Marien van Os

Today i’ve moved my online photos back to flickr. Not that i was not satisfied with smugmug, it’s an excellent service. But I think flickr is used by a lot more people and I’ve way more friends and family in my contact list in flickr. When I moved over to smugmug I was more satisfied with the presentation of my photos which was one of the main reasons to switch. And just to try something else which is a good thing I guess. Ii’ve found two excellent programs wich made the switch back a lot more easy. The first is migratr which is some sort of ftp program. It downloads all of the smugmug photos and uploads them to flickr (or even with some other services). The second one is a firefox add-on called smuglr. Which makes it easy to transfer flickr photo sets the smugmug. And since i’m a Iphoto user i’ve installed FlickrExport which makes it easy to upload photos to flickr. I’m happy to be back and I’ve bought a two year pro account. So maybe I will use both since the uploading and syncing process is easier than i thought.

It’s been a while since the last post. I’ve been cut off the internet for a while and was busy redecorating my new home. Not to say that are good excuses but hey i’m posting now Still busy with my kitchen which is now a mixture of Ikea, Miele and Bruynzeel and of course my own brilliant ideas.
The big news is that I’m not (well at least for the coming year or so) going to work free lance. I’m back @ Mirabeau as a front-end developer. Things have changed a bit over there. New colleguages and new colleguages And plans for new offices( for even more new colleguages ) in the centre of Amsterdam and in Hoorn. You can read the article about it over here(in Dutch).
But although I’ve been away for about 6 months it feels like I’m home again, because there are also still a lot of old colleguages off course. The big difference is that I’m working 4 days now so I’ve some more time to spend with my father. My Mother and father now have more support from Thuiszorg to help with the daily care. And on wednesday (my day off) I’m also there to help. The situation is slowly getting worse especially eating is getting more difficult for him. I guess we will have to live day by day with it…

Running the 1/2 marathon of Amsterdam

In the mean time I’ve also broken my personal record of the 1/2 marathon which is now: 1:44:47. So I’ve improved it with a little 3 minutes. When i started training again I thought I was going to be faster. But when you are actually running it you think a little differerent about it, especially the last 3 kilometres or so…
But I’m glad I’ve improved myself. So i hope the next time I will be even faster. The next time will be the 1/2 marathon of Egmond. So there are a lot of training days ahead of me again… Don’t know exactly why I’m putting myself in to it but I just feel the need to do so and it makes me feel better of course. But that’s mostly when the training is done.