Life and its little pleasures

Haunted on Facebook

Ten people from your past that will haunt you on Facebook.

I have a 10, a 9, a 7, a 6, a 3 and several 1s that I can think of straight away!

E-cards

Best e-cards ever...

I'm so sending these now for every occasion! Thanks J.

Drupal

and what it does to 12 year-olds. Unbelievable that this kid is in 6th grade.

Facebook friends

I really love the finding people on facebook. I recently found two people I studied in Barcelona with in 1997 and the son of my old pre-school teacher who is now a diving instructor in the Dutch Antilles! I don't think I would ever have spoken to them again if not for facebook. Out of side out of mind, you know.

But I've had it a bit with all the facebook friend requests of almost complete strangers. If I have never met you, never spoken to you, never called you, never touched you, never did whatever with you, I'm not your friend (yet). So no, I'm not going to approve you as my facebook friend. I use facebook to share stuff with my real friends. Ok, some cases are borderline, but then you get to be my friend on facebook with a limited profile, meaning you can't see any of the good stuff.

I'm even cleaning up my current full friends list. I just realised, I don't really know a lot of them. So if I have removed you, don't take it personally. It just means I don't really have a clue who you are and you probably don't know me either. If you think I never should have removed you, then apply for my friendship again :-) I'll give it another thought! Hehe, I quite like this... a bit too much actually...

Canada's #1

Dating sites are hot everywhere I go, but this one has got to be the hottest ever!

Test

Posting an item from my iPhone...
Works quite well, I have to say.

New toy

... has arrived!! Jipie!

Belgian "kl*te"-newspapers

I'm getting more and more frustrated with the Morgen and the Standaard, Belgium's (or Flanders') only two supposedly quality newspapers. Of course, I can't read the actual papers here in London, but I try to follow current affairs in Belgium through their websites.
And every now and then, both newspapers have interesting competitions on their websites. I think you can win weekends on the Standaard website now and a professional digital camera on the Morgen site. Both quite interesting for me.

But what I absolutely hate, is that, to enter the competition, both newspapers make you change your homepage to their website. And no, it's not via an opt-in or opt-out form (you know, where you tick or untick the boxes that say "I am ok with making this my homepage"), no no... If you refuse to make them your homepage, you simply can't compete. For me, this is extremely unfriendly customer behaviour. I surf on my work computer over lunch or when I take a break. I do not want the newspapers' websites to be my homepage; the company intranet is my homepage so I have access to all my worktools. But, I also want to participate to some of these competitions, because they are fun and because I like the prizes. But everytime I have to re-adjust my homepage and it's making me dislike the sites more and more...
So dudes, fix it! You should know better...

:-)

Congratulations with your 25th!

Beatrix Kiddo

You scored as Beatrix Kiddo, Congratulations! You are Beatrix Kiddo, AKA The Bride, AKA Black Mamba, AKA Mommy. You are the samurai sword wielding revenge seeker from QT's Kill Bill. You hold a grudge. You can really take a beating. You are superman among mere mortals.

I'm so ready for my party!!! 3 weeks to go.
And suddenly I'm fine with being called Kiddo :-) As long as it has 2 d's.

Take the test here. Which Quentin Tarantino character are you?