Weblog - 2011
This is where you find chronological updated information about my life, work and hobbies. This page holds links to all articles from the year 2011 .
The articles
Agile Business Analyst
A detailed article about the spectrum of work for an agile business analyst.
Better Video-conferencing
A description how I set myself up for next level videoconferencing.
HayoBethlehem.nl V14
Can you believe the last design was already seven years old? It was time for a change. I spent a few weeks working on this website, and finally, the results are in.
The levels of strategy
A quick overview of how to deal with different levels of strategic thinking in large organisations.
First Birthday
How is Alexander doing, a year after being born?
Recovery
How we recovered from the liver donor operations.
Transplantation Surgery
An article about my liver operation.
Liver Donor Operation Q&A
A list of frequently asked questions about the donor operation.
In Between
What where we doing when Alexander was not in the hospital?
Living liver donor
On becoming a living donor.
Liver transplantation
Alexander wasn't done after the Kasai operation. He needed a new liver.
Kasai procedure
About Alexanders Kasai Operation.
Biliary atresia
On biliary artresia.
Alexander Felix Bethlehem
On april 5th 2017, at 19:30, my son was born in the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. We named him Alexander Felix Bethlehem.
Olympus E-10 Camera Review
A short review of the first fourthirds mirrorless photo camera.
Project video for Zonnigdak
A description of how I shot this video.
Visiting Chornobyl
The Chornobyl exclusion zone is a place of interest for nuclear physicists, urbex photographers and end of the world-fans alike. I happily found myself in the position to check it out.
Four days in Edinburgh
What to do during a city trip to Edinburgh
City trip to Ottawa
An article about my city trip to Ottawa.
20 year career anniversary
A look back at the start of my career, 20 years ago.
The Romans in Holland
An article about Romans in Alphen aan den Rijn.
London weekend trip
An account of my trip to London.
Nikon 105mm Macro lens review
A review of the Nikon AF-S 105mm Micro lens.
Powered by WordPress
An article about why I switched to using Wordpress.
Visiting the Delta Project
An article about visiting the Delta Project.
Photographic archaeology
An article about my dads old Praktica camera.
200 year Kingdom concert
My experiences attending a royal concert.
Nikon 70-200 AF-S review
A review of the Nikkor 70-200 AF-S VR1.
Hybridconf in Cardiff
An article about my trip to Cardiff.
Nikon AF-S 80-200 f2.8 review
An article about the Nikkor AF-S 80-200 f2.8.
Nikon D7100 review
An article about my new Nikon D7100.
Torc waterfall
An article about testing out my kessler pocketdolly.
Updated demo reel
An article about the new version of my demo reel.
Nikon D200 versus D7000
An article about quick comparison between the two D-slrs.
HayoBethlehem.nl V13
An article about my refurbished website.
Travel to Slovakia
A report of a road trip to Slovakia.
Farmers golf tournament
A video of the 2011 national farmers golf tournament.
Holiday on Malta
A review of my trip to the island nation of Malta.
Roadtrip to Italy
An article about a road trip to Italy.
Wales roadtrip
A video of my roadtrip through Wales.
Sony Ericsson Vivaz
An article about my 2010 phone upgrade.
Sennheiser wireless audio
An article about the Sennheiser wireless audio system.
Omroep Rijnwoude website redesign
An article about a website launch.
New years reception Rijnwoude
An article about shooting the 2011 new years reception of Rijnwoude.
Local radio station promo
A promotional video of a local radio station, specifically about its radio broadcasting facilities.
Christmas market in Hazerswoude
An article about shooting a Christmas market.
Interview with Arend Jan Boekestijn
A video of an interview with Arend Jan Boekestijn.
Back from Washington DC
An article about my trip to Washington DC.
Municipal council meeting
A video of a special municipal council meeting in Rijnwoude.
Churches in Rijnwoude
A video of two reformed churches in Rijnwoude.
Queen Beatrix visits Boskoop
A video of the royal visit to Boskoop.
Roman legionnaires in Archeon
A video of roman legionnaire impersonators.
Balloon trip
A video of my balloon trip.
Website revision 12.1
An article about the recent changes to this website.
Trekkertrek 2010
A video of the Trekkertrek event in Koudekerk.
Basin unvealing
A video of the unveiling of a new rain water basin.
Hazerswoude cycling race 2010
A video of the annual cycling races in Hazerswoude Dorp.
D66 elections bus tour
A video of the D66 bustour leading up to the 2010 elections.
New toys for fire department
A video about the new firetruck of the Hazerswoude fire department.
Trip to Slovakia
A video of my trip to Slovakia.
Nikkor 17-55 AF-S
An article about the Nikkor 17-55 AF-S lens.
Bollenrit 2010
A video of the local car rally.
Dutch municipal elections 2010
An article about how I kept myself busy during the municipal elections in 2010.
Spanbeton temporary bridge
A video about the first in a series of large scale transports.
Some old video content
A relaxing video I shot a while ago.
HayoBethlehem.nl V12
An article about the twelfth design update to this website.
Opening of childrens forest
A video of the opening of a childrens forest.
Benthuizen fire department
A video of the new facility for the Benthuizen fire department.
Shooting transformers
An article about how I shot a group of transformers moving through Hazerswoude-Rijndijk.
Hazerswoude summer market 2009
An article about the annual summer marktet.
Tug of war
A video about the tug of war contest in Koudekerk a/d Rijn.
Trekkertrek 2009
A video of the trekkertrek event in Koudekerk.
HayoBethlehem.nl V11
An article about yet another website style update.
Thinktank Streetwalker Pro review
An article reviewing the Thinktank Streetwalker Pro photo and video backpack.
Connexxion hybrid bus
A video of the new Connexxion hybrid bus.
47th Rietveld rowing championship
A video of the rowing championship in Rietveld.
Prague 2009
An article about my trip to Prague.
The illusion of opinion polls
An article about the pitfalls of relying on opinion polls for data.
Shooting football
An article with video of a football tournament.
European elections problems
An article about problems with the dutch voting in the European Elections in 2009.
Ikea raid
An article about a bookcase.
Terry Pratchett Discworld List
A list containing the discworld novels I currently own.
Wind mill day 2009
A video of a couple of Dutch windmills.
Egypt album published
An announcement about the fact that there's a new photo album about the Egypt trip.
Queensday 2009
An article about shooting on queensday.
Tree nursery museum
A video about the Boskoop tree nursery museum.
Bollenrit classic car rally
A video news item about a classic car rally in Hazerswoude Dorp.
On content delivery
An article about third party content delivery on this website.
Oldschool Woubrugge
A video experiment in Woubrugge.
Medieval times
A video shot in Archeon.
Municipal merger debate
A video of a municipal council meeting in Boskoop.
Back in the loop
An article about projects and updates in my work history.
Spring
An article about a video of the first day of spring.
Upgrades
An article about the new Sony Z5e.
Expressionism
A portrait picture.
Sushi
A picture of sushi.
Last post of the year
A wish for the new year.
Finest moment
An article and video about worldskills 2003.
Video content test
A post showcasing the first video published on this website.
Macro photography primer
An article about the Nikon 60mm macro lens.
HTC Touch Diamond
An article detailing my recent acquisition of a HTC Touch Diamond smartphone.
Fashion model
A picture taken in Amsterdam.
Twips primer
An article about how screen resolution conversion methods affect website design.
A few changes
An article about some additions to the website.
Services resumed
An article about my return from holiday.
Gone again, off to Ireland
An article about my vacation in Ireland.
HayoBethlehem.nl V10
An article about the launch of version 10 of HayoBethlehem.nl.
1814 relives in Archeon
A video of a living history event in archaeological theme park Archeon.
Thoughts on HTML5
An article about redundant tags in HTML5.
Why the USA can’t join the EU
An article about economical differences between the EU and the USA.
Ice skating in Koudekerk
A video of ice skating fun in Koudekerk a/d Rijn.
Through different glass
An article describing choices in hyperlocal web video production.
Life update
An article about the changes in my life and work.
Fire department contest
A video of a local fire department contest
Light, flash and clay
An article about a picture of a pottery artist.
My top 9 social web applications
An article about my favourite social web applications.
RandstadRail lightrail first day
A video about the LightRail train network around The Hague.
Clogged tubes
An article about the death of an era.
A roadtrip through Scotland
An article about my roadtrip to Scotland.
Life update
An article about changes in my life and my vacation in Scotland.
Lighting glass
An article about how to light elaborate glass constructs.
Celebratory statement
An article for my birthday.
POS Acronyms
An article about the overuse of marketing language.
Doornroosje
An article about a trip on a sixty year old airplane.
Going wide
An article about my new wide-angle lens.
RijnGouwelijn: yay or nay?
An article about a light rail construction project nearby.
Working for the man
An article about changing jobs and working for the government.
On small islands
An article about my upcoming trip to Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.
D200 and Nikon CLS
An article about using wireless remote flash with a Nikon D200.
Flickr is dead
An article about the decline of photo-sharing service Flickr.com
Rijnwoude.nl Redesign
An article about the redesign of a municipal government website.
Webdesign predictions 2007
An article about my predictions for web design trends in 2007.
Change before christmas
An article about quitting my job as designer.
Hemp flavoured goodness
An article about my new National Geographic camera bag.
Political Polling Publication
An article about the launch of a website about political opinion polls.
Widescreen Website Woes
An article about the problems of large screen resolutions and how to deal with it in website design.
Photokina 2006
An article about me visiting the Photokina 2006 photography trade show.
Social tagging is evil
An article about the problems of social tagging in web applications.
Change in the air
An article about getting a new job.
Back from Norway
An article about my return from Norway.
Jeg trenger å øve på Norsken
An article about my upcoming trip to Norway.
Meet my new Nikon
An article about my recently acquired Nikon D200 digital camera.
Hayobethlehem.nl V9
An article about yet another website relaunch.
Easy website performance testing
An article about how you can quickly test a websites' performance.
IBUC 2006
An article about my work for an academic conference.
Spacy Conversations
An article about an overheard conversation about nano satellites.
Local elections basic training
An article about campaigning for municipal government elections.
Webstandards in Visual Studio 2005
An article about web standards support in Visual Studio 2005.
Blog ethics
An article about ethics on weblogs.
Ancient history
An article about a really old digital camera.
A couple of questions for Faruk Ateş
An interview with Faruk Ateş.
On pagerank
An article about the methodology of pagerank.
Politics!
An article about the benefits of web standards for politicians.
Hayobethlehem.nl V5
An article about a new site design.
Buzzword bedazzlement
A rant about buzzwords and hype in the web design community.
Car Reviews: Opel Agila
A review of the Opel Agila.
Marketing misery
A rant about the failure of communication policy.
Much ado about clogs
An article about the evolution of web designer meetups.
IE7 beta redux
An article about the first Internet Explorer 7 beta preview.
Webstandards back in perspective
An article about web standards from a local perspective.
Atomizing
An article about updating my feeds to the Atom 1.0 standard.
Google Earth Launches
An article about a newly released product, Google Earth.
Going medieval on a camera
A photo essay about the destruction of a cheap digital camera.
How to vote YES in a referendum
A photo essay about how to vote in a referendum in the Netherlands.
Webstandards adoption policies
An article about web standards on European Union level.
On the European Constitution
An article about the European Constitution, and what it all means.
Downunder 3: Heading north
The third and final part of my account of the trip to Australia and New Zealand.
Downunder 2: Misty Mountains
The second part of three about my trip to Australia and New Zealand.
Downunder 1: Heading south
The first part of three about my trip to Australia and New Zealand.
How much is the fish?
An article about my return from New Zealand and sleep deprivation.
Flickr is boring
An article about site updates in the photography section.
The scourge of referrer spam
An article about combating referral spam in web statistics.
The Bethlehem name thing
An article about my heritage and family name.
Hayobethlehem.nl V4
An article about website size issues and a redesign.
Van Cha’SaD vagh!
An article about the changing of the years.
Iñtërnâtiônälizætiøn
An article about internationalization problems on websites.
Sinterklaas
An article about Sinterklaas celebrations in the Netherlands.
Off to Luxembourgh
An article about my trip to Luxembourg.
21st century mobility
An article about my new Samsung e710 cellphone.
XHTML, HTML, media types
An article about XHTML and media types.
Sports and geeks don’t mix very well
An article about photographing for an American Football-team.
Back from Ireland
An article about my return from Ireland.
Work. work. vacation!
An article about a change of work an holiday plans.
The making of a documentary
The making of section taken from my school graduation project dvd.
Gmail. Fusion. Work.
An article about the Gmail introduction by Google.
Cosmopolitan
An article about my trip to Carhaix, France.
Weblogs definitely suck
An article about a change of work environment.
Hayobethlehem.nl: reloaded
An article about the redesign of this website.
May1st reboot and roundup
An article about the website redesign and may first reboot.
Off to london
A notification of me being away, in London.
Bobsleigh stuff, or lack thereoff
An article about my trip to Winterberg in Germany.
Busy little bee
A small update post about projects.
Congrats to Radio Rijnwoude
An article congratulating Lokale Omroep Rijnwoude with their award winning website.
Back from Adobe expo
An article detailing an Adobe conference I attended.
Hsl tunnel project pictures
An article about the high speed rail tracks that run through Rijnwoude.
Plugins illegal?
An article about plugins in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Back from holidays
An article about several topics.
Absent minded at werfpop
A small post about a rock concert I attended.
Worldskills championship report
An article about my participation in the Worldskills championship 2003.
Worldskills championship contender
An article about my participation in Worldskills 2003.
New site released
A notification of the release of the website for VVD Rijnwoude.
Rijngouweroute light rail connection
An article about a lightrail project in Rijnwoude.
Recent website updates
An article describing some changes to the website.
Luxembourg
An article about a trip to Luxembourg.
Holland Tour 2002
An article about a great trip through the Netherlands, all in one day.
New Site design online
A notice about an update on the website.
Back from holiday
A short notice about the website development.