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Just read in De Standaard (NL) that the mayor of Halle strongly insists that the owners of a new restaurant rename their restaurant. The issue at stake here is that the name is in French, and the mayor doesn’t like French as a language.
For the moment, Halle is not going after international companies or businesses that have a long history, but it’s just a next step, isn’t it?
Maybe our boss should start looking into renaming our Oracle into Orakel. Or better even, our neighbour Samsung could be renamed into Drie Sterren! A bit further there’s Healthcity, we could transform that into Gezondheidsstad, and in Zaventem there’s obviously Toyota which would have to be renamed to “Vruchtbare rijstvelden”.
Any other suggestions of company renaming schemes for the larger Brussels region?

MacBookPro, I like like like!!! Like it very much, but there’s RSI! My wrist hurts once in a while when I’ve been working too much on my favourite toy. That multitouch trackpad is sòò cool to use, that I use it all the time. Now, for doing some photo work, I was thinking of buying myself a nice Tablet (Wacom or other…), but I find the reviews on the net all but neutral. There’s a lot of favouritism it seems (or I seem to be directed to the wrong addresses by Google). Is a tablet really a thing to get emotional about?
Anyway, I need your help to make a decision… if you use a tablet at home, which one did you choose and what are the features that matter most to you? Size, other qualities…? Do you use it for other things than Photoshop?

Yes, this is content stealing from bnox, and why should I feel ashamed?
In short, to become a centennarian, there are a number of guidelines:

• drink green tea
• be outgoing
    hmm
• eat nuts
• floss
     I do something similar to keep gum healthy, guess that counts
• do not smoke
    stopped over 5 years ago.
• embrace new technology
    I do, I do, I do! As long as it’s an iThingie
• have a baby later in life
• take more holidays
    I only get 32 holidays a year, what do you mean: more…
• lie in
• drink a little wine
• laugh
    Centennarian, yes, but with wrinkles from all the laughing!

I’ll probably make it somewhere around 80, which isn’t all too bad, not?

[If you have no clue what this post and the acronyms are, consider yourself lucky! ] It is, CSS is though! If you only do web design once every two years, that’s just not enough to keep all the nitty gritty details of CSS in your head. And then you have to do it for a WP theme, which will not necessarily simplify things as the HTML is spread over multiple (to-be-interpreted) files. And as you add badly written widgets, things change all over again… to be fair, most of the WCMS systems suck big time when it comes to consistency.
*whine*
Anyway, if the designer’s full attention went to fonts, but for the rest your info is limited, it’s not easy to match the website to the jpg. I’m struggling, and there’s a deadline (not set in stone, but nonetheless).

You must reset your .VPN for Employees password IMMEDIATELY!

In order to meet Security requirements, your .VPN for Employees account passwords must be changed every 120 days. This message is to notify you that your .VPN for Employees account password must be changed before 19-Feb-2010.

Immediately = 19/02/2010. I wonder whether I can use this as an excuse for any other IMMEDIATE tasks I get next week

“De Slimste Mens ter Wereld” is a television quiz that in contradiction to its meaning (Smartest person on the planet) finds its candidate in a pool of well-known personalities in Flanders (with a population of 6 million). It’s quite entertaining, nonetheless I hardly ever watch it for practical linguistic reasons in this home. Apparently up to 2 million people watch it, and the supporters get very intense.
This weekend, the program had spawned a “study” in a flemish newspaper (nl). So it’s all about intelligent women unable to find a life partner/husband (the article is focusing on the heterosexuals) . Men apparently don’t want an intelligent wife. I remember this being an issue a good 20 years ago, but I’m surprised to see this is still the case. A lot of friends from university hooked up with somebody else who studied at university, hence with a certain intelligence (no guarantee, I agree…). From all my direct male colleagues, I seem to get the impression that their partner is either or both intelligent and career driven. So is my other half (I use this term loosely, as we aren’t married as such)! She reports to the CEO/VP HR of a large US company, studied history at Reading University and did a post graduate on HR. There’s more to it, she has a very facts-based memory. Dates and names… She’s very competitive when there’s a quiz on on the television. University Challenge, Mastermind, Canvas-crack (although she doesn’t always understand the question 100%)… bring it on. She’s here to beat you
Has that ever scared me? To be fair, until last Saturday, when I read the newspaper, I hadn’t thought about it one single second.