tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30573672024-03-08T20:09:23.930-04:00Dreams Unlimited - Christian Peper's blogWhat I do, think, see or dream about. Updated regularly with things I've been up to, movies I saw, music I'm really into at the moment and other personal things. In the first place as an outlet for *me*.
If you happen to enjoy reading it and can kinda know what I'm going through, then that's fine. If I offend you, I'm sorry... write me and we'll sort it out.Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.comBlogger3207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-10548559120940643792018-06-28T12:35:00.001-04:002018-06-28T12:46:28.794-04:00ChristianPeper.comThis is an ancient archive of my stuff from way back when the internet was still cute and young.<br />
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I now have a more mature site called <a href="http://christianpeper.com/">christianpeper.com</a> which used to be peper-it.nl but has bloomed into more than just IT.<br />
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<a href="http://www.christianpeper.com/">www.christianpeper.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-3998781024885449522013-07-05T04:26:00.001-04:002013-07-05T04:26:00.596-04:00Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/d-wave-quantum-computer-usc/">Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost)</a><br />
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Major step in the future of computing! So cool!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-48348021474071993502013-07-04T04:38:00.001-04:002013-07-04T04:38:24.974-04:00GlassRoots | Scoop.it<a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/glassroots">GlassRoots | Scoop.it</a><br />
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Topic on Scoop.it about wearable technology! Cool! I used to do that back in 1996... :)<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-40287016839827461732013-07-04T04:13:00.001-04:002013-07-04T04:13:24.178-04:00Smartwatch List - Smart Watch News<a href="http://www.smartwatchnews.org/smartwatch/?goback=%2Egmr_5051252%2Egde_5051252_member_247748202">Smartwatch List - Smart Watch News</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-54653399631625052732013-06-25T15:04:00.001-04:002013-06-25T15:04:15.740-04:00debestesingersongwriter.nl: Michael Prins - Close to youThis song gets me every single time, cuts right through my heart. <a href="http://www.debestesingersongwriter.nl/media/236673">Michael Prins - Close to you</a> from his audition session at <a href="http://www.debestesingersongwriter.nl/">debestesingersongwriter.nl</a><br />
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<iframe width="480" height="270" frameBorder="0" src="http://media.vara.nl/player.php?id=236673"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-46563823894476308452013-06-25T11:45:00.001-04:002013-06-25T11:45:13.252-04:0013 Hot Startups With Inspired Office DesignGreat ideas from 13 start-up offices in Mashable's piece: <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/06/24/startup-office-design/">13 Hot Startups With Inspired Office Design</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-17705072775516367212013-06-25T11:40:00.001-04:002013-06-25T11:40:14.908-04:00Installing IdeaPaint in Your Home - YouTube<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DwOoV-AyZBI" width="640"></iframe>"<br />
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This is a great idea for making one part of your house into a large white board area for capturing shoppings lists, ideas, dreams, plans and projects.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-11154764871185544412013-05-13T04:32:00.001-04:002013-05-13T04:32:05.666-04:00Kids’ Programming Tool Scratch Now Runs In The Browser | TechCrunch<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/10/kids-programming-tool-scratch-now-runs-in-the-browser/">Kids’ Programming Tool Scratch Now Runs In The Browser | TechCrunch</a>: "Scratch, an amazing, object-oriented programming language from the MIT Media Lab’sLifelong Kindergarten Group."<br />
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<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;">'via Blog this'</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-25349770248215325162013-03-16T07:11:00.001-04:002013-03-16T07:11:17.025-04:00Beautiful Time-Lapse Videos Show Comet Flying Near Crescent Moon<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/pan-starrs-time-lapse/">Beautiful Time-Lapse Videos Show Comet Flying Near Crescent Moon</a> from Wired.com<br />
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/61783393" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-39236122961664394852013-02-07T13:00:00.001-04:002013-02-07T13:00:28.443-04:00New book: LEGO and Arduino Projects | Dangerous Prototypes<a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/05/new-book-lego-and-arduino-projects/">LEGO and Arduino Projects: Projects for extending Mingdstorms NXT with open-source electronics</a>: <div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-54772189984453531972013-01-08T07:43:00.001-04:002013-01-08T07:43:48.480-04:00IBAN check for your websiteReal easy way to add an IBAN number generator fopr Dutch banks to your site using: <a href="http://www.ibannl.org/iban2.php">Webmasters: IBAN check op je website</a>.<br />
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Everyone in the world will need to use IBAN account numbers for European bank accounts starting Jan 1st, 2014. But most people have no idea that it's really easy to already get your account number and update all your correspondence in advance.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-23358869261875789482013-01-07T08:38:00.001-04:002013-01-07T08:38:24.575-04:00Wie is de Beste Makelaar<a href="http://wieisdebestemakelaar.nl/home.aspx">Wie is de Beste Makelaar</a> is a Dutch website about finding a good real-estate broker. <div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-43053369764582347972013-01-07T07:44:00.001-04:002013-01-07T07:44:13.375-04:00Apartement in Den Haag te ruilen voor woning in Leiden<iframe src="http://www.ruilen.nl/gadget_48249.html" width="380" height="380" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-62326203075257086762012-12-22T07:22:00.001-04:002012-12-22T07:22:52.617-04:00Holland vs the NetherlandsOh boy I wish I had had this video when I was at Pitt. It explains every so clearly and humorously the difference between <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc&feature=youtu.be">Holland vs the Netherlands - YouTube</a><br />
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<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eE_IUPInEuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-12049281546235523342012-11-20T11:57:00.001-04:002012-11-20T11:57:23.664-04:00xkcd: Ballmer Peak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://xkcd.com/323/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="592" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png" width="652" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-81936715266488433592012-11-19T05:51:00.001-04:002012-11-19T05:52:42.362-04:00FC Almere Beloftenteam 2012My nephew Vincent plays soccer and his team got the award for 'Most promising team' in his local area. Obviously, proud parents made a video compilation of the teams efforts: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6g3CTfUqEk&feature=youtu.be">FC Almere Beloftenteam 2012</a>. Check it out!
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Just check the tanks that he builds!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-53428763722475968142012-10-12T08:17:00.001-04:002012-10-12T08:17:25.775-04:00List of freely available programming (e)books<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books">List of freely available programming books</a> is a massive list of free (e)books for tons of programming languages. Massive, really means m a s s i v e in this case.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-15112657932570715002012-10-05T08:01:00.001-04:002012-10-05T08:01:46.915-04:00My favorites on SoundCloud<style type="text/css">a.soundcloud-badge:hover {background-position: bottom left !important;} *html a.soundcloud-badge {background-image: none !important; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='(http://a1.sndcdn.com/images/badges/imonsc/tiny/red.png?04ad178)', sizingMethod='crop') !important;}</style><!-- if you want to have valid HTML, please be so kind and put the style part in the head of your page --><a class="soundcloud-badge" href="http://soundcloud.com/christian-peper" style="background: transparent url(http://a1.sndcdn.com/images/badges/imonsc/tiny/red.png?04ad178) top left no-repeat; display: block; height: 100px; margin: 0 auto; outline: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; text-align: center; text-align: left; text-indent: -9999px; width: 100px;">http://soundcloud.com/christian-peper</a>Recently gotten a bit active on SoundCloud. Turns out most of my favorite Techno DJs and producers are active there and recently a whole slew of livesets have appeared there. Some use it as their archive and publish old recordings or bootlegs that no one is going to publish anyway so they might as well do it themselves for their fans. Others actively make tracks or sets available to fans. Either way, a ton of free mp3 (although not all are available as download). So check my growing list of <a href="http://soundcloud.com/christian-peper/favorites">favorites on SoundCloud</a>. You may also want to check out who I follow and hopefully find some of your own favorites too!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-68858904494487265062012-10-02T07:51:00.001-04:002012-10-02T07:51:21.426-04:00Domaine La BérangeraieLast weekend I visited my parents' in Fumel again. Was long overdue. Last year was hectic and with my new job I just didn't know when I could leave. But it was long enough and we booked a weekend away with Transavia.<br />
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While at the Pure Markt in Amsterdam, I ran into a wineshop (<a href="http://www.biovin.nl/" target="_blank">Biovin</a>) that sells Cahors wines from a vineyard in Puy l'Eveque. So I decided to pay them a visit. While Domaine l'Antenet makes a nice Cahors wine, the winery looks a bit daft. A friend of my dad recommended we visit this biological vineyard near Puy l'Eveque, in Grézels, called <a href="http://www.berangeraie.fr/">Bérangeraie</a>. They have been winning several medals for best Cahors wine or best wine from the Acquitaine and so on. So we stopped by and were treated to a royal wine tasting! The lady owner talked for 1.5 hrs while we tasted 6 excellent Cahors wines: 4 AOC Cahors and 2 Vin de Pays (a Merlot and a Cahors rosé). The wines are outstanding and excellent Cahors wines. They use the Malbec and Merlot grapes, as prescribed by the AOC. The wine is pure dark purple, almost opaque, and tastes deliciously of herbs and spices, blackberries and boysenberries. They take time to get their best taste, so let them breath up front for an hour or so, or decant them into a karaf. Their is so much tannine in the Malbec that you can store them for upto 10-12 years.<br />
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We bought several cases of the wine, because they were truly great!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Time for Coffee! www.nopressure.coffee</div>Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824087496822119504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057367.post-54327937220475590122012-09-24T10:25:00.001-04:002012-09-24T10:25:47.996-04:00Some People are Stupid - George CarlinI keep running into them and it cracks me up, because I instantly think of George Carlin and feel much better about it:
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We met up at Martin's at 2pm, had coffee and snacks. We also took down their beloved livingroom room door that was never repainted and finished during their renovation, due to Femke going into labor at that time... We pretended to finish that door once and for all and although Martin was concerned, I think he new it was going to be a prank. We dragged the door around with us all day...<br />
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At Down Under, we had some drinks, made designs for a stag shirt and chose the design. Martin used to own the Campus Print Shop in Enschede and his former partner Mark still does. The latter had brought a mobile silk-screen press and Martin used that to print our shirts, under the watching eyes of us all and two lovely female fans. :) During the burn-in time of the mold, Martin and 3 of us went in indoor body board thingy. That's where a <a href="http://mrvanes.smugmug.com/Buiten/Vrijgezellendag-Martin/24257780_LcJrWJ#!i=1974621616&k=m2hcwRs">gazillion pictures</a> were taken as well as a few video's:<br />
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