Okay… this is something that really only can happen to me! After dinner I felt after having a beer. Dinner tasted well and the weather was so nice. So I walked to the nearby fastfood restaurant and fetched me two bottles of beer. Almost whistling I walked back home… to discover that I hadn’t my…
Month: May 2009
DVD’s and more DVD’s….
People that know me, know that I have a rather nice collection of DVD’s. And I buy on very regular base new ones. Some times a movie that is just released (in that case I really wanted the movie). But very often it are older movies which I buy cheap at the weirdest places as…
The strongest fighter I know…
This writing is dedicated to one of the strongest, bravest and optimistic people I have ever known… my mother! Yeah sure, you may say. And maybe you right, we all like to think in that way of the people we care of and so you should. But there are some other reasons I make this…
Unix and C where made as a pratical joke?
Last Friday at the Java/Jbos training the instructor told a story no one of us could believe. He told that Unix and C were made as a joke towards Professor Nichlaus Wirth, the creator of the programming language “Pascal”. Read here below about it… “In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson,…
Friends from old!
Today I was travelling back from the location where I have the Java/JBoss training back to my room. I was listening to The Wall on my iPod. And I heard the words of a song that I heard so many times before… “Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that We would…
Hello from Sweden
Sanne and I thought it would be nice to send some “thoughts” from Sweden. We are having a wonderful time here. And one day we will go here too. I know that you are this week on a course for your job. And I also know that your mind may not be in a very…
Roll on into the next week
On the way back to Amsterdam. The sun is shining and it is a beautiful day. I feel kinda weird. Marion and Sanne are for 3 weeks on holiday to Sweden. They left last Friday and I already miss Marion. But she needs this holiday. She has a very busy and stressful job. She needs…
A big shock…
When I left last Sunday from Haaksbergen to Amsterdam, I knew my mother was not feeling well. She got anti-biotics and for some reason her body acted reacted very bad on that. But for antibiotics you always need to take the complete cure. So when in the train, I called my mother to hear how…