Category: Personal Ramblings

  • Start of the fourth quarter

    The year 2008 is slowly coming to an end, just three more months to go! The fourth quarter is usually the best in terms of ad dollars for most sites and I hope revenue will start picking up soon. Earlier today I’ve compiled the numbers of the revenue my business generated in September and it’s not…

  • Körperwelten IV – the art of the human body

    On Saturday we went to Brussels to the Cellars of Cureghem to see Körperwelten 4, a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts. Körperwelten is German for “Body Worlds” and it’s the child of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, the inventor of a technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. The exhibition…

  • Weekend update – September 7, 2008

    I haven’t blogged a lot lately so here’s a quick weekend edition update on some stuff. Work Income is starting to go up a bit but still a lot lower than last year. I hope it picks up again as we head into the shopping season. Dollar rally A bit more positive is the huge…

  • Business heading south..

    It’s the start of the month again and one of the things I do on the first day of each month is add up all the (preliminary) earnings figures of all my income streams to get a rough view of how much money I made last month. I started doing this about a year ago…

  • Canon zoom lens finally arrived

    It took ages but my Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS lens finally arrived today. This complements the 18-55mm IS lens I bought together with my Canon EOS 450D a couple of months ago.  I’ll post a couple of sample pics this weekend.