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I'll be on vacation from now till June 29. Depending on WiFi-availability in the area I'm visiting, I may or may not respond to anything until that time.

We started a new site where we can vent our rage on all things sucky about software:

Software Bashing: We hate software. With a passion:

Fact: All software sucks. We're here to show you exactly why, and just how much it truly sucks. We don't discriminate against vendor or development model; all software sucks. We are relentless. We show no mercy. If the software exists, we will find its suckage, no matter how much it leverages synergetic business potential. Be prepared.

Hopefully we can reach some software authors and make them see the light. If not, at least I was able significantly reduce my blood pressure through the site.

The most annoying thing about email…

When someone sends you an email, and not five minutes later proceeds to call you up or visit you to ask if you've already read their e-mail and what your response is gonna be. Then makes you explain your entire response and says "send me an email about that, will you".

I don't understand gift certificates. I mean, the idea is quite good: A piece of paper that represents a certain value, and which you can then trade for goods of some kind. Much better than dragging all that gold around all the time. So in that regard, gift certificates are an awesome idea. Except that we already have this thingy which is made of paper (most of the time) and that represents a certain value. It's called "money".

The best thing about money is that you can spend it on everything, everywhere. Whereas most gift certificates are only valid in certain stores. The only reason gift certificates make sense is if the giver wants you to spend it in a certain store. I guess that's the reason gift certificates exist: vendor lock-in. Another brilliant way of controlling how and where we spend our money. Capitalism, yay.

I prefer money.

I'll be on vacation from now till the 26th of July.

Since me and my housemate have been living in our house for nearly one and a half years now, we thought it was high time for a house warming party! But who to invite? "Well", we thought, "why not invite everybody"?

When?

Friday, 25th of Januari 2008
Party at our place!

The party starts at basically whatever time you'd like to show up. A general guideline would be around 8 o'clock in the evening, but you're more than welcome earlier. We haven't set an end time for the party, so we can keep going all night long if need be.

Who's invited?

Everybody's invited! You can bring your friends, coworkers, your significant others, your mom, whoever you want. We really don't mind. The more, the merrier, we always say.

Where

The party will be held at our house. The address is:

Lloyd Webberhof 56
3543 EH
Utrecht
The Netherlands

Directions

Here's the place on Google Maps.

If you're coming in by train, there's a train station (Utrecht Terwijde) quite near our house. Once you disembark from the train, go down the stairs and straight ahead over the old tracks and over the little bridge. Go left, past the bicycle stands, then right (yes, you can walk on that street, no worries). You'll pass a park on your left. Take the first street on the right and immediately go left, in between the houses and the tall ugly building. Take the first street on the right. This is the Lloyd Webberhof. Number 56 is all the way at the end, on the right – just follow the music ;-).

If you're coming in by car: From Amersfoort get on the A28 towards Utrecht. From the A28, get on the A27 towards Den Haag/Breda. Take the exit to the A2 towards Utrecht/Amsterdam. On the A2, take exit 7 'Oog in al'. Take the second street on the right, BEFORE crossing the bridge. You'll go all around and over the highway and will end up at a roundabout. Take a left at the roundabout, then take the first street on the right (passing through a tunnel underneath the railway). Out the tunnel, take a left. Take the fifth street on the right. Take the first left, and keep going until you're almost at the end of the road (which ends in a T-section). Before that T-section, you'll see parking spaces on your right, where you can park your car. On the other side of the house bordering the car park is the Lloyd Webberhof.

Tha booze and tha food

Since we have absolutely no idea how many people are going to show up, it would be a good idea to bring your own booze and food. Naturally we'll have some, but we honestly can't say if it'll be enough. So, rather safe than sorry, right?

Sleep

If you want to, you can sleep over at our place. There's plenty of room for people to sleep, but you'd be wise to bring your own sleeping gear (airbed, sleeping bag, pillow), since we don't have many spare beds. Also, you'll probably have to share a room with some other people. If this bothers you, bring a tent or something.

Contact

Wanna know more? Can't find the house on friday? You can send me email and find out my MSN/ICQ address by going to this page: Contact information. In case you need to call me (cause you can't find the house or whatever), my phone number is: +316********. (Update: Removed after the party for obvious reasons :-P)

Present?

No presents please! Unless it's booze for yourself.

The ANGRY Whopper, with ANGRY onions and ANGRY jalapenos!

Hey, BurgerKing?! Your ANGRY advertisement just caused you to loose an ANGRY customer. Angry onions? Spare me. There's no way this ad wasn't made up by an American advertisement company. Well, guess what? I don't like companies making me feel stupid when buying their products, so I'll never buy one of your products again.

Hi, I'm back from Dublin.

Here's a picture of what we did:

I'm off too Dublin for a couple of days. Be back on the 25th. Ahoy mateys!

For the last year and a half, I've been terrorized by mosquitos. At night they even had to queue up and draw a number before they got a chance to drain my blood. I've tried everything to get rid of them, all to no avail. I kept the windows closed, burnt essence, air-tightly closed off my room when I was sure there where no mosquitos in it, bought expensive electrical anti-bug devices and more. Nothing worked. On 'good' nights, I've killed more than twelve pesky buzzers in two hours.

But now I've found the ultimate solution, and I can't believe I didn't think of this before. I'm now sleeping in this:

_{No, this is not a joke.}