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It's the time of the year that everybody gets back from holiday and starts with a fresh spirit. For me personally yesterday was a bit of a special day. I celebrated two 4th anniversaries! The first one was the anniversary of Amber, the daughter of my girlfriend. It was an exciting day for her, because...
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I just uninstalled Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 because it constantly kept crashing. A good thing was that it was only crashing a single tab in IE8, but multiple tabs constantly kept crashing for no reason (to me at least). A new nice feature is colored tabs. But the behavior also changed. Normally I could...
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For the last week, I have been in love with Photosynth . It was a tech preview in view-only mode for quite a while, but now we finally released it to the masses. I've created three synths from existing pictures, i.e., from pictures I took without having Photosynth in mind. These are my first experiments...
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We used to have an XBox at Class-A for students to play on. But the older it got, the less students were interested in playing with it. So we decided to have a new console and opted for either Nintendo Wii or PlayStation 3. I took an investigation upon me to see which was most interesting. Wii has of...
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Yesterday evening I found that McDonald's is discriminating against the car-impaired. I am currently in Seattle for the Microsoft TechReady conference. After a photo walk with two colleagues we were getting thirsty and hungry. I managed to stay out of McDonald's for the almost four weeks that...
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It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin van der Valk . He was a Development Consultant, like...
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Avanade Netherlands is in the race to become the coolest company. A competition started by one of the largest radio stations in The Netherlands, radio 3FM. If we win the contest a radioshow will be recorded at our office and after lunch we receive a dance party:) Here is the link to the video we supplied...
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You might know that I’m quite the Microsoft addict. While a lot of people are very sceptic with everything Microsoft releases, I tend to have a positive feeling for everything Microsoft releases, at first. After some experience, I might hate or love it, or just don’t use it because I don’t feel the need...
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If you're looking at this, you're looking at BloggingAbout.NET on a brand new 19" server that's dedicated to BloggingAbout.NET. We were hosted on a server with about 100 or 200 other sites and we were pulling so much traffic and resources that our sponsor has decided to give us a brand...
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This weekend we got back from a skiing trip we went on with the school my girlfriend works at. We had a great time! The kids were great, and so were the teachers and the Huski people who were there to teach the kids how to ski and snowboard. If they need an extra pair of hands next year, I hope they'll...
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I won't be blogging for the next week. Tomorrow evening, we are going on a ski vacation! I was invited to join the skicamp my girlfriend is going on with her work. A nice opportunity to brush up my skiing skills. Let's hope we'll come back in one piece, but I'm counting on it ;) I'll...
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So that's part 1: www.rickvandenbosch.net is now online. There's nothing to be found over there yet, but the domain has been delivered. Oh, and there's an easy redirect to my blog, so that goes back here ;). From now on, you can also use rickvandenbosch.net/blog as the url to find my blog...
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Dennis already blogged about it : we had some problems with the availability of BloggingAbout since last night. The error was fixed this afternoon, so everything should be back to normal. If you're experiencing any difficulties, please let me know through the contact form , or mail me at rick.van...
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Today was the first of two introduction days at Avanade . Maybe you missed it, but I started there today . And that's why I'm writing this blogpost from a hotel in Almere, using my new Avanade laptop. ;) I'm sure there will be lots of stuff to blog about, so stay tuned for more...
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Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't get around to finishing it. Improvements in...