What makes my life

I read a lot in English. I even dream in English and is often so that I can think of a word in English and not in Dutch. But I lack knowledge in several fields one of them is proverbs. I like using metafors and proverbs when I speak but I lack their knowledge in English. So I will try to find as much as I can so I can use them later.

You can’t polish a turd.
You cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear (sow is female pig).
While the cat’s away, the mice will play.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Comparing apples to oranges.
Slower than molasses in January.
Look before you leap.
Throwing in the towel
This cannot see the light of day.
A chip off the old block
The straw that broke the camel’s back
Go without one’s dinner. or Dining with Duke Humphrey.
Dot your i’s and cross your t’s
Keep your finger on the pulse
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That’s wishful thinking.
First come, first served
Save (something) for a rainy day.
Buying a pig in a poke
He has got a screw loose
A problem shared is a problem halved
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The end justifies the means.
Life isn’t always a bed of roses.
It’s raining cats and dogs
Make hay while the sun shines; strike while the iron is hot.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Hope springs eternal.
Be someone’s right hand man
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
(Being) a big fish in a small pond
The child is father to the man.
Little pitchers have big ears
Clothes maketh the man.
Six of one or half a dozen of the other.
Honey attracts more flies than vinegar.
Taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Splitting hairs.
Every cloud has a silver lining
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Home sweet home.
Paying the piper for playing the tune. You break it, you buy it.
Speaking out is valuable, keeping your mouth shut priceless.
Nitpicking.
Storm in a tea cup.
Being all thumbs.
Killing two birds with one stone.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Look before you leap; Safety first.
Carrying coals to Newcastle.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink
If the shoe fits, wear it.
He who laughs last, laughs loudest
To cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
A more specific form of You reap what you sow.
Taking someone’s silence as a sign that they agree.
A stitch in time, saves nine. (?)
Resist tooth and nail.
It takes one to know one.
There’s no place like home.
Where there’s life, there’s hope.

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I got of to a bad start. No posts for days. So I’m only human. I need to get the habit. I will be posting this evening again.

Since I am new to Wordpress I did not know I had to look for a layout / theme that is widget ready. Therefor I had a theme that was not widget ready but nice. So now I have a widget ready layout.

On my weblog I will post in the following area’s:

Advertising: In 1992 I started my studies Communicatie and Management. This was the starting point of my interest in advertising. Ever since I try to keep track on nice advertisments. This off course failed horribly. Therefor I will try to post nice advertisments and the reason why I like them.

Future: Even now that I am fully alive I am kind of dissapointed that I will be dead someday. this is a feeling I have had for ever and it sparkled my interest in anything referring to the future. This might contain envirnomental discoveries, technology, sociological or anything else. As long as an issue interests me and it has somehting to do with future develoments I will poust it under this category.

Environmental: I love big cars, long showers, airconditioning, my freezer and large screen TV’s. But I also have a problem with them. They cause a lot of pollution. I am very interested in enything new helping us all fight the energy shortage / pollution monster. I gather these things under envirmonment.

Earth and Nature: This will not be the best filled category, honestly, it will not. But on the other hand I feel I need to have it. There is so muchbeautifull things to see on this planet that I’d like to share this.

Cars: As I said before. I like big cars. I do not like the > 1000BHP type of cars or the tuned dressed up with plastic kind of cars. I like the often wel balanced factory ready deliverd cars like Volvo S80, XC90, S60, Audi S6 (Allroad), Hyundai Santa Fe, Citroen C6 (maybe even the C5), Land Rover Range Rover (sport). All cars made for daily use with a design that is well balanced and all the performance you need to drive ahead of traffic.

Internet: Anything related to internet communication.

Now a days I read a lot about people using the internet at work for private purposes. This triggers the mind off course. Why are employers so “angry” that employees steal their time? It is so short sighted to stop employees using the internet by blocking sites. Have you ever met an employer who blocks his corporate e-mail system for their employees during the out-of-office hours? No, you have not because they love it when you do something in your own time.

But why don’t they like the idea that their employees have the flexibility to do things they need to do during office hours on the job and things they can do during the off-hours when they are at home? Why this strict line between work and private.

Besides that you never see any calculation how much employers win with using the resources they so explicitly block. Why is it that Wikipedia should only cost a business money when their employees use it to add knowledge to the collective brain? You never see a calculation like this. Encyclopedia’s not bought 5 @ € 500,- = € 2.500,-. Time not spend on walking to an encyclopedia/looking for it 100 hours @ € 75,- an hour = € 7.500,- that is € 10.000,- all together. This is money saved fellow employers!!!

Let your employees blend!

Why don’t you ever read a story about an employer opening the internet

Today I have been working on a new plan for Wageningen University. They have a site aimed at students in the pre-university stage world wide. They are doing some serious datamining on their users to find out more on how they behave and how to peruade them to come to Wageningen for their bachelors and their masters. I hope to persude them to add some of their beautifull video’s as well as open standards. Take a look at www.mijnwageningenuniversiteit.nl/msc.

Why another blog. I have been wondering myself. Currently I am the how many millionth log poster? I don’t even believe in the long term benefits of weblogs. In my opinion you see that the older and more succesfull logs start to develop the same behaviour as “old school” publishers. Nevertheless this is my personal weblog. Why oh why? For one simple and very easy reason. It is my personal sketchbook. I’ll be using it to drop everything I found, from interesting work related things through to personal things. Things expected to be found here wil refer to other locations and will contain gadgets, personal development, internet etcetera.

We’ll see.

Hi, my name is Martijn Verhoeven.

I am the husband of Annemarie van der Slot - Verhoeven and father of Fien Verhoeven. I started this blog to make life easier for myself. I tend to think a lot about things and I keep wondering where to put my stuff and how to easilly share them with others. There for I started this blog to make it a central point in my life and thus making it easy for myself to find my thoughts.

What makes my life is all about anything I find and think. I tend to write down my thoughts and the things I find lyng around the internet.

In daily life I am the gerenal manager of Rhinofly. I started this company in 1996 with Ronald van Schaik. We are still growing and we do that at an easy pace. No major steps, every day one step ahead.