It’s been a while since I’d posted a message here, but to tell you the truth, we’ve been very busy… and actually still are. Menno is helping out a friend with his homepage and editing and writing yoomlah applets. And to be honest I really think that he’s doing great job.

I’ve also been busy the last 6 months with my study. Study? Danny? Yes… I am really studying and you know, I actually enjoy it. There is only one thing that I don’t like and that is the fact that it looks like you have no time left. It’s pretty hard to study and work at the same time. But after my latest semester I should at least be able to manage my own time better! Anyway, it is only 3 months and then I will finish this study. The study is all about management. Since I do want to become a projectmanager I figured it would be wise to have a study which would teach me more details I might need later on.

While we’ve been so busy we hardly had any time for some travelling, but we’re starting to plan stuff again. We’re thinking about going back to Portugal for two weeks. This will probably be on june 14th, right one day after my last day at school. We’ll travel together with our friend Frank. In Portugal we can try to understand the portuguese language better, since we’re going to travel around Brazil in october. We’re planning to travel troughout the whole country, probably starting in Rio and flying around the country. We’re now reading stuff and trying to figure out what would be our best choises. We’ll probably just book a flight and see what we will visit once we’re there. So, if you have some suggestions about Portugal (Algarve) or Brazil, just let us know!

We had problems with Internet Explorer 7 in Vista and flash content… and i found out by using google that a lot of people do so I want to share the one and only solution that worked for me. I hope it helps some of you that are as desparate as I was. I tried all the stuff with uninstalling and rights, secure zones and stuff but I couldn’t get IE7 to install flash. I always use firefox and IE together, but now I completely switched away from IE. Not bad at all, but there are still a lot of websites that just work better in IE.

So every now and then I started to try again if I could fix the flashplayer issues… always resulting in utter frustration. But today, as I was reading a computer magazine about cleaning registry and stuff I found a program that I just wanted to try for speeding up my clogged system.

I downloaded and installed Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal which is free for personal use. I scanned all and the program found several issues in my registry, some of them related to the flashplayer. Then I thought… maybe this fixes my problem and I decides to let it fix all and then reboot. My hands were shaking when I started Internet Explorer and I saw stuff on the adobe.com website I hadn’t seen for a long time… And now I can tell you guys that this program not only fixed my registry but also my long lasting problem with Adobe flashplayer Hurray!

Just before we forget to say anything on our website, we just like to wish all of our friends and visitors on our website a merry Christmas. Today we celebrated Christmas with Menno’s relatives and tomorrow Danny’s relatives will visit our place. Just in case you’re wondering: in Holland we celebrate Christmas during 2 days (25th and 26th of december). We don’t really celebrate Christmas eve, although we did have a dinner with friends of us in a nice and fancy restaurant.

Not sure if this is going to work out of the box… but Darren has provided his fans with a cool little widget that should always display the latest available tracks.

Today our friend Christos from Cyprus (who actually lives in Athens) will come to visit us. He’ll take along a friend as well. They are staying for 8 days in Amsterdam and he wants to show Rotterdam to his friend as well. So, this afternoon we will get them from the trainstation and then go and do some shopping in the centre of Rotterdam.

In the evening we’re going to attend ‘Villa Achterdeur‘ which is a great party here in Rotterdam. The party is in ‘Off Corso’ and starts from 19:00 till 01:00. We hope they will like it just as much as we always do

Tomorrow Menno will be attending a computer course (writing php) and I’ll travel with our friends throughout the country towards Utrecht (where Menno will be) and finally bring them back to Amsterdam. So, it’s a busy schedule for us these coming days… But we’ll enjoy it!