Nog meer koninginnedag...
Oranjegekke familieleden
ook...
...maar goed, ze brengen wel
oranje lekkernijen mee 
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621. Energie Direct
19 april 2008
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Ik kom thuis. Twee mannen in foute pakken gaan de deuren bij langs. Ik zet mijn fiets in de schuur terwijl er één het gangetje bij de buren in gaat. Als ik even later de trap op loop en mijn voordeur open wil doen komt hij achter mij aan de trap op lopen.
"Ik wil u graag iets vertellen over de voordelen van uw energie afnemen bij Energie Direct."
"Nee meneer, geen belangstelling."
"Maar u betaalt nu onnodig veel teveel..."
"Nee meneer, geen belangstelling."
"Waar neemt u uw energie dan af, zeker bij Eneco hè?"
"Nee meneer, geen belangstelling."
"Maar ik stel u gewoon een vraag. Dan kunt u toch wel even antwoorden?"
"Waar neemt u zélf uw energie dan af?"
"Eneco natuurlijk!"
Beide: "Hahaha"
En met een brede grijns zegt hij: "Nee niet echt hoor. Dat was een grapje...“, en loopt daarop weer weg.
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A small problem with my internet connection...
8 april 2008
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Today I ran into a problem with my internet connection. The past couple of weeks my connection was getting slower and slower, until today I almost couldn't use it any more. So I called the ISP, one of the best in the country. As I called, a tape said I had to reset my router first before they could offer me any help.
So I hung up, and reset the damned thing and called again. After about nine minutes I was connected to someone who wanted to check a couple of things with me first. After some three items of which one was whether my router supported VoIP he suggested that I should reset my router. "But I just done so..." It was really necessary so he could check the connection, he said. Quite unconvinced I did. And immediately lost the connection, which is VoIP and relies heavily on that same router. Oops!
As I tried to call again I noticed that my VoIP connection didn't work anymore, so I used my conventional telephone line which is a little expensive. Especially when you have to wait nine minutes before being connected. This time it was someone quite inexperienced. So he followed the book exactly. The book being the suggestions he saw on his screen. "How long is the cable from the telephone line connection to your router? I suggest that you first replace it by a new one." "Yes and buy two new routers as well. Just in case." I thought aloud. This router is still relatively new and until now when speed concerned it functioned flawlessly.
I managed to change his mind. So next he suggested that I unplugged the power supply of my VoIP phone for a moment. OK let's do so. But now I did something really very stuped myself. In stead of switching off the supply of my separate VoIP phone, I switched the one of the of the phone I was talking into. Beep... beep... beep... Sweat was gushing down my back now. And I was mad. Not only about the situation, but how could I be so stupid.
After that I first I tried to restore the results of the VoIP crash myself. So I did a reboot of my VoIP phone and had to enter my login name and password, which I retrieved from an encrypted file that I recently used to save it in. But still my phone said it couldn't find the SIP and the server.
Well in that case: let's call the help desk once again. But it had turned after five. After that the waiting times expands exponentially. After 32 minutes of waiting I got someone on the phone again. After a few tests this very friendly guy told me he could see I had used the wrong password. When I checked it, and checked it once again the file with the password appeared to be dated September 2007. I changed my VoIP password and put it in a new file in February. I was puzzled for a moment and then realised that the right file was in the PC that I put out of use a month ago, because it was old and had several problems. A new password was easily made, and after that the phone worked again. And I wished I had a nice bottle of whine that instance, because I could really use it. Especially since of course nothing was done about the reason I called the help desk in the first place, my really very slow connection. I was told I would have had to call and wait again for that. No no no, not today I won't...
Breathe in (live)
Lucie Silvas
Damned columns
4 april 2008
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Those damned columns! For almost a year I don't seem to succeed in writing them. At least not as many of them as I would like. I in fact wrote quite a few. But maybe I just became more critical over my own work than I was before. Or maybe I did not do so well in writing them. In any case I didn't think they were good enough. Next to that I am worried that I might have tackled almost any subject before in a previous column. But this is column no. 616 or so in seven years time, what do you think?! And what is against trying to do better a second time? I might even discover that my writing skills have improved over time.
Still, I tend to feel unhappy not being able to write my little texts. At least not those that I think are good enough to release on the web. People close to me sometimes ask: what I think myself what kind of person that I am. Some kind of a technical wizard? A photographer maybe? Or a sharp flattering conversationalist? Answering truly, deep from the inside a am a writer. I really am. No matter whether I am a good one or one really bad.
As a seventeen year old I once wanted to paint. Modern art. My family didn't agree. As well as my at the time to-be-family-in-law. My father didn't say so much that he didn't approve, but judging by his face as I ever mentioned the subject it was all evidently clear. Just how much my to be brother in law and his mother didn't understand became visible as brother-in-law came to me at the moment I was accepted by a technical school for a four-year-education. He told about his cousin who was a contractor and said: "You always said you wanted to paint? Now cousin Jaap is looking for painters for his most recent construction job..." Going to art school just didn't cross my mind at that time. And whether I would have been motived enough to really make it work I don't know too because I never tried.
Being 22 years old I started to write. Compensation perhaps, I think hind sightedly. My creativity just had to find its way out, one way or another. I liked writing, but the real passion for it only came after a course for wannabe writers which was co-written by Dutch poet/songwriter and Swiss origin Heinz Polzer, drs. P. Polzer showed how flexible our Dutch language is in adapting a sentence and letting it sound better without changing the meaning of it. And what beautiful texts that process amounts to. (He surely must be a foreigner to see something like that). With the introduction of text editors, that make cutting and pasting text really easy I was definitely hooked.
Now only some rotten columns that I just really want to write, and some good ones preferably. Perhaps just as good as I think this one is.
Fusie / Merger
As of today my weblog has merged with the international GoHansBrinker.com-weblog which is in English.
Vanaf vandaag is mijn weblog gefuseerd met het internationale opinieblog GoHansBrinker.com.
One Love
Boy band Blue with this romantic R&B song has always one of my favorites.