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 [...]
Monday, December 24, 2007
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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 [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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 today!
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Wakoopa, a company I own a small share in, is doing very well lately. They are getting more and more members and traffic every day and they are launching new features regularly. Today they announced a new feature that makes them look like the “Alexa” For Desktop Applications. Even Techcrunch agrees and posted a story [...]
Friday, December 7, 2007
This has been a busy week. Last night I visited the Hyves party and a few people mentioned that I didn’t blog much this week. Vincent Everts told me he assumed I was on a holiday because of the silence. Well, no holiday for me! Just busy with a few of our new projects. One [...]
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