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Travelling: The beauty of Honduras

jaapwillem — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:03:53 +0000

Travelling: Beauty of Honduras

With the latest problems in Honduras it’s easy to forget about a very important part of the country, the tourism.

It is indeed one of the poorest countries in the region and South America but it’s plenty covered with beautiful spots all over the country. I would like to invite you guys to explore with me the beauty of the country and the persons within the Gallery I linked to this Blog post on Flickr.

Travelling in Honduras: Tegucigalpa

The capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, is build upon many hills and very steep hills sometimes but it’s definitely a very interesting place with sometimes a tremendous difference between the old classical Spanish style and the latest buildings from western companies whom are using low wage workers to make their products.

Travelling in Honduras: Caribbean coast.

If you go towards the coast you come to see the rolling green hills with the local flowers before you get to the Caribbean sea. This is when you get to the beautiful blue colored sea with the islands just a short boat trip away.

The local population is very charming and welcoming to tourists and are happy to share with you the beauty of their country.

Do you have a Honduras travel experience? Please share it with me in the comments.

Travelling in Honduras: Slideshow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaapwillem/tags/2008americasabrilhondurasviaje/

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Panoramic Bruges at night

jaapwillem — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:17:20 +0000

Panoramic Bruges at night, originally uploaded by Jaap Willem.

Panoramic Landscape Bruges

Bruges is one the eldest cities in Europe, and it’s straight stunning that they have been able to keep the spirit of the old city for such a long time.
This panoramic landscape picture of Bruges is taken at night with the beautiful city light in the central market.
It is in the centre of Bruges with plenty of bars and restaurants..

I hope that you guys like this night panoramic landscape from Bruges and let me know in the comments what you think..

Cheers

Jaap Willem

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Zoekwoorden Meta tags in Google, Yahoo en Bing

jaapwillem — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:38:07 +0000

Gebruik van zoekwoorden metatags in Google, Yahoo en Bing.

Na veel discussie over het feit of een zoekwoord metatag nu wel of niet word gebruikt heb ik besloten om mijn eigen testje op te zetten.

In mijn persoonlijke pagina heb ik een zoekwoord metatag ingevoerd met 1 zoekterm die niet in de tekst van mijn pagina tevoorschijn komt.

Ik heb gekozen voor het zoekwoord “JaapWillem WordPress”, met www.jaapwillem.com geïndexeerd in alle 3 de zoekmachines.

Wanneer ik dus deze exacte waarde zoekt in Google, Bing en Yahoo voor mijn website zie ik dus het volgende resultaat:

Google: Geen waarde gevonden.
Bing: Niks gevonden
Yahoo: Komt met de correcte pagina tevoorschijn.

Dit betekent dus dat Yahoo nog steeds de zoekwoord metatag indexeert terwijl Google en Bing deze niet meer indexeren..

De vraag is natuurlijk nu of het interesant is om alleen voor Yahoo een zoekwoord metatag in te voegen en ook in het licht van de opkomende veranderingen met de zoekmachines.

In mijn opinie kunnen we de zoekwoorden metatag laten vallen en zal het veel schelen in het werk.

Wat is jullie opinie?

Zoekwoord Indicatie jaapwillem.com

Google Zoekwoord opdracht

Bing zoekwoord opdracht

Yahoo zoekwoord opdracht

Google Wave workflow

jaapwillem — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:11:15 +0000

Just wondering what each ones work flow for Google Wave is..

I have at the moment 2 favorite views..

One with 3 to 4 conversations open. This is for the moment I’m really into the productivity and need to collaborate with everyone..
One with no conversations visible but all hidden into the top from the page. This is the moment when I leave I like to have everything clean and I can see when I come back which ones had comments on them. It is indicated in Green

Which one is yours??

Give me a feedback in the comments or on Google wave… jaapwillem at googlewave dot com

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French Pharmacy

jaapwillem — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:02:47 +0000

Image French Pharmacy

Just saw the other day this picture in my library and every time I’m always intrigued.

I don’t know, but it gives me always a very warm feeling to see one. It looks like one out of the old cartoons where it still is like it used to be during the beginning of the 1900…

So I would like to introduce you this edited photo from a french pharmacy, made in a cartoonish style image.

Let me know what you think,

Cheers Jaap Willem

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Yahoo HATES PUBLIC opinion

jaapwillem — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:55 +0000

Now I think it’s becoming more and more official.. And I think it’s a real pity but Yahoo HATES public opinion.

I write this article with boiling blood, because Yahoo is taking more and more control over Flickr and they clearly do not understand the Flickr motivation.

Way back in the time we loved Flickr because they where cutting-edge and had a great community ..

Now the community is going down.. more and more people are moving towards other sites, like SmugMug and even Picasaweb..

From a technical point of view, few things have changed lately, the last major addition is the addition of Video.. and that only for 1:30 minutes..

Lately there’s a trend from Flickr to start to intervene into community discussions, one of the biggest fails was the Laughing clown which was similar to Obama. Now the latest is the erasing of posts and intervention within the Yahoo groups..

So I would like to refer to this article from Thomas Hawk and face the facts that Flickr soon will be a community without community..

Give it a look and share this with your friends, colleagues etc.. and stop using Flickr, there are many more interesting photo sites on the internet..

Cheers Jaap Willem

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Amsterdam Street Images

jaapwillem — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:50:15 +0000

Amsterdam Street Images.
The following images are a few images I took during the car-free Sunday in September in Amsterdam.

It’s really nice to see that the people took their living room to the street to make a statement about the use of the streets.
True, normally the weather ain’t that good that it’s possible but still, it’s great. I think it’s as well about the spirit in Amsterdam that when there’s something going on, the whole city center is enjoying the party. Anyone who have been at a Queensday knows how the party can be.

So I would like to invite you guys to this small selection of edited images from Amsterdam and the living room on the streets. At the end we always have the blue cushion to sit on, isn’t?? To enjoy the beautiful sight over the Canals.

If you are in Amsterdam, just try to stroll around and enjoy the spirit of the city, you’ll be positively surprised.

Jaap Willem

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Houseboat in Amsterdam

jaapwillem — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:52:10 +0000

Houseboat in Amsterdam

This B&W picture from a Houseboat in Amsterdam is a famous example. It is even mentioned on the Wikipedia site about the houseboats in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
In the city they all have their own official locations with their own Address. Due to the fact that the places are limited the prices have risen on the same rate as the Real Estate on the ground.

Enjoy..

B&W Image from Houseboat in Amsterdam

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Google Passes 71% Market Share In Latest Hitwise Survey

jaapwillem — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:52:29 +0000

via feeds.searchengineland.com

Funny to see that suddenly Ask.com is soaring 8% .. Will people change Bing and Yahoo for Ask???

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Typical Amsterdam City landscape

jaapwillem — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:52:28 +0000

Typical Amsterdam city center landscape.

So, about 2 weeks ago we went for a weekend to Amsterdam and it's always really nice to to stroll around in the city center taste the ambiance of the city.
Even though it was only for a day, the other day we went to the Zaanstreek, we had a great luck with the weather and the fact there where very few people around.
This is the moment I took this picture from one of the Grachten, canals, with the typical view from Amsterdam with the bikes on the bridges, the canals and boats..
Hope you guys enjoys this picture and stay updated for some new images from Amsterdam I have up my sleeve somewhere

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