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just for testing.

Last saturday I found myself getting lost in Brussels. Finally, 45 minutes late, I arrived at Hackerspace in the middle of schaerbeek. Didn’t know what to expect when I approached the, what looked like an abandoned building.

Just a couple of days earlier, I read on the drupal forum that hackerspace was organizing a dirty drupal hackathon. Never met any hackers before, never did a hackathon. Some guy with obviously not enough sleep created a short movie to promote the event. Didn’t found out much from it either.  read more ...

Amazon recently bought the famous online shoe company Zappos for nearly a billion dollars. What would Amazon want to do with a footwear e-commerce company? Especially since they are selling shoes themselves! Isn't this just plain cannibalism?

Jeff Bezos shed light into his thinking in a video sharing his four lessons learned while building Amazon... and which he follows religiously.  read more ...

Last week, I spend 3 days in Amsterdam at the Nedstat Headquarters to be sitestat certificated. I was send by Netprofiler to be trained in the use of Sitestat as part of the Professional Partnership Program.

Day one

Day one started off with a presentation from Fred Ven Der Wuff, the VP sales, about the history of Nedstat, the current state of the Sitestat software, the benefits for its users, the distributions strategies and the goals of the recently created partnership program.  read more ...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to attend a workshop organized by netprofiler, the market leader in web analytics in the Netherlands. The session about Tealeaf, a tool to improve online customer experience was particularly impressive.

Tealeaf captures and plays back all customer interactions with your life website. It allows you to see all issues and troubles visitors are experiencing. Each individual session can be identified and played back.  read more ...

According to wiktionary the word crisis (plural crises) means:

• A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
• An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
• A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
• (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
• (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Those aren't my words, nor my wishes for 2009. These words have been left as a comment on a blog highlighting Ryanair's 'polite' reactions when a blogger detected a bug on the Ryanair website.

According to the article, a staff member of Ryanair wrote the following:

"jason! you're an idiot and a liar!! fact is!  read more ...

Claudio posted an interesting video on his blog about siftables, and I like it so much I want to share this cool stuff too.

Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications (source: siftables website).  read more ...

To really grasp what it’s all about, just check the video below.

In today's learning finance we'll try to understand the now commonly used word "bailout".

In economics, a bailout is an act of loaning or giving capital to a failing business in order to save it from bankruptcy, insolvency, or total liquidation and ruin (source: wikipedia).

Google Trends illustrates perfectly its recent popularity. Before May 2008, the number of queries of the word "bailout" was close to none. Once it enriched people's vocabulary, it only took 5 month's to explode into an incredible 80 times the average use of the word. Since then, it didn't left our language. Some say it will take a very long time before it will.

“We have the Austrian school — the school of rational expectations, monetary schools. And in the U.S., we have a totally new school, and it’s called the Zimbabwae school. And it’s founded by one of the great leaders of this world, Mr. Robert Mugabe. He has managed to totally impoverish his own country. And that is the monetary policy the U.S. is pursuing. If something is going wrong, print. If it doesn’t get fixed print more. If it then goes even worse, print more.”

Quote Marc Faber

source: econoshock

Yep, I love the internet. I spend almost every single day on it searching for information, entertainment and company. So for me, it’s a big thing and I imagine it’s the same for you too.  read more ...

What the hell have I been doing the last month(s)? It has been quiet for a while! Did this blogging thing wear off? Did I injured my fingers so I couldn’t type anymore? Am I getting lazy?

No, no, no, none of the above.  read more ...

We're jamming
I wanna jam it with you,
We're jamming jamming
and I hope you like jamming too.
Ain't no rules ain't no vow we can do it anyhow
and I Jah know will see you through,
'Cos every day we pay the price with a loving sacrifice
jamming till the jam is through.

Jamming at drupalJam  read more ...

Ah, the Internet (not, the internets), what a wonderful place to be! Laid back, without ever have to leave your comfortable chair, you'll find all the information you'll ever need.

Don't feel like doing some important stuff? Need a break? Don't move, stick to your chair! Just hang around the Internet some more and talk to your friends on myspace, Facebook and the likes! There are loads of places to hang out, and loads of people to have fun with!  read more ...

Let's celebrate... this very site you're browsing through and enjoying so much (I hope) is already live for 25 days. Yes! Go, go! Let's party (imagine people getting all enthusiastic, jumping up behind their computer screens and going wild...)!

So why celebrate? Because today, my precious learned to defend herself.  read more ...

Saturday 11.00 in the "morning" I arrived in Calfven, a tiny village in the Netherlands close to Belgium. Spending the weekend there with a small but enthusiastic group of soon-to-become friends to talk, discuss, demonstrate and work with my favorite CMS and open source project...yes, you're guessing it right... Drupal!  read more ...

Yesterday Olivier (aka Jax) organized a Drupal User Group (DUG) meeting in Brussels. It was my first time to meet some Drupal enthusiast in real life. Roel from Krimson gave a short presentation about Drupal 6. The session was followed with some social time at the bar.

So, what did I get out of it?  read more ...

Last weekend I visited my flatmate Marco from Mexico. We lived in Monterrey together with three Singaporean girls (Say Hi to Carina, Jin and Sufei!). All of us were studying at TEC de Monterrey. Needless to say we were having a blast!  read more ...

Welcome visitor to my blog. Today's my second blogpost and we start with some good news! Finally some good news about our dear planet!

After All Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' I couldn't catch sleep at night thinking about how bad we are screwing up our planet (ok, I'm getting a bit dramatic now)!

The only thing you hear these days is scientists talking about the disasterous effects of climate change, news anchors continuously announcing "the worst storm ever recorded in human history"  read more ...

Hi there visitor,

Welcome to my new site!

I'm very happy to announce the launch of my new website. Which, off course, you already know about since you're already here. But let that minor fact not spoil my joy!

Here, I will discus what interests me, what drives me, some ideas worth mentioning (no guarantee)  read more ...