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OSSO; more open source; Exit NN-Open; Russia

Herman — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:25:25 +0000

Lots of progress in work department lately. Our team at OSSO is growing and we are working on a new website. This time one that should actually be good. We are also preparing to a special open source sub-site where we will list our current open source projects. And as an addition we have a few larger projects in the pipeline to open source.

After 3 years of participating in NN-Open, I decided to step back as boardmember, as I do simply not have the time anymore to contribute anything significant and it didn’t make me tick anymore.

On a more personal note, in August I will be visiting Russia for a week to attend the wedding of one of my dear brothers.

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A visit to Nauders

Herman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:55:23 +0000

End of january / beginning of februari I was able to enjoy 4 days in Nauders, Austria.

An apparently famous church, with most of it below the water/ice surface.

A view of the mountains

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btw, I was in Edinburgh

Herman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:06:32 +0000

Little more then a month ago I took a short holiday and traveled together with Bas to Edinburgh for a weekend. To keep it short: we had a great time and the Scottish are great. Cheers!

View on Edinburgh from the top of Arthurs seat

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Weekend in Brussel; Belga Queen

Herman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:12:45 +0000

I´m in Brussel now, writing this entry on my eee-pc in our hotel room. Went sightseeing today, lots of walking. Brussel is a really nice town, lots of stuff happening on the streets (without being very crowded), which makes it a very lively town. Nice atmosphere. Must say I am a bit disappointed by the famous beer offering. Basically you can get most of it in the Netherlands as well. But I don’t know the special places.

Another reason to blog, the restaurant we visited today: Belga Queen. Really nice, definitely a recommendation. Cool building, splendid food.
Had some tasting menu. Four course menu, each course with a matching beer (at least that was the idea). Very good meat, some baby deer (hertenkalf) rib, very good stuff.

Anyway tomorrow a bit more sight seeing and then back to the Netherlands. Powered up for work on monday.

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Nice start – Thank you KLM

Herman — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:09:15 +0000

Nice start of my travel to canada. I wanted to check in online, but somehow the webshite couldn’t find my flight/booking. Gives you the “oh oh” feeling.

Calling KLM…. it took the klm lady awhile but she found out that schiphol decided to cancel the flight and they booked my flight to one two hours later and its not a direct flight anymore but i have to transfer in montreal. Great, and I can only get a new ticket tomorrow at the airport. Nice comment of her was that it said “please inform customers”, good thing I was calling. Apparently they like to do such things one day before flight. Go KLM.

So now instead of a flight which leaves at 13:25 and arrive 8 hours later (15:30 localtime or something) I have to leave at 15:25 fly to montreal, arrive there at 17:00 (8 hours flight) and then leave for toronto at 18:00 where I will arrive at 19:20.

Little update (31/12): So indeed yesterday I arrived in Toronto. Quite a bit later however. The KLM flight to Montreal arrived on schedule (even a bit earlier). Really quick through customs, yay! perfect, to the transfer desk. Where is your luggage? Uh, on schiphol they said it would be transferred directly to Toronto… No! thats not true you have pick it up anyway. I had to bring it through customs myself. So a problem, since I already passed customs. Had to find some baggage phones, where you can call your airline and ask them to bring your luggage out at an alternative custom entrance/exit. Too bad noone popped up. Then I asked a someone from some nearby luggage department, he went looking… i waited… now it was 30 minutes till departure time. Some guy from air canada and he went looking for me as well. Luggage guy came back with nothing. 20 minutes till departure time. Few minutes later the air canada guy popped up with my luggage.. yay! After explaining everything to the customs lady I finally got my luggage but now they told me I missed my flight at the checkin. Fortunately there was more then just one check-in lady. My flight appeared delayed! yay! So I made it, I actually had to wait for another hour. In the end I arrived at Toronto airport at 10:00 with 3 hours delay. The only good thing about this last part is that KLM didn’t put me in economy class for the Air Canada flight, so I had many buttons on my chair.

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Summer Holiday 2006: USA!

Herman — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:00:48 +0000

To continue the tradition of traveling around with my father once a year, we will go to the USA this summer. Last year we went to Rome together (5 days) and two years ago to Barcelona (3 days). This year for 16 days! Were planning to fly to New York first, stay there for 4 days and then fly to Orlando. In Orlando we will visit some theme parks and then rent a car and drive to Daytona beach. From there we will drive along the coast all the way to Key-West. And fly back home from Maimi.

We still have to plan most of the details, if there are any interesting updates I’ll blog about it.

The USA was not on the top of my list of countries to visit. But I really look forward to it. It must be a great experience, since its so different from Europe.

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Ubuntu Below Zero ended

Herman — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:28:25 +0000

Since UBZ is over now,.. its time for fun! If my canadian friend here is still up to it well go out tonight and so I can check out the Canadian nightlife. Tomorrow and monday will be focused on hanging tourist style. Visit some old buildings and noteworthy things here.

Edit: Ofcourse the evening ended up totally different. Something went wrong with meeting up (just like the rest of the week :p). Today Israeli guy from the hostel told me about a party nearby last night and I wish I was _there_. So it doesn’t really matter regarding last night since I would have missed that party either way.

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