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November 01st, 2015

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Perfect Day at the Beach, The Hague NL

The 7th year itch

19/10/2015

 

​The 7th year itch is all about the phycological perception that people want change every 7th year.
​In 1984 I bought my very first house. Soon after my purchase the house market collapsed not to recover until the early 1990's. I was able to sell my house end of 1991 roughly for the same price as where I bought it for.
When in 2008 economic disaster struck, the house prices in the US and Europe collapsed. They recovered beginning last year with an acceleration of the prices this year. A nice 7 years after Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. 

​Austrian philosopher and teacher Rudolf Steiner created a theory of human development based on seven-year cycles that were associated with astrology.
My experience tells me that it looks like there is some truth in the "7th year itch" saying. It looks like people indeed get bored after 7 years and want to change (their lives, their environment, their relationships).  
Maybe we need to develop a new business model based on these cycles ;-) Why not? The world's gone crazy anyway.

Overtime big is getting smaller

13/10/2015

 

It's funny how the human mind works. It simply gets used to things. When I bought my first iPhone (yes a 3GS), I thought it was big (compared to my Nokia at that time).
When I got the iPhone 4s I was really happy, the design was flawless and innovative with a hardly noticeable increase of size. I really liked that phone.


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The 5S I purchased only because of the fingerprint reader, not of the size at that time. I thought it was way to big.
But now after almost a year working with the iPhone 6 looking back on the previous iPhones; they were so small ;-)
My son just got his iPhone 6s Plus. What a giant. 
I wonder when we start calling with an iPad Pro to our ears :-)
Size does matter, but overtime big things just look smaller don't they?

Harrogate and hand recognition

5/10/2015

 

This weekend my wife and I were in Harrogate for a wedding. It was a traditional english wedding which we really enjoyed. 
Harrogate is named the happiest place to live in UK. It's a typical english place with stunning parks and beautiful old buildings.

When we tried to fly out of Leeds/Bradford's airport (because of delays we eventually flew out of Manchester), just after the security check I spotted this old biometric time punch system of Recognition.
Once considered hightech but never a real breakthrough in the global biometric market.
Nevertheless it's good to see Harrogaters live in the 21st century ;-)

Most successful UK Kickstarter project kicks off trailer

30/9/2015

 

Boy, I really enjoyed this kickstarter project.
Based on three mini-lp's of the '60's, Stephen La Rivière decided to turn these into real tv-shows. To finance this project he started one of the most successful kickstarter projects in the UK ever. He raised over 200.000GBP in 30 days.
Today he published the trailer of the first new "old" episode to celebrate the Thunderbirds 50th anniversary. It's available in 1080p.
Well done Stephen, congrats on the great achievement.

My business cards arrived today

28/9/2015

 

Today my black metal business cards by Plasma Design arrived. Plasma Design is located in the UK and I've worked with them since 2005. Awesome team, awesome cards.

Bossche Bollen

22/9/2015

 

Hay

6/9/2015

 

While I was on Holiday I took the time to take some pictures of the beautiful island of Sylt with my Leica Q camera.

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