What is Twitter?

Here is a hsort video explainning what Twitter is...
If you are like (programmer, a bit more than 25, trying to get a lot of things done in 24 minutes) then we must have heard about Twitter, but found is USELESS. Honestly, what's the point of letting everyone know I'm having a coffee?
Well, here is a video explainning why Twitter is successfull:

I'll give it a try and see what comes us...

UPDATE: I don't like Twitter anylonger. I get mails daily!!! My next Twitter status will be: trying to remove Twitter account.

There's probably no God

In London, like in the rest of the world, church is threatening us that we will go to hell if we don't believe in God, if we don't go to the church and give money to the church...
Professor Richard Dawkins (British Humanist Association) had a great idea: posters on buses saying "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life"

The BHA planned only to raise £5,500, which was to be matched by Professor Dawkins, but it has now raised more than £36,000 of its own accord.
Now, this is freedom of speech.

read more here

the best job in the world

I was surprised yesterday evening to find 2 friends who didn't hear yet about the best job in the world.
In short:
- job for 6 months in Australia
- you have to take care of an island
- you must love taking photos and videos (not a master)
- you should be able to swim
- talk english
- blog about what you're doing there
- and be willing to receive 10.000 EUR monthly.

So, quit your job and apply. 27 days left. Go at http://www.islandreefjob.com/.

PS: I wish you goodluck reaching the server. :))

I'm applying.....

professor Laton puzzle 20 Unfriendly Neighbours

Solution: see photo attached.
The key is to draw the lines for A and C going through the bottom of the map.

professor Layton puzzle 5 Digital Digits

This is a tricky puzzle: Digital Digits (the one about clocks). The correct answer is: 34

You've figured out for sure:
01:11, 02:22, 03:33, 04:44, 05:55 and 10:00, 11:10, 11:11, 11:12, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16, 11:17, 11:18, 11:19. => 16 combinations. And you have to count them twice as the puzzle asks you for all the combinations appearing during a day => 32 combinations.

The trick is that this is a 12-hour clock and "The indication of noon and midnight in the 12-hour system is disputed." (check Wikipedia). Looks like Layton's 12-hour clock displays the noun and midnight as being 12:00 and not 00:00 => 12:22 combination exists and appears twice.

32 + 2 (twice 12:22) = 34

Professor Layton: GECY NW puzzle

For the GECY NW puzzle from Professor Layton and the Curios City, here is the solution:
GECY NW = TEXT ME

OLD: Finally, I found the solution. But honestly it has no reason! Because if somebody does a typo, he will use the same pattern for the following mistake. If you type a lot of time using a keyword (which everybody does in this era) your hands work magically without you looking and if you miss one key with one button to the left than all the text is going to be one left-key mistake.

UPDATE: Brittany is right: looking carefully at the chocolate bits, you can find the answer:

- 1. missing chunk up letter G => (check keyboard the letter on top G) => T
- 2. no missing chunk on letter E => E
- 3. missing chunk left letter C => X
- 4. missing chunk left Y => T
... and so on ===> GECY NW = TEXT ME



This is awsome, Brittany!!! How long did it take you?

professor layton and the curios village

I don't like Nintendo games at all. Especially not those shooter games, those dress me up, color-me and how pretty I can jump through the grass fields games. Yacht! I've bought my DS Lite only for the Brain Age Training, but after 2 weeks I was totally, fully bored. There is nothing pleasent in receiving more difficult words to figure out and such a black-white front-end. I am a human from the TV era! I need color and not monochromatics.

It's my fully pleasure to announce the best game on DS: Proffesor Layton and the Curios Village: http://professorlaytonds.com/. It's really great:
- nice story (no monsters or crazy shooters)
- fully colored
- great usability (could improve): the long click though dialogs are substituted by cartoons movie with real actor voices. Bright idea! I hate when I have to read what one character is saying then click next, then read what the next character is saying and so on... It's waisting my time and I might get RSI... Bravo, Layton team!
- great game goal: solve as many puzzles as possible!!! Everybody has the human instinct to prove himself and to learn in the same time. Puzzles are a great solution for this.

There are a lot of puzzles on net, but nobody put them all together in such a nice story like Professor Layton team.

I'm looking forward to the next 2 games within the serie:
- "Professor Layton and The Devil's Box"
- "Professor Layton and The Final Time Journey"
Sadly, they are not in english yet :((

For The Devil's Box, the Japan-only "Level-5 Premium Silver/Gold" collections on Nintendo DS included an exclusive side-story, "Professor Layton and the Holiday in London" (レイトン教授とロンドンの休日, "Professor Layton and the Holiday in London"?) in addition to the actual game and another Level-5 game, Inazuma Eleven. The Holiday in London includes ten puzzles, some of which are from the first game, and a short storyline, set in Professor Layton's London office, in which he reminisces about his previous adventures around the world.

volleyball season over

Last night we had our last game ... we lost with 1-3 sets, but we played far more better than other times. yupi!!
We are as a team than at the beginning of the season: we actually yield for the ball, ask for passes and trust the other team players.

And I concluded: I can attack now... not too hard though, but it scores!!!... and my right elbow has its own brain. It just decides himself to try and get the ball...and he fails everytime. I told you: listen to your master! But him no and no....

So the season it over :((... Looking forward for the next one!

free monkeys

There is a zoo (http://www.apenheul.nl/ ), where monkeys are free: they can come to you and more they still your food. Look carefully in the below photos, and you will see a monkey stilling a child's candy. :)



How did they manage to let monkey free?! Well, people are not allowed to touch them and monkeys don't know how to swim!

Tulip Fields in Netherlands

The tulips fields near Lisse have just started to bloom. In Netherlands, before the summer green fields, appear the red fields.

My first painting

Sambata aceasta am pictat si asta dupa 10 ani! Prima data cand am pictat pe panza si folosind culori de ulei. Chiar a fost placut ... un sentiment pe care il uitasem demult. Ce am pictat? ... cum se vede mai sus... un mar (cum bate soarele din dreapta). Are 2 greseli destul de mari (in ochii mei), dar mi se pare o treaba bunicica pt inceput!

--- english ---
This Saturday I painted and this after 10 years! It's the first time when I use oil colors and real canvas. It was nicy ... a feeling that I have forgotten for a long time. What did I paint?! ... well look up... a small apple (with light and shadow). It does have 2 big mistakes, but I think it's a good work for the beginning!

--- dutch ---
Deze Zaterdag ik heb geschilderd en dit na 10 jaar! Het is de eerste keer dat waneer ik oliekleuren en op canvas geschildered. Het was leuke ... een gevoel dat ik voor een lange tijd heb vergeten. Wat heb ik geschilderd? ... kijk omhoog ... een klein apple (met licht en shaduw). Het heeft 2 grote fouten, maar ik denk dat het is een goed werk voor de begin!