My Blog on an iPhone

If you own an iPhone you can now read this blog optimized for it. I installed the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot which automatically shows you an optimized theme if you are visiting this blog on an iPhone. Installing it was very easy and my blog looks very nice on the iPhone now. They should offer this software to every site...

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Amsterdam Style: Tessa!

Tessa got spotted on her way to the Post CS building (where my office is) a few days ago by the people from Dam Style blog. They thought she was representative for hip Dutch girls and asked if they could make a photo of her. Cool!

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Am I, or Am I Not, Your Friend?

Remember back in school when someone would come up to you and ask ‘Do you want to be my friend’ Didn’t that feel awkward? Friendship is something that grows between people. It is not a black and white thing. With real friends you don’t have to declare your friendship. You feel there is a bond between you and someone and maybe one day you will describe this person as ‘my friend’ and suddenly realize that you have become friends! These days I receive several ‘Friend requests’ every day. From Hyves,...

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The Ultimate Diet Formula

I love diets. They are the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Once you start following a diet to lose weight, you actually start losing weight! How incredible? Not really! It is just the Hawthorne Effect doing its magic: An attempt was made to measure the difference between two methods of management during the 1930s at the Hawthorne plant. The attempt failed because the workers impoved their efforts immensely for both methods. This was because they knew they were being watched carefuly. Since then, the term Hawthorne effect has been used to...

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The ONLY Black iPhone In The World

A few weeks ago I dropped my iPhone on the kitchen floor and cracked the glass. I was extremely disappointed and shared my feelings on Twitter. But then Oscar Kneppers came up with a beautiful plan. I’m not going into all the details here because I want to leave that to Bright Magazine but it involved Mark Hoekstra and you can see the result here: The Black iPhone: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/822/paint-it-black-the-iphone I am so proud that MY old iPhone is now THE coolest iPhone in the world! Please also Digg the...

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40 More BeFunky Invites!

My blog still gets a lot of visitors who are looking for BeFunky invites. My blog is the first result in Google if you search for Befunky Invites and it is also listed on Mahalo.com at the general BeFunky page there. Today Tekin Tatar emailed me 40 (!) new invitation codes to hand out! If you want one simply send me an email and I will email you one back as soon as I get a chance. Here are 10 invites just to get in the...

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