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Onder het hoedje dit jaar...

De mensen achter dotcom.punt.nl hebben blijkbaar zeer nauwe contacten met de kappers van Bea. Zij kunnen ons laten zien, wat er vandaag onder haar hoed verborgen zit. Blijkbaar heeft Bea de Koninginnenacht doorgebracht op een house party...

De swingende invloed van Maxima wordt steeds duidelijker.

Google goes public (with tongue in cheek)

Google, the primary search engine available on the web, has filed for a Public Offering (IPO). The planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars. This amount is in line with Google's known sense of humour (as the image for the Dutch Google on this day already suggests). My friend Bert Boerland immediately recognised the number.

For those not blessed with a PhD, the number is Euler's number E, which is used as the base for natural logarithms. Hilarious!

Full filing here.

The founders also sent out a letter to their staff, inspired by Warren Buffets essays. Which made me smile again, as Warren is one of the foremost investors in the world.
Letter from the Founders (Financial Times)

German band releases album as ringtones only

A band from Germany has adopted a novel approach to getting their music heard by millions.
Super Smart have turned their backs on vinyl and CDs and instead have decided to just release their album as ringtones.
The album, Panda Babies, is published by a German company that focuses on digital music for mobile phones.
Read the whole story on the BBC website.

Queen's Birthday; celebrate it in Toronto

April 30th is a national holiday in the Netherlands. The day is called Koninginnedag, which translates literally into "Queen's Day". Since April 30th 1980 it no longers coincides with our Queen's actual birthday. In honour of her mother Queen Beatrix decided that Queens Day would take place on Juliana's birthday. This will actually be the first time Juliana will not be there, as she passed away earlier this year on March 20th.

On a more festive note, I was delighted to see our Canadian expats are keeping up with traditions. They will be staging a big party in Toronto today, so go and register and join in the festivities!

Amsteltje competes in Red Bull soapbox race

The people from my favourite local waterhole have come up with an astonishing soap box cart to compete in Red Bull's race. This venue will take place May 16th in Nijmegen.
The initiative at the bar has in the mean time grown completely out of control. Next to the cart they are now extremely busy building a hospitality home to accompany the team and its every growing list of sponsors.
They will not accept second place. These guys go for gold!
See their weblog here!

Roadmap for Integration Technology

eBizq.net has posted a roadmap for integration technologies. Very comprehensive.

The ebizQ Roadmap to Integration Technology helps you understand the complicated market of integration technologies, products, solutions, and vendors. The Map defines different types of integration solutions, and the integration services that can be utilized to implement the business solutions. Inside each category of the map you will find a comprehensive listing of vendors who provide those technologies and solutions. Using the map, you'll be able to identify the vendors and solutions that can help you solve your specific integration problems.

Source: http://www.ebizq.net/vendors/?nl

Testing the Typepad weblog

After seeing Denham Grey's weblog on Knowledge Management I decided to give Typepad a try for myself. Let's see if it suits my needs.