tooth implants

It starts with some anesthetics. A few pricks to the front of your jawbone. Nothing serious. Then a few jabs in the canopy with the same syringe.
While the weapons of choice are being prepared, the upper part of your mouth goes numb as it should be.
Then there is a small incision and the drilling starts. [...]

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“Sir” Terry

Last night Terry Pratchett was knighted in the UK.
More detalis here

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cooking pr0n

I treated myself to a new cooking pot yeterday. I saw this cocotte in a shop for a reasonable price. A nice plus was that it came in a clean black, which is always a tat more stylish than the usual orange colour of these things.
Stew will be coming our way soon …

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finally

Finally home for a longer period. Obviously I hope to cash in on this time but there is so much to do:

blog a bit
cleaning (a lot of cleaning to do since I skipped this years big spring clean up)
reading (still have over 10 books lying around in different phases of being read)
visiting (not only the [...]

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working out

It started out like this:

and then the first cracks in the plaster appeared:

soon it looked like this:

and then the ceiling turned out to contain also some cracks:

Some rewiring of the electrics:

some more rewiring needed:

and this was the magic box …

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chrome is the best

Chrome is the best browser out there.
Yes, I do seriously mean it! No, it’s technically not the best, nor in form and looks, nor in functionality.
After test driving it I can call a list of great stuff:

blazing fast, especially in javascript rich pages [and spawns processes like there is no tomorrow]
it feels lightweight [on a [...]

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chrome!

Chrome it is!
I just downloaded it and tried to run it with this disappointing message:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.
Some googling around brought me to this blog that had all links neatly ordered.
Seems the problem exists for users of Symantec Endpoint Protection (aptly abbreviated SEP).
Even without this [...]

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chrome?

Seems another competitor is about to enter the arena …

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Change

Big changes in my life:

New job
New car
New laptop
New mobile

more follows later, when I have the time …

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weather and stuff

Today the day ended with some heavy rain and thunder after a day of pressing heat under a clouded sky. And I like it, the lightning, the thunder, the heavy thudding of the raindrops, I even like to walk around in it as long as it is warm enough and gives a refreshing feeling.
With all [...]

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openwervendag2008 – Bell

Yesterday some construction sites in Belgium where open to a public visit. As I once spent a large part of my day there, I decided to visit the site of Bell, the old Alcatel Bell site in the south of Antwerp.
After the company’s relocation to the center of the city behind the central station, the [...]

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younison

In the wake of all internet succes some artist recently got, there is now a platform for all musicians to unite and break the stalemate current semi-criminal-but-governement-supported organisations like SABAM hold on copyright, rights collection and distribution.
The campaign is supported by a youtube video featuring Mr. Tim Van Hamel.
(Via Clo)

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new glasses

In this bag they came, but they’re not Prada.

They are Diesel and come in a flashing white box

And here they are …

For those interested:
Brand = Diesel
Model = DV0065
Color = CML

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want one of these

Now for sale on Ebay : probably the largest and most complete collection of music.
3 million records and 300,000 CDs containing more than 6 million song titles
and also

The new owner of this magnificent collection will also acquire (1) the rights to Spin-Clean, the owner’s patented vinyl record cleaning system, considered the best on the [...]

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need more jaw?

A new realisation in medics. Man looses upper jaw due to tumor. Doctors isolate bone growing stem cells and paste them around a calcium base form. Then insert whole bunch in his belly where it starts to grow and even form blood vessels. Then cut out whole bunch and insert it in his mouth where [...]

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