I was going to keep this thing a little secret, though it isn’t a secret really, but the lads over at the Musicmania record store in Ghent are open every Thursday, Friday and Saterday and are selling some new and second hand CD’s and vinyl stocks. If you are a collector, vinyl junky or you [...]
This is something I’ve run into a few times by now, and it’s getting a bit annoying. This is a tip to everyone who builds a website and who wants to present localised pages to its users. This is a tip in particular to deal with Belgians. Some think Belgium is a made-up country, used [...]
I don’t have a Visa card, simply because I don’t really need it (yet). Since for most online shops you need a Visa or other credit card for payment, that seriously limits my options. I’ve tried PayPal as well, but as a Belgian you can’t wire money directly from your bank account to your PayPal [...]
cc-licensed photo by Prof-B It’s on! Telenet decided not to wait until August to upgrade it’s limits as Belgacom is now already offering 25 GB. So I’m happy to say that every Telenet customer that’s using the Expressnet formula now has 20 gigs available for his leeching pleasure. Nice! Just in time as well I’d [...]
cc-licensed photo by brian boulos Finally! It has begun. Competition is finally starting to play for the bigger Belgian telecom co’s to drop those lame-ass bandwith limitations. At least they are juicing them up significantly so we can start YouTubing our ass off without having to worry about ending up stuck with ancient modem speeds [...]
Photo by donaldtownsend, cc-licensed Competition can be a beautiful thing can’t it? Not so long ago the big banks in Belgium where giving you jack for your savings. Then one Dutch bank entered the Belgian market as a pure internet bank and started giving out free savings accounts that give you 4 percent, no strings [...]
fast reds by pbo31, cc-licensed One of the things that’s starting to seriously grow beyond any reason in that little country called Belgium is the radar speed control. Using the ever-so abused excuse of wanted to guard public safety the Belgian government has now allowed automated speed control radars installed all over the country, and [...]
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