Mogelijke verkoop van het PC en Business portfolio
Tevens wil ik jullie informeren dat wij overwegen om ook het PC en het Business portfolio te verkopen. Dit betreft PCM, Computer Idee, Power Unlimited, Management Team en Sprout. Deze titels sluiten minder aan bij onze strategie aangezien ze weinig tot geen recruitment potentieel hebben, en in het geval van de PC titels niet op de zakelijke markt gericht zijn. Er wordt er op dit moment gesproken met geïnteresseerde partijen over een mogelijke verkoop. Beide portfolio's worden als 2 afzonderlijke eenheden aangeboden. Vanzelfsprekend zoeken we naar een 'goed huis' voor beide portfolio's en een organisatie die het uitgeven van deze titels als kernactiviteit ziet. Zodra we meer duidelijkheid hebben over een eventuele nieuwe eigenaar, zullen we jullie hierover informeren. Wij verwachten dat dit binnen 3 maanden is.
De kogel is door de kerk. Afwachten dus...
Tevens wil ik jullie informeren dat wij overwegen om ook het PC en het Business portfolio te verkopen. Dit betreft PCM, Computer Idee, Power Unlimited, Management Team en Sprout. Deze titels sluiten minder aan bij onze strategie aangezien ze weinig tot geen recruitment potentieel hebben, en in het geval van de PC titels niet op de zakelijke markt gericht zijn. Er wordt er op dit moment gesproken met geïnteresseerde partijen over een mogelijke verkoop. Beide portfolio's worden als 2 afzonderlijke eenheden aangeboden. Vanzelfsprekend zoeken we naar een 'goed huis' voor beide portfolio's en een organisatie die het uitgeven van deze titels als kernactiviteit ziet. Zodra we meer duidelijkheid hebben over een eventuele nieuwe eigenaar, zullen we jullie hierover informeren. Wij verwachten dat dit binnen 3 maanden is.
De kogel is door de kerk. Afwachten dus...
Last monday we had a small SGNL-meeting at the Efteling. I say 'small', because unfortunately a lot of members (and non-members) were unable to make it. However, we still had a very nice group consisting of ApeLincoln + PixieBelle, Evilgasm, Lavenderrr + vriendje, Nedra, Mirjana and me.
The weather was favourable on our behalf: rain before we arrived and rainshowers right after we left late in the afternoon. In between there were clouds and even some sun! There weren't many people around either, so... no waiting! Yay! We pretty much did all the adrenaline rides in the park and I think the longest we had to wait was 5 minutes. Woot!
Anyway: I think the day was a real blast! I hope we can do this again, hopefully with more people. Until then, please do enjoy the photos!
The weather was favourable on our behalf: rain before we arrived and rainshowers right after we left late in the afternoon. In between there were clouds and even some sun! There weren't many people around either, so... no waiting! Yay! We pretty much did all the adrenaline rides in the park and I think the longest we had to wait was 5 minutes. Woot!
Anyway: I think the day was a real blast! I hope we can do this again, hopefully with more people. Until then, please do enjoy the photos!
The tube ticket redesign and the ticket above, got a mention in British newspaper The Guardian today.
I couldn't agree more.
I woke up this morning, showered, and then checked my waiting email on my phone. It's what I do every morning. However, where I normally receive 2 to 3 emails during the night, my mailbox counter now showed 13 unread messages. Apparently, someone managed to hijack my eBay-account! I had notices of a changed password, changed address, bids and sales -- the usual bad stuff that happens to you when you 'lose' your eBay-password.
Thankfully, eBay's own server system figured out something shady was going on and blocked my account as a preventive measure. I could log into my account if I would enter the answer to my 'secret' question. That in itself shouldn't be too hard, but apparently the hacker was smart enough to change these answers too. Ergo: not just the hacker, but I had been locked out of my account too.
I'm glad to say that eBay has a very good 'live help'-system that connects you to a bot-like representative. They were able to look into their old database records and after giving them some personal details they reset my password. They also fixed all the outstanding bids and sales and feedback related to the 'fraudulent activity'. The annoying thing is that I use the same password for a whole bunch of other sites (including SG), so I'm currently changing my password all around the internet. Urgh. Ah well, at least my credit card details were safe. I don't think I could stand the thought of some Nigerian scammer listening to tunes on an iPod he bought with my credit card
Thankfully, eBay's own server system figured out something shady was going on and blocked my account as a preventive measure. I could log into my account if I would enter the answer to my 'secret' question. That in itself shouldn't be too hard, but apparently the hacker was smart enough to change these answers too. Ergo: not just the hacker, but I had been locked out of my account too.
I'm glad to say that eBay has a very good 'live help'-system that connects you to a bot-like representative. They were able to look into their old database records and after giving them some personal details they reset my password. They also fixed all the outstanding bids and sales and feedback related to the 'fraudulent activity'. The annoying thing is that I use the same password for a whole bunch of other sites (including SG), so I'm currently changing my password all around the internet. Urgh. Ah well, at least my credit card details were safe. I don't think I could stand the thought of some Nigerian scammer listening to tunes on an iPod he bought with my credit card
Today at work, we received the weirdest letter ever... 
Let me explain a bit. I work at a computer magazine. I am part of the editorial staff, responsible for the hardware section of our monthly magazine and our website. Our readers don't usually send in letters -- the benefit of working for a computer magazine is that our readers do know how to use e-mail. So apart from the occasional computer user who has trouble with his internet and therefore decides to use old-fashioned pen & paper, we rarely ever get mail from our readers.
Today was an exception. There was a big, fat, white envelope in our mailbox. It wasn't specifically addressed to anyone of our staff; neither was it addressed to one of our 'departments'. So we opened it up, only to find page after page after page of barely legible handwriting. It wasn't until we did a close inspection that we realized what we were reading were our own articles. Apparently, someone has hand-copied our whole magazine from the opening column to the closing-'next month...'
If you think this is weird, it gets better: the person in question didn't bother to use spaces between the words and, even more disturbing, not on any of the 100+ written pages we were able to find a single spelling mistake. Not a single strike-though word or tippex'ed letter. So that either means that the person is a genius (albeit autistic) and therefore doesn't make a single error, or (and that is why I say 'disturbing') the person wrote a fresh new page every time he made a mistake...
Unfortunately we haven't been able to discover any clue as to the identity of our mystery reader. The package was postmarked in The Hague, which doesn't tell us much. We have been able to identify his 'work' as being a copy of our September 2006 issue, meaning he either has an old copy or he's been working for almost a year on his 'project'. In either case, we are seriously considering sending him/her a couple of fresh new copies of our magazine for his/her pleasure... so... who are you! :-P
Let me explain a bit. I work at a computer magazine. I am part of the editorial staff, responsible for the hardware section of our monthly magazine and our website. Our readers don't usually send in letters -- the benefit of working for a computer magazine is that our readers do know how to use e-mail. So apart from the occasional computer user who has trouble with his internet and therefore decides to use old-fashioned pen & paper, we rarely ever get mail from our readers.
Today was an exception. There was a big, fat, white envelope in our mailbox. It wasn't specifically addressed to anyone of our staff; neither was it addressed to one of our 'departments'. So we opened it up, only to find page after page after page of barely legible handwriting. It wasn't until we did a close inspection that we realized what we were reading were our own articles. Apparently, someone has hand-copied our whole magazine from the opening column to the closing-'next month...'
If you think this is weird, it gets better: the person in question didn't bother to use spaces between the words and, even more disturbing, not on any of the 100+ written pages we were able to find a single spelling mistake. Not a single strike-though word or tippex'ed letter. So that either means that the person is a genius (albeit autistic) and therefore doesn't make a single error, or (and that is why I say 'disturbing') the person wrote a fresh new page every time he made a mistake...
Unfortunately we haven't been able to discover any clue as to the identity of our mystery reader. The package was postmarked in The Hague, which doesn't tell us much. We have been able to identify his 'work' as being a copy of our September 2006 issue, meaning he either has an old copy or he's been working for almost a year on his 'project'. In either case, we are seriously considering sending him/her a couple of fresh new copies of our magazine for his/her pleasure... so... who are you! :-P
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