Jeroen Sangers

It’s a TV, it plays DVDs, and it’s a beer fridge, all-in-one! What else could you possibly want?

[Via Gizmodo]

Tomorrow morning I will travel to Harmelen again. It will be a short visit to see Finn, the newborn son of Esther and Terry, and of course to visit the party of the ‘Vrienden van JN Harmelen’.

Until next week!

Some weeks ago, we decided to change mobile provider. We have a contract with Telefonica Movistar, but most people we phone with are at Amena. We did some calculation and came to the conclusion that we could save on our bill by changing to Amena as well.

This weekend we finally found the time to head to the Amena office, and we explained out plans. The nice lady in the shop asked us some questions on our phone behaviour, who, when and how much, and she explained us about all the possibilities of the different packages. We made some quick estimations and selected the ‘right’ package.

Then the more important question came. Carriers earn so much money with all their inflated rates, that they can give away expensive toys. We could choose a new phone! MJ had prepared herself, and knew what her demands were: she wanted the cheapest phone that could flip open. Until now she always had candy-bar phones, but now she wanted clamshell. All other functions did not matter, since she only use the device for phoning and sending SMS messages. Her choice was the NEC e242.

Of course, as a reader of mobile expert Russell Beattie, I know that there is more. Russ has the most incredible applications and uses for his mobiles, and it seems that he uses his mobile for everything I still use a PC for. But his phones are, even after the carrier discount, so incredibly expensive that it would take me years to earn that back with the cheaper rate of Amena. I guess Russ lives in another realm, but most people here choose between the five cheapest models. So I set my mind together, and thought logically. I don't phone a lot, I use SMS even less, and once in a while I use WAP to spend some dead time. Basically, any phone would be enough. But hey, I am a gadget freak, so I should have something additional to wish for, right? Maybe I need a camera on my phone, to update my photo page more often. That's it! I looked around, and saw a nice and cheap Samsung phone that according to the specs had a camera. I asked if I could see it, and fell in love with the device. Cool design, very light weight (they show the phones without batteries), but… without camera. I asked the friendly lady if she could show me the camera, but no, they'd made an error in the specs. So I took the cheapest camera phone they had: the NEC e242.

Now we have to find a way to keep our new phones separated!

Will all these WordPress users now switch back to Movable Type?

Zie De Volkskrant:

STAP merkt op dat de drinkschuren zich ontwikkelen tot geduchte concurrenten van de plaatselijke horeca. Hoewel alcoholverkoop zonder vergunning illegaal is, wordt er veelal niet tegen opgetreden door de controleurs van de Drank- en Horecawet. De Koninklijke Horeca Nederland (KHN) dringt dan ook aan op sluiting van de drinkschuren. Volgens een woordvoerder van de KHN werken de schuren alcoholmisbruik in de hand.

Jongeren gaan op zoek naar alternatieven vanwege de slechte kwaliteit (en prijs!) die de reguliere horeca biedt. Zolang er geen betere alternatieven zijn, lost verbieden niets op.

Overigens, hoe staat het met de Sjet?

Before:

Now:

After: ??????

The redesign of Brain Tags has officially started!

One of the songs I always play when I need to get rid of some excess energy: Million Dollar Love by Dub War.

Have a look at the following screen:

This is the screen Firefox shows me when a site requires me to log in. Note that there is no information about the URL of the site or the realm requesting me to log in. You can imagine the problem this gives when I open many tabs at the same time: I have no idea of which site is going to receive my details.

This problem only occurs in the Spanish version of Firefox; I also installed the English version, which showed me the necessary information.

It is Easter holiday for me, which means that I have a weekend of four days! I am very happy about it, though most of my friends here have two weeks of holidays.

Anyway, we take the opportunity to leave town for some days. Tonight we will drive to la Seu d’Urgell, which is about 150km from here, and which will be our home for these days. Tomorrow we will visit Andorra to do some tax-free shopping and to enjoy the mountains. We will also take a bath in Caldea to relieve our tired feet after all those shopping kilometres. On Saturday we will drive to Barcelona, since we have tickets for the theatre.

Surely I won’t be connected to internet, so no updates are to be expected. But you are already used to that, right? :-)

Today is a very quiet day, so I have some time to upload some photo’s and write a short post. You can see the photo’s in my CeBIT set.

Just like last year, the last two days of the CeBIT are very boring. The days are long since I spend most of it waiting or visitors. Even though, I have a positive feeling about this year’s show. We have made some very interesting contacts, which might turn out successful. As usual, we only know the real results after a few months.