For a long time already, Marjoleins grandpa is having trouble with his health. He has been in and out of hospitals quite a few times over the past years. On multiple occasions we visited him and expected this to be his last hospital visit. And every time, the man again was able to get out…
Having just switched jobs (and especially the period before switching) has given me quite some moments of thinking about my future, and my career. What are my goals for my professional life? In DOP I found one of those goals. A challenge both on the technical level as on the organizational level. The role I…
In just over a month time, after working for TomTom for exactly one year, I will be leaving the company. It’s not that I don’t like it there, on the contrary, I love it there. The work is great, the people are great. However, being away from home for about 12 hours each day is…
Silence? It seems like that lately here. There’s several reasons for this. First of all, for some reason, I seem to be unable to really get inspiration on topics to write about. There are several topics that I’d love to write about (XUL, World of Warcraft, the Zend Framework, hacking (thanks to the book I’m…
Every year on May 4th, between 8PM and 8:02PM, The Netherlands remembers those who have fallen in war situations and during peace missions. Today was no different. Two minutes of silence was too much, however, for a radio station (I am not sure which one) that was on while visiting my in-laws. At just before…
There have been some changes in my life. After getting my job at TomTom, I had little time left to spend online. With 8-9 hours at work, and a total of 3 hours travelling to and from work, I had little time at home to spend online. And since I have way more hobbies than…
As I do nearly every saturday, I left home yesterday afternoon to pick up my wife from work. She works in Amersfoort, and bus connections are not ideal. Plus, it’s fun to walk through Amersfoort every once in a while. Anyway, yesterday was different. I walked out of the parking garage walking my usual route…
I’ve had stress before, obviously one will never do a development job where at one point or another, you get a bit stressed. However, the way it works within the company I currently work for, TomTom, it is all new for me. It is not a short period, a few days, of pressure. The pressure…
The Dutch Bloggies are the dutch version of the international weblog awards (Bloggies). After some technical problems earlier, I’ve finally been able to nominate my favorite weblogs. Mind you, they’re all dutch (though not all dutch-language) weblogs. Since I don’t mind posting my nominations, here they are: Best weblogMijn Kop TheeXiffy Best written logsMarcel HesselingRommelhok…