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Bloemencorso Bollenstreek 2011 zonder muziekkorpsen #fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/06

Op dit moment zegt de site van het bloemencorso bollenstreek nog ditover het bloemencorso 2011:

Voor een extra feestelijke uitstraling wordt de stoet begeleid door muziekkorpsen.

Maar inmiddels zijn al veel muziekkorpsen gebeld door de organisatie dat dit jaar het bloemencorso bollenstreek plaats vindt zonder korpsen.

Jammer, zowel voor het publiek als de korpsen.

Het publiek kijkt elk jaar uit naar de korpsen.
En de korpsen gaan het lastig voor elkaar krijgen om voor die datum vervangende inkomsten te regelen.
Ik ben benieuwd hoe die korsen daarvoor gecompenseerd gaan worden.

Veel korpsen zouden iets met het huidige thema (Reis door Europa) kunnen doen, dus ik ben benieuwd naar de achterliggende reden.

Voor zover ik het nu kan overzien een gemiste kans.

–jeroen

via Bloemencorso Bollenstreek.

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Adest Musica organiseert Play-Inn op zondag 14 november 2010

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/16

Drum- en Showband Adest Musica uit Sassenheim organiseert op zondag 14 november a.s. een play-inn. Tijdens deze play-inn kunnen muzikanten meespelen met het korps. Gedurende de dag zullen er enkele muzikale stukken op de lessenaar verschijnen welke op een ontspannen wijze worden ingestudeerd.

via Adest Musica organiseert Play-Inn | Teylingen en Noordwijkerhout (Witte Weekblad).

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Me in infrared

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/06

Thanks to Marc Hoffman (dwarfland), I got an  infrared picture of myself while I was in California.
I catched him on infrared too.

–jeroen

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English Language Difficulties

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/06

Not being a native English speaker (though that term is difficult to define), I like the English Language Difficulties pages a lot.

They help me to get things in English writing right, that I often find difficult.
Some of them: Read the rest of this entry »

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Nick Hodges | The End of the Chow Line

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/30

From the comments on Nick’s excellent post (that instantly made me feel hungry <g>):

If you find your developers bringing in their own equipment to work then you know there is a problem.

That reminds me of this story: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in About, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Opinions, Personal, Power User, RSI, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Leave a Comment »

xkcd: Appropriate Term

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/17

My favourite pointing device: xkcd: Appropriate Term.

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retro: Google Pacman

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/04

Two weeks ago, Google blog celebrated PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday and the Google logo turned into a playable Pac-Man game.

It was supposed to be up only for 48 hours, but due to the popularity, it got its’ own Google Pacman page.

This is like bing at high school again :)

–jeroen

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Happy Towel Day

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/25

Don’t forget to bring your Towel today

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, About, Delphi, Development, Opinions, Personal, Software Development | 1 Comment »

YouTube: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon in glorious 8 bit Nintendo sound (from: The Lounge – CodeProject)

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/02

For those loving both nostalgia and PF: the whole Dark Side of the Moon album, but now rendered in 8-bit NES sound by Sakanakao.

This is the first track, other tracks are linked from there.

Source:  The Lounge – CodeProject.

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New SPAM run faking one of my mailboxes, what do you do with the false “return to sender” messages?

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/26

It seems yesterday and today somebody tried to use the non-existing labourable account on my BeSharp.net domain to perform a SPAM run.

For any recipients: Sorry for that, but there is not much I can do about it.

My BeSharp.net inbox was full of  administrative “return to sender” mails.

I wonder: what do you do with those false “return to sender” mails?
Normally I delete them, because I hardly get any really follow up, and they interfere with my normal mail processing.
But: if a follow up occurs, it usually is a lot later than the SPAM run, and then it is easy to have those “return to sender” mails as a reference.

So: what do you do?

–jeroen

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