The Wikileaks affair brings to the fore this quote of V for Vendetta in my opinion: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

I wonder what more is in store now that Assange has been arrested...

It took ages to readjust to being back in the Netherlands. Most parts of my daily life were back to normal, but for some reason I could not feel at home being back in my old place. So I neglected a lot of things that needed looking in to ( Read more... )

My visit to New York City, and in this case more specifically Manhattan was a good one (again I might add). This time I took the trip together with Emiel and we managed to get a place just a few blocks away from Madison Square Garden / Penn Station ( Read more... )

And I'm back in Amsterdam.....it's weird being back and I have the feeling I'm still floating in some kind of void. It's as if nothing has changed, but at the same time nothing is really the same either.

I'm happy to see everyone and so far everyone is happy to see me back as well. I'm sure it'll pass, but for now I'm a bit lost in translation from ( Read more... )

Three weeks of work to go and four weeks in total before I leave France. The last stretch somehow is a weird mix of feelings with part of me wanting to stay and see and do more, call it a feeling that I have not had enough time to do everything. Another part of me wants to just wrap up and go back ( Read more... )

After a fun filled month with lots of working overtime due to a system full of bugs I think now we're getting where we want to be. Everything seems to be stable and the system is running without error for 4 days now...let's hope it lasts ( Read more... )

Thanks go out to all that have sent me either mail messages, text messages, called me or sent me congratulations in any other form.

I'm as of today a very happy 32 year old with the knowledge that my friends rock!

I had a wonderful weekend. Besides the nice weather that we've had here for well over a week (it's 20 degrees Celsius and sunny as I'm writing this) I did a lot of nice things this weekend

As most of you know I went to a concert of Juno Reactor on Friday.  The show was great, bought the t-shirt (and one for Deev) and had a chat with Ben Watkins ( Read more... )

Makes me wonder what I'm doing in the office working on various documents. Small comfort is that the window has been open all afternoon so I can get a glimpse of the beautiful spring weather that has been gracing Paris ever since last weekend.

Playing for Change

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