I was a little bit late and before me there was an American (John) buying a ticket to brussels and wanted to pay with credit card, which wasn’t possible (off course! Hey we’re talking about the Dutch Railroads here. The least innovative company in the world!), so I decided to pay for his first class ticket and for his wife; in total 214 euros (otherwise I would mis my train!) I gave him my card with my bank account number on it, so he could transfer the money back to me. So that was my good deed for the day. In the end I was just in time for my train that would drop me at Brussels Airport one and a half hours before departure. Once I was at the airport a strange feeling came up in me, I knew I forgot something, but this time it was different. It felt like a REALLY forgot something, but I didn’t had a clue what…. And then it came! I saw the hostess of Virgin-Express and immediately I could feel my hart in my throat, I knew it!!!

SHIT I FORGOT MY PASSPORT!

Bye bye Munich, there was no way to get in the plane without the original papers. My roomie faxed me my drivers license and my passport (thanks), but it didn’t matter. The plane took of without me. I felt like a big time loser! I wanted to get back in the train to Amsterdam (3 hours) lock myself up in my room and stay there for at least a week without a phone or my computer.

So what should I do…? I re-manned (that’s not an english word I believe) myself and got into the train. The destination: Munich!

Apart from the fact that a train is 3 times more expensive than the plane, it is not a bad option, it has a bar and you can charge your computer, phone and iPod under your seat! I worked the whole way

I’ll arrive at 2 o’clock at night in my 13 euro a night hotel. I hope to get some sleep and then tomorrow…. finally DLD

I feel a lot better already (although I’m traveling without a passport, cannot go back by plane, I can get caught for not having any ID on me )

Good guess!

Unfortunately I’ll miss the performance of Nicolas Negroponte because the cheapest airline I could find only goes once a day at 16:20 hrs.

I have some ideas for some cool podcasts live from the conference, so it is time to get myself an audio recording device. The problem is that my birthday is just after the conference (the 24th) and I can’t afford one at the moment…
So the question is… Who is willing to lend me (or even better buy me) an audio recording device this weekend?
How about this… if you can lend/buy me the device I’ll make each one of them say your (company) name

I’m pretty exited to go and I’m looking forward to meet up with Tariq.

-Most Innovative Concept
-Best Dutch App
-Best Newcomer

As of January everybody will be able to vote. So stay tuned.

We also host our first FUBB party! (check also upcoming)

It will be fun and your invited.

Tickets for Bright live are 15 euro and available on their website

But the owner of the site mentions an important thing: “With Fleck you can easily email your friends AND you promote music in control as well”.
So we thought that the widget would have a sort of viral effect for us, but in fact it is a nifty way for that blog to promote his own site on a very innovative way!”

This is a win win win situation:
1. the reader can easily (without any friction) share good stuff with friends, even with their remarks in the page.
2. the blog gets promoted.
3. Fleck does its thing.

Cool!

This morning this del.icio.us cake was delivered at the Fleck HQs. Thanks a lot Jan Willem
And how did you know I didn’t had any breakfast this morning

The Fleck team landed this morning at 9 o’clock in Amsterdam and at noon Guido van Nispen came by at Fleck HQ to make pictures of the Fleckees in the white suits.

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Just before the photo shoot, we released a new toolbar which fixes a lot of CSS bugs, is more stable and is just working All functionalities are the same. Try it!

We’re still at the office fighting our jet lag…..

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