I’m really counting the days now. For the first time in my career as ‘would be’ self sustainable farmer , my two ‘Ardennees Fox Head’ (Ardense Voskop) sheep will hopefully soon give birth to some healthy lambs.
The Ardennees Fox Head is an old rare Belgian sheep breed. They are very strong sheep, disease resistant and able [...]
In my mission to create the ‘ultimate editable’ garden, I obviously have a strong weakness for fruit trees.
And no, not just the regular ones, I planted some old rare Belgian varieties. The fruit often doesn’t look that ‘commercial’ (hence the varieties became rare) but they are often unbeatable in taste. Moreover they are much more disease resistant, by [...]
There was quite some media coverage on ‘Aardvark‘ last few days.
Aardvark (previously known as ‘Mechanical Zoo’) is a social search service developed by some ex-Googlers. Concept is simple though ingenious. Essentially, when a user sends a question to Aardvark (via email or instant message), the service analyzes the question and categorizes it, then distributes the [...]
This week Datanews stated that Dell has 50 (five zero!) employees who full time monitor blogs and other online social media.
Digging a bit into the subject, I ended up in the domain of ORM or ‘Online Reputation Management’ and SERM ’Search Engine Reputation Management’ and the growing importance for entreprises investing in this. Just to give an idea on the [...]
I got pretty frustrated a few days ago when a Spanish speaking guy who was trying to find his way around in the Brussels North Train Station, adressed me for help. His English was worse then my Swedish and although I once used to manage quite ok in the beautiful Spanish language, I couldn’t really [...]
Last week we rambled part of the beautiful ’GR120′ in the Pas de Calais region (France). GR stands for “Grandes Randonnées”, which are long distance (mostly scenic) footpaths throughout Europe. I surfed a bit around on the internet to see to which extend the GR federations already use Web2.0 techniques to document and inform hikers on these paths. The website of [...]