Distant buying @ Danna banana

What should I do? My girlfriend is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and she is having her birthday? I could have bought something in advance and stuff it in her suitcase but then there would be no surpirse. That’s where my search started. I knew in advance in which hotel she would be [...]

Sinterklaas asks:” Have you been good?”

In the Netherlands Santa Claus come after Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas is the children friend that arrives half november by steamboat from Spain. The Sint, as he is called, is acompanied by ‘zwarte pieten’. They are his tainted aids that climb the rooftops to put presents for the children through the chimneys. Sinterklaas keeps a track record [...]

The Truth, the whole truth and…

Nothing but the truth is what most english speaking people automatically will fill into the dots. But this automatism is not so obvious for todays ‘news’.
With the internet each and every person in the world has become a publisher and can create his or her own news and even truth. As the amount of information [...]

Peer-to-peer disruption III: Bye bye bank

After turning the music- and telephony industries upside down, peer-to-peer technologies are moving into the financial markets. The principle is simple. Accept the fact that there are two kind of people. The people that have money and the people that need money. In the old days we would think that people at the bank are the [...]