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This is truly an amazing achievement, so you better check it out for yourself. Something we can all be very proud of that's for sure.



TomTom Route Planner

The interesting challenge at the company at which I work is that everything depends on keeping pace with the latest the greatest technology.

Developing really great software products means that one has to sit down with other top notch software engineers and figure out how to roll up one's sleeves and just get the job done, no matter what.

The latest the greatest technology changes all the time, even as we speak, so one has to aim slightly ahead of the moving target.

Ever so slightly, take aim, one, two three, fire.

Who would have ever expected me to qualify as a multilingual callcenter agent? Imagine how pleased I felt receiving an anonymous email invitation to apply to this much coveted position, in Munich of all places. I think I'll pass this time around.

Just installed Ubuntu on my new laptop from work. Within a flash and without a single hitch. Never expected Linux to be so easy to install.

Starting next week I will be re-acclimating myself to the life of official commuter, traveling to and from Amsterdam on a daily basis.

Total travel time will be minimally: 2 x (10 minutes by bike + 42 minutes by train + 3 minutes by metro + 4 minutes by foot) = 118 minutes, not counting waiting and possible delays.

One of the advantages of sitting so long in the train as compared to sitting in the car in one of the daily traffic jams is that I can finally catch up on the huge backlog of books I have collected in the last couple of years.

We'll just have to wait and see how things turn out.

Who could have ever expected that within one week I would lose one job and find another?

Turns out there there is still hope out there, sometimes when you least expect it.

Putting up a smoke screen can be a useful and necessary tactic, as long as it conceals something worthwhile.

Trying to hide vacuousness and/or so-called importance per se is not what it is all about.

Face the facts, put up the smoke screen as required, and make sure that the hidden concept is something needed in the near future.

There is no use in pretending, because when all that smoke rises and dissipates the truth will be revealed anyway.

Revealed truth is something to be reckoned with no matter what.

In order to lead a team efficiently, you must win their respect. In order to win their respect, you need to understand the details of what they are doing. In order to understand the details of what they are doing, you need to communicate with them closely and listen to what they have to say.

Here is an amazingly interesting and challenging project of which I hope to be an important part and partake in the future success with joy and anticipation:

Euromax Terminal.

This is more than likely the next auto I plan to drive in. After work this evening I took another spin in it for the second time, and I believe that this is the right car for me.

Mazda 5