Genealogy made simple

I don't consider myself the type of person that would spend much time on genealogy, but I was always curious about geni.com. I heard about it on a podcast of an American Israeli and he had real fun with it. Just add your name and a few other relatives with some email addresses to the tree and off your family tree goes! The invited people can add more data about themselves and add other people further away in kinship. All the way to London and New Zealand in my case.

So finally I created a family tree. My family tree is now filled with 81 relatives and still branching out and growing in all directions.

Try for yourself. Maybe you'll discover we're related somehow :)

Anti-fur

I got this link through someone in Hyves. At first it looked like a hoax, but sadly this seems to be genuine. Although I wished that all maltreatment of animals would stop, this should be stopped first. The video behind this link is not for the faint of heart. Really.

www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms

"Code Complete" completed!

Whohooo! Time for a little party! I finished that 900+ page "Code Complete"! Now that I go by train to work I always have at least 5 hours a week to devote to reading work-related stuff. This will be just the first book of many to come :)

Moved to a new house just in time

It looks like we didn't move to our new home too early. When we were moving, there was already somebody shot dead in a street near our old home. Now I read this article in the Brabants Dagblad. From the picture in the article I conclude that it must have been just a few houses away from our old home. At max.

iPod, the choice of composers :)

couldn't resist to post this one.

Team APS

My ex-colleagues posted the picture of the whole team on my last working day. That's great! now I don't have to upload it myself :)

http://apsadvertising.hyves.nl/photos/148682530/0/4M2I/

Cubicle wage slaves unite! :)

It's not that busy on my new job at the moment, so I took the time to take a picture of my desk. Yup, it sure looks a bit like a cubicle. Only 2 more walls to go. Than it will be just a matter of time until Agent Smith will show up for another sequel of Matrix :)

Oh, and please take notice of that peculiar piece of hardware next left to my keyboard. That's my new gadget and a true companion each day in the train: it's the iRex Iliad. For those who are curious: here's the Iliad in action on YouTube.

But back to my new job: as I said it's not that busy for me now. The real work will most likely begin next week. Right now I've been more busy reading documents about how to make websites for the government and setting up a new, personal code library on my USB-stick. I must say: it looks promising. Well, I must say: as promising as all other programs that I installed on my 4GB USB-dongle. I really need it because I can't install anything on my computer. That's a whole step back from what I was used to...

Anyway: the interior of the building looks fair and nice. the exterior of the building is less fancy as you can see by the picture on the bottom of this post. I took that picture from the part of the building where the main door is located. By the way: it's a large building and a lot of companies and organizations reside there, so I'm not working behind one of these gloomy, pigeon-filled windows. Our windows look better than that :)

But besides that little thingy: I like what I see, the atmosphere seems fine and the companies' philosophy sounds good. I think I'm going to like this company (if I didn't already). Oh yeah, one big plus: 2 of the 3 colleagues next to my cubicle seem to share the same deviant musical taste, so I'm hoping to discover even more music!