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Ten years, one month, and one week

Sunday, February 6, 2011 8:56:52 PM

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I should really take up blog writing again, so much more permanence than Twitter, or even forum and blog comments! And now Haavard blogged about his ten years at Opera... so I was inspired to write a bit myself smile I started at Opera a few weeks earlier than Haavard, January 2001, and in a special way: without going to the office! How did I manage to get a job where I didn't have to actually go to the office?

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Meme: In One Word Only

Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:10:49 PM

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Tim has tagged me in an internet game of answers, one...word...at...a...time.

Where is your mobile phone?
pocket

Describe your girlfriend:
happy

Your hair:
gone

Your mother:
ashes

Your father:
busy

What is your favourite gadget?
phone

What did you dream last night?
nothing

What do you prefer to drink?
coffee

Dream car?
none

What room are you currently in?
kitchen

Your ex?
nope

Your biggest fear?
fear

What do you want to be in 10 years?
myself

Who did you spend last night with?
twitter

What are you not?
talkative

The last thing you did?
eat

What are you wearing?
jeans

Favorite book?
LoTR

The last thing you ate?
mango-pie

Your life?
typical

Your mood?
good

Your best friends?
scant

What are you thinking about right now?
friends

Your car?
picasso

What are you doing right now?
typing

Your Summer?
hopefully

Marital status?
pseudo

What is on your TV right now?
Bob

When did you last laugh?
today

When did you last cry?
movies

School?
vacation

As usual, I don't tag others. Though my girlfriend just started a (Dutch) blog on Hyves.nl, maybe she can pick it up smile

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Off time

Monday, September 10, 2007 11:08:46 PM

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While elsewhere people will be thinking of questions to ask me, I'll be off to the hospital in a few hours. I hope to be back soon, with a new left hip. The first part of me to become bionic, a lot cheaper though... Kids, watch out for iced sidewalks - a fall on the curb can lead to a broken hip; a broken hip can lead to a dead hip; which is no fun.

For fun, here's a screenhot of my current Opera toolbar configuration:

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Wii and Desktop

Friday, June 1, 2007 10:39:16 AM

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What's the point of a blog if I forget to blog about things? For example, last weekend was great for me:

  • Saturday morning I got a phone call that the Wii I had ordered had finally arrived, picked it up right away of course smile This timing made it an early birthday present...
  • Then on to Amsterdam to hang out with the Desktop team on Tour. Had a great time. Dinner at De Jaren is good and affordable.
  • Sunday: playing with the Wii, have to make sure my daughter only wins when I want her to...
  • Monday: join the Desktop team again to meet Dutch users in a pub in Utrecht


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Say everything

Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:58:33 AM

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Nice article in New York magazine: Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The New Generation Gap (via Schneier). Ultra short synopsis of what changes differentiate this generation :

  1. They think of themselves as having an audience
  2. They have archived their adolescence
  3. Their skin is thicker than yours
Suprisingly, I wasn't surprised. Or shocked or worried. But I'll admit this put-everything-online lifestyle is not for me, I can't be bothered. I don't connect much with people from the described generation anymore since I quit being a Boy Scouts leader, so I can't tell if it is the same over here in The Netherlands. Probably it is, given the high penetration of high-bandwidth connections.

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tag: five things you didn't know about me

Friday, January 5, 2007 5:18:04 PM

I was wondering when it would be my turn - not that I'm really enthousiastic about such games. Like Eric Meyer, I will not tag others smile

  • I've got a bad relationship with the Renault 19 - I lost one because it was stolen (in Prague) and the one before that because I rolled off sideways from a dike*. Getting in a spin on top of a small dike is not a good idea.
  • I might get a replacement for my left hip this year
  • I've been a Boy Scout troop leader for about 10 years
  • I haven't really played computer games since the Atari 2600 became defunct
  • I'm really bad at finding interesting things about myself - or at finding things about myself interesting



* Living in the Netherlands after all...

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Vive la France

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:12:46 PM

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Tomorrow (oops, I mean in a few hours) we'll drive south for a while, to see if hot weather in France is more pleasurable than hot weather in the Netherlands. I've no idea of the level of connectedness of the camping we'll be staying at, so maybe there will be a photo album added soon, and maybe not smile

Anyway, I'll be mostly offline for at least two weeks! bigsmile

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Blogging...

Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:01:31 PM

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I really should blog at least once a month. So, here's a blog post...

Not much new to tell though. In private live, Jens is doing well. Smiling, laughing (quite like Sara Ellen), and still a lot of sleeping of course. Crying also, quite loud sometimes, if he thinks we need some encouragement in preparing his milk smile

Opera work is continuing as well of course. Testing Merlin builds, keeping track of user feedback, Dutch localization for some mobile Opera's... I also keep some of my custom setups updated, so they work with Opera 9 and no new features will be missing: Hugin, MoreMail, Twelve, Rijk's, OperaFox aka Munin, OperaExplorer, Seven-Five, Eight, BiggerMenu, Kiss.

I've tweaked the links in the blog sidebar a bit. It's a pity I can't reorder the sections, unfortunately.

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Home

Monday, December 5, 2005 3:18:19 PM

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This morning we could take Jens home, after the hospital had taken care for him for three weeks. Now he's all ours smile

Dutch readers will know this is a great day for such a gift!

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Holiday report

Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:05:03 PM

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Today we finally got some serious sun here!

Great, considering the fact I'm still in The Netherlands.



With my SE P900 and Opera, I can stay informed of all the interesting news - and weather forecasts. Have fun with 8.02!

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Scare at the Opera

Thursday, June 2, 2005 2:30:24 PM

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It's rather late in the evening, you are chatting on an internal IRC channel. Suddenly your boss chimes in with a frightening "OMG, what happened with Acid 2?" People go looking, and discover major regressions in the latest build! And that just after we had made such progress! Red background again, no more green eyes...

The cooler minds notice this is also showing in yesterday's build. And in Firefox the face also got a red background, which it never had in that browser... A look at the source code learns that the DATA-URLs have been replaced by simple relative URLs. Pointing to files that don't exist on the webstandards.org server. Phewwww, that's a relief. Now, after a good night sleep, the smiley has been restored to it's former glory.

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Hurray!

Friday, May 27, 2005 9:55:24 PM

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No, it's not contagious. But I'm in the same situation as Tim Altman. A difference between us is that I've got some experience already. But it's 6 years ago now, it will be interesting to see what will be different and what will be the same.

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My new work horse arrived today

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 9:09:46 PM

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I work from home, testing various Opera desktop versions, writing a little documentation and communicating with the user community. Recently, my boss agreed it was time for a new PC. So apart from simulating Opera use on a mediocre 3 year old system, I now get to test Opera on a decent modern machine happy

Specs: Athlon XP 3000, 160 GB HD, 1GB RAM, WinXP (and soon various other OSes using VMWare).

Don't worry, the old machine will not be thrown out, I will also run Opera on Windows 98se regularly.

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