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What is a gemeente?
Map by gemeentenatlas.nl.
I’d like to start filling my newborn Glossary with the term gemeente.
Glossary section
Xiaomi Mijia electric portable pump review
It’s time to fulfil my promise and publish a review of my “inflatable treasure”, which perhaps can better be described as the Xiaomi Mijia Electric Pump.
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My entrepreneurship ‣ Yktoo Solutions is three!
Photo by Annie Spratt.
Exactly three years ago, on October 1st, 2016, Yktoo Solutions was born.
Netgear Orbi Pro SRK60 mesh router review
Preface
I’ve been using my Linksys E4200 router for about eight years and was quite happy with its very robust operation. However, any hardware is destined to get outdated over time.
Firstly, as soon as we’d moved from our former apartment into a three-storey house it became evident the Wi-Fi coverage was suboptimal. In some remote corner you’d sometimes hardly get any connection at all. Secondly, it didn’t support modern IEEE standards such as 802.11ac, which was also hurting the bandwidth.
Thus eventually I’ve decided to go for a mesh Wi-Fi system.
Xiaomi automatic corkscrew review
TGIF — time for wine (and a review)!
I’ve been using the electric corkscrew Xiaomi Mijia for more than a year now and I’m pretty happy with it.
It features a rechargeable battery, which means there’s one more gadget to charge. However, I dare say you won’t need to charge it frequently unless you drink wine a crate a day.
What you need to know when ordering stuff abroad
Photo by PostNL.
If you like ordering cheap gadgets and other stuff from AliExpress (and similar online stores) like I do, you may find this useful.
For all shipments originating from within the EU no extra charges are to be paid in the Netherlands.
For all other countries, the Dutch customs regulation establishes a duty-free threshold of € 22 per package.
(In)offensive Dutch
Photo by JillWellington.
It’s a known fact some common words in one language may sound pretty rude or even offensive in another. Furthermore, some words in the same language can be confusing.
Take Dutch and English.
If, for example, one typed “Buurvrouw, wat een mooie koolmezen, maar wat doet mijn haan op uw ezel?” into Google Translate, he’d be presented the following translation:
A pop-up Rorschach test
Good morning dear patient! Please tell me, what do you observe on this photo?
How to pyromark your jo, bokken, or tanto
It’s a short how-to on inscribing your jo (wooden stick), tanto (wooden dagger), bokken (wooden sword)—or anything else made of wood—with an arbitrary text or image.