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Delving A’dam, espying Eve

Ria — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:46:52 +0000

After a series of workshops at the University of Amsterdam, we retired to Café Van Zuylen for beer and soup, waiting out the Friday evening traffic before heading south on a three-hour drive done in 2 hrs 10″, thanks to my driver’s belief that speed radars don’t work at night.

Mobile photo, edited in-camera

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Heed the tab count

Ria — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:23:33 +0000

When is it time to quit for the night?

“You are about to close 47 tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?”

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Quincy, where are you?

Ria — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:36:33 +0000

Not Mr Jones, but rather the podcaster responsible for a series of excellent jazz and latin mixes in the early noughties. While trying to work on a lengthy translation this evening, I kept stopping to marvel at the selection of tracks in the Brasil mix: Tamba Trio, Mario Castro Neves, Elis Regina, the list goes

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Geek rapture

Ria — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:25:57 +0000

Honestly, what did nerdy geeks do before browser extensions and apps?

Geek rapture with new font ID extension

Ah yes, trainspotting.

Truly this is the time of geek rapture.

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End of the Non-aligned Movement

Ria — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:24:36 +0000

First HDR photo using a tripod, which means no more caffeine-induced wobbly hands and blurred photo merging.

What do you think?

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She sells shoe sales

Ria — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:07:36 +0000

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Pulling a sickie

Ria — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:57:33 +0000

Actually I am ill, really ill, really. It’s a killer cold, already shared by everyone else in my inner circle, now reaching me, the most disease-resistant member.

It’s also out of consideration for my colleagues that I’m staying home — no one would appreciate my sputum-rattling cough and explosive, spluttering sneezes.

Which means I find

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Night and Day

A very Dutch death

Ria — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:38:48 +0000

The new year had barely begun when I learned of the death of a colleague who worked in the office opposite mine. A very Dutch death, he was out cycling on New Year’s Eve, probably going home to celebrate with his wife and four kids, when he had a heart attack and ended up in

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The Magic Roundabout

Ria — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:21:41 +0000

Looking to update my TomTom maps on the cheap, I came across The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK.

Holy cow! Where do you begin?

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Feuilles volantes

Ria — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:45:45 +0000

While waiting in the basement for the washing machine to finish, I picked up a book from the open boxes stacked under the stairs, the remainder of our unpacking from … almost two years ago *gulp*. The book was a well foxed paperback of Victor Hugo’s Choses vues, a sort of memoir of major and

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