Weblog | April 2008

Ik weet het, gans verboden, maar toch! De nieuwe Opeth ('Watershed') is al gelekt. Kon het niet laten. Ga toch over tot aanschaf, dan mag 't

Mail van de Postbank, over de fijne rentepunten. Wat een oplichterij!

Zo, de afwas gedaan, het bed verschoont (wat wij vroeger thuis een 'vers' bed noemden). Nu fijn Waking the Dead op de BBC.

Tegenlicht (nu op ned2) In gesprek met John Gray. Moet maar eens iets van hem lezen.

Ik heb zin in een film. Wat heb ik nog liggen? The forgotten of La tourneuse de pages?

Even een test met twitbin. Misschien dat de juiste extensie mijn aanzet tot Twitteren..

Na Boston Legal doe ik nu de nieuwe Brothers & Sisters. Fijn soms, zo'n televisie-avond..

Zojuist kaartjes voor het nieuwe schouwburg seizoen aangevraagd: Jochem Meyer, Jan-Jaap vd Wal en Lebbis. Leuk!

Plannen voor morgen veranderd. Uitje naar Rotterdam wordt (dankzij uitreiking voetbal gebeuren) een uitje naar Den Haag.

Net thuis, op de fiets naar den ouders in Hazerswoude geweest. Nu even Boston Legal op tv met de laptop op schoot.

I recently finally purchased the Theatre of Tragedy 1996 album Velvet Darkness They Fear. My favourite song on this album, and possibly from the ToT catalogue, is And When He Falleth. It features a dialogue from The Masque of the Red Death (1964) starring Vincent Price. I've never actually seen the movie, but now, thanks to the wonder of YouTube, I can at least watch the fragment with this particular dialogue.

With the upcoming summer from hell (Euro 2008, Wimbledon, Olympic Games, Tour de France and more taking over the Dutch tv channels) I thought I'd try out Battlestar Galactica. I've been hooked pretty much from the start of the mini-series. Unfortunately I'm now already mid-way season 3, so I fear I'll have caught up way before the summer starts. For lots of background info, try the Battlestar Wiki.



The story opens with a genocide, an apocalyptic destruction of 12 planets. Billions of human lives are lost. The survivors run away, fleeing an implacable enemy, the Cylons, who are determined to destroy them, and they're looking for a mythical place called Earth.

The kind folks from the Amazon Web Services have made some changes as of April first. Since I use a crafty nusoap construction on a few different parts of this site to display various covers from the Amazon site, this means I'll have to edit the soap setup. Untill I do, I'm afraid this means no images for you. Shame I can't just use the PHP5 native functions, but for some reasons these aren't available on this server.

It's taken a few months, but finally.. she's arrived! My niece Nora Luz was born just a few hours ago. I was working from home today, completely oblivious, untill one of my brothers colleagues mailed me asking if I had any news. Apparently they'd gone to hospital in the wee hours of the night, but -as agreed- to avoid stress hadn't notified any family.
So I knew now anyway. As you might understand, I didn't get much work done the rest of the day. My brother finally called around 3 that they were now the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl! But, even though I live very near to the hospital, only the grandparents were allowed to visit straight away. The rest of us had to wait untill visiting time starts at 7. Which seemed like forever, but she was well worth the wait. She's gorgeous! Welcome to the family, little Nora!