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Vlamingen zijn voor behoud van België + wat denkt twitter?

Published June 10th, 2008 in Belgium and twitter. 3 Comments

belgieVandaag zei ik op twitter  dat Vlaanderen en Nederland misschien maar eens moeten samengevoegd worden. Ik ben er mij natuurlijk van bewust dat dit er niet direct in zit en dat dit voor veel problemen zou zorgen (stel u voor: Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde zou er niets tegen zijn).  Ik zeg ook niet dat het moet (Lang leve België, ik hou stiekem wel van mijn vaderland, meestal toch. En met Filip als toekomstige koning gaan we een een leuke toekomst tegemoet (denkt aan de Koppen reportage over Filip)), nu en dan heb ik van die impulsieve invallen die ik er dan uit spuw.  A la minute had ik een hele hoop reacties.

Wat zeggen de Belgen? 

  • Lars: Zodat we een goed voetbalteam zouden hebben? :p  
  • Bart: En elke dag boterhammen met kaas eten, no thx. Dan liever de twee uur durende business lunches met de walen ;-)
  • Sam: Laten we dit niet doen! Zij kunnen bij ons aansluiten als ze willen… Ik hou niet van oranje! 
  • Davy D:  Ik had nooit gedacht dat jij separatistisch zou zijn 0.0 Maar bij Nederland… dat zie ik niet zitten 0.0
  • Davy DP: Ja, dan hebben we ineens ook een deftig nationaal elftal… :)
  • Maarten: Ik wil het Nederlandse volkslied niet zingen, oranje dragen, noch pindaboter met perzikken eten bij iedere maaltijd :-(
  • Jeroen: 2nd that :)
  • Bart N: zoooooooooot :)
  • Nick: Ik ga daar mee akkoord. 
  • Gert:Domste idee ooit! 
  • Tomas: Als we samen gaan met NL zitten we binnen 175jaar terug met dezelfde bs… Vl mss onafhankelijk en daar stopt het ook best!

PS: Belgische reacties werden sterk beïnvloed door de resultaten van de EK-wedstrijd waarbij Nederland van wereldkampioen Italië won met 3-0. 

En de Nederlanders? Willen zij er ons wel bij?

  • Kilian:  nee, enkel de PVVers willen jullie er bij :p
  • Stefan: Ok I’ll bite. Als we ook jullie belastingswetten kunnen overnemen ben je welkom ;)

Iets later in het middagjournaal: “Vlaanderen wil staatshervorming”

Bijna de helft van de kiesgerechtigden in Vlaanderen is voor het behoud van de federale staat, maar willen wel een staatshervorming. Zo blijkt uit een onderzoek van het instituut voor Sociaal en Politiek Opinieonderzoek van de KU Leuven. Slechts een kleine 10% is voor een splitsing van België, zo’n 12% vindt dat het  unitaire België moet hersteld worden. Bijna de helft van de Vlamingen vind dat de gewesten en gemeenschappen meer bevoegdheden moeten krijgen, dit binnen een federaal kader. Opmerkelijk is dat één vijfde van de ondervraagden vindt dat er niets moet veranderen. Staatshervormingn blijkt bij de verkiezingen laatstleden weinig invloed gehad te hebben; werk, gezondheidszorg en pensioenen waren hierbij de belangrijkste thema’s. (bron vtn nieuws). 

De meeste van mijn twitteraars zijn, net als de doorsne Vlaming zo blijkt, duidelijk geen fan van een Nedervlaanderen of Vlaanederland of iets dergelijks. Wat denk jij? Laat gerust uw reactie na (met in het achterhoofd graag respect voor een ander en zijn mening).

Plaxo, sync your life

Published May 27th, 2008 in internet, social networking and software. 0 Comments

I’m trying to keep my address book and other stuff up to date, so if everybody could just join Plaxo and connect with me, that would be great; thank you. 

sarahdeforche.myplaxo.com 

 

plaxo 

 

What is it?

Plaxo is a service that automatically syncs and shares your address book, calendar, tasks and notes. By connecting with plaxo users, your address book is never outdated.  

Plug-ins allow you to connect and sync with MS Outlook, Apple address book and iCal, Gmail, Live Mail, Yahoo, LinkedIn,.. and even your mobile phone. 

Plaxo is also a social networking site. It allows you to find people you might know by searching for old classmates & colleagues, browsing your friends connections and you can join groups where you can meet people with similar interest.

The Plaxo Pulse shares content from websites like Flickr, Twitter, Digg, your blog… so you can track what your contacts are doing.

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Blog-tagging

Published May 14th, 2008 in blogging, internet, social networking and thisSite. 2 Comments

Sam recently changed his domainname to thecowinthemiddle.com (awesome name Sam!). Due to the change, he lost a lot of hits, links and pagerank points. Therefore he posted a blog-tagging post.

 

Blog-tagging? WTH r u talking about? 

Well, it’s actually quite simple. You tell 5 things about yourself that most people probably don’t know and add (tag) 5 links to blogs you like. He tagged me so now I have to tag him and add 4 others.

 

Ok…?

Yeah, I have my doubts. It’s like a chain letter, but for blogs. And I really hate chain letters and e-mails. What I do like is the “tell 5 things about yourself”. People who follow my twitter may have noticed that I find privacy overrated (but when I don’t tweet I usually do something sneaky ;-) ) and I love telling stuff about me. And tagging 5 blogs is a great way to express your appreciation. I choose rather personal blogs, although I also read a lot of other giant and famous blogs. Here it goes.  

 

Five things about me you probably didn’t knew: 

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Dropbox - More invites

Published May 11th, 2008 in internet and software. 20 Comments

Dropbox just read my blogpost and supplied me with some more invites (thank you Dropbox). If you want one, just leave a comment. 

Multi-Mania 2008

Published May 1st, 2008 in varia. 6 Comments

Multi-Mania is a free one-day conference and award show where multimedia-minded people come together.

It takes place in the center of Europe: Belgium, Kortrijk.

There are over 30 speakers from around the world, including Aral Balkan, Stephanie Sullivan, Peter Elst, Jason Levine, Serge Jespers, Bart Chanet, Hoss Gifford and many more beautiful people. Registration is open since tuesday and is going very fast, so be sure to register now! 

Here is my schedule:

09.30u / 10.15u - Adobe’s opening keynote (with sneak peeks?) 10.30u / 11.15u - The GAE SWF Project 11.30u / 12.15u - SQLite in Adobe AIR 12.30u / 13.15u - Having fun with Flash and Air 14.00u / 15.45u - Adobe AIR: Playing with API’s 16.00u / 16.45u - Flash 2D & 3D Effects 17.00u / 17.45u - The Pixel Whisperer  20.00u / 21.30u - 2M08 awardshow 21.30u / 02.00u - 2M08 Party powered by Boulevart

Register today and let me know what sessions you will be attending. You can still enter the competition in order to win an award so check out the site! multi-mania.be  

It’s all about twitter baby!

Published April 25th, 2008 in comic, internet, social networking, software and twitter. 4 Comments

twitter logoEveryone should know twitter by now but for those who don’t: Twitter is a social-network micro blogging service where you answer to the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters.

Introduction to twitter. Why do people twitter?

The bottom line is to let people know what you’re doing. By telling your friends the little things about you, you can get to know each other better. It might not seem that important what tv-show someone is watching, but it does tell a lot about you.

But twitter is more than that. …Click to read more about twitter, how to twitter, twitter applications and more.

Netvibes Ginger, personalize your homepage with widgets, feeds, blogs, email and more

Published April 12th, 2008 in internet and varia. 4 Comments

Netvibes is founded in 2005 and headquartered in Paris. In March they released the new version to all registered users: Ginger (previous Coriander). 

With Ginger, you have your private page and your public “universe”. The public universe is a major update. It adds the social function to Netvibes. Now you can Share your feeds, widgets & pages; you can add friends and write them messages. You might be able to do more but I don’t have any friends yet over there so I don’t know. I used the “search friends” function, but no one in my address book seems to have a Netvibes acount. Strange… So I guess it’s time for a decent blogpost about Netvibes. Let me tell you what it’s all about. 

 

What  is Netvibes?

netvibes

 

You can describe Netvibes as your personalized start page that brings together all your favorite online services, applications and feeds. It’s much like its competitors iGoogle, Pageflakes, My Yahoo and My AOL.

The main reason I use it is to read my feeds. Due to Netvibes, I don’t have to check all those blogs and websites I like, to see what’s new.

 

 

How can you personalize it?

There are built-in Netvibes modules you can add such as RSS-feed reader, local weather forcast, calendar, bookmarks, notes, todo-list, searches, email (POP3, IMAP4; Gmail, Hotmail, .macMail, Yahoo Mail,…) Podcasts (a built in audio player),…

You can easily find them just by clicking Add Content. You can browser by categories, add essential widgets (the most common ones) or any RSS-feed. You can also add feeds when clicking the feed icon or link on a site using Feedburner, check this screenshot.

To keep all of them organized, you can use tabs. I myself have 8 tabs, more about them later. 

You can drag your content around and move it to another tab (drag it to the tab).

A page can be personalized further with the existing themes or by creating your own theme. You can personalize each tab and each widget. Not only by adding fluffy colors, but by clicking “edit” you can adjust some settings for instance the number of items to display, if you want to open directly on the site or not, if you want to see more details,… . 

 

Social function

You can share your tabs, feeds, widgets and modules with others individually or via the Netvibes Ecosystem. …Read more about Netvibes, check out my homepage and more.

Dropbox - Store, Share & Synchronize

Published March 15th, 2008 in internet and software. 24 Comments

Do you feel the need to share files between home and work and keep your macs and pcs synchronized? You want it to go instantly, to be easy? You want a way to easily share stuff with your friends? You need to work together on a project and don’t want your mailbox to be stuffed with versions of files? Enter Dropbox!


Dropbox is a way to comfortably store and share your files online and to sync your files between computers. You can also use it to share files with friends and colleagues. 

It all works instantly. The second something has changed, Windows pops up a fluffy balloon that indicates the changes and if you have Growl installed on you mac, you get a notification in just a blink of an eye.

Dropbox

 

How does it work?

 

First you instal Dropbox …Read the rest of this post.

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