Martijn de Vrieze, writing about being a Test consultant, Ted de Vrieze, work, raising kids, my dear wife Nadia Rustambekova and life in general in Amsterdam and whereever I go.
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Ted gets yet another present
Njamnjam
How we consume breakfast nowadays
The latest addition to Ted's modes of transportation a bike...
Coffee truly is black, liquid gold!
Friday, 3 September 2010
Had a great diner at wildezwijnen on javaplein tonight. We definitely need to arrange a babysitter more often!
The boys needed to have some time off and chill with the tv.
Busy bar!
Busy at the pooltable
Open bar at Spil Games!
occupational hazard of a tester as described in todays Dilbert: http://ping.fm/hXpUv
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Having a rotating background when trying to read something is quite cinfuaing, almost got motions reading Twitter updates.
Great video "It's a dad life" http://ping.fm/MsXs6 (Thanks Jean-Luc for sharing it!)
Our new company mascot. A Chigeon!
Curious to find out a bit more about @utest
The sun is already playing with the construction site.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Trying to figure out why on earth one of my tweets today ended up on uitgekotst. There was no fail, just a brand-name.
Today we added Nadia's CV to the online job boards. if you know something interesting for her DM me pls! http://ping.fm/A68RA
Ted and dedushka playing
Who out there dares take up the challange of being Game Tester at Spil Games in Hilversum? http://ping.fm/L8qye
starting the search for a proper headset for my HTC Desire. the one you get by default sucks big time!
Openness is at the core of everything we do - Techcrunch coveres Spil Games HTML5contest
Ted is happily running around the house, trying to get his granddad out of bed to start playing with him. So far nu luck just yet.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
RT @obk: Hallo, waarom schrijft de Telegraaf over de 'mishandeling' van @thijsberman Stond er naast, beetje duw en trekwerk. Als altijd.
rt @michaelbolton Managers: Testing isn’t something that you complete; you decide when you’ve had enough. It’s a buffet, not a set menu.
Who is Andy Hu and why is he offering me a job as a serverside java developer for a 6 month contract?
decided to stop trying to work my way through "making history" by @stephenfry. I cannot get through the first quarter of it.
hmmm found out what is up. My employer is telling me I need to update the URL of the mailserver to something different! RTFM
Do you think my employer is trying to tell me something? Outlook Web Access could not find a mailbox for ***MartijndeVrieze
Interesting to see that the upgrade to exchange 2010 breaks the android integration.
Cool! Reviewing CV's which are fully written in German. My German is less hopeless than I thought, acutally understand the CVs!
Early morning listening to Tag's trip on SomaFM.com
Monday, 30 August 2010
That was meant to say the Putin Times of course...
Just finished the Moscow Times my father in law brought, they should rename the paper to The Outing Times. There is not 1 page without a mention of Putin.
Babushka, dedushka and Ted playing at the table with water
Damn, somehow my sennheiser headset disappeared... Now have to survive with a simple logitect headset :(