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VOX, Six Apart’s new blogging tool, is now open to everyone. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and (as you may have noticed) it’s made me forget about this here MT-powered self-made blog that I’ve had for the last 7 years. Why? Because I, like everybody else, have less time to spare and want everything to be quick and easy at this point in my life. Maybe when I retire I’ll go back to hand-coding my thoughts in Notepad, but right now, I want VOX.

Vox doesn’t do everything I want. I can’t import delicious, last.fm, upcoming, etc like I do here, but it does all the basics really well. But most importantly… all my mates are there in my own little neighbourhood! With it’s privacy features, it’s perfect for the easy, ’secret’ blogging of stuff you want only your best friends and/or your family to read. It’s free, so give it a whirl, and invite your mates or maybe your techno-phobe dad.

Hmm, that came out like a copywritten advertisement. It’s not. Honest.

So what am I gonna do with eachman.com? Well, I’m thinking of reverting back to prolific.org and making this an aggregate-only hub. I think I’ll be stripping this site of its current ‘design’ soonish.

My friend’s father (74) dad had a heart attack on wednesday. When they got him to the hospital, he was put on a trolley in a&e for three hours. When he was finally given a bed, he had another heart attack. He’s in intensive care now and stable at the moment. He had a triple bypass a couple of years ago – when he had his first (three, I think) heart attacks.

I’d get upset about the three hours waiting on a trolley if I weren’t pre-occupied hoping for a speedy recovery.

What creeps me out about places like Flickr is when people you don’t know, have never met, have never e-mailed with, ‘friend’ you. I wish there was a way you could ‘unfriend’ strangers. Or simply not allow it unless you give permission.

Dude, I’s SO not your friend.

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It’s official, our band doesn’t give a fuck about us. First they didn’t want us in the front rows. Now we’re not allowed to make more than one booking per tour. I.e. they want to get rid of their hardcore, traveling fans. They want new blood at gigs. Hardcore fans are tiresome. I know we are. We’ve also tirelessly supported the most uncool band in the history of music. And made them bluddy big.

Nope, they don’t care one iota. I knew that already, but now we all do.

Update: It’s like the ultimate midlife crisis. Instead of leaving their first wives, these men dump their first fans.

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Did anyone else receive an e-mail with a picture of a boy attached and the message ‘A BOY MISSING HIS PARENTS B’CAUSE TSUNAMI’, asking people to forward it to as many people as they can? Typical hoax stuff if you ask me. I think it’s a picture of the (mosquito bitten) Swedish boy who was reunited with his dad in a Thai hospital in the first few days after the Tsunami struck.

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Check out my flickr photostream for some black and whites taken by my dad.

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A thought that’s been going through my head a lot recently (which I should cherish and investigate — shallow as my everyday existence tends to be) is that everybody has their ‘prime’ time. Some hit it in their twenties, others in their thirties or later. I think I made a pretty good kid and kept it together in my teens and tweens. I don’t think I’m very succesful so far at being an adult.

• My summer break starts on Friday. One more day to go.
• Postman attempted delivering several packages while I was out.
• Lovely Google adsense check arrived
• Two blue tax envelopes arrived
• It’s wasp season and it’s official: ‘they’re very aggressive this year’
• ‘Mac user’ still can’t operate iBook, ‘loses’ toolbar
• Dad remembers I owe him loadsamoney
• Rumour: U2 to play 3 gigs in The Netherlands next June
• Dirty laundry pile higher than clean laundry pile
• Let’s not mention the pile of dishes
• The nice Pakistani gentleman four doors up the road does great clothing repair
• I now have H&M brown pin stripe slacks cut to my ‘length’
• I’d like (and am taking preliminary action) to move to another part of town
• My neck/shoulders are killing me
• My physiotherapist isn’t very good
• I’ve been asked to play a mixed doubles tournament
• My backhand needs work
• My tennis shoes are too small
• My service seems quite effortless this season
• I haven’t seen a good gig in ages
• Who’s going to delete my spam while I’m away?

My uncle Herman’s new book, ‘Het Groot Gebarenboek der Lage Landen’ is out. Here’s the cover and details of this illustrated encyclopedia of gestures. Illustrations by Pat Andrea, texts by H.P. de Boer.
In Dutch only, I’m afraid.

My uncle is always looking for new gestures. I ‘did’ one for him the last time I saw him at my dad’s birthday and he took a picture of this ‘gesture of disgust’. I haven’t seen it yet, but Pat Andrea drew the image from the photograph and apparently it is featured in the book.

Took a little drive down to Rhenen with my dad to take a picture of a monument for one of his magazine articles. The monument was boring, but the sunset over the river Rhine was pretty.