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Alabama Pickers Covid Deaths
As a small business owner I like to follow a couple of other business owners on YouTube. Most of these entrepreneurs operate on the internet. Either in print-on-demand, selling their creations on Etsy or flipping stuff on Ebay. One of the people I follow were struck by some serious tragedy. Alabama Pickers is a married […]
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Plague update post
A plague update is in order. Yes, also in my part of the world Corona was crowned ruler. And at the date of this post, Covid-19 is making a small come-back. Again! But how has this affected me and this pathetically small website? I’s been a while since my last post, I intended to go […]
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Bootleg cigarette plant in the polder
A couple of weeks ago I noticed a news item about a bootleg cigarette plant in the polder. First I was a bit surprised, because who would make all that effort of setting up an illegal factory in one of the most regulated countries in the world. And then trying to sell a product which […]
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Making money online with Zazzle Digital Homestead
Making money online with Digital Homestead. Yes, I’ve got a new website and it’s purely for commercial purposes. Getting a domain name and hosting isn’t difficult, but it took me about a week to make it look like a proper website. I used the twenty thirteen theme from the good people of WordPress. I don’t […]
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Chosokabe Mon Zazzle merchandise in the store
I recently added some Chosokabe Mon Zazzle merchandise to my store with he help of the quick create facility of Zazzle. The reason is that I really want to put more products in the store and maybe create a bit more revenue. Quick create of Zazzle allows for the creation of a whole range of […]
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Overdue Permanent Portfolio report
It’s been a while already, I simply didn’t had the time and energy to blog. Sickness from colleagues, which combined, took well over five months and left me with little option then work, eat and sleep. We’re getting a bit to normal now and I think there is an Overdue Permanent Portfolio report somewhere. My […]
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Should we go to Mars as a united planet Earth?
Yesterday I read an interesting article on the Explore Mars Inc website. An oped which will also be published in several media outlets. The crux of the story is very straightforward; “We should head to Mars as a united planet Earth”. Recent events in the space industry though makes me wonder. “Should we go to […]
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Mars One way trip to Mars
Recently Mars One got a lot of attention in the Dutch media, Arno Wielders did some television work and the organization got to do a radio interview. Started in May 2012, Mars One certainly had its fair share of time in the spotlights. Maybe I finally should write my thoughts about it. Well, what does […]
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Neil Armstrong passed away
Since I’m a bit involved in Explore Mars I got a somewhat closer to one of the first men walking on the moon, Buzz Aldrin. Well, probably as close I’ll ever get. Buzz is an advisor to Explore Mars. Still, it must be awesome to the American Explore Mars members to work with Buzz now […]
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Space Merchandise for Space Travel Geeks
I’m always looking out for space merchandise, especially if it is well made. In our modern world you can buy an enormous amount of junk and trinkets, just look at the stores in you main street and see the plastic thrash everywhere. A webshop like Zazzle takes it a step further, billions of crappy designs […]