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Holiday in the Netherlands
During Chinese New years, Suna and I visited my parents in the Netherlands, a week packed with activities. It started with an early Finnair flight to the Netherlands right after Chinese new years in Shanghai (Can’t recommend to fly this … Continue reading
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Year of the dragon! (Fireworks video)
Since it’s Chinese new year’s tonight, I thought I’d put on some footage on my blog. This is taken in our compound, close to Hongqiao airport, Shanghai. You will see the same all over the country though. Airquality: … Continue reading
Multibooting OSX Lion & Ubuntu Linux on Macbook 4,1 without CD
Linux was a hobby of mine about ten years ago. A hobby you say? Yes, I don’t know why I got involved with it, but Linux just pulls you in, if you like computer science. Actually, I developed … Continue reading
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Horseback riding in Suzhou
After a good few months in Shanghai, we finally got some time in the nature again as we went horseback riding in tge mountains of Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai. Thank you, Dirk Jan, for arranging this! For the … Continue reading
Don’t start producing without proper testing
In 2008, I wanted to start a company based on group buying of customer electronic goods. Initial product offering was based on customer surveys. A terrible idea. We believed that the company, named ‘dewinkelvan.nl’, translated as: ‘the shop of’ had … Continue reading
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Came home to this today
We’re going to eat gourmet tonight! Came home to help setup but Suna did all the work already, i just have to sit and eat, awesome! We got this gourmette set for Christmas last year :)
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Korean exam on sat morning
Just 3 pages, should be easy! 한굴 세장, 쉽어요 하거 어려운? Just finished my korean exam, it’s no official level or anything, just practicing thus language for fun, since my wife is Korean. Tried to study a lot this week … Continue reading
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These guys are overdoing their opening ceremony.
Firework started at 7, now at 8:30, still very busy lighting firecrackers. Very serious fireworks for such a small boutique
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More unitedstyles dresses are on your way!
Anna and Berry are packing dresses at the unitedstyles.com.
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Korean DMZ water, interesting marketing from heavy military zone. (clean?)
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Suna’s birthday dinner at French restaurant
Eating Camembert at la salena with suns
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At techcrunch disrupt in Beijing with UnitedStyles
I’m in Beijing at the moment, participating in the Techcrunch Disript conference. We made it to the finals and will compete against the remaining finalists in about four hours from now. As many of you will know, Techcrunch is THE … Continue reading
Anneversary at Sheshan
Suna and I are celebrating our one year anniversary this weekend. At first we were aiming to go abroad or to another city in China, instead we saved the trouble and went to She mountain, a bit (20 min by … Continue reading
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Oh the irony…
This service car of the neighborhood car insurance company got into an accident. Spotted on my way to work this morning.
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Eight gamification elements for Facebook apps
Having worked at Spilgames in 2009, I mostly heard channel managers and game developers talk about gamification aspects. When I first encountered this topic, it seemed a dry gaming thing and irrelevant for programming aspects. “I am not a game … Continue reading
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