tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87358972011-04-22T04:41:39.055+02:00Well this is my blog. Don't expect too much of it. When I need something to write of me I will post it here.Calhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07195396106922906503noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735897.post-1144522802046292662006-04-08T20:56:00.000+02:002006-04-08T21:00:02.060+02:00

Time for me to shutdown this blog.Blogspot was fun, but I do prefer my own server and an engine by my own choice. So people please update your RSS feeds and bookmarks to:http://www.caliburn.nland I hope to see you on my new blog.

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Friends and family complain about me style of replying to emails. Why on earth do I put lines between their replies and at the bottom? It does not make sense! No idea what I am talking about? Look what me and a friend made years back: Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting. Nowadays I just don't let them do their way I will do mine. A couple of days back I had my mom in my car and she told

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TicketsSweetness, this is going to be awesome.Third time I hear The Gathering and second time I will see EpicaEspecially looking forward to Epica. Sorry Saff :p.

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I am a web developer.. professionally and as a hobby. One of the main annoyances is one that many others of my fellow developers share:Style sheets...Why oh why is there always a browsers screwing things up! It is so darn hard to get the site look like what you want. I develop in Linux using Firefox as my main browser.When I am happy I make the mistake of openening the site in Internet

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Blogs are good for ranting :-)I used my hotmail account waaaay back as a spam account. In the days before they invented GMail. Now I use it only for my MSN. Today I was bored and decided to remove all the spam from hotmail account. But to my surprise I had not logged in for 30 days and I had to 'reactivate' my account resulting in a loss of all my spam.I have no idea if it contained some useful

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I just saw Aeon Flux this weekend. The movie would have be good if the darn movie was not out of focus. When stuff happened in the background it was sharp. Even worse.. it was just blurry. If I pay 8 euros for a movie. I want quality.Cannot wait to rent it on DVD. Good audio and video quality.So Pathe SHAME ON YOU!(two months since my last post.. ouch :-) )

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I am currently in process of moving my very deprecated and not maintained domain caliburn.nl to a new server that I am renting with a couple of mates. Of course the idea is to update that site too. I will probably use a blog engine like wordpress as main item on that site which will result in ending this blog at blogger. Thanks to Gray (He loves that I link to him ;-) ) and another friend for

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I wish all my readers the best in 2006. As usual I have no resolutions. I do not smoke and I am still going to the gym for some exercise.Maybe 'more blogging' is a good resolution :-)

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I know I should post more. but lately just cannot really find time to do it. Work and WoW keeps me too occupied. But let me use this opportunity to remind you peeps of a post I made last year. This year it is even worse our main shopping street "Herestraat" (Illinois Avenue on the dutch version of Monopoly) had christmas decorations already. Bastards :-/

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Last thursday I went, partially funded by work, to an advanced driving school with a group co-workers Here you learn awesome stuff like evading while driving 60 km/h, making an emergency stop on dry and wet surfaces and of course trying to correct a car that is sliding. We concluded the day by driving in the neighbourhood with an instructor who gave very useful tips and corrections on our driving

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I just visited my brother this weekend. He and his girlfriend just got back from a vacation to the states. Me and my brother went to the same places in september 2002.Places we have visited:Las Vegas: Bryce Canyon National Park: Zion National Park: Archer's National Park: Me jealouse? Naah.

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On a couple of forums I have visited one of the most favourite topics is "show your desk where you work on". Well my brother didn't had any need for his old 'desk' so now it is mine. Oh how do I love wireless internet.

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Since a couple of weeks I am the proud owner of an iPod. I haven an "out-dated" iPod photo which is the same as the new iPod with 30 GB storage instead of 20 GB. It took me two days to convert all my CDs to AAC format in itunes. Talking about itunes. It is one of the most userfriendly piece of software I have ever seen. So easy to use. Same with the iPod, only one wheel and a button is needed to

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This post is again dedicated to my good mate Graywolf.The 25m telescope: The 20m telescope (inside the dome): I went to OSO on a business trip these last couple of days. We had a BBQ over there on the beach (the yellow dot): It was a bit windy but it was just plain awesome. I still love business trips!(wow 2 posts on 1 day..)

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I received this awesome present today from my good friend Saffron: Thanks Saff, it is an awesome gift!PS. Using smiley faces in real life is just plain wrong :-)

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A day at the Noorder Dierenpark Emmen:

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This post is dedicated to my good mate Graywolf. This 89 metre high telescope with its 76 metre dish is the Lovell Telescope which can be found at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the United Kingdom. I love business trips :-)

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I have been in awesome National parks in different countries: Canada, the USA and New Zealand. But I did not pay attention to our national parks. They are rare but apparently we have one: me and my brothers went the Hoge Veluwe. Never knew that our country with about 400 people a square kilometre had such a nice park.

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Well I am playing with computers since I was young. After a while my shoulder begin to ache. I never paid to much it. But during my college days the pain started to get worse, and I had to reduce my computer activities drastically.I became more cautious: reduce my gaming. Ordered a trackball, a tablet and new desk. It helped a little but the pain still remained... on the background but it

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Last week was a great one. Lots of things happened. Here they are.1. We go out for a run in the forest a couple of times a week in the forests where I work. Well my physical well being is not that great as my co-workers. I maybe one of the youngest there at work, but they run many more years than I do. They decided to instead of doing there own route, with is longer, to support me on my own (

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Yeah I know... it has been a while I made a post. I have been very busy with work lately. And the evenings I did not have the mood to make some posts. I have a couple of half done ones laying around. I hope to finish them in the future.But anyways. This picture can not wait. This pictures is just taken outside of my "office" during lunch. I love working in the middle of the forest. The only

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Official La Plagne Web page Well enjoy this link. At least I will in the next week. Wish for me lots of sun and snow :-)

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While I was cleaning the compactflash card of my camera. I came across this picture below: I must have accidently saved it while testing light settings for the new years eve fireworks. I think it is quite nice :-)

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We have in the Netherlands a "liberal" drug policy. One I support: Better to control spreading soft drugs in so-called coffee houses, than smoking it in uncontrolled environments. One question which comes to my mind is that where do they grow that stuff? Well I know one place now where they do not anymore: the apartment next door with the blinded windows and door. :-) See the photos my housemate

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I wish you all a good 2005. Let's hope it will be better than the previous year.Here a picture from last year. This year I will try again. Let us see if it will be abetter one. :-). Living on the 11th floor at the border of the town, has its advantages..

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I want to wish all my readers a merry Christmas. I hope you you get a lot of nice gifts. I never had any Christmas gifts... except for this year. I received the following by airmail: My turn to thank JERIC for giving me many hours of pleasure to my ears with your site. I have a new mug for in the office. Merry Christmas to all of you and your families and friends.Cal

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Dutch traditions are awesomeIn the beginning of the last century dutch farmers gave some of their supplies to the employees to share with their families during the Christmas holidays. This has gone through quite an evolution here in the Netherlands. Nowadays every employee gets a 'Christmas Package' from his boss. It is a box with all kinds of food, drinks and small items. My previous employer

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After three years my collection has been complete. Many hours of pure entertainment for eyes and ears. I can not believe that we Europeans have it sooner than the Americans :-)

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Time for some more X-mas rants... It was about 8 years ago that some dude decided to put a low budget christmas item on the market. It is what you can see in the picture. It is a plastic thing with 7 lights you can put in front of your window. As a result it became quite a hype here in the Netherlands, resulting in that almost every house had one. Preferably one for every window. So everywhere

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Looking around these couple of days I see the X-mas fever coming. And as I write this it is only 30th of november. I get the impression that the fever starts sooner every year. Trees and Santa's pop up at around every corner of the street. Before we know it we have christmas from October until February. I think that is a bad thing. Well if you think about christmas? What pops into your mind?

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Well some of you already know, but others don't. I am a nerd, I can't helped it. Would love to get rid of the status, but does not really help. Do nerds have a social life? Well yeah I have one. One is a yearly event: going with my fellow nerds to a dutch computer convention called HCC days. It is a dutch site so dont bother if you can't read dutch. What are we nerds doing over there? Well just

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This post contains spoilers about LotR, Black Hawk Down and Troy After building in my new speakers in my car this weekend. (Hmmm have to keep that one for another post) I thought it was time for a movie. So I went out and rented Troy again. I saw that movie in the cinema. And after I saw the scene where Paris was begging for his life, ... again, I had a flashback to a conversation I had with a

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It appears those were words from the dutch film director and writer Theo van Gogh. Theo was brutally murdered in Amsterdam. He was shot and stabbed to death, because of a controversial short movie he made about muslim women.Theo was well known in the Netherlands. I know him as a fat TV personality, Always smoking (he smokes 1 and a half to two packs a day preferably on TV) and known for

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One of the things I like to do is making photos. Calling it a hobby is a big word. But when I am going on vacation or to some kind of event, I take my camera with me. So with what do I shoot?. Well here is my equipment: Fujifilm s602z Adapterring with a UV and a polarization filter Olympus TCON-17 Teleconverter to give me extra zoom I love this camera. It is bought in the days that budget DSLR

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Well you probably have seen it on multiple sites. I was googling for 'under construction' pictures. Well I can't recommend it. Anyways, this blog is a bit under construction too. My good old pal Cocles was already complementing my choice of the template. So for me a good reason to change it ;-) So bear with me while I am making changes to the template these days/weeks

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I have returned recentlyfrom a week to the very nice Spanish island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea. I am definately not a beach guy. When I am going on vacation I like to walk/hike through the mountains. But I managed quite well with my gameboy on the beach. :-) Golden Sun is an awesome game. Anyways I experienced something new over there: scuba diving. My brother did it already a couple of

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Well you have found my blog, congratulations. If you expect a dozen posts every day, I am afraid you are in the wrong place ;-) When I have something on my mind I will try to write it down. Time will tell if I keep my word. Oh and one other thing, don't be bothered by my typos. :-)

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