The picture on the left shows my current computer room. It's light and airy and when I look out the window I can see the woods. It took a while to get settled in again and as a (temporary?) result, it is less "stuffed" than my former one. You are welcome to enter my Sanctuary, but be quiet we don't want to wake up the bits and bytes! Hush now... When you move the mouse cursor over the picture it will change to my old computer room in the Netherlands.

While being in my former room I met many different digital believers from all over the world. Some real computer miracles did happen here. One miracle in particular changed my life forever when I met my Pearl on the MIE...


Click on the three links below if you want to listen to a few songs I "adapted" in my digital studio. (Told you I was a sound engineer in the past!)
I always loved to make a song shorter as it really was. You will know what I mean when you listen to them. Because of the MPEG compression some of the original sound quality is lost. Still they are nice to listen to. Hope you enjoy!


You know you are addicted to the Internet when...

	You kiss your girlfriend's home page.
	Your bookmarks take 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
	Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
	All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection to the net: 56K... ISDN... cable modem... T1... T3.
	And even your night dreams are in HTML.
	You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
	You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
	You start introducing yourself as: "Jim at I-I-Net dot net dot au".
	Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.
	You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue when it happened.
	You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
	Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
	All of your friends have an @ in their names.
	When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
	Your cat has its own home page.
	You can't call your mother... she doesn't have a modem.
	You check your mail. It says: "No new messages". So you check it again.
	Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
	You code your reports in HTML and give your boss the URL.
	You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
	Your wife tells you she's had a baby for 11 months.
	You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
	You tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got work to do" and you don't even have a job.
	You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.
	Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed".
	You get a tatoo that says: "This body best viewed with Explorer 4.0 or higher".
	You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your ISP... because you never log off.
	The last girl you picked up was only a JPEG.
	You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.
	Your wife says communication is important in a marriage... so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.
	As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "Back" button...

You know it's going to be a bad day when...
Your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles.