one of the strange things here at the iSummit 2006 in Rio de Janeiro are the excessive amounts of hotel staff that seem to have no other function than to stand around and smile. seems like that after 2 days of conference somebody finally found something more useful for them to do and made them […]

ok, cant go on being abusive of other people her like in the last couple of posts. does not really add too much to the whole and apparently it will be held against me by some prospective employer in the future anyway. speaking about employment: it is no secret that the dutch economy (especially the […]

looks like the football world cup has begun today. unfortunately i am traveling to berlin on this very same day (by train via arnhem/duesseldorf), which means that you have to share the slightly overcrowded train with about 300 english football supporters and lots of bottles of more or less warm beer (i never loved my […]

went back to the indian DVD and CD sellers at the end of the amsterdamse poort shopping complex in amsterdam southeast today. looks like as if they have scaled back their dvd selling operations a bit (their Bollywood dvd’s still sell for unbeatable €2.50 each though). the stall also sells CDs with hindi film songs […]