On line again....

Allrighty....there goes the promise of keeping up with the blog this time around. For, stupid me, I had to change my internet connection to a newer, faster (and cheaper) subscription. And of course I thought everything would go like a breeze. Well, think again.

The technical connection was on time and they flipped the switch on the promised date. But..... they forgot to start sending me the modem on time, so I had a brand new adsl2 connection waiting for me, but no adsl2 modem to connect to it.

Well, today finally the modem was waiting for me on the stair case when I got home. And yes, we are on line again. So while Michael Warren is singing in my ears, I am quickly typing up this blog to let you know why I was away that long.

So again, let's try to keep the blogging up.

Two minute silence in The Netherlands: remembering those who have fallen

This evening at 20:00 hours we have remembered all who have lost their lives during World War Two, being it soldiers, members of resistance or civilians, and all who have lost their lives since. It is the 4th of May. This is our Remembrance Day.

Since the end of World War Two the Dutch have been honouring the victims of war. At eight o'clock in the evening the country unites in commemorating the civilians and members of the armed forces who lost their lives in the Second World War. People all over the country gather at war memorials in their own communities, and at the stroke of eight the entire country observes a two minute silence.

In Amsterdam a national ceremony is held. After the two minute silence wreaths are laid. With the laying of wreaths we remember the civilians who died in Europe in 1940-1945: one for members of the Resistance, one for victims of persecution, and one for civilian casualties.

The ceremony is attended by Her Majesty the Queen, members of parliament and people from more than 100 organisations representing the different groups in society who were affected by the war.

Tomorrow, the 5th of May, we celebrate the country's liberation from five years of occupation from the Germans. This is our Liberation Day.

The attention for Remembrance Day is gradually fading. In having these ceremonies every year on 4 and 5 May, the entire country unites to observe a day of remembrance followed by a day of celebration. This should be a constant reminder of the fragility of civilisation and democracy.

For what is your most prized posession. It is not in materials, but in the fact that you have freedom, you are able to say and write what you want without being prosecuted, tortured or executed.

Let us not forget. And yet, mankind makes the same mistakes all over again. Even after the horrors of World War Two...

Loooonggg time....

It has been a long time since I have been able to put up a new post here. In the mean time a lot has happened, so let me give you a very short update.

Education
As you can read in my previous post, I am studying at the College of Multimedia in Amsterdam where I am taking the course MultiMedia Engineer, the education for web- and interaction-design. This is and has been taking up most of my free time. If all is well, I will be done by September.

StealFrame
You could also read that I was involved in BlackMylar Europe. BlackMylar became StealFrame and consequently BlackMylar Europe became StealFrame Europe. This was in january 2006 and all future StealFrame and StealFrame Europe posts would go on a new website. Writing for BlackMylar Europe and StealFrame Europe took up a lot of my time alongside my job and the education. So I didn't have time to update this blog.

That was why.

Unfortunately due to technical and other problems the StealFrame website does not excist anymore. With these problems, a lot of the posts disappeared too. We hope to recover some of the StealFrame Europe posts. If we do, I will let you know right here.

StealFrame is now located at MySpace as long as the new website isn't finished. You will find StealFrame at www.myspace.com/stealframe.

Pasquinel and MySpace
Since StealFrame is on MySpace, I have decided to go to MySpace too. The majority of the old BlackMylar Europe posts and in some time the StealFrame Europe posts can be found on my MySpace page. On this page I will put up my personal posts that will also appear here on Pasquinel's Place. All current and future posts on StealFrame you can find at www.myspace.com/stealframe.

So there you have in short what I have been up to and where you can find all the materials and blogs. If all goes well, from now on there will be regular posts again.

One down, a lot to go

Hi there everybody! Just got back at tha Billy Condo from my first exam at my education for this semester.

We had a theory exam, and it's one of a few to come. But at least the first one is out of the way. I did ok though, got a 97.5!!! Yep, it was a good day....

This post will be put on the weblog through email if all goes well. I found out I can post via email, so I thought I'd give it a try. If it works, it'll give me more flexability in updating and posting to both Pasquinel's Place and BlackMylar Europe. Let's see if it works.

But for now I'm gonna sit back, relax, enjoy the latest episode of the Daily Source Code and then hit the sack.

Like I said, it's been a good day....

Update and assignment

Finally got the change to update the memory of my dearly beloved Mac. I ordered an additional 512 MB and it got in today, so I'm up and running again.... for now.

I'll be going away for a short trip on my bike to Germany so I can recharge again and start my first assignment that has been issued this week at the MultiMedia Engineer education.

We have to assemble a Photoshop composition using a variety of techniques. The deadline is in two weeks. But at the same time we have a theory exam, so I'll be pretty busy coming weeks.

Well, I'll try to contact the USA and then hit the sack.

Oh, and check out the latest post on BlackMylar Europe: new goodies from Apple.

Seems like no short trip this time around...

And again a night post from tha Billy Condo. Finally got some time to update again. Well actually, I don't have the time, that's why I'm posting in the middle of the night. But hey, In Memphis it's day time, so it's just the angle from which you look upon things I guess.

I have been very busy with the education and even though I have vacation right now, I still manage to don't have enough time. I've been looking on the Internet for a short trip outa here and even spend the afternoon at the travel agency. But it's gonna be hard.

Either everything is booked up, or the hotel is available but no plain seat or the train is booked up. Or I have to pay my ass off because I am alone and have to pay a fucking one persons commission so that nice deal that says: 'London: plain ticket and 2 nights hotel for only 69 euro' becomes a 320 euro nightmare! And that's only flight and accommodation. So add up all things like food, tickets, transportation, the bar ;-) and so on, well, that's gonna be an expensive two days.

So I guess there won't be a trip out of here. I even looked at the option of going to one of the Dutch islands. But then I still have to pay like 250 to 300 euros for 4 days. And that's only accommodation.

I just cannot afford that kind a money for a few days. I need to invest a lot of money the coming time for my education and the various soft- and hardware I have to buy to get my MultiMedia Engineer thing rolling.

And of course I have to save up some money to go to the States somewhere next year. It's been almost three years already since I've been there last. I got an email from Don that he's about to sell his beautiful big house from the early nineteenth century (see picture). I always loved coming to that house. It will be strange to visit Don next time and not going to that house. I have some good memories of it.

That seems to be the trend lately in my life: change. And I hate it. Although it also can bring you new things, it's not always for the better. But I guess I just have to swallow it and move on.

Anyways, enough of this down bringing post. I'll be back shortly on BlackMylar Europe, which can use a new post and if I got the time maybe a new podcast. So I'll see you there, or maybe you'll read some more 'exciting' vacation stories on Pasquinel's Place. Who will know...

Back at the condo, soaking wet

Well, of course it had to be pouring on Thursday, one of the nights I had to go to class on my bike. Just got back and wanted to quickly give y'all an update on my post from yesterday.

I talked about getting in touch with Don to see if he got more info on our friends from New Orleans. I did talk to Don last night, but he hadn't been able to get in contact with either of them. So, I guess we'll just hope for the best. We'll keep trying though.

Also Don send me an email with a comment on how he felt about the way the government acted upon the tragedy that took place in New Orleans. I posted it on BlackMylar Europe for y'all to read.

Well, that's it for today. I am hitting the sack...

Joss Stone in my ear, words on my blog

While Joss Stone is soulfully s(w)inging in my ears I'm about to update Pasquinel's Place. I really don't have a lot of time left to regularly update this blog. Most of my time is going to my education to become (a fine) Multi Media Engineer and of course in the work I am doing for BlackMylar.

But when my college Hans Pieter was writing a piece about the beta of Google Blogsearch he just noticed that Pasquinel's Place hadn't been updated for a while. So HP, here it is.

Last couple of days been very busy. And I recon that will happen a lot coming two years, while classes are running. But all that is nothing compared to the waiting to hear from friends who (until Katrina roared it's ugly head) lived in New Orleans. I still haven't been able to get word of where they are and if they are ok. I've been mailing and calling with my friend Don in Memphis, but he hasn't heard anything either. All communication to the town is almost impossible. And if we would get through, there's nobody left in that town anyways. So it wouldn't get us anywhere. So for now we still don't know where David, Dan, Roy and Doug are at this moment. I'm hoping that Don will have more news in the meantime. I'll talk to him tonight.

Fortunately I got word from my friend Casey in Alabama that his friend Michael and his friends Charles and Beaver who lived in New Orleans made it out of Louisiana and arrived in Alabama safely. Just in time.

Well, is there any good news? Well, yes there might be. It looks like the housing thing will be put on hold for some time. That'll give me some space.

There are plans on renovating and partially demolish a couple of blocks in my neighborhood. That means I have to get out of my house and find myself a new place. But it looked like this would take place in February, just at the same time when I have my Multi Media Engineer exams for the first six months block. But it looks like the city council, who have to approve the plans of the housing corporation, are not totally convinced on all the plans. So now there is a change that some of the planning will be postponed.

As Joss Stone fades away from my ears, I guess it's time to get on the phone to Memphis.....Tennessee, baby. I guess this will be enough of a post to last y'all a while...

Finally some time to update

Finally I get around to post on Pasquinel's Place.

If been very busy setting up the right feed for BlackMylar Europe, putting together the trial of the BlackMylar EuroCast and making some posts to BlackMylar Europe.
In time I will put up a feed for this blog also.

On top of that, my education for web and interaction design started. After successful completion I will become a MultiMedia Engineer. It's a part time education which I will follow in the evening, two evenings a week besides my full time job. So you can imagine I'm very busy at the moment and this will only increase the next two years, as long as the education is running.

So the amount of posts on BlackMylar Europe will probably decrease. But I'll try to keep Pasquinel's Place up to date so y'all can follow what I'm up to in my personal life.

I hope you like to read it.

BlackMylar Europe is a fact

Last sunday I was talking to my good friend Casey from Alabama. Using Skype, we talked for hours. And the best part is, that it's free! It was during that conversation that we finally did what we were talking about a long time: setting up the European section of BlackMylar.com.

Since Casey and his brothers had set up BlackMylar.com some time ago, we got to talk about a section for the European readers of BlackMylar. But like all things, it stayed with the talking. No time, busy, yada yada... You know the drill, right? But last sunday while talking through Skype we whipped up the BlackMylar Europe. Now it will be a matter of time to get started and get some interesting stories and discussions going on.

So keep an eye out on BlackMylar Europe. And if you get the change, just visit the blog of my friend Casey: Dirty South Report.

Trying out Blogger

Welcome to Pasquinel's Place, my first blogger weblog.
I never really wanted to start a blog, cause I feel that you really must have something to say and otherwise don't bother putting it up on the web. Cause there is some bad shit out there, I can tell you.

So why then make a blog if there is nothing to say?

Well, actually, I'm just trying it out. I was working on my website and just came across Blogger while I was checking my e-mail. And I thought, well why go through all that trouble building a personal website when I can put that same information on a weblog. Cause really, a personal website doesn't really need a full build professional website. Putting it on the web like a blog saves a lot of time building it and is much easier to maintain.

So, there you have it. In just five minutes I threw this baby together. But then again, I might still go for the regular website, I don't know yet.