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Car update

This week our new car arrived in Lleida. It is waiting for us at the car dealer and we can take it home as soon as all paperwork has been arranged. And I hate paperwork!

For some days we have been running around Lleida trying to get all necessary pieces of dead tree, but we won’t be able to meet our personal target, which was today. Why today? Well, since we leave tomorrow to spend a week in Harmelen, this means that we’ll only have our new car at the end of this month.

Anyway, let’s just first enjoy our holidays, and worry about the car later.

It's a small place

It’s a small place is a new blog I created today. You might be wondering why I am starting a new blog while I even haven’t got the time to update Brain tags regulary! The truth is that I am blogging just as much as always, but I spread my witings over several sites to prevent clutter.

If you are interested in my personal life and general writings about technology and travelling, Brain Tags is the place to be.
And if you are interested in news and my opinion about the Point of Sale market, I give you the POS Blog.
And now I have It’s a small place, giving you a view behind the curtains of a small part-time hosting company.

I have started writing about what I did to set it all up, with todays article telling on how I got the idea to start a hosting business. Of course, Brain Tags readers already know the answer, but I included it for completeness.

It’s a small place is also the first site I created in WordPress. For the moment the set-up is very basic —I only changed the default templates— but you can expect some more tinkering in the coming weeks. So far I have been impressed by WordPress: the installation was peanuts, and there is plenty of functionality. The user interface is not as sleek as the Movable Type interface, but I value function over looks anyway.

King of the road

The past 48 hours I have been diving around in our brand new Toyota Corolla Verso, and I feel the King of the road. That feeling mainly comes because this car makes a lot more noise than our previous —old— car, and because it is so much higher. I can look over the cars in front of me, and see much more when I am passing dangerous crossing. In short, I feel more in control, and that is worth a lot when driving in a chaotic Catalan city.

This weekend we’re going to make some more kilometers to try out the 6th gear and the cruise control.

Total relax

I feel good!

We just came back from a week’s holiday in the Netherlands. The aim of our holiday was to relax, and we succeeded. Instead of running from one ‘obligatory’ visit to another, as we usually do when visiting my home country, this time we put the emphasis on what we want. This visit to the Netherlands has been touristier than any previous visit, and we loved every minute of it.

Of course the fantastic weather helped a lot; it was sunny every day so we could spend a lot of time outside in nature and on the terrace. We visited amongst others Amsterdam, Utrecht, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Zeist, Amelisweerd, Lelystad, and Enkhuizen.

Now that we’re back in ‘real’ life we are already looking forward to our next visit at Christmas time!

Behind the screens of BryteNet

Business blog It’s a small place has a very interesting series of articles describing how BryteNet has been set up technically and commercially. At this moment the series contains the following texts:

• Why does one start a hosting company?
• A business ‘plan’
• Setting up the server
• Business Management
• Eating our own dogfood

In the Jukebox: Hallo Venray

During my last visit to the Netherlands I bought the latest CD from Hallo Venray for a very good price. I have been listening it for two weeks now, and wanted to share some songs with you:

• Big Catch;
• Kicking;
• Paris;
• Weirdo.