The Netherlands vs. the world

For social networking the entire world is using Facebook or MySpace, but in the Netherlands most people use Hyves. That is logical (by now), half of the Netherlands has a  Hyves profile, so why bother getting into Facebook (unless you have international friends). But the problem is when you want to integrate social networking functionality [...]

15 minute rule

If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
For those of us that are not so lucky to find the A-team, we need another solution. A nice rule I saw implemented in my Lviv team is the 15 minute rule. If you [...]

Projects are about the goal

A couple of weeks ago I wend hiking in Belgium with my Scouts. And it was really nice, good weather, a nice route. After one and a half day we crossed a road which leads to the village Hotton, and we knew we also had to go through that village. One of the Scouts suggested: [...]

Traveling frustrations

(Probably this will not be very interesting… it’s just me writing of my frustration…. enough time to do that.)
This week I visited our team in Lviv, Ukraine. Now I am on my way back to the Netherlands.
Because of bad weather there are a lot of problems with all the flights. That’s not something the people [...]

Bad software

Next year Metallica and Machinehead are coming to the Netherlands. Reason enough to buy a ticket.
So there I was, on a Saturday morning, a bit before 10, behind my laptop (yes, that early). Tickets could only be bought via Livenation, because they try stop illegal tickets on the black market and to give everybody a [...]