After the first bit (theoretic part), you would go for the hands on action. First up, theory. 20 questions are up, of which you need to have 15 right. Most of them were rather easy, especially if you’d have practiced a lot of exam questions. After about 20 minutes I was the 2nd person leaving the room. Out on the terrace which filled up with more contestants there was heavy discussion about the questions. My dear friend N stepped outside 5 mins later. We both felt quite confident about it. Then the news came… I was invited to take the practical exam as I scored 20/20! Friend N scored 18 right. We went in different pairs to the championship course of golf course Naarderbos. There we played hole 1, 2, 4 and 5. Of the best 3 holes played you were allowed in total 10 above par. So if you played really well (which N did ) hole 4 was just for fun. My play was not too bad, but not that smooth either. The lady I played with unfortunately did not play that well. During hole 2 I realized that if I kept playing the way I did, I would surely pass. Some lousy and some magnificent shots later the verdict came: I passed! Triple yay My lady partner however did not.

Back on the terrace N came with his good news. After a nice lunch out in the open, we played the par 3 course. A nice track of 9 holes , not as much fun though as the 18 holes. We both played 38 strokes, 7 below our freshly acquired handicap of 36.

After finishing enjoying a nice beer I went to a presentation of Lars Vonk about Test Driven Development (TDD in short). He explained very clearly about this concept: first write your functional oriented test case, then write your code. He described a tool called Fitnesse, in which you can create these tests using pretty much natural language. I’ve heard about TDD before but now it triggered something inside me. Stuff to think about. It’s on a higher level compared to unit testing. With unit testing you can only verify so much, but you do not test if the software integrates well. With TDD you write actual integration tests, focusing on the bigger picture. Furthermore, you can also reuse already written tests. What more do you need in life

Inside you would register for your iPhone, in both our cases the 32 GB black edition. Hope we won’t mix up phones some day So much staff around, it pretty much outnumbered the crowd in the beginning. They did a good job though in the cool&clean T-Mobile stilo. Inside amazingly I got a ticket for the third iPhone! Fem got ticket 21 (huh?). While lounging there you could give the new iPhone demo models a try, Mac apparati available for checking your mail and a concert pianist and some kind of DJ was there for amusement. And then…. 9 am! Being third in line and cruising through the press (photographers, TV stations, radio (BNN)) I got in the shop. Complete mayhem in there, pretty much like the “DDD dagen” at the Bijenkorf 20 minutes later I was the proud owner of my new iPhone. My new matey is lying next to me, charging and loading my iTunes music. How sweet is that!

See flickr for pictures.

The CD did not cost much, plus it gave me the opportunity to get to know some new bands. One of the bands present on that CD is Flyleaf. The song “I’m so sick” immediately got my attention, because of the aggressive tone and psychedelic sound of the front woman Lacey Mosley. The live sound is actually a bit different (and somewhat weirder) ) compared to their own CD. Most likely because of the volume of booz consumed

The song also appeared in Die Hard 4, played when the terrorists attacked the home of the computer hacker.

You can check their album at Last.fm.

An assumption is made that the blocking action is done due to the upcoming memorial day of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. I know Sepultura made a song in 1994 referencing to this: Refuse/Resist. This song is against world disorder. The inside of the EP shows a picture of Tank Man. That’s the name of the man who stood in front of the line of tanks. Astonishing… I was just a little guy back then (10 yrs old) but I still remember seeing this event on tv and the impression it made back then. I don’t know everything there is to know about China, but I do think it a scary country. Remind what they do (and did) to Tibet.

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 up since I’m doing cool stuff at work – see my profile page for details – and because I’m shooting more and more pictures with my digital camera that I want to share with the world. Hoping to have just some visitors someday

It’s time to play…

Cheers!