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[NL] Verenigingen Sassenheim moeten bloeden voor (semi-)commerciële bibliotheek van buiten de gemeente – @deteyding @ adestmusica

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/28

Bizar: lokale verenigingen moeten bloeden om een (semi-)commerciële Bibliotheek (nauwelijks open is, al tonnen subsidie krijgt en goeddeels buiten de gemeente opereert) te steunen.

Verenigingen zijn de lijm van je samenleving. Ze krijgen al geen of nauwelijks subsidie krijgen en worden hiermee hard geraakt: de huur bedraagt nu al een substantieel deel van hun begroting en gaat zo nog zwaarder drukken.

De Bibliotheek Sassenheim, Bibliotheek Voorhout en Bibliotheek Warmond zijn helemaal geen vereniging (ze vallen onder de stichting Bibliotheek Lisse, wat eigenlijk een commerciële partij is die voor een groot deel buiten de gemeente Teylingen – Lisse, Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, Oegstgeest – opereert en nog steeds tonnen subsidie per jaar krijgt).

De zwaarst getroffen verenigingen zijn (huurverhoging per jaar):

  • Adest Musica: 12.350 euro
  • Theater ‘t Onderdak: 8.955 euro
  • Biljart Entree: 3.040 euro
  • ATV Pankras: 2.970 euro
  • De Saksen: 2.470 euro
  • NVVH Vrouwennetwerk: 1.065 euro
  • Crescendo: 1.030 euro

Stichting tot Exploitatie en Beheer van SCC ’t Onderdak (SEBO) moet totaal 31.335 euro extra huur innen. Welzijnskwartier moet 23.650 euro gaan betalen voor Fascinus en @hok. Waarschijnlijk zal er voor beide stichtingen extra subsidie nodig zijn om deze huren te kunnen betalen.

In Agneshove, Het Trefpunt en de Bibliotheek krijgen lagere huren door het gelijktrekken van de huren in de tarievennota. De bibliotheek gaat 26.635 euro minder huur betalen. St.Cecilia is 2600 euro goedkoper uit.

–jeroen

via: De Teyding; nieuws uit de gemeente Teylingen (Sassenheim, Voorhout en Warmond) – Enorme huursverhoging voor verenigingen in ‘t Onderdak in Sassenheim.

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[NL] toch nog onverwacht snel: Eindelijk. Glasvezel in Sassenheim. @deteyding @xs4all @Reggefiber

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/28

Toch nog onverwacht snel: Eindelijk. Glasvezel in Sassenheim.

Ik had geen hoop meer dat dit snel zou gebeuren en daarom voor mijn broer xs4all ADSL laten aanleggen:

Mocht je zakelijk op een bedrijventerrein glasvezel willen, dan kan dat op de industrieterreinen IndustriekadeJagtlust en Zuid-Sassenheim. Zie Glasvezel Sassenheim voor meer informatie.

–jeroen

via De Teyding; nieuws uit de gemeente Teylingen (Sassenheim, Voorhout en Warmond):

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In 1 week: nieuwe nationale nederlanden logo in oudere brief dan oude NN logo (: @nn_nederland

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/15

Het nieuwe logo in oudere brief:

Nieuw NN logo: linksboven brief

Nieuw NN logo: linksboven brief

Het oud logo in nieuwere brief:

Oud NN logo: rechtsboven brief

Oud NN logo: rechtsboven brief

De tekst is in ieder geval duidelijker, want meer contrast.

Ik ben nog niet helemaal uit het nieuwe logo:

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The curse of getting electronic invoices

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29

I’m getting nuts with all these companies insisting on sending digital invoices or receipts.

The worst is that each and every company has figured a way that works well for them, but is slightly different from all the other vendors. You’d think there are not that many degrees of freedom. There are.

A lot of them aren’t even invoices, as they miss valuable information (for instance Dutch ones lacking chamber of commerce or VAT numbers) or they sent you a ton of stuff where invoice is not called invoice or receipt at all.

Others send you an order confirmation, payment confirmation, shipping estimate, shipping confirmation, rating reminder, pro-forma invoice. But no invoice.

The attachments are horrible. Some send them as PDF, some just HTML mail, like with images that need to be downloaded but are gone after a while. Others even send Word documents, CSV files, or Excel sheets. Of the paged documents, they are often formatted for Letter (hey, there is a whole world out there with A4!).

It gets really painful when you need to go on-line to retrieve the attachment. Sometimes a cookie suffices. Sometimes you need to login. The worst are when during login, they disable auto password entry in a browser.

Some of the attachments (even PDFs!) contain just a bitmap image of the invoice: no OCR, not searchable. Amazon.de is known for this.

Talking about Amazon.de: they managed to send me a German order confirmation. With dates in Spanish (as I found out through Google Translate of 26 de enero de 2015):

And many of the invoices lack key information to relate them to bank account or credit card statements: transaction numbers not matching or completely gone.

This used to be so easy in the past when we had paper invoices. Once every month or so, I sat down, ripped open all the envelopes, sorted them into categories (private, company, etc), did payments.
When the statements come in, just put the right ones with the right statements and hand over to the book keeper that does the tax filings. Simple and took an hour or so!

I spent most of today figuring out all the electronic invoices of last quarter (the paper stuff took me like 30 minutes).

–jeroen

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Interesting video channel: Numberphile – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/19

For number phreaks: Numberphile – YouTube.

They have their own Numberphile Facebook page and there is Numberphile (numberphile) on Twitter.

–jeroen

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Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer… factory reset!

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/11

via +Kristian Köhntopp Chris Blasko originally shared:

Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and scream at them, you ask? Certainly not. Like a good IT administrator I put my skills to use for their benefit. Here’s how the conversation went.

Which ended with the phone of the Telemartketeer being factory reset.

–jeroen

via: Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and….

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Interesting: Jason Franzen memoRANDOM / moreSIMPLE

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/23

Jason Franzen has some interesting concepts, including these:

–jeroen

via:moreSIMPLE by Jason Franzen.

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This is madness. University textbook at full price but without ownership (via: Jan Wildeboer – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/08

Having to buy a book at full price, then having to return it when your semester is finished sounds so wrong on so many levels, even if you get DRM licenses access to the content:

one of the best quotes on DRM ever: But, as Professor James Grimmelmann noted, “we know from sad experience that gerbils have better life expectancy than DRM platforms.”

–jeroen

via: Jan Wildeboer – Google+ – This is madness. University textbook at full price but….

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On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open (via: Tim Berners-Lee’s guest post on the Official Google Blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12

Today, on the 25th anniversary of “the web“, be sure to read Tim Berners-Lee‘s guest post Official Google Blog: On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open.

Then – after watching his below video message – please help to keep the web free and open.

–jeroen

Greeting from Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on the Web’s 25th anniversary on Vimeo on Vimeo

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Sorting algorithms are art forms. Just see and hear how beatutiful they are.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10

Image and video art came through SORTING – A visualization of the most famous sorting algorithms and 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes – YouTube.

Both via This is why I Code – Google+

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