Staff of Samsung Customer Service Center HK brain dead?

May 08, 20122,513 views

Software Update Disclaimer

I even dare to go as far to say that I suspect that the people that man the Samsung “service” center in HK are trained to give the most ridiculous and evasive answers possible.

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One month no smoking, what they don’t tell you…

Jan 31, 20126,334 views

ciggies

Going cold turkey is a completely different approach than I had 20-odd years ago and as that period of abstinence lasted merely two years, chances are that this sticks better.

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Juicy Summer

Apr 21, 20111,018 views

Philips HR1861 Aluminium Whole Fruit Juicer

A juicy summer with our new Philips HR1861 Aluminium Whole Fruit Juicer.

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Gaat nieuwe website NRC abonnees kosten?

Jan 04, 20111,160 views

nieuwe NRC site

NRC online is gestopt met krantje spelen. Maar hoe werkt dat precies dan? Is een website van een bedrijf niet een online visite kaartje?

Good Day, Bad Day

Sep 15, 20101,279 views

Good Day, Bad Day

I woke up to see Beijing covered in fog and once behind my desk I saw a tweet of BeijingAir retweeted by Kaiser Kuo telling me it was not only foggy, but also unhealthy.

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Great YSlow Results!

Sep 10, 2010905 views

yslow

Recently I wrote that I installed W3 Total Cache on Piet Bos dot ME. Today I will show you the most recent results.

The circle is round

Sep 08, 2010847 views

Yahoo Pipes

Currently Centipiet.com gathers updates from eight different sites and pushes them all nicely to Facebook. For the people interested in the underlying technology, here follows a short explanation.

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new coat and hopefully a bit faster

Sep 03, 2010626 views

Training by Carolyn Chan (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joydrops/4859280464/)

I have lost count how many times I have changed the URL and/or theme of this blog. Changing the theme keeps things afresh, but changing URLs is not my favorite thing to do, especially since I have one or two posts that people seem to find very interesting.

First week in our new Beijing home

Aug 30, 2010903 views

View of the city from our balcony

Finally we saw our new home, because so far we only had seen it from pictures. It is a lovely new home; very similar to our old apartment in this same compound, but with more walls and therefore easier to make cozy.

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Beijing Impressions

Jun 21, 2010924 views

Friday morning Mia and I arrived in Beijing. Although Mia has been back a few times already since our move to Valencia, for me it is the first time since my departure from China in September 2008. What follows are some impressions.

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