I just decided I like Jamie Oliver. Not because he looks good. Or because he knows how to smoke a good salmon.

But because of what he is doing: fighting junk food. At schools. In a way I respect.

Check it out: feedmebetter.com

2005-03-30: 271677 signatures. And political effect (BBC News)

2005-03-30:

Until I know what I am supposed decide on, I will vote No to the european constitution. Once it is in effect, it will be impossible to reverse it.

Read more on the EU proposal:
europeannocampaign.com

Ja, hier kan ik me nou druk om maken. Dat ze in een Drents dorp het straatbeeld vervuilen met afzichtelijk meubilair. Kijk en huiver.

/photos/2004/09/09/beilen-meubilair/

Foto's zijn in september 2004 gemaakt. Had ze nog niet online staan.

Voor meer lelijk Beilen, zie Mooi Beilen: het ding (2003-12-16).

Somewhere along the line, something went wrong. Painfully inaccurately categorized as "funstuff":

Source: infocellar.com

Posting this link feels a bit like a provocation. Nonetheless, for the sake of freedom of speech, read the comparison between Bush and Hitler.

I do not have enough knowledge of Hitler's history to validate the statements made in this article. So, decide for yourself if the comparison is far-fetched or valid.

Never knew the Britains had a 'Prinsjesdag' too. They call it the Budget. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Great Britain: Chancellor Gordon Brown

The Netherlands: Minister Gerrit Zalm

Source: BBC News

Forget about parking the car. This snow height was at least 30cm. Just hope we'll get back home this afternoon...

"perfectie is nog altijd de vijand van het goede"

2005-02-21 Jan-Willem op zijn /dev/log/

At work we get many mails and calls from people offering us to optimize our website for Google. Most of the time it's spam. Sometimes these people actually spent time researching our company. It's still spam though.

Since part of my job is to maintain the website, it's pretty annoying having people telling me I'm doing a lousy search engine job. Then again, it can always be done better. (*)

To give you some clue. We're into license plate recognition, referred to by 80% of the market as number plate recognition. We market a product called INTRADA ALPR:

dacolian.com/en/products/id/intrada_alpr/

To do a better job, we registered an alias domain and made sure our product could be found using the term anpr:

numberplaterecognition.com/en/products/id/intrada_anpr/

And another improvement is our glossary:

http://www.dacolian.com/en/help/glossary/a

With sodutch being indexed very well by search engines, it's only a matter of time to see what the result will be.

*) Without cheating by using 99 backdoor entry pages for example.

For those who have not heard it yet: I will relocate to The Hague at the end of April 2005.

It's some change.
Over 10 years I've lived in Groningen. Worked for 3 years at the current company and lived for 2 years in my current house. All with great pleasure.
Half a year with Margie was enough to lure me away from here.

Still, a giant step. But I'm looking forward to it! Throwing away lots of stuff. All the paperwork to be processed. Looking for a place to live. Fun! Action!

For the last three months I've been looking for a job near Amsterdam. And last week the search ended. No details on this matter. Yet.

If you're curious, give me a call.