December 26, 2009
Hans Rosling, a great presenter when it comes to data analysis.
He predicts that India and China will catch up with the western economies by 2048 (based on income per person). The data behind his prediction is most interesting. Many people are ‘worried’ about the power of Asia, this video shows exactly where India and China are compared to the UK and US.
Have a look at the TED video:
More data can be found on Gapminder.org (owned by Google).
http://www.gapminder.org/
July 25, 2009
Isn’t it cool to know that there is a Boeing 777 with MY initials:
PH-BVB (where PH could stand for Philips Healthcare, the company I work for)
I first ‘met’ PH-BVB flying home from Cairo, what a pleasure!
April 5, 2009
My wife already told me that ‘something’ killed a pigeon in our backyard, we didn’t know what.
The next morning I opened the window and guess who is eating the last pieces?
A ‘Sparrowhawk’, ‘Sperwer’ in dutch, in our backyard, finishing the last remainings of the poor pigeon.
April 4, 2009
Sometimes during a business trip you run into a real cool place, in this case in Cape Town.
My colleague already prepared me by saying, it’s a 3 star hotel, but I promise you: you will enjoy it.
And I did, what a super cool place, amazing interior and super friendly people.
The elevators are having pictures inside so it looks like you are in a shark cage or the cable car to Table Mountain.
Whenever you plan to visit Cape Town, visit the Protea Fire and Ice hotel.
http://www.proteahotels.com/protea-hotel-fire-and-ice.html
Click HERE for my pictures of South Africa.
March 14, 2009
Imagine, driving on the German ‘Autobahn’, typically a ‘little bit’ more speed than normal in The Netherlands and the car starts to shake a bit.
The car was a Fiat, so I thought that these vehicles were not prepared to the high speed . . . within a few seconds I saw a lot of smoke behind me, realizing that this could come from my car made be slow down, the car handling got worse and I ended up stopping carefully.
The reason for this all; a REAL flat tire:
March 7, 2009
Read this post, isn’t Thomas L. Friedman totally right?
From NYT: Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid — on top of the billions they’ve already received or requested — leaves me with the sick feeling that we are subsidizing the losers and for only one reason: because they claim that their funerals would cost more than keeping them on life support. Sorry, friends, but this is not the American way. Bailing out the losers is not how we got rich as a country, and it is not how we’ll get out of this crisis.
See his original post:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22friedman.html?_r=1
February 5, 2009
I get more and more respect for what THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN writes,
Again the following column is amazingly ‘on the spot’!
Read the whole article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01friedman.html
That may be President Obama’s most important bailout task: to educate the country that there is no easy escape here, except taking our medicine, getting our fundamentals right again and working our way out of this, brick by brick, by getting back to making money — what was that old Smith Barney ad? — “the old-fashioned way” — by earning it.
February 1, 2009
Hi all,
I’m just uploading more travel pictures (business travels).
http://basvanbreugel.wordpress.com/pictures/
February 1, 2009
Hi folks, despite the trouble on the financial market, our business is super busy. Had two ‘long trips’: 1 week South Africa and 1 week Dubai.
We had a blast, good customer responses and perfect weather!
Photos will follow soon!
January 1, 2009
All readers, have a happy and most important healthy 2009.
Just to have an interesting start of the blogyear, a nice picture about mounting an AC in Russia:
