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  • [Dutch] Sinterklaasgedicht

    [Dutch] Sinterklaasgedicht

    Na veler verzoek (van onder andere @Ladybeetle) mijn gedicht waarmee ik Sinterklaas heb mogen helpen dit jaar. Ware poëzie. Gerrit Komrij mag bellen ter inspiratie (een DM op twitter is ook welkom).

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  • What a day

    What a day

    Yesterday morning I had my GVB exam (Golf Vaardigheids Bewijs). In The Netherlands you need this to prove you can play golf. If you achieve it, you can then play golf pretty much on any course you like. After the first bit (theoretic part), you...

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  • Owner of the 3rd iPhone 3 GS

    Owner of the 3rd iPhone 3 GS

    OK *yawn*… set the alarm to 5:00 am this morning (wtf?!) to be in the center of Almere City at 6. T-Mobile Netherlands organized a big iPhone launch spectacle there and have 200 iPhones on stock. Fem (me wifey) and myself headed over there a...

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  • Recommended music: Flyleaf

    Recommended music: Flyleaf

    Last year I stepped into a good record store: ‘t Oor in Almere. There I found a CD of Korn’s Family Values tour of 2006. The tour is quite well known in the States, and you probably recollect the live recording of Staind featuring Fred...

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  • China: please grow up

    China: please grow up

    This morning I read an article at nu.nl about China blocking out several websites (for an English alternative go here), including Twitter, Live.com, Hotmail (who uses that anyway?), Flickr, and so on. Just imagine what it would be like to actually live in such an...

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  • My very first post

    My very first post

    Hi all, Whow…. an important moment in time has come. Birds are flying by, looking inside to see what is happening here and yes…. here it is: my blog. I’ve seen quite some blogs out there, but I’ve decided to begin my own. This came...

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