Controversial is Good
On monday evening I made soup for 25 people. It contained broccoli, zucchini and other vegetables. To make the soup more special I added a little Truffle oil just before I served the dish. Truffle smells delicious and makes almost any dish special. Brillat-Savarin called the truffle “the diamond of the kitchen”. Other people describe the pungent scent of truffle as similar to the scent of unwashed underwear. It has a sharp acrid scent to it and you either love or hate it. Michael Arrington* (Techcrunch editor and serial...
read moreArrogance VS Confidence
Entrepreneurs need to be confident and tenacious. But not arrogant or stubborn. There is a fine line dividing both. It is easy to mistake confidence for arrogance and the same goes for tenacity. Some entrepreneurs think they are tenacious but are simply being stubborn. I think a way to test if someone is being confident or arrogant is too challenge their ideas. A confident human being won’t be easy to convince but he will likely take pleasure in being challenged. An arrogant person will not even allow you to challenge any of his or her...
read moreAwards ceremony: Website van het Jaar
Yesterday evening I presented the ‘Website van het Jaar’ award ceremony in Hotel Arena in Amsterdam. The organization received more than 1.3 milion votes in 14 categories. I announced all the winners on stage, had a little chat with them and presented them with their prize. The big winner was Google.nl. For all the winners see the ‘Website van het Jaar‘ website. IPAN was the host for this event and paid for some for the drinks. I took this photo 1 minute before we started. As you can see you don’t see much on...
read moreLoïs in Paris
This weekend Loïs (my daughter) visited Paris together with my parents. They visited the Centre Pompidou, the Eiffel Tower and went to a church to attend the first communion of my nephew. I stayed in bed most of the weekend and even yesterday with an upset stomach. But I feel much better...
read moreSync BlackBerry + Google Calendar
Keeping my Blackberry synced with my mac has been a constant struggle for years now. I tried several software solutions and often destroyed my calendar. Right now there is one appointment in my calendar that accidently got itself duplicated 3000 times. I can’t go to that week or iCal crashes. I can’t delete them either because that also crashes iCal. I could delete all older events but then I lose everything. So I just ignore it. Today Google announced something that might help: BlackBerry Sync for Google Calendar I installed it...
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