in the morning than in the afternoon. Related: Well-rested …
: Creative tasks are best done while low on energy When you have less energy, it can change your way of thinking and promote creativity. You are less …
: I have data, therefore I Exist Today I joined Exist to help organize and interpret my vast array of personal health data. …
: Currently reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚
: Finished reading: Schaamteloos delegeren by Taco J. Oosterkamp 📚 Kort en praktisch, een aanrader.
: 📸 Ficus Pumila on a Tevaplanter After this summer’s experiments with my Tevaplanter, I decided this …
: Currently reading: Schaamteloos delegeren by Taco Oosterkamp 📚
: Finished reading: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey 📚 A great introduction into personal …
: Our go-to approach for problem-solving is to incorporate something new, rather than eliminate something existing This phenomenon, also known as “elimination neglect” or “subtraction …
: Each day I am loving Tana more. This morning I have been looking at the publish function to convert …
: Please bring back Wolfram|Alpha to Soulver. ChatGPT is good with words, but I don’t trust it …
: Social values Spiritual and social values have a bigger impact on our happiness than self-centered values. …
: There is no evidence of any effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement While the concept of a growth mindset, as popularized by Carol Dweck, suggests that people can …
: Habit A habit is an unconscious behaviour that is automatically triggered by an impulse. Related: Link …
: 📸 Aïguestortes We have this fantastic national park at just a few hours driving from home, but it …
: Currently reading: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey 📚 We’ll review this book next month on …
: Currently reading: Understanding Variation by Donald J. Wheeler 📚 I learned about this book on the …
: Finished reading: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📚
: Let’s walk! A goal needs a walk, some writing and considerable reflection to make it real. …
: Start with a simpler version of the task to boost your confidence; then move on to a more challenging one This approach is related to the concept of self-efficacy, which means believing that you can perform …
: Phone addiction We pick up our phones over 350 times per day, almost four times more than in 2019 Related: Avoid …
: I am so proud to see our podcast at number 30 in Apple’s podcast ranking for Spain:
: I have updated the list of all the tools I use. What are your favourite tools?
: Such a great list! A ribeye fresh off the grillWarm sun on your skinAn old favorite song on the …
: That’s a lot of quantified self data
: Observa cuál es el primer podcast recomendado en Apple Podcasts. 🥹
: I wish I could reclassify apps in the iOS App Library.
: Currently reading: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📚
: “Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that …
: Finished reading: Designing the Mind by Ryan Bush 📚 Interesting and well written book about building …
: A 5-minute unstructured break is enough to regain your focus A 5-minute unstructured break can be sufficient to restore your concentration. Research from the …
: 📸 Another week, another Tevaplanter update The chia plants on my Tevaplanter are thriving, as shown …
: Why does the EU still require a tax on hardware purchases to compensate media enterprises, despite …
: Yesterday my iPad died with no way to resuscitate it 😱. I have decided to hold off on purchasing a …
: Be aware of scatter in your life. Scatter is multiple monitors.Scatter is being busy without making …
: Even a single guided meditation of ten minutes can help you concentrate better Research shows that mindfulness meditation, even in short sessions, helps you distribute your …
: 📸 Chia growing on my Tevaplanter After five days, the chia buds are clearly visible and the roots …
: 📸 Tevaplanter loaded with chia seeds Two and half years after ordering, my Tevaplanter finally …
: Headphones Active noise cancelling headphones have no effect on your concentration capacity in open office …
: Un acto de generosidad. Así es como describiría la recomendación del chef Xanty Elías. De todo …
: Tana is by far the app that gives me the most pleasure to use. So powerful, so many possibilities …
: More money will make you happier Research shows that there is a correlation between income and happiness, but this relationship is …
: Is Substack blocking kill-the-newsletter.com? I rely on Kill the newsletter! to manage all my newsletter subscriptions, as I prefer reading them …
: Walk into working Monday with a plan. (Best created Friday mid-PM) Nicholas Bate …
: What we believe in: Productive" data-author="Jason Fried" …
: Currently reading: Built to Move by Kelly Starrett 📚
: Do less and achieve more. Just as an over-stuffed washing machine doesn’t do its job, an over-full …
: The best reading strategy I’ve come across is the idea of a wide funnel and tight filter. Be willing …
: You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with …
: Hiking is dreaming with your feet
: Why is it that when we are hungry, we feel like we have to eat something immediately, but when we’re …
: “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking” — Friedrich Nietzsche The 1000th quote saved in …
: This weekend I will be staying a few days in Göteborg. Any tips? Anything off the beaten path?
: A four-day workweek improves employee well-being without reducing productivity Research shows that employees who work fewer hours experience less stress and are less likely to …
: I just found out about Old Reddit. This makes the site so much more usable.
: Currently reading: Designing the Mind by Ryan Bush 📚
: Finished reading: Attention Span by Gloria Mark 📚
: Blogging is whatever you want it to be. There are no rules. A few years ago I gave a short talk …
: 📸 Feria del libro de Madrid Cómo he disfrutado esta tarde volviendo a ver mis amigos de KENSO y, más …
: Currently reading: Attention Span by Gloria Mark 📚
: For those who gift with joy, that joy is their reward — Khalil Gibran in On Giving
: This footnote brings up so many questions about the discussions there must have been between the …
: 📸 Back to my mid-morning coffee and reading routine
: ¿Estás usando la inteligencia artificial en tu trabajo? ¿Me puedes dar algún ejemplo concreto?
: Each day I here more and more about Bluesky and little by little I’m getting curious. Does anybody …
: Switch costs Workers lose 9% of their time at work by toggling roughly 1200 times per day between applications …
: Playing videos, music or voice messages using your phone’s speaker in a public space such as in …
: This is one of the finest capture apps I have ever used. Especially the voice recordings in …
: I wanted to try out GPT4, but OpenAI rejected my credit cards. So now I have more money and more …
: Bye bye Wavelength 👋 As with many new tools I try out, I found that Wavelength didn’t improve my life in a meaningful …
: I updated some minor details in the list of the tools I use for my daily work.
: Why does macOS only warn me about my Magic Mouse’s battery level when it gets to 1%. You know …
: Remember before looking at your device: «A wealth of information creates poverty of attention and a …
: Last week I imported my whole tweet archive into Micro.blog to save my insignificant ramblings for …
: 📸 Golden door I was afraid that the gold paint would look too “over the top”, but it turned out very …
: Finished rereading: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 📚
: Oura ring brings back Clippy for April fool’s day
: Next week I will be a few days in London. Any tips?
: I simplified the site navigation by deleting the “On this day” page. The idea is nice, but I guess …
: I should use the dictation function more. Each day I write a lot of texts, most of them small. Those …
: I never ever use the skin tones on emoji. To me, yellow is the all-inclusive color and using a skin …
: Something to reflect on: Our brain craves focus. When it is focused, it is happy, still, powerful. …
: This post is hilarious: Actually, You Should Wake Up at 4:12 a.m.—Don’t Ask Me Why, It Just Sounds …
: At the end of each workshop I organize, I always ask for the main takeaway from the session. And …
: I have renewed my Microsoft 365 subscription for one more your. This is by far the most expensive …
: I just noticed that I hadn’t update my Now page since November, so I quickly updated it.
: 🐦 Twitter lost access to its own API?
: 📸 A new season is about to begin
: Really enjoying the Dance-Punk Essentials playlist on Apple Music 🎶🕴️
: What do I do in those little in-between moments now that micro.blog is down?
: Currently reading: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 📚
: If we did go back to sleeping as much as we need to, as much as we did a century ago, then that …
: Finished reading: Finish by Jon Acuff 📚
: Dicen que «crecer es aprender a despedirse», pero me sigue costando mucho.
: U2’s upcoming album Songs of Surrender looks very promising. I love the minimalist versions in …
: What we believe in, and in fact one of the two key messages from our book #EffectividadKENSO. …
: Love this quote ❤️ «Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard …
: If Twitter closes its free API, crossposting from Micro.blog will be impossible. I wonder what to …
: La «k» de KENSO: Kaizen ¿Es posible seguir tu curiosidad sin plan y aún así tener éxito? @jaime_rdes …
: Currently reading: Finish by Jon Acuff 📚
: Finished reading: The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker 📚 Amazing how it still hold up after …
: Poco a poco vamos subiendo en las listas de Amazon… #EfectividadKENSO
: He venido a hablar de mi libro: Efectividad KENSO @rahego comparte cómo ha sido su experiencia de …
: This is great: Productivity blocker (via Dense Discovery) Agree with the testimonial though: “wish …
: Do things that makes you happy everyday, since happy workers are 12% more productive Research shows that happy employees are up to 12% more productive. This is because happiness boosts …
: Responsiveness 82% of knowledge workers check their email within the first 30 minutes of their day. Related: Avoid …
: Ya he encontrado el soporte perfecto para mi micrófono: Efectividad KENSO. Espero que @jlgomezp …
: 📸 Ilusionado y feliz 📖 ¡Finalmente lo tengo en mis manos! Nuestro libro #EfectividadKENSO Siento el …
: After all these years, the YouTube algorithm still hasn’t figured me out. All recommendations …
: I wish offered a hybrid book format that allows frictionless switching between reading and …
: Como los de @Zetatesters no tienen planes para hacer su libro, lo hemos hecho nosotros: …
: Working outside of standard working hours can undermine intrinsic motivation, as it prompts people to reflect on how they could have spent their day better if they had not worked This phenomenon has been studied in various studies, involving both students and full-time …
: Currently reading: The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker 📚
: Finished reading: Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday 📚
: “Because of the need for being more professional, more polished, more branding for your company, for …
: Is there any way to change the sort order of the reading list in Safari? I prefer to see the oldest …
: Try to complete new tasks on the day you receive them By tackling tasks immediately, you prevent them from piling up and getting in your way later. This …
: Is there any browser plug-in for Safari to remove those irritating Google login popups?
: Singletasking The human mind and brain lack the architecture to perform two or more tasks simultaneously. Related: …
: The benefit of using my own blog on my own domain for microblogging with ActivityPub is that Twitter …
: Professionals spend about 60% of their time on work about work “Work about work” refers to the activities you do to organize and coordinate your work, …
: Professionals lose an average of three hours per week on unnecessary meetings Professionals lose an average of three hours per week on unnecessary meetings, which has a …
: Escuchando al último episodio de @feliztividad, no podría estar más de acuerdo con @fjrascon y …
: 🎉 Muy contento que Apple ha incluido el podcast de KENSO en sus lista de «Programas que nos …
: ¿Qué es este podcast recomendado por Amazon Music Podcasts? Sí, ¡es el podcast de KENSO! 🎉
: Ya tenemos libro para la próxima reseña en el podcast: Ego is the Enemy de Ryan Holiday 📚
: I really like the idea of receiving a yearly activity summary such as Spotify Wrapped or Apple Music …
: Mastodon could use a well-designed client. This is great news. Hello people of the Fediverse! Some …
: Finished reading: Good Anxiety by Wendy Suzuki 📚
: The story you tell yourself creates your reality. Part of the activation energy required to start …
: Today I received my invite to access Tana and immediately imported my Roam Research database. So …
: Love it how an insurance company sent me my username and password in two separate mailings several …
: With Mastodon I get the same feeling as email in the early days. Remember the hassle to change from …
: And yes: that’s certainly how a lot of capitalist cultures think about time — as something that can …
: Para un proyecto estoy buscando un proveedor acreditado para el #KitDigital con experiencia …
: What’s the benefit of 4K video when YouTube by default fills only a third of the screen (at most!) …
: Now that everybody is migrating to Mastodon, I suddenly remembered that a few years ago I created an …
: Once in a while I go through the ever growing list of Roam Research extensions and find something …
: The expectation that you check email outside of working hours can lead to health problems, relationship issues, and anxiety If employees always feel that they need to be available, even outside of work hours, it can cause a …
: Migrating my passwords from 1Password to iCloud Keychain Why am I still using 1Password? A few days ago I asked myself this question, and the only answer I …
: It is simple: Early is on time. On time is late. Late is unacceptable. Kurt Harden …
: I dedicated some more time to reflect on yesterday’s thoughts and decided to map out my whole …
: 25 years of blogging Today I should throw a party to celebrate this blog’s 25th anniversary. But lately I am not …
: It has only been a little over two weeks that I upgraded to macOS Ventura, and already got my ass …
: Nicholas is as inspiring as usual: Read. But the original. The long version. The fresh thinkers. …
: Focus modes in iOS make me happy Not so much for focusing, but simply because it solves a practical problem for me. You see, just …
: Currently reading: Good Anxiety by Wendy Suzuki 📚
: Finished reading: Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan 📚
: I updated my Now page and my list of the tools I use.
: Just five minutes after reading Create link rel-me tags on micro.blog by @muhh, I already have the …
: 📸 Wet leaves 🍃 Is autumn finally coming? Lleida, 12:20 CET A Day in the Life of Micro.blog
: 📸 All prepared for the trading course
: While waiting to get access to Tana, I have watched some videos from current users. No doubt it is a …
: Today I was so focused that I forgot to post an image. But I don’t feel guilty, since there is no …
: Now that most “social media” services by default show an AI-generated feed that has nothing to do …
: 📸 Brand new cycling shoes Lleida, 18:59 CET A Day in the Life of Micro.blog
: I agree with @jack: First, I don't need a Zettelkasten. If you're being honest, you probably don't …
: Currently reading: Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan 📚
: Finished reading: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A - by Mark Manson 📚 This book did nothing for me. No …
: Private offices Employees with private offices have 70% more face to face interaction compared to workers in an …
: Ha sido un gran placer poder conversar con @DVC_tw. Próximamente en tu reproductor de podcast…
: ¿Por qué hablamos de un «destornillador» en lugar de un «tornillador»?
: I am tired and feel like I am running around doing things the whole day. But when I look objectively …
: This quote merits to be converted into a nice poster in most offices: If you do anything at the last …
: Hard work Long working hours negatively affect cognitive performance. Related: The optimal amount of free …
: Currently reading: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A – by Mark Manson 📚
: Every time I visit Twitter, which is not very often, I wish there was a way to remove the individual …
: Finished reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚 Recommended for anybody who sometimes gets …
: Edit and mix the recordings of instruments and vocals so that the song sounds clear and coherent Editing and combining recordings of instruments and vocals is an important part of music production. …
: Open-plan workspace An open office is a short-term financial solution with huge intangible long-term costs. Related: An …
: My first music mix Three weeks ago I decided to get into music mixing and today I ‘finished’ my first mix. I put the …
: Most people (myself included) should reduce the amount of information input and increment the amount …
: Learn to say these words more often: No. Nope. No thanks. Not at this time. Nuh-uh. Nah. Sorry, but …
: Every person is unique. Instead of trying to follow the daily schedule of your hero’s, you should …
: I’m picking up music editing and mixing. Here’s why For the past four years I have edited a weekly podcast. At first using free online tools, the in …
: Does what you do during a day line up with what you said you are going to do? When we give away our …
: Eufriction Going slower can mean more thoughtful and better. Related: Do the right thing, in the right way, …
: Why doesn’t have Amazon a language filter? Each time I search for a book by a best-selling …
: To get better ideas, group members first write down their own ideas This process ensures that each individual has the chance to formulate their thoughts without …
: Esto explica muchas cosas: «Lentos, apáticos y con pequeñas pérdidas de memoria, así afecta el calor …
: Apple is very fast! This morning I received an apology for a message they sent me by accident. That …
: Back on my ‘extended commute’ I work from home, so my regular commute from the dining room, where I eat my breakfast, to the …
: Attention residue A little bit of time pressure when working on your tasks will help reduce attention residue. …
: The moments in which my life is the most interesting are also the moments in which I absolutely …
: 📸 In the black forest, part 2
: 📸 In the black forest, part 1
: 📸 Now this is how you take a coffee break
: My rule: if you publish a text about “The science behind XXX” or “XXX according to science” you …
: Messy work environments have no effect on either creativity or executive functions On one hand, some studies suggest that messy spaces can stimulate creativity. A 2013 study from the …
: This morning I gave my personal site some 💝. First I updated the My Tools page with my new iPhone …
: About time: I updated my Now page.
: Finished reading: Training From the Back of the Room! by Sharon L. Bowman 📚 I took a lot of great …
: Sí que tens temps, encara que és un recurs que està mal distribuït (igual que els diners). …
: 📸 Nos encanta que los planes salgan bien
: When was the last time you took an hour just to be with your thoughts?
: Motive When capturing information, give context by specifying why this note is important. Related: …
: Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚
: Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚 In current times, this is a very necessary …
: After listening to the Micro Monday interview with @sod, I added the Conversation on Micro.blog …
: I made it! Mythic level in MTGA.
: This resonated with me: The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; …
: I wish MTGA had an option to quickly copy my opponent’s deck after a game.
: Currently reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
: Finished reading: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 📚 This …
: I love this idea to schedule your “Uh Oh” moments: Have you ever had a moment where you look at the …
: The workdays of so many professionals are dictated by urgencies and emergencies. But there is …
: How is it possible that I have to pay 90€ for a digital license key for Microsoft 365 Family, while …
: I am thinking about buying a Kindle to use instead of the iPad for reading at night to avoid light …
: An increase of 10 dB noise in the workplace reduces productivity by 5% This is because environmental noise has a significant and negative impact on cognitive tasks that …
: A moderate level of background noise enhances creativity Research shows that a little background noise can help you think more creatively. This is because a …
: Schedule two hours every day for important work that doesn't need to be completed immediately; this helps you become happier and more productive By setting aside time for tasks that are not urgent but important, you create space to think …
: Why mine is so small Whenever I show the new iPhone 13 Mini I bought a few weeks ago to friends or family, often I get …
: This hit me at just the right moment as this morning I was thinking I should keep more in touch with …
: Think Writing is the best medium for deep thinking. Related: Use your own words to express your own …
: Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right The statement “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right” …
: Most marketing techniques only work when selling marketing techniques.
: 📸 Day 16: Time Seconds and minutes don’t matter. #mbmay
: Give yourself permission to be human. It can be easy to consider a temporary habit a "failure" …
: I had an absolutely fabulous boring morning. I had nothing to do, so I simply walked though the city …
: I should frame this quote and put it in a very visible place in my office: If you think technology …
: Work in a daylit workspace Natural light is very important for regulating our biological clock, which helps us sleep well and …
: Add some art to your workplace for reduced stress and increased creativity and productivity Artworks can create a calming and inspiring environment, which helps improve the overall work …
: 🙋♂️ Hablando del #libroic, tengo una pregunta: Si el método es el factor clave para un proceso de …
: Siempre me gusta participar en eventos donde haya una gran capacidad humana en la sala. Es lo que …
: 📸 Day 10: Pot Usually I focus on the plants, but today I made an exception. #mbmay
: Less mobile Reduce mobile phone use by one hour a day to improve life satisfaction, well-being and health. …
: Currently reading: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 📚
: Finished reading: How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler 📚 This was a hard one to read. I will …
: Me ha encantado el último episodio del podcast Productividad y Salud de @fjrascon y @jlgomezp sobre …
: 📸 Day 5: Earth View from planet earth. #mbmay
: So true: Productivity was once about time management. Increasingly it is about distraction …
: 📸 Day 4: Thorny After not having touched a face mask for several weeks, it stings to wear one again, …
: 📸 Day 3: Experiment Today I tried something new: without looking I took a photo out of the train …
: A videoconference provokes a narrow focus on the screen, which hinders divergent thinking Videoconferences require participants to focus their attention on a small part of the screen. This …
: 📸 Day 2: Photo Last year I used my fancy pants camera to participate in the Micro.blog Photoblogging …
: Sorting emails into folders wastes a lot of time; use one archive folder and search for emails when you need them instead Sorting emails into different folders may seem like an efficient way to keep your inbox organized. …
: 📸 Day 1: Switch Today we finished the first part of the home entrance restyling. Previously we had …
: I never understood the appeal of the digital nomad lifestyle. Sure, it’s cool for about a week, but …
: My iPhone is not mobile anymore; it only works when I have it connected to a power supply. To make …
: Avui, per celebrar Sant Jordi, no m’he comprat cap llibre, sinó he decidit dedicar la tarda a …
: After several days with battery problems on my Phone 7, yesterday I did a full reinstall from …
: Ayer, después de terminar el taller de efectividad de @beKENSO que llevamos impartiendo desde hace …
: ¿Qué haces cuando debes escribir un texto largo, pero no tienes ganas de hacerlo? Efectivamente, …
: Wow! This is going to cost me a lot of time to study: Index of productivity patterns
: Decision fatigue only affects people who believe that willpower runs out quickly Psychologist Carol Dweck has discovered that how we think about willpower affects how tired we feel …
: Keep essential information in your mind so you can access it quickly without having to look it up It is important to keep essential knowledge at hand so you can use it immediately when needed. This …
: With al this attention for creating an external brain (David Allen) and building a second brain …
: Tengo una cosa claro: cuando no terminas tus tareas dentro del plazo, el tiempo no tiene la culpa.
: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 Though i finished reading this book, I …
: I don’t like having too many meetings, because I am the kind of person who leaves a one hour meeting …
: Nir argues that Time blocking can be useful for everybody, as long as you use it for Reflective Work …
: I totally missed #MyTwitterAnniversary 🎉 last week.
: No virtual camera Zoom prioritises refresh rate over resolution for camera streams, so presentations shared over a …
: When the latest version of Overcast came out, I decided to try to change my podcast listening …
: The days that I feel most tired usually end up being also the days in which I work more hours. …
: Your own implementation is the correct way of doing GTD David Allen, the creator of GTD, says there is no standard way to use his method. Although his books …
: Tiredness + an addictive game (such as MTGA) = destroyed productivity
: People who do not experience stress often have a lower level of cognitive ability It may sound surprising, but research shows that while people without stress are less likely to have …
: So this device measures breathing patterns and uses that to calculate focus levels. The app contains …
: Our (productivity) issues are not new. Read the great masters and find answers to current issues Our productivity problems, such as information overload from emails and chat messages, may seem like …
: I still haven’t found the perfect work-from-home coffee break activity. I’m looking for …
: 📈 Algo estamos haciendo bien en el podcast de @beKENSO: ¡Nº 35 en el top de España!
: There are so many good ideas in this post, but this is my favourite: 34 Go for a walk without …
: Currently reading: Sona la cançó by Lluís Gavaldà 📚 Si també estàs llegint aquest llibre fantàstic …
: My plan was to take a short break, cross the street to buy some pineapple in the vegetable store and …
: After 45 years, these tips are still valid:
: Follow Seth’s advice and avoid dong things at the last moment whenever possible. You …
: I love how @patrickrhone explains a simple habit with a lot of depth behind it: Basically, on the …
: Mi granito de arena para reivindicar el #8M2022: kenso.es/episodio/…
: Once again the UPS delivery person was somehow not able to deliver a package, even though I did …
: Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚
: Finished reading: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely 📚 …
: Time to flow Try to get four hours of concentrated work into a workday, and never more than six. Related: Before …
: Busco por la canción Carnaval, carnaval de Georgie Dann en Music y la aplicación de música falla. …
: Who else has created a list to know which streaming service to use for each of the tv series you are …
: Nothing to comment: Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a …
: This afternoon, for the first time this year, I left home without needing a coat. Too bad, however, …
: This: Seriously, I want to bookmark this, print it, share it far and wide, especially with people …
: Word choice The right words can change reality. Related: Self-talk, Motivation, Think
: Now that most texts are read on a screen, why would anybody still use a page-based text editor?
: I enjoyed this view behind the curtains of making the new ‘Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty’ card set for …
: We’re almost two years in, and I still find a lot of people who do not have a headset for …
: A Zoom (or Teams) call is not a meeting. There are no humans on this call. Yes, there are 14 …
: There are some very interesting ideas in this proposal, but will Apple go that far? With "Ask app …
: If you’re that lucky, you have to share it: Wordle 229 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
: Don’t forget to schedule your breaks! A reminder to you all to make time for yourself and …
: Productive procrastination tip by @PatrickRhone: Task yourself with a huge must-do project that has …
: Spend a little attention on planning and organizing your tasks, but not more than necessary; then, get to work It is good to spend some time planning your day, tidying up your inbox, and setting goals. This …
: Today a family member asked me whether I use the Telegram messaging service. My answer: “Technically …
: Empezando a leer el siguiente libro para reseñar exclusivamente para los miembros de KENSO Circulo: …
: This looks very promising: As a result of the non-standardization of blocks, our end-users suffer. …
: Teaching online with the cameras turned off This tweet caught my eye this morning: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ Not wordle, just …
: Recién llegado y con muchas ganas de leerlo: Superhábitos de @BertoP 📚
: Finished reading: El regalo by Eloy Moreno 📚 Los miembros de KENSO Círculo tendrán la reseña la …
: Hoy es el Día Internacional de la Educación (¡todo el día!). En KENSO lo celebramos con tres …
: I’ve got sooo many questions after watching What does single women do after work? (hat tip: …
: My biggest frustration playing Magic: The Gathering is randomness: those occasions I can’t play …
: Un buen resumen del episodio de esta semana: Don't stop learning new things. Learning shouldn't be …
: ¡Increíble! 🤯 El podcast de KENSO está en la posición 23 de los podcast más populares en España …
: How many hours of work have been lost since Microsoft decided to deactivate the auto save feature in …
: This is a great feature: The “Title bar window shake” is a lifesaver for those times when you have a …
: Why do people believe the weather can affect cloud computing? op @diggingthedigital.com Woorden …
: 93% van de ZZP-ers zijn hardwerkende mensen die klaar zijn met het klassieke baas-werknemers …
: Try this genius hack to clear your inbox and start fresh… without deleting everything! As someone …
: Fun thread of company logos showing the fonts each uses From: How Do You Like Them Wordles? by …
: Aparentemente, muchas personas consultan las recomendaciones en la App de Podcasts. El podcast de …
: Una coincidencia fantástica: Seth Godin publica un post sobre el mismo tema y en el mismo día que …
: Systems maintenance When defining a habit, routine, or project, it is important to assess the potential future …
: I just call this providing value. It is also the basis of any link blog… The Case for Permissionless …
: Tomorrow is the first ‘real’ day of the new year. Are you ready?
: Listen to @PatrickRhone. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Patrick Rhone …
: First day of the new year, and I have mistakenly wished several people a great 2021 😱
: 📸 The last walk of 2021 (Groenekan)
: Something that preoccupies me more and more lately: Digital communication has profound benefits in …
: En enero leemos El regalo de Eloy Moreno para KENSO Círculo. ¿Lo leerás con nosotros? 📚
: «La suerte no ha parado aquí» 😔
: Superhábitos, el nuevo libro de @BertoP. ¿Será Berto capaz de destronar Hábitos Atómicos de James …
: Finished reading: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary …
: Interruptions Interruptions aren’t intrinsically distinct from other events, they’re just events most …
: I love this: Emoji to Scale, a collection of emoji presented from smallest (mosquito) to largest …
: 🙏 Estoy muy contento con las más de 250 inscripciones para el webinar de productividad mañana. ¿Te …
: Who doesn’t want to be a “time millionaire”? time millionaires measure their worth not in terms of …
: A helpful reminder: Reminding yourself you can do anything. But you really can’t do everything. …
: Idea revolucionaria: ¿por qué esperar con tus buenos propósitos hasta el Año Nuevo? ¡Empieza hoy!
: So frustrating that Microsoft Office on macOS obliges you to store your files on OneDrive in order …
: 📸 Team meeting room: inspiration from the past to build the future
: Tomorrow will be a big day… 🥳
: Whenever I get kicked out of a match beacause Magic: The Gathering Arena crashes on my device, the …
: Unsubscribe! Cyber Monday is a nice event to remind you that you are not using the “unsubscribe” …
: To me, the ‘week’ is the most human unit of time. Days, months, and years all make sense as units of …
: I purchased the new Oura ring A little over three years ago I gifted myself the Oura ring. It served me very well, until the …
: 📷 Shooting pictures for the upcoming redesign of my Canasto web site.
: En unas semanas podrás escuchar el otro episodio que hemos grabado hoy en que @BCrespoRuiz explica a …
: Hoy hemos aprendido a descansar con @jana_fernandez_. 😴 Voy a desconectar un rato para estar al 100% …
: Tip: Create a mail rule to send all email messages mentioning ‘Black Friday’ to the recycle bin.
: I’m shocked to see that even some scientific institutions have start using the Net Promoter …
: A great tip from the Hulry newsletter: With more and more news sites moving their content behind …
: Little by little, Roam Research is becoming the one tool to do it all. Last week I realised that I …
: Kill the newsletter! is fantastic service to convert email newsletters into feeds, so I can do all …
: Right now is the perfect time to test out a no meetings policy. Here’s how to do it
: Did you set your breakthrough goal today?
: I hate it when keyboard shortcuts change, since muscle memory is very hard to create or change. …
: I love this concept: Calm Technology
: What a great list of mini standards by Nicholas Bate.
: This should be easier, Apple! Yesterday my father (84 years old) was writing a text message to his friends. While he composed his …
: Gratitude Don’t take past events for granted. Imagine the consequences of positive life events not …
: Start with as little as possible and add complexity as you go The idea is to start with something simple that works and then, if necessary, add more complex …
: People with a wandering mind (ADHD) are motivated by actions that captivate, create, compete, or complete People with ADHD are often motivated by activities that captivate them, stimulate creativity, ignite …
: Definition of done by @patrickrhone Dinner is not done once everyone has eaten. Dinner is done once …
: Another example of a word that has lost its original meaning. We’ve probably lost the battle to save …
: Hoy hace 5 años tuvo una videollamada para ver cómo reinventar la transformación en la efectividad …
: Before you start (a task, a work session, a project…), set a time budget It is important to determine in advance when you want to stop a task, work session or project. This …
: 📷 There is a lot of history here
: Every day I check whether macOS Monterey has been released yet. I can’t wait to have focus …
: Nitpicking: Why do I have to scroll to read this text? Couldn’t they just make the text area a …
: Though the summary did not motivate me to buy this book, I love the quote: One of the most …
: 10 years freelancing Yesterday I realised that in September I passed my tenth anniversary as a freelancer. This prompted …
: Motivation Convince yourself that the effort part is the good part, and you’ll start generating Dopamine …
: Some more thoughts by Cal Newport based on the same research that led me to write this note in my …
: This is by far my favorite feature in iOS 15: Scheduled Notification Summary. Instead of having a …
: Mindfulness meditation reduces the size of your amygdala, making you less prone to distractions and procrastination Research shows that regularly practicing mindfulness meditation can lead to a smaller amygdala. This …
: Clean air boosts your mental power Research has shown that higher CO2 levels in office environments are associated with decreased …
: This morning while watching a few Twitch streams, I briefly had the idea of starting my own channel. …
: The optimal amount of free time seems to be between 2 and 4 hours per day Research by Hershfield and colleagues, based on data from 35,000 people, shows that a lack of free …
: The Netherlands offer so much more than Amsterdam and tulips. Most tourists do not take the …
: Take regular ‘thinking walks’ to change your brain to enhance thinking, creativity and memory Regular thinking walks can have a significant positive impact on your brain, thinking, creativity …
: I really wish I could open search results in the sidebar or the main screen instead of the fleeting …
: Reserve quality time for reading; only with full attention can you make the shift from 'reading for information' to 'reading for knowledge' In our modern world, we often receive a lot of information that is easy to understand but …
: I just found myself going through my Twitter feed for some minutes, a clear sign that I should stop …
: Recuerda: cuando un político está escribiendo en los RRSS o hablando delante una cámara o micrófono, …
: Take the time before doing something you can't undo Irreversible decisions, also known as “one-way doors,” require careful and thoughtful …
: A small part of the population is able to multitask without performance reduction Research shows that only 2.5% of people can multitask well without their performance deteriorating. …
: High carb meals slow reactions, but high protein meals can make you more distracted Meals that are high in carbohydrates can affect our reaction speed. This is because carbohydrates …
: Avoid excessive task switching to increase efficiency When constantly switching from one task to another, so-called ‘switching costs’ arise. …
: Cold showers Cold showers probably have a negative impact on cognitive performance. Related: People who do not …
: Take the time to think about, dream of, and look forward to future activities Taking the time to think about, dream of, and look forward to future activities is an essential part …
: Link the desired behavior to a clear signal Linking desired behavior to a clear cue is a smart way to change behavior. This idea is similar to …
: Any personal effectiveness system that helps to get tasks out of your mind is Getting Things Done The basic principle of the Getting Things Done (GTD) system, developed by David Allen, is that your …
: When information is easy to understand, people are more likely to trust it When people can easily understand information, for example through good sound quality, it positively …
: A Zettelkasten is an intelligent conversation with my past thoughts A Zettelkasten is a flexible system in which you write down and connect ideas and thoughts in an …
: Large organizations extinguish employees' passion Large organizations often try to place employees in fixed roles. These roles are usually intended …
: In case you wonder what’s with all the posts today: I am republishing some of my notes on …
: Ensure that your computer screen is large enough so that you can view both the work document and the reference material at the same time Use a large screen on which you can see both your work document and your reference material side by …
: Appreciate the feedback you receive and be deliberate about the feedback you give Feedback is a useful tool that helps people and organizations improve and grow. It is important to …
: Connect notes to start a conversation with your own thoughts It is important to connect your notes with each other so that you can build a network of ideas and …
: When helping someone, give that person enough information and boost their confidence by showing how that information can help others When you help someone, it is important to provide them with enough information so they can move …
: Make reversible decisions as quickly as possible Most decisions in life are not final. These decisions, also known as Type 2 decisions, can easily be …
: Rephrasing a text helps me to better understand what the author means When you rewrite a text in your own words, you have to think carefully about what is written and …
: Work cycle During the mornings, work in 90-minute cycles separated by 20-minute breaks. Related: Before you …
: Scatterfocus Give your mind time to wander. Related: A videoconference provokes a narrow focus on the screen, …
: Attempting to do two or more attention-demanding tasks simultaneously reduces productivity Multitasking means trying to do multiple things at once. This causes your attention to be divided, …
: Heck, even I would love to go back to school if this were the curriculum: The basic foundation is …
: Fleeting notes Capture your mind wandering while reading; get into a conversation with the author. Related: Use …
: Use your own words to express your own thoughts When you write information in your own words, you really need to understand what it is about. This …
: Choose a workplace where you can see other people focused on their tasks. This will help you concentrate better. This happens because the things you see influence how you feel. Seeing others working hard reminds …
: Frog eating Skip the easy wins and tackle the hard task first. Related: Do the right thing, in the right way, …
: A standing desk does not appear to impact productivity Research into the use of sit-stand desks shows that these desks do not directly lead to higher …
: Self-talk When you get stuck, talk to the duck. Related: Whether you think you can or think you can’t, …
: Environment Physical cues affect our state of mind and can be used to switch between different productive modes. …
: Why are so many weekly newsletters published on Mondays? For me, Monday is the worst day to read …
: Do the right thing, in the right way, and at the right moment Three core principles of effectiveness and productivity. It starts with identifying the right tasks …
: Aparentemente, Santander mantiene una lista de Trolls similares a @Yoriento. (Cosas que encuentro en …
: Monthly map Explore a map for each month’s cycle that not only includes things to do, but also things to …
: I have to say, the Twitter data archive is very well made. It comes with a html page to visually …
: I requested an archive of my data from Twitter. Right now I am downloading all 691 MB of it. I am …
: Call me crazy, but today I bought my first NFT: It’s probably wasted (crypto)money, but I …
: How come this channel does not have more subscribers? Almost 20 years ago, Pixar released the first …
: It has been months since I last heard about Clubhouse. Has the hype passed? Does it still exist?
: This quote perfectly descibes my current professional situation: You teach best what you most need …
: I often wish other people kept a list of all the tools they’re currently using for daily work, so …
: To bring some more variation in our evening leisure activities, I bought the Wingspan board game. We …
: After a few years without using it, today I opened the Keybase app again. Digging around in the …
: Many things may be important but only one thing can be the most important. Ross Garber
: I’m getting annoyed by all the silos for tv and movie content. I’d rather have something similar as …
: Meetings are the worst form of productivity. The “doing” gets done outside of meetings. Doing …
: Focus and scattterfocus is all that matters. Time and attention aren’t the same thing. They're …
: This is hilarious. Salvador Dali participating in a tv game show. Yes!
: This is factastic! Somebody made an app to scan the QR code from the EU Covid passport and save it …
: Is there a perfect productivity system? No
: When making yearly or quarterly plans, I always fail to account for my diminished productivity in …
: Since the beginning of the year I have listened almost every week to Andrew Huberman’s podcast (even …
: I prefer ‘surgical reading’ over ‘speed reading’.
: Currently reading: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary …
: 📷 The end of an era is also a new beginning
: Forget about time management. Productivity is not at all about having planners. @myycah …
: Finished reading: Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull 📚
: Wondering: Does the fact that I did not publish during my vacation mean that I consider blogging as …
: 📷 Luxury is… finding an empty beach in July 🏖
: How we make decisions: We like to think we make complicated decisions based on rational analysis, …
: Much time management and getting things done is not about time: it's about scale. Nicholas Bate …
: This caught my attention: Taken as a whole, these results suggest that, sometimes, attention can …
: Something I observed on my vacation: The Netherlands are quickly becoming a cashless society. Many …
: Such a great article by Joe Zadeh: The Tyranny Of Time This made me wonder: under which …
: Investing advice: A recommended daily habit: Replace one hour of screen time with one hour of …
: 📷 Donostia Now that was a wonderful weekend full of music, art, spectacular landscapes, friendship …
: Slow down! An easy trick to slow down is to ask: “Why the rush?” and to take a step back. Is speed …
: Thanks @ttscoff for showing me Dato. Dato is a simple menu bar calendar utility to show me a …
: What do you do when all of your inboxes are empty or ignored? That’s your purpose in life. Daniel …
: This is how I know what color car is parked in front of the house
: Effectiveness: The flip-side of the "To-Do" list should always be the "Not To-Do" list. …
: Damn you, CGP Grey. Now I’m hooked on Magic the Gatheting.
: Currently reading: Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull 📚
: Am I the only one using the iron mostly in lateral movements and hardly ever with the point part …
: This is mesmerizing: The Shortcut Vía Jason Kottke
: It’s done: I ordered a brand new, maxed out purple M1 iMac. By far the biggest tech purchase in my …
: Updating older Apple devices All my Apple devices are relatively old. My philosophy is to use them as long as I reasonably can. …
: If you spend more time chatting with people you don’t know than talking with the persons around you, …
: Finished reading: Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson …
: I was hoping Apple would announce a bigger iMac at the WWDC. They did not. Now I have to decide …
: There is nothing more productive than finishing a 90 minute personal effectiveness workshop in 60 …
: I feel like I should write more on my blog. But whenever I sit down to write, I don’t know what to …
: I don’t know when they added the ‘smart suggestions’ feature to Setapp, but it should be …
: Yesterday I finally did something I should done several years ago: spring cleaning my personal …
: The benefits of choosing a platform over disconnected devices I love all these features and use them …
: My current home screen This is the current widget-only Home Screen of my iPhone 7: Widget stack: Weather Calendar Siri …
: I just created an account at an online store and immediately received a confirmation email including …
: Today I received my RØDE VXLR+, a small device to connect my lavelier mic to my audio interface. The …
: Trying to get my head around notetaking philosophies and Zettelkasten Now
: WWDC is getting closer. Since I’m not a developer, the only question interesting me right now …
: I really wish that Roam Research will one day support ‘regular’ markdown syntax. It is very hard to …
: How is it possible that in the EU we still have to pay an extra for copyright compensation whenever …
: This week I reviewed my new Audient iD14 audio interface and man, I surely do love this device. Such …
: ¿Por qué los sindicalistas siempre gritan en sus discursos?
: Honest feedback from a good friend might still hurts, but is more likely to result in an actual …
: I really dislike the current trend of cohort-based courses Whenever I want to learn something, I am highly motivated and want to start right away. If you make …
: I’m loving this quote: Develop what’s inside first, because what’s inside is reflected outside. …
: 📸 First lunch outside at the patio for this year
: When I enrolled in @beauhaan’s Roam Book Club, I expected to learn about Roam Research while …
: What we believe in. Efficiency is getting stuff done. Effectiveness is getting the right stuff done. …
: Currently reading: Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style by Carson …
: Note for remote workers: working from home is not the same as living at work. Fix your boundaries!
: An interesting metric to evaluate email campaigns: Risk We measure email risk, in its most …
: This week I’m ditching ActiveCampaign and moving my newsletter to Squarespace. I want to simplify my …
: Finished reading: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown 📚
: Some interesting insights into the consequences of the jump to “remote work” in many organizations: …
: This is how you buy things. Did I comparison shop? Nope. Ask around? Nada. There's no buyer's …
: I always find it extremely difficult to rate books, movies and tv series. First, whenever something …
: The best way to deal with information overload is to embrace it. Think of Information as Food. …
: My main problem with web apps is that they live in the browser. My monkey mind keeps on closing the …
: Know your keyboard shortcuts on Windows.
: What we’re doing is not the same as working remotely. We’re not working remotely. We’re surviving a …
: This is outrageous! A database containing the phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook …
: Usually the YouTube algorithm doesn’t help me very well in finding new and interesting videos, but …
: After many years in the productivity space, I still have to remind myself sometimes that the tool …
: I don’t use a case on my mobile phone. My experience is that if you put a cheap piece of silicone …
: Currently reading: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown 📚
: So true: These huge threaded tweets drive me insane. It sounds really interesting but hard to read, …
: Finished reading: The Second Mountain by David Brooks 📚
: Llevo muchos años explicando que, antes de comunicarte, siempre debes parar un momento para …
: I just love the smell of a freshly broken branch of the tomato plant.
: A small jewel from James Clear’s newsletter: When people hesitate to give honest feedback on …
: Reeder 5 improvements I have been using Reeder for my feed reading since early 2011 (that’s over a decade!), so of course …
: I tried Sorted³ After seeing this video by Shu Omi I wanted to try out the Sorted³ app for scheduling my tasks. I …
: At mid morning I usually take a coffee and a sandwich at my desk. This week I started a new habit. I …
: Yesterday I have been researching easy ways to record the TV series and movies I watch. So far, the …
: This integration of Zotero and Roam Research is an absolute game changer for me. Getting this kind …
: I finally finished cleaning up my Photos page by editing out the decorative images in old posts (you …
: Finding the + in iOS Whenever I write on my iPad, there are two problems which drive me nuts. Today I will explain one of …
: I would love to be the kind of person who likes fixing things at home, but usually when I try I get …
: Los partidos se juegan hasta el final, pero desafortunadamente este partido ha terminado. Descanse …
: 📷 Endless fields of delight 🍑🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
: Some years ago I reconfigured Siri on all my devces to use a male voice, since I don’t feel …
: Now that we don’t travel anymore, we´ll need a better name for the ‘airplane mode’ on our …
: 📷 Day 31: Defiance The day is almost over and I still haven’t taken my photo for to day. The last …
: 📷 Day 30: Privacy Ssssstttt… I’m working #mbfeb
: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J. R. R. Tolkien
: 📷 Day 29: Light Sometimes, light creates magic… #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 28: Up A view from our secret hideout. 🏠 #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 27: Pompasetting I’m not someone who likes to show off, nor do I value most material …
: Some useful Dutch words: “Mierenneuken” Literally translated as: “ant fucking.” This should be a …
: Is there something missing on your to do list? Looking back, there was one chore that I should have …
: 📷 Day 26: Favourite Three of my favourite analog tools: Leuchtturm1917 dotted medium notebook, …
: 📷 Day 25: Code As a coincidence, today was the first day in a very long time that I actually had to …
: Most service providers ask their customers for testimonials. Its good practice. Some businesses …
: Some intresting thoughts on intelligence: The brain is the organ that named itself and created all …
: 📷 Day 24: Baby As a team of two, we have to distribute the roles in the family. We don’t have …
: Currently reading: The Second Mountain by David Brooks 📚
: Hey is a fantastic email service that is about to get a whole lot better as you can send email to …
: Finished reading: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📚
: 📷 Day 23: Banana You can recognize a healthy home by the fruit bowl in the kitchen. #mbfeb
: 90% of running a business is making a bunch of tiny improvements that nobody notices but end up …
: 📷 Day 22: Spell These two ‘fat guys’ have been within arms reach for over 19 years now. I …
: 📷 Day 21: Colors The first fruit trees start showing their colors. Within a few weeks I expect …
: En diciembre he estado limpiando mi despacho y he decidido regalar algunos de mis libros a la …
: 📷 Day 20: Weather The problem with nice weather is that a bright blue sky makes for very boring …
: 📷 Day 19: Alive Today’s theme is the perfect excuse to try out the ‘jump snap’ function of my …
: 📷 Day 18: At home By far, my favorite place on earth. 🏠 #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 17: Still Usually after a period of working in intense concentration (coaching calls, script …
: Clubhouse is not for me I just deleted Clubhouse from my phone. I have tried it for two weeks and have come to the …
: 📷 Day 16: Erudite More and more of my knowledge is stored in my second brain. #mbfeb
: I wish the makers of OneClock would cooperate with Philips to add those sounds to my Wake Up Light.
: I would have loved it to be in the Netherlands last weekend. The Netherlands looks like an old …
: I’m really getting behind on my reading material, with now over 100 articles in my Instapaper queue. …
: 📷 Day 15: Reflection Mirror and mirrorless. #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 14: Compassion The one person in the world who is always there for me. #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 13: Make Everything is in place to start making a new batch of Magdalenas. #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 12: Sporg A photo of an artwork by Ama10.art made out of a photo of mold on a wall. #mbfeb
: 📷 Day 11: Machine Just as I was getting ready to record some new vdeos for our YouTube channel and …
: 📷 Day 10: Energy In my opinion, any productive desk setup needs one of these for those moments when …
: It is nice to see that 30 Boxes is back. I reviewed the app waaaay back in 2007, but it has come a …
: It had been over two months since I last updated my Now page.
: 📷 Day 9: Muddy Now that we can’t go to the mountains because of the lock-down, my life is a …
: 📷 Day 8: Hope I thought that the cold winter killed our little mint plant, but when I wanted to …
: Everything is a remix I’m so confused right now. 😳😬🤯 pic.twitter.com/gnAExj9bin — Fred Schultz …
: 📷 Day 7 | Craving My favourite snack of the past weeks unfortunately is almost finished. #mbfeb
: The personal website seems to making a comeback. …
: 📷 Day 6 | Sport I feel very guilty getting this material out of the closet for taking a picture …
: 📷 Day 5 | Pets May I present you: Bosch 🐠 #mbfeb
: One of the best tips to have a better Work From Home experience: have a fake commute.
: The past days I have been trying out Refind to receive my own daily personlized newsletter with 10 …
: 📷 Day 4 | Layers Preparing the artwork for this week’s podcast episode in Pixelmator Pro. …
: Why does the Mac App Store ignore my language preferences?
: Currently reading: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📚
: 📷 Day 3| Comfort When working from home you need some essential items: a good chair, good light and …
: This is the way: Publish. Consistently. With patience. Own your assets. Don’t let a middleman be …
: 📷 Day 2 | Morning beverage Be water my friend! 🚰 Though I usually start the day with a lemon tea, …
: 📷 Day 1 | Close up Podcasting 🎤 #mbfeb
: Last week I started watching The Blacklist on Amazon Prime. Yesterday, suddenly, Amazon states that …
: This is the basis for a functioning society: To reduce conflict in our lives, we need to fully …
: Clubhouse: First impressions The past two days I have been hanging around in Clubhouse. So far I like it, though I would like to …
: This is such an amazing idea by @patrickrhone: pipe your Instagram and Twitter posts to the Day One …
: The most intelligent photo ever taken
: I’m simultaneously exporting a video in Final Cut Pro and bouncing a podcast episode in Logic Pro on …
: Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, many fashion retailers are stuck with huge amounts of stock they …
: Michael Wade proposes adding a fifth quadrant to the Eisenhower priority matrix and he calls it …
: Most messages in the user forums of any productivity tool are from people who overcomplicate their …
: Somehow, Spotlight stopped working on my iMac. Neither the keyboard shortcut or the icon in the menu …
: WhatsApp’s canary died 😔 Uh-oh. WhatsApp's canary just died; they removed the statement that …
: Well said: Discussions of ‘time management’ and ‘productivity’ often hide the real issue. Soul …
: Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks. Could Apple’s privacy labels be the reason? …
: As usual, effectiveness is a question of habits. Tools come in second place. So more than the bells …
: So true: artwork by Liz Fosslien
: Nicholas Base reminds us to be a good gardener: Although he/she wouldn't be so bold as to proclaim …
: It seems Seth was listening in on our Zoom call this morning, in which we decided to dedicate the …
: There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
: It really bothers me when services with a well working web app oblige me to install their app to …
: I love this quote about Serena Williams using Toggl Track: Cover subject Serena Williams tells …
: Entiendo la popularidad de iVoox para escuchar a podcast. Pero desde el punto de vista de los …
: Over the last days, my todo list slowly morphed into a Tetris puzzle with too many dependencies. …
: I’m seriously wondering why I’m not posting more often when there really is no friction to write …
: I agree with all these observations: Let’s talk video conferencing
: El Canasto cumple 14 🎂 Hace 14 años hizo algo que me ha cambiado la vida: publiqué el primer post en mi blog El Canasto. No …
: Why isn’t the Notes app available in the share sheet of an Music song?
: Nicholas Bate is the master of list posts. I always like to read them, but somehow today’s post …
: As a productivity nerd, whenever I encounter an in-depth interview about personal organization and …
: Nice to have been part of the TemPredict study that used biometric data from the Oura ring to detect …
: We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans …
: En la última entrega de Causas y Azares descubrí Todos tus libros, una interesante alternativa a …
: This is my current iPad home Screen: Widgets Calendar Siri suggestions OmniFocus Forecast …
: After having used an iPad for eight years, today was the first time I connected a Bluetooth …
: Since last summer, we are in the market for a new iMac 🖥 to replace a 7-year old MacBook Air 💻. The …
: I did not know this: the bridges on the € banknotes are fictitious, but an architect in the Dutch …
: 23 years of blogging 23 years ago, I decided to add a page to my website where I explain what has been going on in my …
: The more a play around in Tribe.so, the more I like it as a tool for creating a community.
: Dear MailChimp, I am having an issue upgrading a free account to a paid account. I would like to …
: Though this looks like a joke, the message is absolutely necessary. At almost 5 kg, the elgato …
: Waiting on the the Silicon computers. I really, really need to buy a new iMac 🖥, but don’t want to …
: This graph by @ton is very inspiring: This week I’m quite busy, but I feel the urge to map out …
: Why didn’t include a Timer and Stopwatch widget in iOS 14?
: Misschien wordt ik oud of ben ik sinds in in het buitenland woon conservatiever geworden, maar ik …
: To start the day, I gave my personal blog a little love, with an updated Now page, some retouches to …
: Nicholas Bate shares 14 Things to Learn and got me searching for that speech by Mark Anthony in …
: I don’t understand why some people have a blog (a periodic publication) without offering a …
: 📷 Lleida, Spain | 2020-10-14 12:09 To relax my eyes after staring for too long at my screen, I …
: This sounds like a perfect day to me. the goal for this day is simple: Calm Michael Wade …
: Work-life balance 2020 style Just so I'm being honest. #SciMomJourneys …
: Today was the first day I had to put the heater (just half an hour) to get comfortable at home. You …
: The busier I am, the more time I find for (micro)blogging
: I followed @ton’s example and deleted my Slideshare account. I still have local copies of all …
: With the rollout of iOS 14 and Safari 14, most web sites are going to see some significant shifts in …
: After four hours, I guess it’s time to stop procrastinating and do something productive…
: This is what the outside world sees… 🎞 … and this is what’s really happening… 🎬
: It is clear that today wil not be a good day to record new videos.
: Thanks to a mention in the latest edition of the newsletter by @rahego I went into a deep dive in …
: Is this turned on?: Or is this turned on?: IFTTT should improve their usability a little bit.
: Wise words from James Clear in his newsletter: Avoid calendar debt. Don’t spend (free) time you …
: More than ever before, we’re using technology to connect with the outside world. And with so many of …
: I followed Roel’s instructions to personalize the colors on this site a little bit.
: As usual, also on micro.blog I somehow ended up following way more men than women. Therefore I call …
: So true… Life is slower on paper, and that’s a good thing! Alligator …
: This is powerful advice: Shout-out to @RyanHVaughn for posting some of the most useful advice I've …
: Oura now supports Sleep Sharing! Therefore, simply because I can (and not because it is of interest …
: Frank Meeuwsen is de laatste dagen Hypothesis aan het testen. Ik volg zijn bevindingen met …
: @rahego: ¿Y tú qué mides? Una de las razones por que me gusta micro.blog es que puedes ver cuántos …
: A new home 🏠 In all the years of its existence, I have used several tools to maintain this site. From the top of …
: In preparation of the migration of this site from WordPress to micro.blog, today I finished …
: Seth on dates: One of the most expensive things a service business or freelancer can do is promise …
: Seth nailed the essence of a Zoom meeting: The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated …
: Twenty years after the introduction of the €, I still receive invoices mentioning the equivalent …
: Today I deleted all collections from my Zotero database. I find that most interesting studies are at …
: New mobility metrics in iOS 14 This morning I was checking my data in the health app, when I noticed two new sections: Symptoms and …
: This is what I’m working on now.
: I just read an old post on this blog describing the tools I used fourteen years ago. What a great …
: A few weeks back I made de jump back from Zettlr to Roam Research for my notes, and today I noticed …
: Messier is better. For meetings, I have a yellow legal pad and a .5mm rollerball. I used to roll …
: Productivity is a philosophy. Nicholas Bate …
: Influencers make us feel that productivity is important, and yet they rarely define the term, let …
: don’t just talk - do some work! Write. Curate. Connect. Architect. Build on other peoples’ ideas. …
: Write about the things you practice; practice the things you write about. Words without action is …
: Professionals don’t need fake deadlines and don’t respect them. Instead, we have the chance to build …
: Is it a coincidence that WFH looks very similar to WTF?
: In the world of the compass, direction is important. Where are we going? Why excatly are we once …
: I just noticed that I haven’t updated my Now page since the beginning of the coronavirus …
: Tweet: A message written by someone with nothing to say to be read by someone with nothing to do.
: I thank Michael Wade for pointing me to Sippican Cottage. What a great writer!
: Reorganising my RSS feeds Last week I started writing up my Personal Knowledge Management Workflow as part of that workflow. …
: Google Knows What You Are Doing… What Are You Going To Do About It?
: Now that is a deception, especially since there is no recent iMac available for purchase right now.
: Having a clear purpose is the key for a happy life. Even when researchers compared lonely people …
: What a great idea! I would love to work as a CWO. To see themselves through the I.T. revolution, …
: I closed my Facebook and Instagram accounts over a year ago and have not missed it for a single day. …
: This is important: Patrick Rhone has seen it.
: That dark, wet spot over there is bad news
: My stomach tells me that eating the whole bag of M&Ms was not a good idea.
: Nicholas Bate is the master of helpful advise in bite sized lists. I’m already waiting for the …
: For his 68th birthday, the amazing Kevin Kelly shares 68 bits of unsolicited advice. There is no …
: So true: Autonomy demands accountability
: The Onion: Man Not Sure Why He Thought Most Psychologically Taxing Situation Of His Life Would Be …
: So, I propose a different definition of productivity: It’s about selecting a specific focus for …
: Usually when organizations talk about a VUCA environment, they are simply covering up bad planning, …
: You can’t control the future: When the future doesn’t cooperate, we spend even more time trying to …
: I am too busy now, but when I have the opportunity (probably this summer) I would like to migrate …
: What I believe in: While there are many benefits to using software tools, there are many hidden …
: 40 years of experience working from home compressed into 10 pieces of solid advice: While there are …
: These days, give yourself permission to be human. Stop Trying to Be Productive × Taylor Lorenz
: I was born in 1971, so you can imagine my interest in the site WTF happened in 1971.
: 6 tools that are more powerful than to-do lists for productivity × Stephanie Vozza
: How to Stay Productive with Children At Home
: I am worried about my fellow Dutch citizens. The general idea in the Netherlands is that they have …
: My advice for businesses: dump Zoom as soon as possible. For most use cases (small team meetings) I …
: New circumstances make for new routines. One of the new routines in our family is taking some time …
: Surely I’m old school, but I still think that Twitter threads are a horrible and …
: Please remember: We’re always in control of the two most important determinants in our lives: a.) …
: Will Zoom’s free tier limits finally achieve that business meetings will be limited to 40 …
: I always published under my real name, but the concept of pseudonyms interests me Over time, doing …
: Many professionals found out last week that work is no longer a place, it it a mode.
: What a great trip through memory lane: Old CSS, new CSS by Eevee. I have used most of the techniques …
: This is hilarious: I work from home by Colin Nissan
: The list is your assistant Nicholas Bate …
: Another walk in the orchards
: A great list of dumb questions by Michael Wade
: I find it surprising that many knowledge workers create task management systems, but never think …
: Curiosamente, en la era en la que más información tenemos, menos sabemos manejarla. Javier Rascón …
: Found a branch while walking through the orchards.
: Is the search for meaningful work a trap?
: How about if we replace mission statements with invitation statements instead? Invitations are much …
: This is so sad. Why are intelligent people stuck in short-term thinking about their own wellbeing?
: That moment when you’re recording a video and the school in front of your house decides to let …
: In the realm of leadership there’s a big difference between being accessible and available and the …
: Modern educational institutions care a lot about content: what theories we teach, what ideas …
: This is brilliantly done: Game: Can You Defeat the Privacy Chicken? Of course, I was too chicken to …
: When I grow up I wanna be an influencer. Inspiring other people to take action is the only way to …
: 💬All human evil comes from this: our inability to sit still in a chair for half an hour. Blaise …
: When it comes to personal effectiveness, the tools are never the issue. I say all this to suggest …
: Today I went on a deeeep dive into the rabbit hole of Zettelkasten and the Roam app.
: 💬 Intuition is a poor guide but a great guard. Michael Wade …
: Why did WordPress decide that it’s a good idea to suddenly activate the block editor in their …
: Thiss sentence contains threee errors.
: I don’t have a favorite season, I love them all. But what I love most of al is the change of …
: Yesterday I discovered the first blossom on an almond tree. Spring is coming!
: I brought a little bit of spring in house.
: How to plan for life hitting you in the face? The short answer is, you don’t. There are too many …
: If you have time to Tweet (or to Gram), you have time to blog.
: To all those companies bragging about their state-of-the-art use of Big Data and Artificial …
: Meetings need objectives × Nicholas Bate
: 💬 Wise words found on a trail in Costa Rica:
: If I’m not blogging, I’m probably in a rabbit hole…
: 💬The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
: 💬 When you support free, you support billionaires. When you pay, you support sane businesses and …
: The tiniest flower can make me happy.
: A company or person exclaiming they are the first, the only or the best in the market is usually a …
: Once again, I have updated the Now page.
: ZeFrank does it again 🤣: From a distance the mating dance of the male ostrich can look unusual the …
: Whenever I stumble upon an interesting Instagram account (such as Dog with Sign) I always wonder why …
: 💬Métodos puede haber un millón y alguno más, pero principios hay pocos. El hombre capaz de captar …
: We live in a world that values action and where back to back meetings are a badge of productivity. …
: Why do we always wish that the New Year will be different from the old year? Why do we believe that …
: Uno de mis buenos #propósitos para el año 2020 es encontrar una solución satisfactoria para que …
: The old internet died and we watched and did nothing… …but this old blog is still up and running …
: 💬 Optimal is ultimately sterile. It leaves no room for much of anything else, including joy. Seth …
: Prettige kerstdagen | Bon nadal | Feliz navidad | Merry christmas
: 💬 We get what we pay attention to. Our narration determines what we experience and what we remember. …
: Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours.
: Solid advice from Tim Casasola: Don’t adopt frameworks. Test practices. This is not only applicable …
: In the 16 years after publishing this list of all 23 different operating systems I have used, I have …
: Over the years, I find IFTT easier to use, but more difficult to tweak.
: This is a treasure trove of useful information: Surveillance Self-defense: Tips, tools and how-tos …
: How to obtain perspective and a sense of what is important × Michael Wade
: This is an instant subscribe: The Happy Broadcast, an antidote to negative news and “the vitriolic …
: Seth Godin asks us what if we did the work that matters?
: In preparation for a post about my blog’s history, I reviewed all posts from 1997–2002. Wow, …
: So true: with enough white space, deadlines don’t matter. Make no mistake, real deadlines are …
: Though I own no dog, I too start my days reading insightful blogs. I already followed a few of them, …
: I should never work with a bag of snacks or candy on my table. I don’t know how, but I will …
: 💬When you feel like you’re not productive, it’s not necessarily because you’re lazy or because you …
: 💬 When you rush you maybe do more. But you also miss more. Nicholas Bate …
: Such a great read: What’s the Point of Productivity? I have only one suggestion for Scott: start …
: 11 years ago I was using Movable Type to host my sites, but playing around with other platforms to …
: Would you be comfortable giving contact details of your best customer, spouse or friend to a …
: Sèquia tercera del canal d’Urgell
: Why do Microsoft Office apps ask me whether I want to save my work when I close the app? Of course I …
: The main reason I don’t like #blackfriday is that I feel stupid and ripped off for having paid …
: Muy importante (y uno de mis puntos débiles en los hábitos saludables): La vida sentada… que, poco a …
: Blogs were and are better than “social” media sites. (Via @seligerj)
: How to configure your iPhone to work for you, not against you This large article is stuffed with …
: Since reinstalling my computer last month, I only use the default web browser Safari. I already have …
: I’ve fallen off the microblogging wagon in the last week. Usually that is a bad sign and the …
: This is a sad list. I have used so many of these services in the past.
: Capitalism is an efficient system for surfacing and addressing the needs of consumers. But once it …
: Very insightful thoughts on how combat firehosing, burying the truth under a huge pile of …
: November 9th will always be a special day. 22 years ago I started writing on my personal blog. I …
: Once in a while, I rotate the OS language of my devices between Dutch, Spanish, Catalan and English. …
: Since I’m reinstalling my main computer, today I did my tasks using almost exclusively my iPad …
: Whenever I visit a website and a dialog pops up telling me that “We care about your privacy”, I …
: Stukje bij beetje gaan de bedrijven de goede kant uit: Bij deze bedrijven moet je stil zijn onder …
: Far too many people are unaware of the real consequences of giving up their privacy. As Carissa …
: I lostinvested half the morning on finding good alternatives to Zencastr for recording podcast …
: Autumn walk through fruit trees
: I had exactly the same problem happen to me. Even though I have my iPhone configured to only allow …
: The is so much great advice in this article. More than ‘hacks’ these are basic …
: I advised many coaching clients to create a repository of great questions. I always say that the …
: I wish I could set a default skin tone for all emoji instead of having to do it one by one …
: 💬As you start with your meditation practice, the first thing you’ll notice is that your mind …
: I’ve been wanting to up my meditation practice for a while now. Today I started Sam Harris' 50 …
: So true: Content ownership is not complicated × @manton
: On this Micro Monday, I"d like to recommend @PatrickRhone. His posts make me either reflect or …
: This is such a great list of healthy habits by Nicholas Bate: Hunter-Gatherer 21C: The Complete Two …
: Este altavoz es mío: qué manera más poetica de hablar de POSSE.
: Who else finds this Google patent super creepy?
: 🤔 I’m having mixed feelings on WordPress. On one side, the platform is hopelessly bloated, and …
: Derek Sivers discusses what it is like to live according to your values: Once you realize that one …
: As every year, we went within a few days from sunny at 28℃ to cold and wet. Autumn has officially …
: If I notice an error on a page on my site, is there any way to quickly open the current entry or …
: Creo que debería existir un carné por puntos para periodistas. Para cada mentira que hay en sus …
: Since VideoDrive doesn’t work on macOS Catalina (and I don’t see an update coming soon), …
: En este día hace tres años tuvo una videollamada que me cambió la vida. Era la primera conversación …
: An interesting insight from the book This is not propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev: modern politics …
: What over a decade of number-crunching analytics has taught me is that spending an hour writing, …
: Me pregunto cuánto dinero los medios de comunicación han ganado con todos los problemas en Cataluña…
: After reading this article I started a deep dive into what psychologists call the ‘perceived …
: Personal effectiveness basics: steps you can take to keep your concentration and accomplish …
: The mind is a mysterious organ. But there are some things we know about it… and then there are some …
: Cuanto menos política, más felicidad…
: I had a lot of fun trying out @NotionHQ today. In no time I whipped up a functional board to plan my …
: 💬 Visto los acontecimientos de esta semana, esta cita es más actual que nunca: La no violencia es la …
: I am going to try out this meeting structure in our next team meeting: How to host the best meeting …
: Today I made a huge mistake. When reading articles on several newspapers1 on the current events in …
: The mind is powerful: If you think you don’t have time, you’re probably right. If you …
: Derek dreams on… When considering effectiveness, most experts focus on attention management. …
: Monty Python And The Holy Grail is available for free on YouTube
: What is a personal web site without a proper Now page?
: Happy anniversary, blogging! 25 years ago, Dave Winer had the fantastic idea to start a blog. …
: Since leaving Facebook and Instagram and loosing interest in Twitter, I decided that the right …
: Why I never use URL shorteners on Twitter When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the …
: Hidden configuration options for Omnifocus 2 Version 2 of the popular OS X task management application Omnifocus is about to be released today. I …
: Concerns about my iCloud account In preparation for the iCloud launch in autumn, I have been thinking about its impact on my use of …
: Google's 2-step verification horror Google has released a new security measure to help you protect your ever increasing amount of data …
: Welcome back to brain tags! After some weeks of work –though I only spend 1-2 hours every week on this project– I am …
: Brain Tags migration Starting Monday May 23rd I will be moving this blog to a new platform on a new server. This …
: On files and applications The mobile revolution is shaking up the software market. Old paradigms (bigger is better) disappear …
: Comments and tweets A recent trend in the blogosphere has been to add tweets as comments on posts. I understand where …
: Manifiesto «En defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet» Ante la inclusión en el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía sostenible de modificaciones legislativas …
: Commenting not possible I just discovered that it currently is not possible to comment on this blog. At first sight it looks …
: Back from the CeBIT I am back from the CeBIT show. Actually, I came back on Monday, but have been too busy to post. This …
: Downloading viruses? I just saw the screen above, which is the ClamWin antivirus software uploading its virus database. …
: New: Google Notebook I know that Spain usually lags behind the rest of the world, but Google Spain really doesn’t know …
: Google Analytics Event tracking One of the most interesting parts for web site owners are the access statistics, and Google …
: My new social e-mail signature Until now I always had a very simple e-mail signature, with just my name and usually one of my web …
: Christmas I already posted this a few years ago, but it is still valid (or even more).
: In defence of e-mail Image taken from Luis Suárez Last weekend I attended the Evento Blog España conference in Seville, …
: Apple on your car Lately I notice more and more cards driving around in Lleida with the Apple logo, and each time I …
: Eleven This is just a short post to commemorate the eleventh birthday of this blog. Eleven years ago I …
: El Canasto nominated for Spanish Bloggies Since I started writing on my Spanish productivity blog El Canasto, I had less time to write on …
: Lights on Sometimes you have to let go some good habits to adapt yourself. When I came to live in Spain, I was …
: Evento Blog España The EBE is Europe's second largest blogging event (after Les Blogs in France) and will take place in …
: Poverty Today is Blog Action Day, a day on which thousands of bloggers write about the same topic to raise …
: TagSupplementals Plugin I just found a very interesting plugin for Movable Type: TagSupplementals. As the name says, the …
: A good reason for using Delicious I have been using Delicious for a long time, but lately I have started using Google Reader more and …
: It's official... I’m presenting myself as a candidate!
: Brain Tags redesigned Today I launched the new design for Brain Tags. For a while I have been using the default theme …
: SmartFTP no longer free For a long time SmartFTP was my favourite FTP application for Windows, and I have recommended it to …
: Mozy for Mac My macbook has been without backups for several months now, so I started looking for a backup …
: What is Brain Tags? That is the question I have been asking myself a lot this year. In the past I always had a clear …
: No more TwitterFeed For a while I have been using TwitterFeed to automatically announce new blog posts on Twitter, but I …
: Goodbye Wizard of POS Exactly three years after starting the Wizard Of POS weblog, I leave it. Followers of the Wizard …
: Less Notes 8.5 will have fewer icons in the Notes Mail template: So, in Notes 8.5 you will see an Inbox …
: Choosing languages I am multi-lingual: born Dutch, living in Spain and speaking English for most part of the working …
: Hello! Anybody here? I just realised that I have been ignoring my good ol' blog for a long time. Of course, I am still …
: Death by Powerpoint Just came across this on YouTube. How I wish more presenters would think about how they use …
: Japanese snow humor http://widget-54.slide.com/widgets/sf.swf
: Teaching Sells First there where blogs, then came the e-books and now there are Interactive Learning Environments …
: 12 days of Christmas [Via Volker Weber]
: Looking back at 1998 Let’s continue our trip through the history of Brain Tags at 1998, my second year of blogging. …
: Pac-chart [Via Volker Weber]
: If Microsoft designed the iPod
: Dumping e-mail Email exists to stay on top of things,… I am much more interested in getting to the bottom of things …
: Personalised LinkedIn invitations It is good habit to add a personal note when inviting someone to connect through LinkedIn to explain …
: Looking back at 1997 As I have been blogging for 10 years now, I thought it would be a nice idea to look back at almost …
: 10 years of blogging On November 9, 1997 I added a new section to my personal web site: a news page. The word weblog did …
: Please stop with the reflections Two years ago, reflections were cool and something new. Reflections gave your web site or your …
: Current projects I could simply write here that I am too busy to write on Brain Tags, but I guess it is more …
: Frugal camping Note: This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, joining thousands of other bloggers to write …
: Contact gezocht Op 6 oktober ontving ik een mailtje van een andere Nederlander in Lleida. Helaas ben ik door mijn …
: I had a great weekend Lately I haven't written much personal things any more, so let's change that… This weekend Berry, …
: Why teenagers don't buy iPods When I take my breakfast in the mornings, I usually sit in front of a window looking out to the …
: Adding recent comments to the MT sidebar When I started using the default templates coming with Movable Type 4, I missed the Recent Comments …
: Knowledge management You can't do knowledge management until you accept that you can't manage knowledge. — Luke Naismith
: Why doesn't the default MT template use widgets? Widgets are the fastest and easiest way to configure your sidebar. Just open up the widget …
: Civil employees in Spain Spain is a country of bureaucracy and civil servants. Many people I speak to have only one dream: …
: Changes behind the screens As of today, Brain Tags is not a stand alone blog anymore, but uses my central Movable Type …
: Guest posting The past days two posts have been published on other blogs, based on my experience and knowledge …
: Restructuring blogs Behind the screens, various big changes are happening on my blogging environment. As you see in the …
: You know you've lived in Spain when... For everyone who has spent more than a holiday in Spain and for whom some of the following are true… …
: The end of TinyURL? Lately, especially since I use Twitter, I receive a lot of URLs in TinyURL format. That made me …
: Static versus dynamic publishing Now that Movable Type 4 has been released and leaped ahead of WordPress, the old discussion of …
: A relic from the past I just remembered that a little more than a year ago I took off my watch. The main reason was that …
: My killer GTD setup Most of you know that I also write in Spanish on my other weblog El Canasto, and you might even have …
: Politicians In the coming years I would like to see politicians wear maintenance uniforms instead of business …
: Telephone or e-mail The productivity guru of the moment, Tim Ferriss, writes in his book how he was able to reduce the …
: Frustration 30 minutes after updating this site to Movable Type 4.0 RC2, I read this. Back to work…
: coComment just got more difficult to use For quite some time I have been happily using coComment. For those who don’t know this …
: jeroensangers.com For quite some time, my old domain jeroensangers.com had been in monkey mode. That is to say, there …
: A new blogging workflow Whenever I had an idea for a blog post, I used to create a new entry on that particular blog, jot …
: I visited 13% of all countries Very neat. At TravBuddy you can check the countries you have visited, and they will produce a …
: Back from holiday Holiday is over, the hard life is back! After a bad start, our holiday was great! We spend one week …
: Belkin TuneBase FM Next week we’ll be going camping in France. That means amongst others that we will be making …
: MT likes to update Every once in a while when I log into Movable Type, I am happily greeted by the following message: …
: You know it is time for a new PC… when the message “Please wait while we install product X. This may take several minutes” stays on …
: Movable Type 4 Last week Six Apart released the beta for Movable Type version 4. Until last weekend I didn’t …
: They Say Men Don't Listen Mark, a loving husband, was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary and his wife was really …
: Shift happens youtu.be/FdTOFkhap…
: The original blog commenters [Via Signal vs. Noise]
: The Times They Are A-Changin' Great advertisement from 1934 promoting Kelp-O-Malt to put five pounds on your bones in just one …
: Comment moderation Though my spamfilters, SpamLookup in combination with Akismet, catch really a lot of comment- and …
: Towel Day Today is Towel Day! Towel Day is celebrated every May 25 as a tribute by fans of the late author …
: Sorry for any inconvenience caused During the last hour instead of the usual non-interesting stuff I write you saw: tr = …
: I don't understand PageRank My latest weblog El Canasto is a big success, with more and more readers every day. Every week a few …
: Mixing up languages After six days of giving training in German, I am not able to speak normally any more. What really …
: In a perfect world In a perfect world spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have …
: The Voice is back In order for a weblog to be successful, an author needs to write with personality. A weblog needs …
: Confusing From the Twitter Support page: Delete: use delete to remove a person from your friends list, like …
: Math is easy [Via Jason Womack]
: Twittering I just signed up at Twitter, mainly to see what all the buzz is about. As with many new tools, I …
: Off to CeBIT I am ready for it! Within a few hours I will leave for Germany to participate in the CeBIT. That …
: Harmelense Nieuws Pagina My good friend Berry started a new weblog called the Harmelense Nieuws Pagina to compensate for the …
: Teasing the Catalan By far the easiest way to make a Catalan angry is calling him/her Spanish. Berry knows this very …
: GMail open for everybody Google finally opened up GMail for users in Canada and the USA, where this service was still invite …
: Yahoo! pipes The release op Yahoo! Pipes is definitely the news of the day: Pipes is a hosted service that lets …
: The MUDs are back! I just tried out IMified, and felt like I stepped into a time machine bringing me back to the 80's. …
: Hourly rate Hire me. My rate would be onehundredandtwentyfive an hour. Plus VAT and expenses. Four hours …
: Windows Experience Index If you buy a brand new PC with Windows Vista, you might find a big surprise when Vista does not look …
: Responsibility TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! If there's a problem, fix it. If your job can't be fixed, quit. How dare you …
: Travel irritations I am on the road again. Today I am traveling from Barcelona to Cyprus, spending over ten hours in …
: One month of Canasto A little bit more than one month ago, I started a new weblog called ‘El Canasto’ in …
: Famous Little by little, this former humble little weblog is getting bigger and bigger. I hardly have the …
: I forgot my birthday I just found out that I had completely forgotten the 9th birthday of this weblog. On November 9, …
: Why is there no search in Google Reader? I just wanted to look up some information, and I remembered having read about it in a webfeed in …
: A new weblog Today I published the first entry on a new weblog: El Canasto. El Canasto is my first blog in …
: Two faces of the Pareto Principle in business The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of …
: internet Dear spelling checker, Please do not consider the internet as something holy. The internet is simply …
: Google Reader glitches A while ago I tried out the new Google Reader, and haven’t looked back at my old RSSBandit …
: Blogging networks and content malls More and more bloggers unite in so-called blogging networks. Robert Scoble published a good overview …
: Cleaning up Sometime, thing that have been in place for many years get in the way. In such cases, it is better …
: What's going on? Just like most other weblogs, this site has its ups and downs, and you might have noticed that it …
: Catalan elections campaign The campaign for the upcoming Catalan parliament elections officially started last Sunday. Main …
: Carbonite Online Backup Everybody who knows me a little bit will admit it: I am a lazy person. Because I am so lazy I work …
: Cal Paller Cal Paller is a lovely little cottage (Casa Rural) in the mountains near La Seu d’Urgell. We …
: Promoting the Aplec I was very surprised when I received the magazine promoting the biggest cultural event in Lleida …
: Inline skating For me the holiday period is not only a period for relaxing, but also a period of reflection. I …
: Off the grid This weblog will remain quiet for some weeks as I will be on holidays. If you have any question, …
: Internet Blog Serial Number Though weblogs are the perfect example of periodical publications, in many countries they are not …
: In the Jukebox: Me First and The Gimme Gimmies It has been a long time ago since I last posted a little bit of listening pleasure. To make up for …
: Getting Things Done aStore Amazon.com launched a new affiliate tool this week called aStore. This tool allows you to create …
: Holiday plans One more week to go until the start of our holidays. Yes, we go when everybody else already forgot …
: Google can't merge accounts I joined the Google Adsense program before I started using GMail. As a result of this, I have to …
: 43 Folders: My favourite podcast Yes, the 43 Folders podcast is my favourite podcast. There are a few reasons why I consider it my …
: Word spam I am happy to say that I rarely receive spam. But today a message slipped though my defence lines …
: Personal finance Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an …
: Tags: Technorati vs. Movable Type As of version 3.31, Movable Type natively supports tags. Tags are keywords or descriptive terms …
: Handling quotes is difficult One of the biggest problems in scripting and programming is escaping quotes. Quotes have a special …
: Brain Links is back Only a week after I closed down Brain Links, Brain Links is back, albeit in a more simpler form. …
: Performancing for Firefox After reading the lifehacker desktop blog editor comparison I decided to give performancing for …
: IE7 as an automatic update creates problems for software manufacturers When its latest stand-alone browser ships in Q4, Microsoft plans to use its patch-distribution …
: YAR (Yet Another Redesign) After the succesful redesign of The Wizard of POS, I had gathered some momentum, and continued with …
: The end of Brain Links Since June 2004 I have posted 953 links to interesting, new and funny sites in the Brain Links …
: Redesign Wizard Of POS After the latest release of Movable Type, I wanted to have a look at the new Widget functionality. …
: Let the Dutch complain… A few days above 30° and Holland grinds to a halt. I wonder what would happen if they would also …
: eZ Publish It has been very quiet on this site, and that usually means that I am working on something. And …
: For sale: Canon IXUS II APS camera Our old APS camera has become useless now that we have a brand-new digital camera. It has been lying …
: How I work After reading the lifehacker How I work series, I thought that it might be interesting to write down …
: Barça FC Barcelona is champion of the ‘Liga’. If you know me only a little bit, you know that I …
: Safety instructions The steward seriously missed his calling. The man was a stand-up comedian, and a dang fine one at …
: Pentax A10 When we were close to Andorra this weekend, we hopped over the border to do some shopping. We were …
: Job application Found this piece on OpenBC. If they actually hired this man, they did the right thing. This is an …
: No CeBIT After having our own stand on the CeBIT for two years, we have decided not to go this year. The …
: Trying out Edgeio Edgeio is a new service to create classifieds directly from your weblog. It automatically organizes …
: Progress with eZ Publish I have been playing a little bit more with eZ Publish for the BryteNet site. One little …
: BryteNet has new clothes The last weeks I have been very busy with the new BryteNet site. The old site had been created in a …
: Limited access I have to identify myself in order to get Internet access?! How on earth do they think to stop …
: A little update It has been some time ago since I last posted, so I thought I needed to spend some minutes to …
: Bureaucracy As most of you know, I hate paperwork. So when after a lot of effort I received my residence permit …
: Definition Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do. [From Guy Kawasaki]
: Television upgrade Our house is one of the few places on earth where you can still find a television without remote …
: Best. Blonde. Joke. Ever. I know many blonde jokes, but this blonde joke is by far the best!
: Greetings from Lleida A typical winter day in Lleida
: phpCOIN vulnerability fix phpCOIN is the software used by BryteNet hosting to manage orders, invoicing and the helpdesk. …
: Longest agent string ever It looks like Yahoo! is testing their mobile search bot, resulting in some page requests with a very …
: Bloglines zombie Now that I have left Bloglines and use RSS Bandit, it came to me that Bloglines is still fetching …
: Google Personalized Homepage API I have been looking at Google Personalized Homepage (GPH) before, but quickly decided that it has no …
: RSS Bandit I have switched my RSS reader from the web-based Bloglines to the PC based RSS Bandit. I have always …
: I'm a Lensmaster Squidoo is open for public. Squidoo is a community where members, lensmasters, built Lenses. A lens …
: Address lists I have two address lists, which I synchronize daily. One copy resides on my Palm Zire 31 which I …
: Minimizing windows Here is something not many people know: an open application window consumes more memory than a …
: Firefox 1.5 Firefox 1.5 has been released, and I have already installed it on my PC. Why is this news? My PC …
: Improving web statistics Recently there has been a lot of attention for web statistics: first Mint was launched, introducing …
: How to add a website profile to Google Analytics We all heard about the problems Google Analytics is having at the moment: after the launch they …
: Purple numbers Robert Scoble discovered purple numbers, the usually purple coloured permalinks for paragraphs. I …
: Citizenspeak Citizenspeak is the talk of the day. It is a free, easy-to-use service that allows grassroots …
: Google Sitemaps statistics I just found out that you can validate your Google Sitemap by placing an empty HTML file on you …
: 500 I just noticed that I have published exactly 499 entries on Brain Tags. Time to add number 500!!! So …
: Who can start conversations? In the past, companies had huge departments for marketing. Marketing means that you send your …
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: TailRank error As I wrote this morning in The future of feed reading, I am going to try out TailRank. I exported my …
: The future of feed reading Let’s continue talking about feed reading. Last week I described the five phases of feed …
: Bad experience I urgently needed a particular piece of electronics. So I checked the manufacturer's web site top …
: Feed reading lifecycle Though RSS feeds are still only used by the ‘lucky few’, I discovered several phases of RSS reading …
: Someone keeps stealing my letters… This fun, dragging magnetic letters around the screen while 10+ people are doing the same! [Via …
: Top 10 Signs You're a GTD Disciple 10 While diving home from work, you have to pull over three times to jot it down and empty your …
: Advertising I just received a cheque from Google. They pay whenever I pass $100, which in my case takes a while. …
: In the Jukebox: Hallo Venray During my last visit to the Netherlands I bought the latest CD from Hallo Venray for a very good …
: Behind the screens of BryteNet Business blog It’s a small place has a very interesting series of articles describing how …
: King of the road The past 48 hours I have been diving around in our brand new Toyota Corolla Verso, and I feel the …
: Total relax I feel good! We just came back from a week’s holiday in the Netherlands. The aim of our …
: Car update This week our new car arrived in Lleida. It is waiting for us at the car dealer and we can take it …
: It's a small place It’s a small place is a new blog I created today. You might be wondering why I am starting a …
: I can't travel and write The last two weeks I have made two business trips; I visited London and the Netherlands. The last …
: Crisis When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents …
: Theatre festival Street theatre is nice, since it is small-scale and personal. The acts are small, and the audience …
: Parking control The street where I live is just inside the ‘blue zone’, the zone where you have to pay to park on …
: I still have a car for sale Though we did receive a bid on eBay, the buyer yesterday told me that they decided not to buy the …
: Catching zombies We all know that almost all comment spam is coming from virus infected PC’s turned into …
: BryteNet is sponsoring BryteNet is growing, but could grow faster. Therefore we decided to offer a sponsoring package, with …
: Roundabout After I left Harmelen four years ago, I also stopped participating in youth activities. Of course I …
: Sorry for the inconvenience I will be making some changes under the hood of this site. As a result, you might find that you …
: Updating to MT 3.2 At this moment I am updating my MT sites to version 3.2. This is a huge update, and I am running …
: In the Jukebox: The Subways The Internet is a very good medium to get to know new artists. On the site of George I found The …
: Fiat Punto for sale Fiat Punto TD SX Year: 1994 Exterior colour: White 290000 kilometres Diesel engine 5 doors ITV check …
: Ouch! A bloke is in a queue at the supermarket when he notices that the rather dishy blonde behind him has …
: Spending money This week we bought a very expensive gadget: a new car! After many visits to many car dealers we …
: Tipping I just read ‘How to tip properly’ on lifehacker, and was very surprised to read about …
: BryteNet hosting Today, I proudly present my latest work: BryteNet. BryteNet is going to be the name under which I am …
: This page intentionally left blank Coming back from my holidays, I found an awfully empty homepage on this site. For the moment it will …
: Folksonomy Just a small note to point you to a new feature on this site. As of today Brain Tags has a …
: Making dreams come true To make dreams come true you need two things: focus and time. Without focus a project takes way too …
: Google earth This is way too cool! Google released Google earth, a Windows desktop application to access their …
: Quote of the day Saying java is better because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is better because it …
: A shepherd A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of …
: Car hunting Our car is about to reach 300.000 km, and the bills of the garage tell us that it is time to say …
: Dreaming The temperature is slowly rising to a level where there are only two places to stay: inside an …
: Spammers shifting attention A trend I noticed on my sites lately: referrer spam is dying out, trackback spam is the main focus …
: MyBlogLog I am a statistics junkie. I check the access statistics for this site at least once a day. Also the …
: Crashing Windows with HTML This small HTML file will on some computers drive Windows into a blue screen: Try it out if you …
: A year of links A little bit more than a year ago, I started dumping links on this site. In a year time I added 650 …
: De vraag Wie werd wat, waar, wanneer, waarmee en wat hield hij boven zijn hoofd? Wat heeft het getal 1251 …
: On the road again My schedule for next week: Oslo — Vianen — Hannover — Dortmund — Frankfurt — Stuttgart. If you live …
: In the Jukebox: The Clash Know your rights!
: POS blog With over seven years of blogging experience and after three years working in the international …
: Mouse vs. Keyboard Most computers have two input devices: a mouse and a keyboard. The mouse is mainly used to navigate …
: No more years as version numbers Microsoft finally found out that it is not wise to use years as version numbers. Their latest server …
: It is lonely in the neighbourhood This is the feedmap for Lleida. I feel very lonely :-( They managed to locate my feed surprisingly …
: Obligatory mirror picture Yes! I managed to get my phone configured, so now I am finally a member of the ‘moblog crew’. You …
: In the Jukebox: Urban dance Squad Quack quack: Duck Ska.
: Spam discarded In the last 12 months I haven’t found a single false positive in the spam folder of my …
: Almost there One week ago I received my new mobile camera-phone. I was happy, since I wanted to use it for …
: Feeds restructured The idea has been lying on the shelves for over two months now, and today I finally did it. Besides …
: New phone, same story Why is it so difficult to do? When I buy a phone, I want all functions to work. Since yesterday I am …
: Individualists People are individualists; we prefer to do things alone and don’t care about the others. …
: Family photos The main reason we went to the Netherlands last weekend was to visit our family. Finn is about a …
: The ultimate gadget It’s a TV, it plays DVDs, and it’s a beer fridge, all-in-one! What else could you …
: Harmelen Tomorrow morning I will travel to Harmelen again. It will be a short visit to see Finn, the newborn …
: New mobile phone Some weeks ago, we decided to change mobile provider. We have a contract with Telefonica Movistar, …
: I wonder... Will all these WordPress users now switch back to Movable Type?
: Jongeren drinken zich klem in keet Zie De Volkskrant: STAP merkt op dat de drinkschuren zich ontwikkelen tot geduchte concurrenten van …
: Work in progress Before: Now: After: ?????? The redesign of Brain Tags has officially started!
: In the Jukebox: Dub War One of the songs I always play when I need to get rid of some excess energy: Million Dollar Love by …
: Firefox login security Have a look at the following screen: This is the screen Firefox shows me when a site requires me to …
: Easter It is Easter holiday for me, which means that I have a weekend of four days! I am very happy about …
: Live from the CeBIT Today is a very quiet day, so I have some time to upload some photo’s and write a short post. …
: Snow in Lleida This view is very uncommon because of the geographic position of Lleida, shielded by mountains and a …
: In the Jukebox: Counting Crows and K's Choice Two songs! Omaha from the Counting Crows and Believe from K’s Choice.
: Euroshop photos I just uploaded some photos from the Euroshop trade show. You can see the booth and the house I …
: Backlag Six days with almost no internet connection gave me a backlag. I just waded through all e-mail and …
: EuroShop The EuroShop trade fair starts Saturday, so you can imagine what is on my mind at this moment. I …
: Focus Instead of publishing, I have spend some time thinking about my site. The trigger was the article …
: In the Jukebox: Flogging Molly Mmm! Flogging Molly! Tobacco Island
: Trade shows It’s trade show time! The coming weeks I will present our products in two trade shows in …
: Google Maps defaults to centre of the country While reading the great joke Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction, I noticed something …
: 50 Gmail invites Google is generous today! I have 50 invites for a Gmail account to give away. Mail, IM, phone me or …
: Holiday photos uploaded It took a while, but I finally uploaded the photo's from our holidays in Thailand in August last …
: Feeds outsourced Maintaining a site like this takes a lot of effort. After successfully having outsourced pinging …
: Pro-active hosting provider This week a vulnerability has been discovered in Movable Type. Until today, I did not have the time …
: Use MT-Blacklist rules to remove referral spam Referrer spam on this site is increasing daily. Until now I use a two-step method to block them, …
: In the Jukebox: Björk Copied from Zezunja: Joga from Björk.
: EnFado It is amazing how many talented people there are. And many of them closer to you than you can …
: Fog For people who don’t know where Lleida is: it lies about 160 km south-west of Barcelona, in …
: In the Jukebox: Muse To enjoy the Three Kings tomorrow: Sunburn from Muse.
: More webloggers voor Azië Tomorrow will be the day that many Dutch blogs will show the special action page. The list of …
: In the Jukebox: K's Choice Some nice music: Iron Flower from K’s Choice.
: Jong Nederland site uses Mambo My good ol' club Jong Nederland has a new site, based on the Mambo Open Source (MOS) CMS. The old …
: Chicken The year of the rooster has officially begun. I wish everybody all the best and a lot of love in …
: In the jukebox: Manic Street Preachers For obvious reasons: Tsunami from the Manic Street Preachers.
: 2004 Recap The year 2004 is almost over, which means that it is time for reviews. All important media have a …
: Bandwidth Once in a while I put a song in the Jukebox. Some songs are popular, others won’t be …
: Entrance This is our new entrance, with some chistmas decoration. The nativity scene is made from clay, with …
: In the Jukebox: Beatles Mash-up Medley Found on Boing Boing: a Beatles Mash-up Medley. Where ordinary mash-up mixes mix two or perhaps …
: Flickr up and running A little bit of copy and paste work, and my Flickr page is up and running. At the moment it contains …
: Living Nativity scene Since my parents are here to celebrate Christmas with us, we took them to a living nativity scene in …
: In the Jukebox: the Beastles It just had to happen one day: a mix up of the Beatles and the Beastie Boys. I have put three tracks …
: Up to date After the recent messages about comment spam, I have upgraded both Movable Type and MT-Blacklist. …
: Skype I just installed Skype on my PC to have a look at it, but really wonder what it adds. I am already …
: Business trip Today I will fly to the Netherlands for work. I will have some meetings with (potential) …
: Flickr Flickr is a great service for storing your photos, as everybody already found out. As the last …
: Open Business Club Until yesterday I stayed away from social networks like friendster. Yesterday it changed when I saw …
: Firefox = Windows Explorer? Windows XP has a nice function to keep your task bar organised by grouping windows of the same …
: eZ Publish In my quest for a good CMS I have been looking at eZ Publish this week, and my first reaction is: …
: European CafePress alternative? The easiest way for a club, company or organisation to have a webshop is CafePress. You can upload …
: In the Jukebox: Boobie Trap It’s time for some punk!!! Dirty Girl from Boobie Trap.
: Apesjit at Noorderslag Each year I look at the artists playing at the Dutch Noorderslag festival, since those are the …
: TotalChoice Hosting buttons Although I am not a fan of these 80x15 buttons, I noticed that TotalChoice Hosting does not have …
: Correfoc One of the nicest traditions in Catalonia is the ‘correfoc’: corre = run and foc = fire. The …
: By the way... Tomorrow evening we will take the plane to the Netherlands for a short holiday. We will stay there …
: Simo TCI This week the most important IT fair in Spain takes place: the Simo TCI. Of course ICG Software is …
: Firefox update I just installed Firefox, the Spanish version, which went flawlessly. It placed the files and …
: Uterechs Hoewel ik uit de provincie Utrecht kom, heb ik het Uterechs nooit echt onder de knie gekregen. En …
: Top MP3s Technorati has launched a new service: Top MP3s. They monitor which MP3 files have the most …
: Moved to a new server This is the obligatory “If you can read this, the move was successful” message. Moving …
: TotalChoice Hosting I have made my choice: this site is moving to TotalChoice Hosting. I have looked at many hosting …
: Bloghosts closed for business The hosting provider for this site, bloghosts is stopping. Anybody knows a good provider? Several …
: Bloghosts This site is hosted by Bloghosts, and I am very happy with their service. They are very cheap, and …
: In the Jukebox: R.E.M. Five minutes of R.E.M.: The Great Beyond
: Do you have a DVD player? Now that I have burned my first DVD with material we recorded last summer, I want to show it to our …
: MTSimpleComments error I just installed the latest version (1.32) of the MTSimpleComments plugin, but receive the following …
: Censorship Today I ran across three situations related to censorship. They are not related to each other, but …
: Movable Type 3.12 Movable Type version 3.12 was released today, and as usual I immediately installed it. The feature I …
: Am I afraid to blog? In the pas years I have written 375 entries, linkdump excluded, for this site, of which only 21, 6%, …
: Video editing problems solved One month after buying the Pinnacle Studio software, I have finished my first DVD project. The …
: Sorry guys I just looked into the log files, and found out that people got blocked for trying to open old MP3 …
: In the Jukebox: Beastie Boys The latest CD I bought is “The Sound of Science” from the Beastie Boys. I was thinking …
: In the Jukebox: Bettie Serveert Another one for the jukebox: Satisfied from Bettie Serveert, a dark track with lyrics like, Callous …
: Google knows it After CasaSpider and Dudesh Ramadhin.
: Video editing problems continued After all problems I encountered last week, I laid my little video project to rest for a while. …
: Desktop Search Just a few weeks after Microsoft acquired LookOut to provide advanced search for Outlook, Google …
: In the Jukebox: Heideroosjes To get you all through the weekend, I placed some Dutch punk rock in the jukebox: We’re All …
: Using my PalmOne Zire 31 as flash drive The PalmOne Zire 31 comes with a SD slot and a default, small, card of 16 Mb. It's basic use is to …
: In the Jukebox: Green Day Nick Bradbury likes them, so I put Green Day in the jukebox. For your ears only: Extraordinary Girl. …
: Dooie Donders Club The Dooie Donders Club is an infamous club in Harmelen, formed by four self proclaimed brothers. …
: Video editing problems The past few weeks I have been working myself into a completely new world: video editing. It all …
: In the Jukebox: PoelsGiessen There is new music available in the jukebox: Allermooiste Fout from Poels & Giessen. You have 96 …
: 200 Things Yet another meme. It came here via Realization, Big Pink Cookie and Jay Allen. I have highlighted …
: Link dump kaputt The link dump of this site is kaputt. So no new links until I have repaired it. I do not know yet …
: Hepcat I have put some ska in the Jukebox. Smooth swinging horns, velvet vocals, rhythms…
: Time to read Each morning before I leave home to go to the office, I take some time to see what is happening in …
: Music Jukebox When I read about the Jukebox that Lijn created, I got this feeling inside… I copied the two …
: GMail invitations Besides collecting spam, I can also use my GMail account to invite others to use this service. If …
: Next actions Many people starting to implement the Getting Things Done methodology start processing their inboxes …
: Poor dog Even the best drivers sometime get into situations in which they cannot prevent damage. I am not one …
: Fixing MTEntryModifiedDate On my individual entry pages, I show two dates: the date on which I created the entry, and the date …
: Guitar solo tab for "I Wanna Be Sedated" Here is Johnny’s guitar solo on the Ramones' “I Wanna Be Sedated”: …
: Is TypeKey a failure? If you want to leave a comment on this site, you have the option to identify yourself using your …
: MP3 experiment I have plenty of bandwidth, and have been thinking about ways to use it. It appears to me that the …
: Modem stops working after adding network card Within one week I encountered two computers showing the same problem, which I haven’t been …
: Hotlinking images Recently my server logs show a big increase in requests for a single image, the one shown above. …
: GMail I finally also have a GMail account! Even though I already have many @jeroensangers.com and …
: MT Updated That’s it! The upgrade went flawless. Everything seems to work fine until now. Of course I …
: Movable Type 3.1 Today, six apart launched version 3.1 of Movable Type, the software I use as the motor of this site. …
: Thailand Almost a week ago we returned from our holiday in Thailand. The fact that I did not write anything …
: Back again Great party, I love Thailand, much to do… Until later!
: Count down One more day of work, and I will have holidays; Three more days, and I will drive to Holland; Nine …
: Button design Almost two years ago, Antipixel published a set of minimal buttons to replace the ugly buttons used …
: A new toy There is nothing to celebrate yet, but the presents are already rolling in... In Holland people …
: Languages I was always thought that the Netherlands have two languages: Dutch and Frisian. Besides these two …
: 22 Ik ben dus nummer 22 en doe bij deze de splitsing die door Lijn en David gemaakt was weer ongedaan! …
: palmOne Zire 31 Already for some months I wanted to bey me a palmOne PDA. Last week I finally found what I wanted: …
: SGML / XML / HTML An SGML fan, an XML fan, and an HTML fan are watching a movie when they notice smoke coming out of a …
: First 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e The billboard shown above is part of a recruiting campaing of Google. I am far from smart enough to …
: IQ! The Classic IQ Test Watch out, they want your data! Congratulations, Jeroen! Your IQ score is 136 …
: Technology Barometer DiceLaRed —TheNetSays— has a nice tool: the Technology Barometer. They monitor several sites, mostly …
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: Microsoft Outlook I have a confession to make: I use Microsoft Outlook. Not at home, but in the office. I know many …
: Bloglines Bloglines has redesigned! The new user interface looks more beautiful, and they also added some new …
: Six months Six months ago I set some targets for myself for this year. Now that I am halfway the year, it is …
: Mobical I have been using the services of Mobical for some time now, mainly to back up my cell phone’s …
: Finding a country This is a message for every person in the world creating a form with a drop-down list to choose the …
: Quote 💬 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
: Unproductive weather Summer in Lleida has a bad name. Being in the inlands without any lake and usually without even a …
: Sant Joan The night of San Joan, two o’clock in the morning. We are sitting side by side on a balcony on …
: Getting things done Just like many people, sometimes my head bursts of all things I have to remember and to do. In fact, …
: Evaluating Mambo Open Source These days I am trying to see whether the Mambo Open Source CMS system could fit my idea’s for …
: Digital vs. Film cameras More and more people are buying digital cameras; I even read that the digital camera sales outnumber …
: Firefox 0.9 Firefox 0.9 has been released today. Of course I immediately downloaded and installed it. As the …
: Nice car A red Buick Electra Convertible 1959. Really nice car…
: Spanish Road Rules #1: Minimum speed When you travel by car through Europe, you’ll find that the traffic rules are more or less the …
: braintags.com Already for some months, this site can be reached at another domain name: braintags.com. First this …
: Link dump syndication The new Link dump section of this site is now also available as an Atom 0.3 feed, so you will be …
: Link dump After restructuring the templates, it was time top add a new feature: the Link dump. While surfing …
: Tools In an international office like ours, the right tools are very important. My most important tool is …
: Horizontal centering images I am facing a small CSS problem: I have a page with some blocks of content, of which I don’t …
: Templates restructured I have restructured my templates for this site. The old ones used way too many <div>’s …
: Windows 3.1 Last week when I entered my hotel room and switched on the light, the TV turned on and showed me a …
: Cyprus The next week I don’t expect to write many things. This morning I will be leaving for Cyprus–I …
: Comments disabled I temporary disabled the comments on this site. The last days I have received too much comment spam. …
: Snails It was that famous weekend again: the Aplec del Caragol. I won’t go into details, but after …
: I'm a billionaire A little bit more than a year ago, I entered the fantasy blog shares market with exactly B$500. As …
: The first days with MT 3.0D Four days ago I upgraded the motor of this site to Movable Type version 3.0D — the D is for …
: The Cops Are Chasing Me in a WHAT? If you are thinking about speeding on Italian highways this year, think twice. You might find …
: Internet radar The radar is a handy and necessary tool in the aviation business. A long time ago, when there was …
: Dry season Yesterday suddenly it was there: the summer! But wait, I can’t remember that we passed spring. …
: Remove Movable Type News box One of the additions to Movable Type is a news box in the main menu of the main menu. This box …
: Movable Type 3.0 I have upgraded to Movable Type 3.0, and am trying to fix the templates at the moment. During the …
: PageRank There is a law that is valid on both the internet as on every school yard: how important you are …
: Product search Here is a short manual on finding products and services on the internet. I found this method when I …
: Firefox not preloading background images Mozilla Firefox is a great internet browser, and I just love tabbed browsing. Each day I look in …
: SyncML SyncML is an XML standard for synchronizing data between devices. The most common use for it is to …
: WAP revisited Since September of last year, this site is also available in WAP format at …
: Ego Watch Todays trend in weblog country is the Ego Watch: looking at which position you end up on several …
: Synchronizing bookmarks Do you recognise this: You are at your office, browsing the internet to solve a specific problem. …
: New photo's You might already have seen it, I added some new pictures to my photo gallery. You’ll see some …
: Phone usability Yesterday I wrote about some usability problems with cellphones. As I am exploring the functionality …
: M55 Got it!!! This weekend I finally got some time to walk to the shop and buy a new cellphone. They …
: Photo's Almost a year ago I posted the last picture to my photo gallery. That’s what happens if …
: Dutch shopping list Sometimes people ask me whether there are certain Dutch products I miss here in Lleida. The answer …
: Obligation to relax Last weekend Berry & Manon visited us. The good thing about people spending their holiday with …
: Totally Useless Tip > To set a blank blue homepage in Internet Explorer, do the following: Click Tools and choose …
: Lord of the Rings Slightly condensed… Hat tip: Punkey
: Shopping urge The only shops open in the morning when I wake up are bakeries and kiosks. I like that, since many …
: Afgelopen zondag > Ik haat het om geblinddoekt te worden. Al met al een geslaagd vrijgezellenfeest. Vrij naar John
: Easter holiday Bags packed… Some hours of sleep… Air plane to Amsterdam… Arriving in …
: Safe href One of the problems of using the XHTML 1.1 doctype is the fact that your pages need to be completely …
: Multiple output YRCHTVOL is still a difficult thing to understand for most people in the web-business: Single Input …
: CeBIT 2004 Recap Now that I am back home again and took some time to catch some sleep, it’s time to tell about …
: CeBIT, here I come The last week we have worked very hard. Not only to prepare for the CeBIT, but also to do our …
: Black Out of respect for the victims and out of protest towards terrorism, today I put my site on black. …
: Quote of the day Maybe I am convinced
: Birthday Just a small message to give you the possibility to congratulate me. 😉
: Signed comments Sometimes I post comments on my own pages, usually in reaction to other comments. I usually use only …
: Leap How wonderful!!! In these times of stress we receive an extra day for free! Let’s enjoy it… 😀
: Rain and snow Today it is raining in Lleida. So what? Well, the problem is that the people over here are not used …
: Yahoo-Overture does not respect robots.txt Today I received the following message in my mailbox: an improper scan has caused a ban on your site …
: How big is my world? That is an awfully big gray area!!! I guess I still have some traveling to do 😀 Notice that a …
: Silence It has been very silent on this site lately. This was not because I did not have time to write; it …
: Pixies 2004 tour dates That the pixies are going to tour again is old news. The problem is finding the tour schedule, it …
: Brain Tag Sometimes people ask me why this site is called ‘Brain Tags’. Well, the origin comes from a nice …
: MT does not Remember personal info When entering a comment in a Movable Type powered site, a radio button is available telling you that …
: CeBIT I am going to the CeBIT! This year will be the first year that our company will have a stand at …
: DHCP and static IP at the same time Configure a (Windows) computer to use a DHCP and static IP address at the same time.
: MT update breaks validation Today version 2.66 of Movable Type has been released, which addresses amongs others some of the …
: Mobile posting with Mfop2 Using the service from Mfop2 I am now able to post my messages from any place I want. All I have to …
: A new computer After 7 years of intensive use, time has come to say goodbye to my old PC. It simply has too much …
: Movistar GPRS As everybody knows, WAP is not the mobile killer protocol, nor will it ever be. However, it has its …
: Screendump A small experiment to start the year 😉 I installed SnagIt on my computer, which I configured to …
: 2k4 Happy 2004!!!! I am absolutely sure that this year is going to be a fabulous year. And with a new …
: Big Medium for Fimcap A while ago I mentioned Big Medium as a possible CMS for the Fimcap site. Today I finally had some …
: Season's greetings Christmas is already finished, but I still would like to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a …
: Linkdump: CMS Big Medium I still have to try how to make templates, but this looks like the most usable CMS for …
: Christmas decoration I have a problem. Now that we are halfway in December, I would like to have some christmas …
: Pixies on tour A lot of people come here looking for information on The Pixies, so I better give those people what …
: No time to write It has been really quiet on this site; I just did not have the time to write. I could have written …
: RIP BlogShares Eight months ago I discovered BlogShares, a fantasy blog shares market. During these months I have …
: Maybe There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse …
: LOAF Stylesheet Now that I have been working with LOAF for several days, I have the feeling that the technology is …
: Referrer spam weblogs The latest trick spammers have is setting up fake blogs, usually with the design copied from another …
: Visits to Harmelen Just for the record: at this moment we have planned two short visits to Holland. The first visit …
: I've still got the blues To be honest, there are not a lot of great concerts to visit in Lleida. The main reason is that …
: Software project Via random($foo)
: LOAF After reading about it at Russell Beattie’s Notebook, I just had to add LOAF support to this …
: Click! Darkness… Just when we were cooking our evening meal yesterday, we were suddenly without electricity. “No …
: E-mail disclaimers More and more mail I receive has some kind of legal disclaimer attached to it. And I am getting more …
: Command prompt I just noticed that the Command prompt is one of the six most used applications on my computer: …
: Two years Exactly two years ago, I woke up in the morning, thought: Well, that’s it. Here I am, and …
: Hacker emblem Finally there is an emblem for me! Full-time hacker Eric S. Raymond created a Hacker Emblem based on …
: La pelota vasca La Pelota Vasca is a documentary movie about the situation in the Basque Country. In this movie, a …
: Glijbaan Ik wil geen loopbaan, ik wil een glijbaan (Remy van Green Lizard)
: Computers s#ck I like computers… as long as they work. But lately I’ve had too much problems with them. I …
: A List Apart 3.0 A List Apart is the resource for the latest trends in web design. Today the third version of their …
: Content Management System Imagine that I would have a lot of spare time. And imagine that I still remember how to program …
: Comments fixed Last week I made some changes to this site to prevent spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses from …
: Spam blogging I am receiving quite some spam, which fortunately gets filtered out at my mail server. And there it …
: The real thing I am not the only having the opinion that there is nothing but buying a real CD. Favourite quote …
: Summer is over Today we turned on the heater for the first time, since the temperature dropped below 20°C. …
: Which Pixies song are you? There are some sites, whose content only consists of answers to Which XXXXX are you? contests. To me …
: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a …
: Access Statistics I just love numbers, and check the access statistics of my sites almost on a daily basis. Sometimes …
: Back on ICQ There are many ways to keep contact with the rest of the world. By far the best way is to meet them …
: Google AdSense and XHTML1.1 Visitors using older browsers like IE might have noticed that I recently started serving …
: Pixies reunite! How could I have missed the news! One of my favourite bands is getting together again. Although the …
: I need some time! So many things to do, and only 24 hours in a day. I guess everybody sometimes has the feeling that …
: Breaking the silence A good holiday is a holiday without internet connection. I had a quite good holiday, so you …
: Bad lay-out I use this site a lot for testing out things. You could say that this site is Forever under …
: WAP Braintags is also available in WML format, so you can read your favourite 😉 site using your WAP …
: Semantically incorrect If you are creating (X)HTML code, you always have to make sure that you use the right elements to …
: Advertisements You might already have noticed it: I added some advertisements to this site. Since now I am paying a …
: Holidays in the Netherlands One more week to go, and we have our second short vacation of this year!!! After going to Croatia in …
: application/xhtml+xml The moment I changed the looks of this site, I also changed the version of the code used for these …
: CD List Throught the wonderful Internet Archive Wayback Machine, I was able to visit my old site again. My …
: HTTP Error 411: Length required Today I noticed something strange in the access report of this site. In the error codes list I found …
: Pentagrama I just found a small list on my desk, and remembered that I wrote it last Friday (or better said! …
: Work to do When I designed this site, I of course tested the layout on my Windows computer. I know that it …
: Copy protection First a question for the music industry: “What the heck are you doing?” Yesterday MJ gave me a …
: Viruses Most viruses that replicate themselves through e-mail forge the from: field of their messages. …
: Plug-in Manager I have written before about the Movable Type plug-ins I use for this site; at this moment I am using …
: Saying goodbye Tomorrow evening my parents will be flying back home. They have been living with us for one week …
: Comment form problems I am having some problems in the comment form of my individual archives. After entering a comment, …
: My parents are here Yesterday evening my parents arrived for a short holiday in our house. I came home from work a …
: Braintags update notifications Some of you receive a message whenever I update this site. You can become a member of my update list …
: Preparing for our visitors After a quiet weekend in the swimming pool, the time has come to work a little bit. This week we …
: Changing hosting provider #4 It has been three days ago since I switched my site to the new server. Little by little the visitors …
: Changing hosting provider #3 Welcome! If you’re reading this message, the server transfer was successfully finished. …
: Changing hosting provider #2 Change of plans… Yesterday I told that I was going to redesign my templates and style before …
: Changing hosting provider #1 After I purchased an account for this site last weekend, I have been exploring the possibilities and …
: Friend Of A Friend FOAF provides an execellent vocabulary for describing people and the relation between people. It is …
: Pop-up banner adds I don’t notice the pop-up advertisements on this site anymore, since the browsers I am …
: Making future-proof archive links Már Örlygsson has written a howto on creating ‘future-proof’ URLs in Movable type. In short, he …
: Photo log Today I finished entering my photo’s (51 in total) to my photo log. You won’t find any …
: Operating Systems After seeing a poll on SlashDot for the number of operating systems you have worked with for at …
: ApeSjit I mentioned them yesterday: the not yet so famous band Apesjit. Why Apesjit? Sure, they are not the …
: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 I missed an important (for me at least) event: two days ago, the Mozilla Thunderbird project …
: Music Over the years, the emphasis of my site has changed a lot. I started a personal site mainly to …
: Lego The first half of my life I have been a big fan of Lego. And I guess that I still have a warm place …
: My visitors I’ll be honest: this site is not receiving a lot of visitors. Sometimes I have the feeling …
: Movable Type plugins Movable Type is a great tool for creating personal sites (and some other types of sites as well), …
: Something personal I just noticed that I have only written technical texts during the lasts weeks, and since this is a …
: Use a better browser A month ago, I wrote about the shortcomings of Internet Explorer and how this might stop innovation …
: HTTP Error 301: Permanent Redirect A while ago, I explained how I configured the server to return HTTP Error 410: Gone for all requests …
: More on Managing Static content After yesterdays post I started playing more with Movable Type. I decided to move some static …
: Managing static content with Movable Type The buzz started with the redesign of Adaptive Path by [stop]design and Jay Allen. They used the …
: Mozilla Thunderbird Yesterday I have installed Mozilla Thunderbird on my computer. Until now I was using Microsoft …
: Fighting Spam I am receiving a lot of Spam, way too much… The last years the amount of Spam I receive has been …
: Back to work The holidays are definitely over; I have spent my first day at the office again. Of course my …
: Back home again Short, but absolutely worthwhile… That is how I would describe our short holiday to Croatia. We …
: Almost ready for Holidays The car has been thoroughly checked, my colleague has been informed of ongoing issues at my job,… I …
: Geek test 28.00789% - Total Geek
: Sant Joan Today is Sant Joan, a free day in Catalonia. The night before Sant Joan is celebrated with big …
: WAP configuration The good thing of buying a cellphone pack is that everything comes pre-configured. I have chosen the …
: A wonderful weekend Relax, relax, relax… I really needed to relax, and that is exactly what I have done. Friday after …
: Learning Spanish on Internet I always thought that the Internet would not be suited to learn a language, because it is better to …
: Holiday plans The temperature is around 35°C for over a week now, during the day you hear a lot of complains about …
: Bloggers in Lleida Yesterday a new webblog was born in Lleida. That is something quite special, since until now I …
: Geek without toys I love technology. I just love it. And I love computers, cellphones, PDA’s, digital …
: Internet Explorer Lately a lot of talk has been going on around Microsoft’s web browser Internet Explorer (IE). …
: HTTP Error 410: Gone It has been a while since I changed the backend of my site from NewsPro to Movable Type. A side …
: Fancy e-mail With fancy e-mail I mean HTML mail. Most mail applications are able to send (and receive) messages …
: Berry & Manon The reason we went to Harmelen last weekend was of course the wedding of Berry and Manon. Besides …
: Photo Gallery #2 A while ago I wrote about my old Image gallery, and gave a link to the gallery since I didn’t …
: Only a few days to go… Two more days working and we will go for a short trip to Holland!!! The reason is of course the …
: Weekend The calendar shows it is weekend… Time to arrange our house and enjoy the weather. We urgently need …
: Web designers obsolete? Many companies pay a lot of many to have somebody design their web site. This person has to decide …
: New look And, do you like the new look of the site? Drop a comment and let me know what you think of it. I …
: Aplec del Caragol The lesson of this weekend is: always study the program carefully. Of course I looked at the program …
: Food on my mind Eating and drinking… I guess that will be the central theme for today and the coming days. This …
: Passport Today I finally received it: my new passport!!!!! On March 22 my jacket with my passport got stolen, …
: Photo gallery Before I used to have a link on this page to the photo gallery. The photo gallery is not gone yet, …
: Back to work I wrote the last entry on this site exactly four hours before the start of the ‘Festa Major’ en …
: Festa Major Only four hours left to work, and then it’s party time!!! This weekend Lleida is celebrating …
: MTBlogShares extention Being a user of Movable type and a player of BlogShares, I have been looking to combine those …
: Archive by year As I continue defining the information shown on the main page, I find the list of archives by date …
: Red Nose This weekend we had wonderful weather, so we headed to the beach to get a tan and relax a little …
: Old news I just added a lot of old news. Using the Internet Archive I was able to see my old site again. I …
: Weather Whenever I am talking to somebody in Holland, one of the first questions asked to me is: “How is the …
: Quality of life Lleida is a good place to live. People who regularly follow my messages on this site already know …
: Passport Q: How long does it take me to put my signature on a paper? A: Over 5 hours!!! To get my new …
: The e-mail subscription is back! Until some months ago, this web site had the possibility to subscribe to the news published on this …
: BlogShares IPO This website is now available for trading on the BlogShares fantasy blog shares market. At this …
: Syndication Now that I have a wonderful new CMS able to produce RSS feeds, I have been looking for a way to use …
: It's that time again… Today is Sant Jordi, the day that all Catalan boys give a rose to their girlfriend and receive a …
: Andorra Easter in Spain is something special. On ‘Semana Santa’ everybody takes a small holiday and leaves …
: BlogShares You might have noticed the BlogShares logo on my web site. This is because last week I started …
: Website progress People who haven’t visited my website might think that it has changed a lot. But after the big …
: Breaking the law Yesterday I started installing Windows 98 on my computer WITHOUT A LICENCE!!! I know that it is …
: Movable Type The worst part of the site redesign is done. I just changed the CMS application form the old NewsPro …
: Working room Alright, the legs of the table in our working room are there. My old computer is unpacked, the boxes …
: Redesign As I have stated before, this site has been created in a very short time, expecting that soon it …
: Blogging Since I created my first web page back in 1994 I always have had at least a section in which I tell …
: My life in a nutshell It has been a while ago since I last updated my page. The stats show that it doesn’t matter …
: Driver's licence The police has found my driver’s licence! This morning I went to the police station to pick it …
: Another visit After we had some visitors from Barcelona last weekend, this weekend we had visit from Switzerland. …
: Iraq Now that the war on Iraq unfortunately has started, we have to find a way to independent news …
: Catalan The Catalan government broadcasts a commercial on television urging immigrants to learn Catalan. If …
: Our little house You might have been wondering why I haven’t written about our house lately. Well, that’s …
: Site change After a little more than a year, my site has changed again. Completely in line to the amount of work …
: Sunny Today I was going to write about the wonderful weather we have here in Lleida. But something …
: The Spanish job market Last week Russell Beattie, an American living and working in Madrid, wrote an analysis of the …
: Short, but worth while... Because I am working on Fridays until 20:00 hours, it is not possible for me to fly to Holland on …
: 10 Nov 1994 A long time ago… In 1994 I was studying chemistry at Utrecht University. I was doing research to the …
: Swimming pool People here are not used to cold weather. Houses neither. Today at −4℃ we did not have water to …
: Protest Last Saturday millions of people protested against the plans to invade Iraq. Here in Lleida about …
: Anniversary Today is a special day. Exactly 3 years ago in the south of Belgium, Maria José and I decided to …
: freeBSD, Part 1 After all the troubles described below, I decided to try to install freeBSD. Since my laptop does …
: MuLinux, Part 3 In December last year, I described on this site how I installed MuLinux on my IPC Porta-PC laptop. I …
: Basketball The last years I haven’t done a lot of sports. When I was younger (yes, I’m becoming an …
: Website v4 The site you are reading now is my 3rd personal web site. You might think that it is not that great, …
: Bob de Builder has left the building After five days of hard work, my father has gone home again. The result of all this hard work? Four …
: Working The work in our house is making big progress… Yesterday my father arrived to fix the last important …
: Computer tips I spend quite some time behind the computer, at work as well as at home. Mostly I use the computer …
: The holiday season is over Today at lunchtime we have removed all the Christmas decoration from our house; the holiday season …
: Happy New Year!!! A new year has started, and it has started very well for me. This was the first time that we …
: Warning A warning for all people who want to see our house: do it fast!!!! We are already destroying our new …
: MuLinux, Part 2 After the basic installation of MuLinux earlier this week, I have been looking around and expanding …
: Christmas dinner Yesterday morning I found the official invitation for the company christmas dinner on my desk, the …
: Happy birthday Tomorrow is the birthday of BasiqAir, the cheapest way to get from Barcelona to Amsterdam. To …
: MuLinux, Part 1 One month ago we moved to our new house. Since then, things have settled down, but one thing still …
: Pictures of our house Yesterday I finally had time to put the pictures of our house (made with the camera of Coen) on this …
: Sven During the day, I always wear my cellphone. Always. Except last Saturday. We left in the morning to …
: Visit Barely 2 weeks after we moved into our new house, Hotel Rosell had its first guests: Coen and Duh …
: One week later… We’re now living in our new house for one week now, and things have settled down a bit. The …
: New House Yipee!!! Yesterday we moved in to our new house. At the moment we still need a bit of improvisation, …
: Our house is ready!!! Yes!! If everything went right, this afternoon the heaters will be connected and the floor will be …
: Website Until a few weeks ago, my biggest fans received automatically new items on this site by e-mail. At …
: Business trip The first half of this week, I have been on my first business trip in my new function. I had to do …
: Egoist Yes, I’m an egoist! I have created a Wishlist at Amazon for all the people far away who cannot …
: Elections I don’t think I have to explain the current political situation in the Netherlands to you, …
: Construction work Last weekend we spend almost completely working in our house, from early in the morning until it was …
: Another update Guess we’re just plain busy at the moment… Anyway, it’s about time that I give …
: Pictures My sister and Terry made some pictures during their visit. I put a copy of the images they made in …
: Update I guess some people are missing their weekly update about my life. Not that nothing happened in my …
: Ready to go The tent is washed, the car is washed, the candy and lemonade has been bought and our packs are …
: More pictures I’ve kept my promise and found my old scanner again. As a result, the image gallery is updated …
: Images I just found a nice picture of my office and decided to put a copy of it on my web site, so …
: Holiday plans The last two weeks of August and the first week of September, Maria José and I hope to have …
: Geek It has been a long time ago since I last updated my Geek Code. So I set to work, and here it is: …
: Enjoy Last weekend I had a few moments that I was realising what a great life I live. These moments were …
: Opera La Seu Vella is the most important monument of Lleida. It is situated in the middle of the city, on …
: Progress So far, things are going well. The worker has done a nice job; he removed one wall, and moved two …
: Weather Just after writing that the weather is alright over here, the sky became grey (or better: black), it …
: Short message Just a short message for the people who weren’t present yesterday at Jong Nederland Harmelen …
: Inauguration Although 2 months ago we started working in our new office, the office has been inaugurated …
: The big work has begun! After some months of preparations, yesterday the big work finally started. OK, we already did some …
: English web site The last month I have been working in ICG’s international department. We are a software …
: E-mail Once again I had problems with my e-mail account. It appeared that a lot of messages I have sent the …
: Nickname Sant Joan is an important saint over here. At least important enough to have a free day on June …
: 37° The summer has yet to start, and the temperature has risen up to 37 degrees. I’m so happy that …
: Ready for action The biggest pieces of old furniture are now removed from our future house, the kitchen and the …
: International I have been working now for four days in the international departement, and so far everything goes …
: The next step I have been working a little bit more than six months now for Ricomack. During this time I have got …
: Aplec del Caragol That’s it, it is over now. The Aplec del Caragol has finished. The aplec is a big feast with …
: Party time This week we are in the middle of two major parties in Lleida. Last weekend we celebrated the ‘Festa …
: Paperwork One thing I noticed over here is that there is more paperwork. Maybe I only have this impression …
: Sant Jordi Today is a special day. Not only because Barcelona is playing against Madrid, but also because today …
: Calçots Sunday I wanted to write about the calçots. But after the calçots, I was too tired to write. And the …
: A short holiday Easter time is always a good period to have a short vacation. Usually the weather is getting better, …
: Warning! I was so busy writing about chocolate, that I completely forgot to tell the most important event of …
: I like chocolate It is almost easter, and easter is a wonderful time for chocolate lovers like me. I always eat a lot …
: The sun is shining, the living is easy I have to admit it: the main reason to move to the south is the weather! And last week I got what I …
: Sants Yesterday was the day of Saint Joseph. Normally I wouldn’t have noticed this, but the fact is …
: Party Yesterday I was talking with my father. He was standing outside a barn at 5°C, I was outside on the …
: The sun is shining This weekend I planned to do a lot of thing with my little computer. Work on the Fimcap site, …
: E-mail problems Due to problems at my provider, I am not able to send e-mail at this moment. However, I am still …
: A good start... Life is hard when you’re getting old. I just turned 31 last Saturday, and I already feel like …
: Happy Birthday to me Yes, yes, I’m becoming an old man… 31 years old today! The typical way of celebrating …
: Short visit Normally when we visit Holland, time seems to fly. That is why we decided to go on Thursday evening. …
: Carnival First of all for all the people who have asked me the last weeks: Yes, they do celebrate carnival …
: Detective One of the nicest features of having your own web site is playing ‘detective’. Every day the web …
: Pictures For the first time since I moved from Holland I have added pictures to my site. Today I finally took …
: Princess Oops, already a week without any notice! Yes, it’s about time that I write something new on my …
: Fimcap Fimcap? You stopped the youthwork when you left Holland, didn´t you? No, I didn't! I am still …
: My job I just noticed that I haven’t written for a while about my job. And since quite some of the …
: Training course Fimcap secretariat No, I am not going to be the new secretary of Fimcap, but I was present at the unofficial training …
: Another car Until yesterday, we had two cars at home: the Pajero, used by the parents of MJ, and the Opel, used …
: Travel planner For those of you interested in my personal collection of airplane tickets, hereby a short overview: …
: Three Kings I know that in Holland the big parties are over, but here there is one more event left: the Three …
: The weather In Holland the weather is always the subject of the day, mainly because it is never the same as the …
: Back to Holland At this moment it is already a week ago since I was in Holland. Yes, I have been a litlle bit busy …
: A day at the beach After hearing a lot of times that having fog every day is not normal, and that it is only the case …
: The 6th of December The 6th of December is an important day: it is the birthday of ‘Sinterklaas’ (yes, I …
: Time flies when you're having fun! This weekend MJ is in Lithuania for a Fimcap meeting. I better say ‘was’, because she is almost back …
: Back to Holland! No, I don’t have an argue with MJ and no, I will not go back forever. But in December I will …
: Cleaning day Today it is Saturday, the day of the cleaning the house. MJ and I always do the first floor. Or …
: Working times Yesterday somebody tried to phone me during the day. Unfortunately I was not home yet, so I thought …
: The Score Yesterday MJ and I decided to visit the cinema. After a very busy week with a lot of new …
: My first day at work Today was the great day… working at ICG. After a short tour through the building and meeting a lot …
: That's it... Next to me is the big bag with the last things to take. I only have to pack my laptop and I am ready …
: Unemployed Yes, I am unemployed at the moment. Yesterday was my very last day that I worked for Aino and on …
: Good-bye Jong Nederland As most of you know, I have spent a lot of my spare time doing voluntary work for Jong Nederland. …
: Saying goodbye to my family On Saturday, October 20th, my parents and my sister have organised a farewell party for all my …
: I am here, but all my stuff is there... One week of holidays is not a lot if you have to travel back and forth to the other end of Europe. …
: Packing my stuff... Just a few more days to go! My room in Harmelen is turning little by little into a big mess. I am …
: Moving to Lleida The main reason most people will visit this site at the moment is because you want to know when I …
: Getting old Yes yes, since last Friday my age starts with a 3… I’m definitely getting old. The next …
: Updating my news This is definitely the least updated page on my site!!! I see that the last update has been more …
: Summer camp After two days of sleeping I’m back to normal again. The reason I was so tired??? The JN …
: Seniorenweekend Afgelopen weekend was het Seniorenweekend van het district Utrecht (JN uiteraard…). En mede …
: Millennium Goh, ik kom er net achter dat ik dit millennium nog helemaal niets geschreven heb op de nieuws …
: Kerst De afgelopen dagen hebben jullie me weinig gezien, want ik was even mijn computertje aan het …
: Bestuur mee Afgelopen weekend heb ik een heel erg leuk en leerzaam weekend gehad. Ik heb namelijk meegedaan aan …
: Rust Weeer helemaal uitgerust, is het weer eens tijd om weer eens wat aan de homepage te gaan doen. Ik …
: Hits, Chiro Startdag en Fimcap Bureaumeeting Nu mijn homepage vermeld staat in de surftips van The Internet Plaza moet ik er wel voor zorgen dat …
: Zomer Hoewel ik, behalve een fantastische week kamp met JN, niet op vakantie geweest ben, is de zomer toch …
: Pinkpop & Ouderweekend Het kan niet op met de weekendjes weg. Ik ben nu al een paar weekenden niet meer thuis geweest. Twee …
: Euroforum Vandaag een dagje vrij om weer bij te komen van weer een geweldig Euroforum in Seitenstetten in …
: Rijbewijs Het heeft even geduurd, maar het is nu dan eindelijk gelukt: ik heb mijn rijbewijs.
: Carnaval Carnaval!!!! Deze week maar even vier daagjes vrij genomen om te feesten en om thuis de boel maar …
: Gezakt Gisteren ben ik gezakt voor mijn rijbewijs. Meer heb ik niet te zeggen.
: Brainstormen en volleybal Hoewel ik het errug druk heb, toch nog een klein verhaaltje over afgelopen weekend. Ik ben namelijk …
: Nacht van 16+ Ik ben weer een beetje bijgekomen van afgelopen weekend. De landelijke Nacht van 16+ werd namelijk …
: Ontsteking Alweer twee dagen ziek thuis… Ik heb (voor de vierde keer dit jaar) een ontsteking in mijn …
: Kaderschouw Oeps, ik merk dat ik deze pagina niet echt goed bijgehouden heb. Ik had natuurlijk allang wat moeten …
: Allergie De mensen die mij de laatste tijd nog gezien hebben, hebben waarschijnlijk al gemerkt dat het niet …
: Pittig feestje Leuk zo’n feestje; het geeft alleen zo’n rotzooi. Gisteravond gaf ik met Harry en Dustin …
: Jarig Hiep, hiep, hoera! Vandaag ben ik jarig…
: Uitnodiging Het duurt nog even, maar je kunt het alvast in je agenda noteren: op 14 maart 1998 vier ik mijn …
: Gelukkig nieuwjaar Uiteraard wil ik iedereen een erg gelukkig 1998 wensen. Ikzelf ben het nieuwe jaar al feestend …
: Rome Vrijdagavond ben ik terug gekomen van een weekje Rome. Ik moest naar Rome vanwege de FIMCAP …
: Sinterklaas Dank u Sinterklaasje… Jawel, ook ik heb Sinterklaas gevierd, gewoon thuis, met mijn ouders en …
: Medewerkersweekend Afgelopen weekend was het Landelijke Medewerkers Weekend van Jong Nederland. Voor alle medewerkers …
: Nieuws De nieuws pagina is vandaag in de lucht! Nieuws voor de komende tijd: 19 november promoveert Marcel …