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Archive for March, 2009

The aftermath of the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) course

Millions of years of evolution against you; that is the feeling that travels through your body, when you reach for that airplane door and look down from 12.000 feet of altitude. And it does not go away – after more jumps – either, though I have been told that it gets a little better. But [...]

Roosendaal Indoor Skydiving

The indoor skydiving trip was great; not only did we have a lot of fun doing it (let’s face it: watching other people’s faces being smashed by the high winds is fun), but we also had the chance of exploring a tiny part of the town of Roosendaal. Ah, Roosendaal, city of the chicken with [...]

The need to unplug

Did you ever feel the need to unplug from your online life? I’m referring to the range of social networking tools that we have around us, like facebook, twitter, posterous, plaxo, linkedin, hi5, pingfm, just to name a few. I know I have, in more that one ocasion, and today I finally started thinking about [...]

The need to unplug

Did you ever feel the need to unplug from your online life? I’m referring to the range of social networking tools that we have around us, like facebook, twitter, posterous, plaxo, linkedin, hi5, pingfm, just to name a few. I know I have, in more that one ocasion, and today I finally started thinking about [...]