News is running slow

Especially here in the Netherlands. This morning I observed following:

looking at the Worldchampionship Swimming in Barcelona I watched the series 100m freestyle Woman – 9.00h at Europort (german spoken, free channel on the ASTRA satellite)
With interest I was looking at the races of Chantal Groot and Marleen Veldhuis
I know Marleen very long as she was member of the same swimclub I am member of.

I saw Chantal Groot to be 3rd in her series and Marleen even 2nd in Hers.
Marleen took about 0.3 seconds of her best time from 55.48 to 55.17 placing 3rd for the half finals.. Look I think that’s news especially here in Holland. So why wait untill an official news agency does mention it.

I could have written this message direct after the series to show the power of weblog news publishing. But I did not. Missed change ;-)

Tonight at 18.00 half finals !!!

Buying a house

These summermonth’s we are looking for houses. Houses which you can buy.
Today our first visit to a house we were interested in.

Biggest problem was that the selling party did not want to lower their price at all. So the price was not negotiable. Pffff.. Ok. We will search further. That’s life.

opendir poetry

Last week I noticed that the site was getting more hits than usual. Why?? I had no idea.

Suddenly I saw that my simple ‘opendir’ entry was picked up my several weblogs. Today I discovered that even boingboing had mentioned it.

I like the way it’s described:
Simple and sweet, a sort of minimalist web/joke/poem/object. No Flash required, no high bandwidth required
& I like the comments ;-)

The idea came as easy as the output is: some weblogs here in my country do look for opendir’s to find silly images of people and make fun of them. Oh hell have fun I thought .. ;-)

Interesting for me is to see how this entry shows up at blogdex & popdex ..