Veerle's blog

If you are as busy as me you try to save as much time with meetings at a client as possible. Sometimes I find meetings such a waste of time, considering the time you spend in a car. This is mostly longer then the meeting itself. Like today, I had a meeting at 9 a.m. this morning in Leuven. If my GPS is not mistaken, it would take me 55 minutes to get there. Well, since I needed to be there at 9 a.m. I knew this was really impossible to get there on time considering all the traffic jams I have to face around 8 a.m. So I counted 1,5 hour and left around 7.30 a.m.

Today is the day that most of us Mac users have been waiting for. At 10 AM San Francisco time Steve Jobs will unveil 10.4 aka “Tiger”. Unlike last year there will be no broadcast of the event. Good news is that we have somebody at the WWDC and if luck is on our side I should receive live updates through iChat/iSight(?) and will post them on my blog. In its boldest move to date Apple is already displaying some banners at the WWDC which sends a pretty clear picture about Apple’s feelings towards Microsoft upcoming operating system. 

Some scanners have Digital Ice build in to easily remove dust and scratches from your scanned pictures. If you don’t own such a scanner you’re in luck because Polaroid seems to be giving away software for free that works in a similar way. The installer lets you choose between a standalone app or a Photoshop plug-in. It’s for Mac and Windows.

It has been a while since I posted something on Ibiza. If the weather sucks here in Belgium for a long time sometimes my mind wonders off and imagines that I am living on Ibiza where it is 26 degrees Celsius and sunny at the moment. Most of the time, Belgium is nice and luxury standards are pretty high. Always a thing that I start missing when being away from home for a long time. Only a minority on Ibiza is doing well, probably the club owners etc. If you look at these figures you’ll understand what I mean. Tax return figures from this year show that in Ibiza 80% of the population have declared a taxable income of less than 21,000 Euro and over 50% have declared income between 6,000 Euro and 12,000 Euro. Not much is it?

Salaries. Government employees are still moaning about how little they receive in salary once the high cost of housing on the island is taken into consideration. They say that people doing the same jobs in Lanzarote get 480 Euro per month more than the pen pushers in Ibiza.  (source: Ibiza-Spotlight.com)

Sometimes these kind of statistics are needed to wake up from a daydream. 

Normally I wouldn’t even make a post of this but I thought why not, I feel happy, today is my birthday ;-) For those who wonder how old I am… right in the middle between 30 and 40. Time really flies I’m 35 already! Must sound old to some of you but I can assure you it doesn’t feel that way ;-)