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One of the best April Fool’s Day stories:
Google’s Official Blog announces that Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are teaming up with Sir Richard Branson to form Virgle to take us to Mars in 20014.

You can even win a slot on the expedition according to this You Tube Footage
Read more here.

Lazy by Christoph Nieman for the New York Times

After reviewing my 2007 resolutions for 2008 (and not keeping many of those), I decided on only one New Year’s resolution for 2008: Press the “publish” button of this Blog more often and quicker. Well thus far I didn’t keep even that simple resolution: Hahaha there […]

If you are able to read Dutch and have no idea yet what to do today, look at the Dutch site Verras Uw Partner or the Belgian site Verwen Je Partner.
“Verrassen” is Dutch for surprising your partner. “Verwennen” is Dutch for spoiling your partner.
Surprisingly both sites started in the same period last year.
History of Valentine’s […]

Queen Beatrix by Anton Corbijn

Today is our Queen’s 70th birthday. The official celebration will be 30 April, the date of her mother’s birthday, so declared in deference to Juliana by Beatrix when she was crowned Queen of the Netherlands.
According to Elsevier the official photos for this milestone were commissioned to famous pop photographer Anton […]

Well not really under, but more on the rocks with a lot of snow:
We spent our annual holiday on the slopes of the Swiss Alps. Skiing away with nice fresh snow and gorgeous weather. I must admit I was on the verge of posting here. However, I chose to have some more quality time with […]

Happy Hotelier and DW for 35 years wish all his readers Happy Holidays!

In order to sniff up some travel and luxury travel news I would like to attend WTM as a Blogger, not as a Hotelier. Not being able to offer thousands of rooms my hotel is simply too small to justify a visit to WTM (although I did that once in the past).
So by way of […]

Unpleasantness again?

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Sometimes this is what I get if I try to connect with Facebook after some of my contacts on Facebook “did” something that cluttered my e-mail in box. Usually I find […]

I have Trend Hunter Magazine in my Google Reader for some time, and was browsing and searching the site. Accidentally I signed up, because it induces you to look at “unpublished trends” and then you get curious, wouldn’t you? It is free anyway.
After signing up I noticed that at Trend Hunter Magazine you can maintain […]

Some people believe Facebook is the hit for 2007 in community building. To say the least: It grows considerably.
Induced by A Luxury Travel Blog I have decided to give it a try, created an account on Facebook and started Facebook | Happy Hotelier.
Feel free to join!

Oops, I have changed my 404 template today.
At the bottom of my pages you can see that I am a member of Blogflux.
Blogflux is a combination of several things: A Blog directory that has organized and cataloged about 82,000 blogs by country and by topic (or tag if you whish). They have some Blog tools, […]

As usual, I have many items in mind to post about here. Frequently those subjects land on the back burner when a certain item asks for immediate attention. Today’s find is the Happines Project.
You will probably ask: “What is that about and why are you interested?”
To start with the last question:
My wife and I are […]

I am glad that due to the previous post I am able to copy and paste You Tube videos here. Some interesting thoughts, apparently by an Italian Media company Casaleggio with the unavoidable Italian accent.
I found this presentation on Voysage Blog, by a group of Aussies. Voysage seems to be on the verge of launching […]

I have been busy to start a new photo blog about chairs and chair design: Chair Blog.

Through Trendhunter I became aware of this. Again, as we are getting used to from US source Blogs there is the usual glee about the seediness of the city, also in Second Life, which way of writing about Amsterdam is a popular way of attracting more traffic. I think it is a very narrow minded […]