Category Archives: Bits and pieces

HannyB’s photos at Flickr

Since I started using photos from Flickr in my blogs I browse around there now and then. I came across HannyB’s photos, they have all rights reserved so I can not use them but I can direct you to them. Here are some of the photosets that caught my eye, in no special order. Take [...]

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My own goals for 2008

It is that time of the year again. A year break is a good time to look back at what went right (or wrong) and to plan ahead. I have set my goals for 2008, divided into personal ones and professional ones. They are about changes I want to make, what is already working will [...]

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Bullitt

Last night I watched Bullitt on TV. Steve McQueen is cool and the film is known for a car race through the hilly streets of San Francisco. Bullitt’s Mustang looks and sounds great.
Wikipedia has an article about Bullitt, including the plot.
Ford Motor Company will release a Bullitt Mustang as model 2008, forty years after the [...]

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Flying in a wing-suit

I got this link in a newsletter, wing suit. base jump, and that looks really really scary!

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Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Here is a Christmas song.

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Good Will Hunting

Tonight I watched Good Will Hunting on DVD. I know I am ten years late, it was released in 1997, but I really liked the movie. The tagline is Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them and that is true.
To me this movie is about following your heart, to Catch [...]

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Lost in Scotland’s photos

I am searching for photos at Flickr to use in my blogs and came across Lost in Scotland. The photos are great, I like the style.

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Tracking the Millennium Development Goals

The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and at the country level.
In September [...]

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Creative alphabets

David Airey has a post about The alphabet, but not as we know it. There are several creative alphabets, from a human crafted to photo-based fonts. The human crafted alphabet is shown below, to see the rest of them – click on the link above.

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Pay-as-you-wish restaurants

Springwise has found an interesting concept, Pay-as-you-wish restaurants. They mention a restaurant in Vienna and writes this:
Prices for drinks are fixed, but customers decide how much they’d like to pay for the food. Most pony up a fair price, and the restaurant doesn’t seem to suffer from its unusual pricing plan.
An interesting concept, it is [...]

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