Vis en Friet is a new fish and chips place that has opened on the Mauritskade, right next to the Ij Brewery. [Windmill brewery]
The chips were quite British, but the fish is most definitely Dutch.
Still tasty though.
Vis en Friet
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I am still going to Japan on vacation
This is curenty a relatively bold thing to say.
As tempus is want to fugit it is likely this post will lose both its impact and meaning very quickly.
Japan has suffered its biggest earthquake ever. It triggered a huge Tsunami that wrecked even more damage, death and destruction.
Currently over 10,000 are dead and further 10,000 are missing.
It is a horrible tragedy.
And on top of this there has been an accident at a nuclear facility north of Tokyo that has pumped radioactive Iodine into the environment.
So why on earth would I still be going to Japan on vacation?
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How a CEO should apologize when their company fucks up
Almost simulteously I had witness to 2 sets of CEOs apologizing for their company fucking up and delivering customer service significantly below their customers expectations.
Only 1 in 2 got the tenor of the apology right.
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5 simple tips to staying a little safer online
The web has been likened to the wild west, a lawless and truly anarchistic place.
But most of the problems people encounter online are caused mostly by their own behaviour and attitude rather than any inherent nastiness of the technology.
Widespread digital iliteracy leads many to think they are safe when they are not and to fear things that are totally innocuous.
Below are 5 simple tips to help you stay a little safer online;
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The US Government is wrong about wikileaks
The USG [Government of the USA] is currently engaged in an attempt to lock down the access of it’s own citizens to the information current being published by WikiLeaks
This information is over 250,000 diplomatic cables from over a 10 year period.
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My atheism is an informed choice
The Grauniad online has a bunch of articles about “Can we choose what we believe”.
This is a rather interesting question.
Especially if, like me, you believe you have little conscious choice in what you believe.
[That entire sentence, and most of this discussion, is a nightmare of circular language!]
I got to the question via PZ Myers blog post linking to the Grauniad article by Harriet Baber.
Technical people can never be creative…. WTF?
“What you need to learn is that being creative is not enough in this business. You have to become technical. Creative people are born creative – you’re lucky. Technical people however can never be creative. It’s something they’ll never get. You can’t buy it, find it, study it – you’re born with it. Too many creative people don’t want to learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical, you can learn that.
If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.”
- Robert Rodriguez (emphasis mine)
This quote was sent around work at precisely the wrong time.
The Tech team had been working for 16 hour days, and in some cases 30 hour days, for a total of three weeks without a break, scrambling hard to meet hard deadlines.
The entire tech team almost walked out.
[By this time we were too exhausted to move 
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