My Personal Blog
Some private blog things.
When I am working with a laptop, I am always using the trackpoint and not the trackpath. I really like it and probably I am using it since my first laptop in 2000! Why go from a trackpoint on the laptop to a futuristic looking RollerMouse? “Normal Mouse” At the office, I am using a … Read more
Volunteering can give you a good feeling. Given money to organization can help them. But the people who need blood for whatever reason, depends on blood donors. I just wanted to contribute to this world with something that is always needed.Just before I was ready to donate blood in the Netherlands, they discovered I had … Read more
In 2019 we went to Vietnam for a holiday. I have never been to an Asian country and my wife visited already other Asian countries. She had some doubt if I would like it over there. Instead of a trip travelling from Hanoi to Ho Chi Ming, we just stayed “close” to Hanoi. My sister … Read more
Once a year a part of the Netherlands (mostly south) is totally out of business for a couple of days. You can’t reach anybody, shops are closed. Where is everybody and what are they doing ? This year I had to skip Carnaval. And next year I will be there because Carnaval 2021 starts at … Read more
On august 1st I got married and it was an awesome day. Because this wasn’t our first wedding, we wanted to have a nice atmosphere with a lot of fun. Preperation I propose to my wife in style. It was in Las Vegas at a chapel. Of course with the real Elvis singing for us … Read more
Yes ! After doing a design clinic in 2010 and presenting Social Miner in 2012, I was lucky to do a technical Seminar in 2018 at CLEUR (Cisco Live Europe). TECCOM-1463 The personal highlight of CLEUR 2018 was of course for me, my presentation. Because my session was on monday at 08:45, I started only … Read more
Nature is what I like and Solar Panels are my fun ! 5760 Watt is it enough ? 4 years ago I started with solar panels. Because the new ones were out of budget, I bought “old” ones with an old model inverter. They were not used but because the wattage of the panel was too … Read more
I have a dream…. Which manager wasn’t dreaming about your IT sitting on a beach and the Data center would be completed automated without any human errors ? I believe this is the future. But aren’t we saying this for about 25 years right now. Each year, month, week, day there are innovations that makes our … Read more
This page is in Dutch because the RVO subsidy is only for the Netherlands ! Return on Investment van een Zonneboiler Het belangrijkste om uit te rekenen hoesnel je een zonneboiler terug verdient, moet je veel informatie hebben. Wat is je huidige gasverbruik, uit hoeveel personen bestaat het huishouden, wat is de ligging van je … Read more
Costs of washing clothes There are a lot of parameters and for each person they are different. The first question is : Can we calculate what the costs are of washing our clothes ? Buying the washer and dryer. Calculating the investments of a new washing machine and dryer is very complicated. What brand are … Read more