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Four years ago, on June 26th 2006, I posted the first piece of writing to this blog space. Little did I know back then the adventure I was getting myself into… Looking back, it’s not just the experience of writing stuff down for the whole world to see.
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Last week, while I was in Redmond for the 2010 MVP Summit, I also had the chance to visit some computer stores in the neighborhood. After visiting both the Best Buy and RadioShack in Bellevue, I decided to take the advice a couple of fellow-MVPs and Softies
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I’ve used a Dell Latitude D630 laptop for the past 13 months. It’s been my loyal companion on two Tech·Eds, a MVP Summit, at least a dozen demos and presentations and has been with me to work with various customers. This device is equipped with an Intel
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Being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is a one-year gig. My first year as a Directory Services MVP started January 1, 2009. Since then I proudly displayed the MVP logo on the left hand side of my blog. From the Least Amount of Administrative
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This morning I performed a ‘zero to live migration’ demo for the joined HP Netherlands , Hyper-V.nu (Dutch Hyper-V Community) meeting. You can find more information on this meeting on my previous blog post . I brought my photo camera with me and asked
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I will be attending the Tech∙Ed Europe conference from November 9th to November 13th, 2009. This year, Tech∙Ed EMEA has become Tech∙Ed Europe. IT Pros and Developers share one venue again and Barcelona (Spain) was traded in for Berlin (Germany). I don’t
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Eight years ago, George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, becoming the 43rd President of the United States. It was the beginning of an eight year period of Republic reign in which the United States of America was engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
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“I’ve always believed in information equality.” While hundreds of companies charge their customers for services with knowledge and experience as unique selling points (USPs), I’ve sat on the sideline enjoying the view. I heard these companies (most of
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Since parenthood takes up a lot of time (heating bottles, changing diapers/nappies, getting lost in those beautiful baby-eyes, walking around with her in your arms and all that jazz) I guess some of you expect to see a little less technical content on
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Sophie Berkouwer May 2nd, 2009 | 14:30 | 4000 gr | 49 cm We are thrilled with the birth of our first daughter, Sophie. She was born on May 2nd in the Vlietland Hospital in Schiedam, the Netherlands. It
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Yesterday I needed to install a box with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server for some educational purposes. While installing this Operating System, which is nearly ten years old and nearly out of support , I noticed some differences, compared to installing
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For the last four years I received a nice birthday gift from my employer. With 60 colleagues we hopped on a bus to Hannover, Germany to stroll the CeBIT halls for a weekend. Transportation, drinks, food and hotel all paid for. CeBIT CeBIT
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The Microsoft MVP Award Program recognizes and thanks outstanding members of technical communities for their community participation and willingness to help others. The MVP Award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who foster the free
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Today I had an appointment with the thesis committee for the presentation and oral examination of the last part of my official studies to become a Bachelor in Information and Communication Technologies. (B ICT) The presentation part of the appointment
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Dave and I are your DirTeam bloggers on Microsoft’s Tech∙Ed Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) conference for IT Professionals in Barcelona (Spain) from November 3rd, 2008 to November 7th, 2008. Tech∙Ed has ended, so we’re heading home. I’m writing
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