Lot has already been said and written about social networking. There are so many different social networking websites on the net that it is sometimes difficult to pick out the right one. And if you start with one, you will probably end up with several accounts on different social networks as well, because of course you don’t want to miss one friend! Imagine that you do… Everybody will think you are a loser!
Some people really make it a sport to gather as much friends as possible, because they think the higher their number of friends they have, the higher their status in society will be. It’s funny to see sometimes remarks from these highly connected people that they like their real friends, excluding hereby probably at least 90% of their network.
Personally I hate the remark ”real friend”, because it emphasizes the sadness of the fact what they are doing. They are just adding people to their network to please their own ego, and hoping that everybody will say wow. In a later post I will write my own terms about friendship.
The last 10 days or so I invested some time in a famous Dutch social network website called Hyves. In April this year this site had 3,266,581 unique profiles on their site, which is a pretty high number if you a the total number of people living in the Netherlands. Most of them being Dutch and probably between the age of 18 until 25, the age where getting confirmations from people so your are sure about yourself plays a major fact in life. 
I guess if you are in a club in the Netherlands and see a nice girl you want to know better, you can just ask for her Hyves profile name and you’re on.
At first I was a little bit hold back because most of my friends didn’t use Hyves or don’t live in the Netherlands at all and are out of scope for this website. But after discovering the possibility to find back old school mates, work colleagues from current and past companies I worked for, it was pretty funny! I didn’t expect to find so many old friends at all!
Currently I’m continuing my little experiment. Social networking is really part of the web 2.0 revolution and the way to 3.0 highway of linking everything to everything. I will give some more updates later on, as I’m testing also some other social networking sites and sometimes wonder about some stuff that you find there.
Google is a fun playground to hang around. Everyday I find some new use to it. For example, most digital cameras use the DSCxxxxx.jpg naming convention. So the first name a photo gets when using a digital camera for the first time is DSC00001.jpg. This combined that you can search for images at the google search engine makes it pretty funny to see what the first picture looks like when people start using their new digital camera. The result will not surprise you. Take a look here to go directly to the search results.
We probably know more about the Moon and Mars then about the deep sea of our own planet. There is still so much undiscovered territory down there. Sometimes fascinating new species are found and they just look so alien-like, it’s amazing to watch. Take a look here for some amazing photo’s and species from our own oceans.
7 months without any post on my personal site. Wow, a new record! Time to re-re-re-start the blogging about Jorg himself. No long stories anymore, just short and easy to read pieces about things that are worth remembering. Personal life, professional life, sports, other websites, happenings, etc. So here we go again, another promise to keep writing and I’m pretty convinced that from now on I will keep writing. I learned a lot about daily blogging with one of my more active websites Shark Freediving, so we will see. Let’s start once again!
The animal world is a wonderful thing. If you look at certain species and see what they are capable of… Amazing stuff! For the last post of the year I got some amazing footage here. Just watch and then say Wooow! Have a good evening to all!
I like guitar music! Very nice instrument that I started playing with since I was 15 or so. After some years of practising at a pretty good level I almost stopped playing but took the guitar out of the closet about 2 times a year. Some 6 months ago I decided it was better to leave the guitar in the living room and hence, now I play more ofter. Sometimes I need a little bit inspiration again and then I watch for example this clip. Extremely good skilled Erik Mongrain plays in a very unusual style, but it sounds great!
About 6 months ago I posted some pictures about the size of our planet next to some other planets and suns. Well to make it even more clear how small we are someone made a nice movie about it. Sit back and blow your mind about this…
Damn, another 3 months have passed without even one single post from me. So many things have happened in all parts of my life that it would take some serious writing to catch up again. But instead of bringing up the old again it’s time to look at the future. There are some interesting projects coming up including some nice challenges.
Let’s start with a good new years resolution by saying that I’ll write here again at least 2 times a week! Not that I’m writing for other people but just for myself. So that after 1 year I can look back and see what I’ve done.
I read back my old posts and it was funny and nice to read some things back I almost forgot about because of the very busy and intense last 3 months. So it made me wonder that I should change what I’m writing about a little bit. I’ve decided to write some more about myself and the personal stuff I do and encounter but also stuff I just find interesting to write about like for example movies, books, locations, etc. So we will see how this will go in the next weeks.
Anyway, I hope everybody had a great Christmas with their family and friends and I wish everybody a very good and happy new year’s party! In the picture attached you see our Christmas and new years card we made for our friends and family. As you can see my daughter Indy and son Rody had some good time in their Christmas outfit.
Wow, this year really flies by! It’s just amazing. I need to make a promise with myself that I make at least one post in my blog every week. I just read some stuff back from the beginning when I started this blog and it’s fun and nice to see which goals I already achieved and especially which ones I totally forgot! So from now on some more structural writing over here, because it’s already been 6 weeks since the last entry.
I’ve made a new website for my wife (and myself) were she, and all her friends, and their friends, etc, etc.. can chat and post about all things related to their kids. The website just began and is running production now for around 9 days or so and we already have almost 5000 posts and 130 members. So it’s going pretty well over there. I promised everybody to give a party if we reach 1000 members. Yes, that’s dangerous I know, but also fun… It’s nice to hear the words of these ladies that they finally found a place were they feel at home to discuss stuff about their children.
I’m also very pleased to mention that I finally found my dream gym were I finally can do my thing. Really hardcore, lots of weights, and dumbells to 70 kilograms! Finally some stuff to play with and nobody that will complain because I move to much weight and I could damage the floor. It’s was especially motivating to see some other guys lifting some heavy weights. I just finished my 4th week of getting back to a full schedule and this Monday I start with a regular training schedule of 4 times a week full body workout, very intense hard work. Did I mention intense? Very curious how much I can come to my former strength level.
The Shark company is coming along well. Due to some private happenings in the last 3 months I had to slow things down, but I’m glad that now I can go full throttle again. Many things in the pipeline and some very interesting things to come ahead, definitely already in this year.
Oh yeah, I setup an interesting test project, something everybody is probably interested about. I’m going to show the world real results from a real test soon! What’s it about I’ll tell you later, but it will definitely be fun!
So from now on some more updates! I promise you and especially myself!
Wow, already two months since my last post. Time flies when you’re busy. It’s almost christmas again! So many things to write about, and so little time. Okay, again a new promise to myself to write at least once a week at this blog. Personal stuff, things that I find interesting, etc. So what to start with? I’m just back from a vacation with my 5 year old son and we had so much fun! It gave me again lots of energy to go forward. So soon some more writings from me about some stuff, who knows what.
By the way, it’s not that I didn’t do anything in the last two months! If you take a look at Shark Freeediving, my freediving weblog about everything related to freediving, you’ll probably find some interesting posts. The same with Sharkbait. We did a lot of training and are making big progress exactly as planned. So also a lot to mention on that weblog. Furthermore there are almost some other projects finished which we soon can show to the outside world. Some pretty nice things coming up. Back to work now…
Oh yeah… Let’s include the inspirational picture of today!
Lot has already been said and written about social networking. There are so many different social networking websites on the net that it is sometimes difficult to pick out the right one. And if you start with one, you will probably end up with several accounts on different social networks as well, because of course you don’t want to miss one friend! Imagine that you do… Everybody will think you are a loser!
Some people really make it a sport to gather as much friends as possible, because they think the higher their number of friends they have, the higher their status in society will be. It’s funny to see sometimes remarks from these highly connected people that they like their real friends, excluding hereby probably at least 90% of their network.
The last 10 days or so I invested some time in a famous Dutch social network website called Hyves. In April this year this site had 3,266,581 unique profiles on their site, which is a pretty high number if you a the total number of people living in the Netherlands. Most of them being Dutch and probably between the age of 18 until 25, the age where getting confirmations from people so your are sure about yourself plays a major fact in life. 
At first I was a little bit hold back because most of my friends didn’t use Hyves or don’t live in the Netherlands at all and are out of scope for this website. But after discovering the possibility to find back old school mates, work colleagues from current and past companies I worked for, it was pretty funny! I didn’t expect to find so many old friends at all!
