Breaking up DVD's in 10 minutes pieces and uploading them is boring work!

Ted is very happy at the butcher

Interesting plot to make 1 billion US$ over the backs of US Taxpayers: http://ping.fm/t13dJ

Ted is studying hard how to give feedback.

having some goodbye drinks!

@hkolk ... there is no snow ...

What is up with this world? Batteries were stolen out of my bike headlights, in our private garage!

Desperate need for coffee and food after a night of comatose sleep. Ted was exhausted so slept the whole night till just now!

Ted is refusing to go to sleep without mama home today. So he's out of bed again since leaving him cry makes no sense.

RT @alefarendsen Vraag nr elektrischeauto's volgens fabrikanten niet inzichtelijk (http://bit.ly/4sx35o)?gaan we doen ikwilelektrischrijden

What can one say? Our boy likes to sleep

RT: @kevinMansfield hehe http://ping.fm/ySd0p

In the office, being told to STFU since there are recordings in the room right next to me. Good thing @TangoThanato (Demis) is not in today!

@cdegroot trying to beat @bigfurrymonster? I have succeeded in that only once or twice the last 4 years...

Decided to make a little bit longer post about the "IRD" http://ping.fm/6PuOc

Internet Registratie Dienst: true service or fraudster? Considering the letter we received for one of my domains, I'd say Fraudster!

I am extremely curious how many people have received similar "offers". And yes, offer is between quotation marks since it is an offer made to look like an invoice, including a very aggressive due notice (14 days).

The Internet Registratie Dienst kindly requests small businesses who have a web-presence to pay a small fee for having their URL, email address etc. added to a database. According to themselves the "fastest and most complete email-guide of the Netherlands".

Having worked at Marktplaats for quite a while I have heard of all kind of guides, such as Telefoongids and Goudengids, who actually provide a service and try to make your business findable on the internet. They too claim to be fairly complete. The IRD however I have never heard off, other than in posts on the web complaining about their extremely aggressive way of acquiring new customers, see the "invoice" below.

They have been around already for a while though, curious that no one has shut them down yet. Emerce already wrote (negatively) about them in 2001: http://www.emerce.nl/artikel.jsp?id=46787&rubriek=728471
Consumentenweb wrote a huge complaint about them back in 2004: http://www.consumentenweb.nl/consument/klacht:+%27internet+registratie+dienst%27/40.html

Another Google link sent me off to Test-Aankoop, giving a similar story (unfortunately undated) http://www.test-aankoop.be/internet/internet-registratie-dienst-bedrijvengidsen-tot-vervelens-toe-s456203.htm

If you happen to receive an invoice like this from the IRD or "Web Registratie Dienst" (WRD) or "E-mail Registratie Dienst" (ERD), please do not pay this invoice. Instead, please go to Fraude Meldpunt or to the KVK and complain about these practices.

Act Now http://ping.fm/jytll www.thebigask.eu

Wasted several hours installing and removing apps, debugging my server to find out the sync between phone and server is native phone stuff!

@bigfurrymonster @Olafdepolaf: Olaf is not entirely wrong according to Wikipedia: http://ping.fm/TZyQa

There is hardly anything easier than getting used to being at home with your kid and enjoying the calm days together. Need more time off!

Just realized in the greengrocer's that i do not know the difference between mandarins and clementines.

out in sad and grey weather.

Made lunch for Ted: Couscous with courgette, tomato, onions and garlic (and some herbs of course) He's lovin' it!

@cdegroot today!? Oh dear Lord! good luck!

trying to get a fairly simple Ruby tool to actually generate a photo album, but keep getting "Too many open files ... (Errno::EMFILE)"

Was hoping for more weather like yesterday so we could go to the zoo. Alas, just gonna go out for groceries today instead.

First coffee of the day is the most important one. It has to be hot and drank in serenity. Not gonna happen with a thunderstorm in the house

Last nights' @HIMYM_CBS lacked all inspiration while @BigBang_CBS seems to be getting better and better! Shame cause I loved @HIMYM_CBS

Ted is very busy ensuring he does understand colours.

Our geekling in his new shirt in the sun!

Here's a peek at what it will become in 2 more sessions.

Ted's still life with pencil for this morning.

Second time Ted is eating today already. First a bowl of porridge, now a banana!

Allrighty! Busy day ahead with Ted: do some groceries, do some christmas shoppings, take naps. Wow, full agenda for today!

text generators are always fun!

Playing around on StumbleUpon I ran int "darksites.com", which has an Evil Plan generator.

I hatched the following plans:

Evil Plan (tm)!

Your objective is simple: World Domination.

Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure

Stage One

To begin your plan, you must first incapacitate a town mascot. This will cause the world to swallow nervously, confused by your arrival. Who is this unholy menace? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in a corporate suit?

Stage Two

Next, you must steal the statue of liberty. This will all be done from a amusement park, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will weep uncontrollably, as countless hordes of corporate suits hasten to do your every bidding.

Stage Three

Finally, you must demonstrate your arcane ritual, bringing about an end to sanity. Your name shall become synonymous with the spice girls, and no man will ever again dare interrupt your sentences. Everyone will bow before your dashing good looks, and the world will have no choice but to whisper your name in fear.

Besides this they also have something really nice "A Step-by-Step Guide to joining the Forces of Darkness"

RT @jteamhq: JTeam is hiring again! Are you a good Java developer/architect, do you have experience with Lucene/Solr? http://bit.ly/6KUlXq

GOOD (www.worldH2Oday.com) commercial based on Cool Hand Luke: http://ping.fm/kIYUi

They say no pain no gain, which unfortunately is true for tattoos as well. Gonna be awesome though!

mid session break at #vibestattoo

off to the beauty-parlor (or tattoo shop) to get stung by a freak with needles for 3 hours!

Lonely christmas tree cheering up the hall a bit.

Setting up the fake tree for in the hallway.

This is what one can do while having a day off... Not sure what the point of it is though.

Trying to debug the Google API thing is going to be interesting. Have an error log the size of Africa!

How bizar, one of my sites uses Google Maps and somehow the API key is no longer valid. Generated a new one, same error appears. ghosts ??

RT @cdegroot ROFL - @sanity Very funny, why men shouldn't write advice columns http://budurl.com/nq75

oh what a bliss! Three more days of playing around at home with Tedster! Not starting to work until Thursday is how life should be!

RT: @slashdot Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction http://bit.ly/7O4J2n

Beans are good for you!

big wheel at Vrijthof

Maastricht really feels like an open air museum.

Having some coffee and food at #coffeelovers in Ceramique in Maastricht.

Classic: trying to reach the support site for my hosting party; support site down and unreachable. My sites are up and running though :)

Damn, leaving my xubuntu running overnight somehow killed the sound. all it does now is stutter like a maniac.