Owner: Campodiez V2 | Weblog Arjen Tienkamp URL:http://www.arjentienkamp.com/weblog/ Join Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:46:42 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: My personal weblog. with tips and videos. Site statistics:Click here
Serve different styles to IE6 & IE7 2008-04-29 08:48:55 Since Internet Explorer 7 is the new web browser of a lot of Windows users. It’s working great, with the tabs and the Firefox behaviour. As a web programmer, designing websites and web based applications I’m frustrated very often about the compatibility of my products. If it’s working in IE6 and Firefox, it often happens [...] Read more:different
Sorry, the Heraklion flight is cancelled.. 2008-04-30 12:15:31 I was standing at the D03 platform at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. An Aer Lingus Airbus A321 was taxiing on the platform. I was standing at the end of the centerline of the platform, next to the Ground Power Unit. An amazing feeling of adrenaline rushed through my body. This was such a great experience. A [...]
The first results of my SEO improvements 2008-05-01 11:45:09 I’ve been working on this weblog a lot in order to improve it’s position in Google results
. In my opinion, Google is the most important search engine at the moment. I’ve used some free Wordpress plugins, and I’ve written some own code. Read more:SEO
Breaking bad habits and sleeping less 2008-05-04 05:53:40 Everybody has habits
, both good and bad ones. I think you’re more powerful in realizing your dreams if you know your bad and good characteristics. With keeping that in mind, I’m going to break a couple of bad habits.
During the last couple of months, I’ve found out that the habits mentioned above can change my [...] Read more:Breaking
Whores and weed 2008-05-06 15:20:17 After work I was waiting at the train station. It was 10 minutes before my train would depart, and it was very busy. Two huge guys walked in my direction, and one of them started talking to me:
“Hey man.. can I ask you a question?” he said.
“Yeh that’s ok, tell me…”
“Is this train [...] Read more:Whores
She didn’t like the Tom Leykis Show 2008-05-10 12:24:20 I got into the train, and sat next to an old lady. Her face was wrinkled, and she was constantly staring at her train ticket, which she was holding in her hands. She had two huge suitcases standing next to her, so she probably was a tourist.
“I’m going to Naarden-Bussem, is this the correct train?” [...]
Damn, no Internet 2008-05-15 14:49:18 Yesterday my Internet
connection was broken. Our Internet provider tried to upgrade their servers, but because they probably have no idea to do that without making any mistakes, half of their customers had no Internet. This was timed very unlucky, as I had a lot of work to do for my customers, and I have [...]
Don’t play with company property 2008-05-16 15:23:42 The trainee who was suspended two days ago, is fired now. While signing the list for my presence, a small note at the end of his name told me that he was fired. I was expecting this as companies usually don’t like it if you play around with their (very expensive) computers. Yesterday he told [...] Read more:company
, property
The English guy 2008-05-19 10:25:05 I do not really like my work at the KLM, but a couple of things are brightening up. Most of the colleagues at the airport are very kind. A couple of weeks ago I met an English
man, who’s living in the Netherlands for 10 years now. I’m very interested in England, so we talked about [...]
A new look for my blog 2008-05-19 09:33:30 The last couple of weeks I’ve been contemplating about my weblog. It looked very standard, and I changed the lay-out too many times. I made small modifications to it’s theme almost every week. It is time for one big change.
As you can see, my weblog is now wearing a new coat. I used the free [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008-05-24 15:47:43 Awesome! Tonight I went to the cinema to see the fourth Indiana
Jones movie; The Kingdom
of the CrystalSkull
. And it was great. With Harrison Ford (69) as the main character, and Steven Spielberg as director, they made another great movie. The special effects and action scenes were absolutely marvelous!
This time he fights [...] Read more:Indiana Jones
Moving to Hoofddorp 2008-05-24 04:27:05 The last couple of weeks we’ve been busy with getting a room in Hoofddorp. From Woerden -where I live now-, it’s travelling for more than one hour to college or my internship at Amsterdam Airport. This means I have to wake up very early every morning, and that I’m home quite late at the end [...] Read more:Moving
Freeware media converter for Windows 2008-05-29 09:18:10 Converting videos from one format to another can be very useful if you’d like to watch YouTube videos on your mobile phone or on your computer. Media Converter supports the following video formats: 3g2, 3gp, avi, flv, m4v, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, rm, wmv. The software comes with some handy features as a YouTube video [...] Read more:Freeware
, media
, converter
, Windows
Top 3 online dictionaries 2008-05-30 12:35:06 Sometimes we don’t know what a word means, how to spell it correctly or how pronounce it. The days of spending hours and hours of searching in your dictionary books are now over, as the Internet offers you all the information even quicker and more extensive. Nowadays there are a tons of dictionary websites on [...] Read more:online
Dutch soccer team departs to Switzerland 2008-06-03 11:56:46 The players of our national soccer team arrive at the airport.
During the end of the day at one of my last days at Schiphol Airport the Dutch
soccer team leaves to Switzerland
for a practice match against Italy. At the moment they were checking in I was working at the basement, doing some baggage handling [...]
World air routes DVD’s 2008-06-02 13:44:25 One of my colleagues at the KLM gave me some of the World
Air Routes DVD’s. In these videos you can take place in the cockpit of many modern aircraft on world’s busiest air routes
. From the beginning of the flight, including flightplan preparations, pushback and taxiing, until the end, the cockpit crew explains [...]
I’ve booked my flight: Vancouver summer 2008 2008-06-07 08:20:19 On my flight back from London to Amsterdam last December, I met Kelly. She’s a Canadian girl, living in Vancouver
. She went to the Netherlands to work as a nanny for a while. After meeting each other again, and sending lots of email messages, I decided that I’m going to visit her this summer. On [...]
ELO - Last train to London 2008-06-10 07:41:05 I love ELO, it’s old school rock from years ago. Years and years after they recorded their songs they are still popular within certain groups of people. I like almost every song they made. One of my absolute favourites is ‘Last train to London‘, here you go:
Painting and furnishing my room in Hoofddorp 2008-06-11 11:26:48 Rainbow above Hoofddorp
The room is mine now. Last Monday I went to the lessor to sign the contract. After filling in a lot of forms, and giving them a copy of my passport, they gave me the keys. I have a lot of keys now, one of the front entrance, one of the floor where [...] Read more:Painting
Google sites, an easy way to get yourself online 2008-06-13 12:36:59 As a satisfied Google
user, I always take a look at their new services. Last week I got notified about Google Sites, which enables everybody to build and maintain their own website. Whether you use it as a blog, a photo website or for a college project, Google Sites will suit your needs.
After logging in [...] Read more:online
Free website and blog icons 2008-06-15 07:37:02 Here is a list of website
s offering great icons for your website or web applications. Why spending hours and hours on creating nice icons for your website if there are lots of them available on the Internet for free.
graphicPUSH
This site offers free icons for use in online applications like a content management system. You can [...]
The best free Wordpress plugins available on the Internet 2008-06-16 11:23:57 This is the second post in the Free for your website or blog series. This time I’ll write about the best Wordpress
plugins I’m using on my own weblog. There are tons of free plugins available
on the Internet
, but some of them are really outshining.
All in one SEO packThis is without any doubt the [...]
Summer break 2008-06-18 12:25:37 Photo by Criss
After a year of hard work, both good and bad moments, my summer holiday has begun today. I had my last exam for this school year and it went very well. I must admit that I didn’t spent a lot of time on studying the subject, but the result was good anyway. [...] Read more:Summer
Why do people always forward fake warning emails? 2008-06-26 12:14:36 You’ve got one new message from a contact, that’s what my mailbox says. Hoping to receive an interesting email from a business partner or just a message from a friend, but it turns out the other way. It’s a forwarded message, and in most cases that means it’s useless.
One of my friends just sent [...] Read more:people
, always
, warning
Memorable: Avril Lavigne live at the HMH Amsterdam 2008-06-23 09:04:43 There was a 200 meter queue from the Amsterdam
Bijlmer station to the Heineken Music Hall entrance. Hundreds of people were waiting there to enter the Blackbox; At 9 o’clock AvrilLavigne
was giving a live concert. The Jonas Brothers did the support act, and they were great. The crowd was really amused, but like [...] Read more:Avril Lavigne
Ask advice from other bloggers: Shared knowledge 2008-07-08 12:02:36 Photo by Altemark
So you think your blog is running quite well? You’ve got a lot of visitors, subscribers and you even make a profit by monetizing your blog? Why don’t you let an expert review your blog to get some tips to make your blog even better. Every blogger has different experiences and knowledge, and [...] Read more:bloggers
Top SEO tips to improve your website’s Google ranking 2008-07-06 09:23:30 Photo by Danny Sullivan
At the moment Google
is the most important search engine to focus on when building a website
or blog. Most of the people use Google to search on the Internet. Although there are other search engines available like Live Search and Yahoo, these search engines won’t bring you lots of traffic. To [...] Read more:SEO
How to Watch TV Online for free 2008-07-03 08:37:36 Photo by Ambimb
Now almost everybody has a high-speed Internet connection at home, watching TV over the Internet gets more popular every day. Dozens of websites are offering worldwide TV channels in many languages you can watch instantly.
Whether you are living in America, Europe or another continent, you are able to watch TV channels from [...]
Ameland …ander land, travel guide 2008-07-01 16:09:58 The cover of Ameland …ander land
Since last Tuesday there’s a new travel guide about Ameland. Written by my father and stepmom, who really like being at the island. The result is wonderful. Since the publication of this book, Ameland is the first of the Dutch islands with an official travel guide. The book counts [...]
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