this blog is basically redundant and not maintained

This blog is not maintained, I have now fully moved over to either Twitter, Google+, Facebook or martijndevrieze.net

ondanks de belofte van stornering nog altijd niets terug van gaveactie.nl. Jammer dat hij echt geen beloften houdt. toch oplichters?

gepost over gaveactie op http://ping.fm/csRCp en http://ping.fm/cncyw kijken of het iets uitmaakt gezeik

Lijkt er danig op dat ik door gaveactie.nl opgelicht wordt. Duurt nu al 2 weken dat ze stil zijn terwijl ze zeggen verstuurd te hebben.

My photo registration of queens day 2011 around Hogeweg in Amsterdam http://ping.fm/nKlCm qday qday020

Despite sleep deprivation I am a very happy camper.

Life is good...

Despite sleep deprivation I am a very happy camper.

Despite sleep deprivation I am a very happy camper.

Despite sleep deprivation I am a very happy camper.

Despite sleep deprivation I am a very happy camper.

wil niet slapen.... is what we. have heard for the last 2 hours.

quite some apps do a terrible job at cleaning up memory and cache on Android

People have a natural tendency to overly complicate fairly simple matters.

What do you do when a bird drops out of its nest? #durftevragen

Set up the video camera to see if we can capture the blackbird nest on the balcony somewhat nicely, leaving it running for an hour or so...

when asking Bing for "define" no wikipedia links and no useful results come up, when asking google the first 2 hits give me proper answers.

pondering how far to go with test automation when desktop apps present SOA business logic. softwaretesting automatedsoftwaretesting

nice post on colourblindness in the computer gaming industry: http://ping.fm/roLGu

how many people will now have changed their password to "this is fun" after reading this? http://ping.fm/FctT1

had a wonderful ride to the office this morning. Nice and sunny, hardly any wind, listening to the radio. Loving the bike ride to the office

sort of ready to head off to the swimmingpool with Ted and Nadia

Had a wonderful night, till 3:15 we haven't slept since that time cause Ted kept haunting the house

off to enjoy the latest Ecco a bit more!

PC slowly coming to a standstil due to rendering movies of Ted on the bike again. Goodbye cruel world...

celebrating Nadia's APICS certification

3 is a crowd at bright :) http://ping.fm/o61Ub

finishing up on friday afternoon, made a planning for implementing automated smoketests softwaretesting. Now enjoying Technotronic!

No effort spared to create a little garden between Binckbank and the KPN tower.

starting to rethink the order in which to automate functionality at my client due to data dependencies softwaretesting testautomation

great news for the open internet: European Court of Justice To Outlaw Internet Filtering; Esp. For Copyright Enforcement http://ping.fm/CbFvw

Giving Medved some colours...

Had a wonderful dinner delivered by pompoen met speck again, they really know how to cook!

Great article by @martinfowler on non-deterministic (automated) tests. Excellent timing, dealing with this right now http://ping.fm/TdA9e

downside of cycling to client: chances are you get wet here in Holland rainsucks

not to self: do not follow links that lead to the Paul Smith online shop. Bad economics to do so.

not too happy hearing that my mom is quite nauseous from the radio-therapy, quite bummed out about my dads unhappy tidings.

not the smartest way of marketing holiday trips on NU.nl

Funny thing, after 10+ years of working this week was the first time ever I got asked for a business card. Shame I have non (yet) though.

very touching story of "photo a day" http://ping.fm/wMH16 here is the complete archive: http://ping.fm/Ws9GY

Windows wants me to install an update for IE, to be precise for IE 22,86 CM ? WTF?

diving into writing the actual plan of attack for test automation after gathering info for the last week and a half! softwaretesting

this is an awesome movie: First Orbit http://ping.fm/jcFmb

5 A.M. is too early to wake up

If the Dyson manual states the filter needs to dry 12 hrs in the sun, will 24 hr indoors suffice?

www.testautomationday.nl sounds like a very interesting day to visit!

Looking at Fitnesse for a full chaintest at my customer, C#, Delphi, Tibco, web, mobile, desktop app. and barely AST knowledge in house

Sad to see that the Dutch government wants to seriously start influencing our free flow of data by deciding what sites are "illegal"

Really nice in this weather: cycling to work. Got to love working in your hometown!

washing up before having some food at the playground is done like this...

getting ready for swimming with Ted

Awesome! Cleaned up the leaves and other crap from the balcony this morning, with a Dyson!! That thing is amazing!

Most of the sand of Ted's sandtable is now on the balcony floor.

anyone interested in a yellow Cafe de Paris foldable terrace table? Come pick it please, otherwise we are trashing it.

Ted did a good thing today: he fed sand to the strawberries. So much they were buried completely!

Awesome that Ted woke us up at 6 AM, this way we can enjoy the weekend to the fullest!

Am I supposed to be proud of my fellow Dutch for this invention? http://ping.fm/dVGmb

You got to love portable bandwidth!

Deze petitie moet iedereen, maar in ieder geval elke ouder van een kind ondertekenen in mijn ogen. http://ping.fm/6DX80

Funny to be reading about software test automation in presentations and books what we've done in the past already is finally catching on!

Good to be cycling through the city again! Really great to ride T. to daycare and then calmly go on to work. I missed that!

Trafficjam for bicycles at Rai.

Ted very much enjoying the nice weather and his new play-table with sand in it!

softwaretesting challange: plan an automated smoke test which covers 15 desktop apps and 8 different webapps including mobile in 1 sweep.

How come so many OCT organizations have disastrously bad coffee machines despite their people thriving on good caffeine?

How come so many OCT organizations have disastrously bad coffee machines despite their people thriving on good caffeine?

How come so many OCT organizations have disastrously bad coffee machines despite their people thriving on good caffeine?

diving head-first into datadriven test automation in order to get a fairly sizable SOA app env. automatically tested. Exciting times!!

Had a very tired boy today, who wanted to sleep but not go to bed.

Seems we need to put Ted to bed half an hour later than we were used to. A lot less hassle aparently.

just discovered that Aiko does not know the story of the Bremen musicians. He is now watching it with Ted. #shocked

The dutch testing world is really small. Just ran into a blast from the past!

The dutch testing world is really small. Just ran into a blast from the past!

weird feeling, knowing you have to go to work but still have all the time in the world since today I start at 10:00

Very much looking forward to learning more about the how and what at Binck tomorrow. Seems like a very interesting, very agile tech-team!

Arrestanten worden afgevoerd van de joodse begraafplaats in het flevopark. @at5

Ted just sneezed a mouth full of lentil and egg onto Nadia's keyboard! LOL

Ted has found Twister and now wants to play... fancy doing that on a Sunday morning :)

Continuing to upload our photo archive to smugmug. Still extremely happy with @hkolk's advice on that one!

Nadia still asleep, Tedster awake and watching Funtik with some breakfast. Me having coffee to try and gain consciousness.

Having a picnic breakfast in the sand as a preparation for the beach season?

Great Saturday morning!

Some people should use latitude rather than foursquare, based on the amount of checkins they do.

w00t! First day with a new employer and had a wonderful intake at BinckBank who want me as of Monday!

We just got ourselves a very tasty lomo iberica... got to love our butcher!

Thanks @JoostBaars for making my day with this one! http://ping.fm/trNkj Great cover from people who have too much time on their hands

awaiting delivery of Ted's new bed... Great these delivery windows, between 11:00 and 14:30

Unbelievable how much Ted is copying from Dasha after having her here for a week! All kinds of new things that come directly from her!

Spent the morning in Keukenhof and afternoon in Schevening in the sun. Had a great day off together!!

it is getting really warm out here in the sun!

w00t! I figured out how to get photos of skydrive. That is *NOT* an intuitive system! microsoft fails miserably.

Long live tmobile! they are completely and utterly dead. So happy that it is Aik and not me that has issues :)

I want one of those!! http://myrolltop.com/

different timezones and datetime settings on photo cameras is a headache when trying to arrange photos automagically

breakfast for champions!

Ted tickling Nata. Seems he made a new friend!

Ted tickling Nata. Seems he made a new friend!

Slowly adding photos of our wedding day (and the days around it) to www.martijnandnadia.nl

Aiko enjoying the sun and working on a tan.

Aiko enjoying the sun and working on a tan.

Nadia and Nata enjoying some quality time in the warm spring sun

(not so) little Dasha enjoying Tedster playing on the couch with babushka

Off to the last bit of a photo session in full outfits!

rest and quiet in the house...

You wouldn't say so, but this is what 100 red roses looks like...

Watching Kostik....

there is a big ass wedding cake living in our fridge! And I have not had breakfast yet. What to do....

gezellig!

haring some wine and some bubbles....

This is how the tea party started as well I guess?

while finishing the playlists for the wedding I finally start to appreciate iTunes a bit. It is good at multitasking.

Bar owners may not sell beer unless they brew a kettle of soup simultaneously.

Ted on his brand new bike

First bike is a big thing to a small boy...

Breakfast for champions, in the lap of your favorite uncle eating a bagle

having coffee with paperazzi

Ted enjoying a reading session with Kostik...

OMG Forget Kirk, Twilight Zone & TJ Hooker - here's @WilliamShatner's greatest moment http://bit.ly/igCeD0

Goed initiatief voor in het Flevopark (al zeg ik het zelf) http://www.verbeterdebuurt.nl/melding/10617/afgesloten-prullebakken-in-het-flevopark

it truly is spring now. We have two blackbirds building a nest in one of the hanging baskets on the balcony.

anyone looking for a nice kastje, 150x45x60 ? http://link.marktplaats.nl/433888339

Where did the fun part of #HIMYM go? the tag-lines, the rude honesty of Lilly, the fun of Robin?

difficult to tell time on, but great gadget to have anyway: Phosphor Reveal http://mashable.com/2011/03/19/phosphor-reveal/

Watching some Ny Pogodi with Tedster now that Nadia is out again. Trying to think of something fun for us to do the next few hrs.

Toiletwalls are great to improve your sense of intellectual superiority

Toiletwalls are great to improve your sense of intellectual superiority

Lunch outside in the sun @polder

Really happy with the switch to SmugMug for photo hosting and storage. Their phone app is also totally awesome!

going to try to get rid of my blasted cold by going to bed and read.

It just had to be a woman to pull this off. http://ping.fm/DIhi1

En dan durft zijn advocaat nog te beweren dat "het volk" deze man onterecht al bij voorbaat heeft veroordeeld en wil vierendelen en stenigen

Do you think Mr. Wim Anker has children of his own? Can you imagine defending a child molester?

any place that /is/ safe for children these days? I guess not, karate teacher, scouting leader, teacher :( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12762333

trying to catch up with twitter and now getting a "something is technically wrong" Not even the failwhale...

fed up sitting inside behind the PC. Grabbing a book and tea and off to the sunny outdoors!

Ted just had to take this for a test drive

After 6 tries getting close to perfect!

Practicing hard to get the bowtie knot in my fingers for next week!

Practicing hard to get the bowtie knot in my fingers for next week!

Blackadder status day today: If you come back with the information, Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room.

got myself new shoes! Am as happy as can be, feel a bit like a girl with this happiness over shoes...

even more reason to go to New York, take over one of the Times Square screens? http://ping.fm/R8cxN

RT @testertested Seriously, this first person Tsunami video is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. http://ping.fm/QrMfZ

can flickr share photos just based on URL like picasa can? Without having to create an account?

#durftevragen online photostorage and backup, flickr, picasa or something else all together?

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

awake since 6 AM when Ted decided he needed to scream a bit. Hoping for a nice day with lots of sun!

Posing with his sweetest face :)

He may be crazy, he may have tigerblood. He is funny as hell, Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes: http://ping.fm/KNuev

Still believe the guys behind the Moog Cookbook were awesome, take their rendition of Blackhole Sun: http://ping.fm/znyG2

elke keer als ik iets lees over die Robert M. hoop ik toch zo dat die gast heel langzaam en heel pijnlijk aan zijn einde komt.

awesome! A video add for eBay Classifieds in Russia!? http://ping.fm/vw8V8

that's odd. I visited 2 bookshops and came out with nothing. Not even 1 book came across interesting enough to get.

if you have loved ones in Japan, you can try to find them here: http://ping.fm/G8Ors japan.person-finder.appspot.com

ongoing news on the huge earthquake in Japan can be heard and seen here: http://ping.fm/40ibk (in English)

good luck to everyone who needs to pass the A1.

Enjoyed being out for a day with the Dacia Duster. Apart from the incredibly loud engine it actually is quite nice to drive!

DIY shopping proletarian style, or raiding a construction site...

thanks @linkedin for failing to allow me to add my new job to my profile cause I start on the 1st of April rather than right now.

metal version of Abba (http://ping.fm/0VIm6) blasting through my sennheiser while making the initial music score of our wedding.

RT @fredberinger Getting Tired of Charlie Sheen? There is an extension for that! http://ping.fm/1GtRW

@amsterdamNL: laat meneer Hölsken eens werken en geef hem die job. Lijkt me veiliger en zinniger dan hem heksen laten jagen. http://ping.fm/5GZkI

Ended up finding some roses and tulips...

RT @stephenfry I'm sure you've seen this, but just in case, Daniel Craig drags up for International Women's Day. http://ping.fm/QDCoj

proved the hard way that the knife I thought sharp, is indeed sharp

Just accepted a job and already busy writing my CV. This time for @PolteqAmsterdam to start sending me out, but weird feeling anyway.

Here's what I found for 8th of March...

Off to find some flowers for International Womens Day for Nadia. Congrats to all the women who know what this day is about!

Today we spent quite some time outside on the balcony in the sun with tea and serrano. Feels like spring is really here!

You do an awfully good impression of yourself.

Summary for this weekend: http://ping.fm/70tlX

going to be visiting Emmeloord again this thursday. Anyone from marktplaats there for some coffee in the morning?

Took me only 650 photos to start to get the hang of the new photocamera.

Was very happily surprised by a (belated) going away present from my old team at Spil. Many many thanks to all of you!!

Up and about with a cheerful boy already after a not very restful night. Ted slept perfectly, we did not though.

Making croissants with Ted this morning. Not sure what will come out of it though...

I have the distinct impression I am in need of a WowWee right now! http://ping.fm/IvE1L

aanvullende verzekering van zorgverzekeraars lijken wel heel erg op een complete ripoff.

Sheen vs Gaddafi, I scored 5 out of 10!!! http://ping.fm/xuWyI @tricksteroni @mattoquai @guardian

Had a great day so far, watched some movies (Back to the Future, Die Hard & Battle Royale) while folding and ironing a backlog of laundry.

What's the use of killing the brein site?

awaiting a response from @PolteqAmsterdam. Guess they are busy today...

charming @aikomastboom

About to accept a softwaretesting job at @PolteqAmsterdam

I need this, all of it!! www.superherostuff.com/ (well OK, most of it at least)

Damn! According to my answers I need to vote Labour or 50Plus. I guess I made a few mistakes in the answers.

Ordered Ted a new bed today

Very nice toy for Android: SECuRET http://ping.fm/s56hx

Somehow the whole day I have had the phrase "It's an amazing discovery Mike!" in my mind. I do miss the Sweater Man.

Had a nice dinner with @SjoerdAben and Megi tonight.

Curiouser and curiouser. Just now was asked to sign for a package from the Peoples Republic of China. seriously disturbed now...

This package just arrived. It comes from South Korea. Should I be worried??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12566277

Off to watch some of TBBT

going to play around with CloudStack over the next few days. See what that teaches me.

Yesterday's dinner provided by pompoenmetspeck.nl was quite a succes! Very tasty and nice portions.

feeling totally incapable of waking up today. So I have decided not to bother with that.

stupid snow

Even Philips is into sex toys nowadays? http://ping.fm/fmICb

Enjoyed a really nice conversation with Rob Dekker this morning.

Vodafone shows weird behavior. somehow seem incapable of dialling a landline ...

How did HIMYM go from good comedy to crappy sit-com? Even Barney Stinson is not funny anymore.

Good to have both the parents safely out of the hospital again.

sunrise over Ij on the way home.

Saw some really odd birds today in a very sunny Winter Efteling...