Be like a deer caught in headlights.

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This day started out perfectly. It was one of those days you feel nothing  will go wrong at all — too bad I was dead wrong. We both slept in this morning, which is very rare for me. It was very cloudy outside and much cooler than yesterday; absolutely fabulous. When we went down to … Read more

A colourful day.

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This will be a very short and random post here on my blog tonight. Yes, it is night. Almost noon to be more precise — in a few minutes from typing this. It has been a long day. Very tiring, but good of course. Started out the day with walking around West End and Highgate … Read more

De gekke Zweed.

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When I first moved to The Netherlands I was sharing a house in Beverwijk with three other guys. We were all working at the same company and we came from different countries. The Italian and the Portuguese were really cool; the Swede seemed nice in the beginning, but that changed after a week or so … Read more

Five things you should know before dating a blogger.

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When I first read the ’5 things you should know before dating a journalist’ article by Tom Chamber I had a good chuckle while I was nodding agreeingly with what he had written. I did feel some of it was a bit harsh and that bloggers were kind of left out. Mind you, journalists can … Read more

Thank you @twitter for #newtwitter.

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Last week Twitter announced that they were releasing a new and improved Twitter. As the release was slowly deployed, probably to avoid risking the whole system going down, many people started asking, including me, how the releases are planned and scheduled. Which is understandable, as we were told a new version of Twitter was coming, … Read more