Repeating circles. The name of the design on my new laptop bag. Desgined by Hella Jongerius for ACME. After five years of heavy duty service, my old bag had given up. I hope this one will stay with me just as long.

40 a small step for mankind, but a big step for this man. what a nice day with flowers, love and attention. Life is worthwhile every minute.

The saying is: happy as a child in a toy store. that is what you see here, Roderick looking at the big pirate ship.

Picking up Roderick early to go out for dinner. Since his schooldays have started, he insists on doing everything himself. Quite a big step, predominantly for Caroline and me.

The convergence of media and telecoms is only just starting. Many new elements have to be explored and/or newly built.

A candid and open view on the new activities of Versatel with the 'triple play' strategy was shared. I will be very interesting to see what will happen and how it will turn out. From the audience it became clear that this new player will make a major difference to the Dutch media landscape, vertically integrated, you better have Versatel copper if you are a football fan.

Beaming and broadcasting are quite close. From this building the digital content is being beamed out towards the viewers and listeners.

Important to know that the pulbic sector keeps a keen eye on the developments here. Understanding what is possible and what that might have as implications is rather important one might say.

Via these setupboxes, or actually as it looks here setunderboxes, many of these new digital themechannels will become available to the masses. At low cost that is. New featurs such as menus, popups etc will be incorporated. Around 50 of them are expected this year alone.

Being guided through Televison and especially digital television at NOB Cross Media. Good to see that content is digital and an enormous infrastructure is readied to get it out to the citizen and consumer. Many new channels and format be broadcasted from here.

On the menu as complements both sea salt and broadband wireless access. A nice place to eat therefore.

Ton Zijlstra, active blogger with a good view on what is happening, the why's and how's and the balance it should have. Very pleasant and constructive session.

Creating Podcasts is fun. Krijn and I are experimenting with different tools and hardware to get to the optimum results. Audio proof will be coming in the near future.

It was nice to see Luca again. Since he is covering South America we meet less.

The right levels of communication can be effectively selected nowadays. Improved community communication, marketing etcetera. Lots to be expected.

Meus shows off a complete set of analog tools. Those tools came in handy when trying to converge different cultures and nations. Productivity can also be achieved without electronics.

The manuscripts that come with transactions nowadays are becoming nearly as nice as the Italian deeds I was used to see a couple of years back.

Today was among others a day of incorporation and identification at Houthoff lawyers.

Alternatively the ISP's and telecomms companies could increase their infrastructure of 'pipes'. (Silly joke here with 'bagpipes')

No only does he appear to be interested in the technology, but also the avid use of it. Normally it was difficult to have him say much more then 'hello' to anyone on the phone. today he talked nearly an hour with his niece Gina and her mother. Maybe I should be having him use Voip.....