Archives for April, 2008
Night photography on Hyves
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Temporary accomodation of the Albert Heijn branch in Leiden, Bevrijdingsplein
I put this photograph on my Hyves page yesterday and so far it has received more than 1500 hits. I asked one of the administrators to put a link to it on the Hyves homepage Pictures area (second from left, top row):
Edited 03/11: the photograph has [...]
From my balcony
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Why I won’t eat fast food any time soon
Monday, April 21st, 2008
The following I have gathered from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. He has done research on fast-food chains, their philosophies, their suppliers of meat, and their employees. This book is a good case for returning to eating meat from local farmers who are conscientious about raising cattle, or not eating meat at all.
The [...]
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I’ve just purchased a second-hand book by Edward R. Tufte from the Kringloop Centrum Zeist, called The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and I am soooo looking forward to reading it! I came across a reference to this book on www.xkcd.com and looked around for a copy, but a new copy is about € 45, [...]
Mies on Sunday
Monday, April 14th, 2008
you talkin’ to me?
Biztalk 2006 R2 Deep Dive
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Last week I attended a Microsoft Biztalk training in Utrecht at InfoSupport, which hosted the training for QuickLearn (an American company). An overweight American flew over to teach us, in a week, the more advanced features of using Biztalk in a commercial environment. Normally the training hours were from 8 am to 6 or 7 [...]
Reasons why I take the stairs
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
burning the calories I had for lunch;
building muscle on my legs;
seeing what it looks like to have 10 people crammed into a small elevator meant for 6, for about 25 minutes because the doors wouldn’t open (happened this morning but luckily I wasn’t one of those 10);
feeling how easy it is to breathe after I [...]
This: best better perfect
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
It’s a bit presumptious to say that the show you’ve just seen is the best show ever, but This is a show like I’ve never seen before and which has touched me like no other show has touched me before. I’ve tried to put into words why and how, but I don’t think I should–if [...]
Physical theater and Night photography
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
It’s a little late and I should be in bed by now, but I have just finished a bag of prawn crackers, and I’ve also finished preparing some pictures I took this evening. They’re at the end of this post.
Yesterday we rehearsed a violent scene from “Desire Under the Elms”, where my character has to [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.