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300 DVDs…

Thursday, December 28, 2006

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My Complete DVD Collection. (all 302 DVDs! Click to view in detail) Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. The first DVD player I bought was a hacked Pionier player. I bought it online for more than a thousands pounds from a dodgy hacker who was able to remove the region limit. To change the region I had [...]

Blue Bally Briefcase

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

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On my way to the office I found a beautiful blue Bally briefcase. It was empty but my guess is someone stole it and then disgarded it. The code for the lock is 221 061 so I think the owner was born on Oktober 10, 1961. Any idea who the [...]

New Tailor - New Suit

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

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New Tailor. Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. Today I met with Roel Wolbrink. He is the founder of New Tailor which is an old fashioned but forward thinking tailor in Amsterdam. He has been making suits for me for years. I order some of the more bizarre suits and every year I model them all for his [...]

Magic Pen Drawings

Monday, December 25, 2006

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Anina was a guest at my Informal Diner Party with Marc Canter last week. She is into gadgets and brought a Nokia digital pen thingy. She used it to draw this image (of me!) in a special book and then it appeared on her phone, just like that! See all the images at her blog. LIFEBLOG.anina.net: [...]

Moving, or not?

Sunday, December 24, 2006

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Check these and more Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

Wikipedia-based Search Engine: The Next Google?

Sunday, December 24, 2006

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Techcrunch reports on a new project by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. Read it if you are interested in the future of search: Techcrunch: Wikipedia-based Search Engine UPDATE: Jimmy Wales left a comment that the article on Techcrunch isn’t correct and the screenshot has nothing to do with what they are working on. More information on [...]

Buying books: Local Store VS Amazon

Friday, December 22, 2006

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A few times a year I order a bunch of books from Amazon. Every time I read about an intersting book or someone tells me I should read a certain book I look it up at Amazon and add it to my Cart. And now and then I make a selection of all the books [...]

Google domains for sale?

Friday, December 22, 2006

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Well yeah, if you don’t mind weird domainname extensions. Check these available Google domains: google.co.tm - Turkmenistan google.com.tm - Turkmenistan google.com.ac - Ascension Island google.com.hr - Croatia All available for registration! One condition: you will need a local precence and be prepared to get sued by Google. But at least you will be the proud owner of a [...]

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