Tag: personal
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I’m going to be doing less conferencing and visit less usergroups because I’m going to be doing a weekly radioshow and a podcast for my all-time favorite radiostation.
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I posted this on Facebook about an hour ago, but this is not limited to Facebook. It should not be. So I’m reposting it here. Today was a day like any other, except that it wasn’t. It was an official day of mourning in The Netherlands. This morning as I woke up, it was still…
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Today I spoke a short bit at the funeral of my grandmother. I told my family about an important lesson I learned from my grandmother. I’d also like to share this lesson with you, as I think it is an important lesson for everyone. When I was a teenager, I suffered a lot from acne.…
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January The year started well for our dutch usergroup with the “Frontend Special“. A great event which, looking back, was probably a practice event for our PHPBenelux Conference which we’re organizing end of this month. It was also the month where I was really excited to announce that I’d be speaking at PHP|tek as well as PHP UK Conference. And,…
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The decision to work for Unet did not come easy as there are quite a few cool opportunities on the market here in the Netherlands right now (looking for one? let me know, I can point you in a few directions!). There were a few main reasons I decided to go for Unet in the…
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So, now to tag seven other people. This is getting quite hard within the PHP world so I think I’m going to extend this meme into a wider audience next to some people from the PHP world. I am going to tag the following 7 people: And here’s the rules of the game:
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In 2001, Marjolein and I got our first little place of our own. When not long after, family informed us of the fact that two kittens had been brought into the animal shelter it took us only a second to decide that we wanted to go and take a look. When the cage was opened…
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It took only about 45 minutes between the first contractions and the moment Yara was born. A very very *very* short period of time, but everything went well. Yara is healthy, and a lovely baby girl. Marjolein is also doing fine, and Tomas is so far really happy with his new baby sister.
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January In January I still worked for Dutch Open Projects, yet it became apparent that the project I was mainly working on might become it’s own company . It ended up not happening, or at least not while I was employed there, but it was something important for me back then. February Something that, for…