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The end of (A)DSL

In the past year lot’s of ISPs started to offer 20 Mbps internet for € 20. This was the fastest internet subscription that was available at that time for a fraction of the price cable providers charged for the same speed. Cable internet providers like UPC and Ziggo started to lose a big share of their customers to ADSL providers, but now with the implementation of EuroDOCSIS 3 the cable providers (consumer) strike back.

Dutch PHP Conference 2009

Yesterday I visited the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 at the Amsterdam RAI. I only went to the tutorial day as the tickets are quite expensive (300 euro). I went with a collegue from work to the Zend Framework workshop.

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Birthday coming up – New watch

It’s my birthday in a few days (June 15th) and my girlfriend asked me what I would liked for a present. I told her I would really love a new watch since the one I got now is starting to fall apart. (Leather bracelets suck…(and smell bad)). I already had my eye out for the new Seiko kinetic watch (SNL047P1) so we went to look for it at several jeweler…