Day 4 Beijing: The Great wall and dinner with colleages
Yesterday the Olympic security checkpoint people discovered Ilona's banner flag with "Ilona groet Kai". They looked if any of the words on the flag where on the forbidden word list.…
Day 3: Judo and Volleyball
Today was Judo and Volleyball on the agenda. After taking the taxi from our apartment to the Judo venue the matches started at 12.00. Dennis van der Geest lost due…
Day 2 in China: Forbidden city and many of the top tennis players bite the dust…
Had a great day today. Wandered long hours through Beijing, the Forbidden City, a Hutong tour (with a twist). Used the excellent Subway system and taxi are nice and very…
Arrived in Beijing
Arrived in Beijing around 14.00 after a flawless but exhausting trip. Took some rest in our apartment and went out for dinner in the neighborhood. Then took the Subway (excellent!)…
Stop over in Hong Kong
Landed in Hong Kong (11 hours flight from Amsterdam), 2 hours stop over here and then on to Beijing (3 hours flight). Free wifi here, nice!
Event schedules we will be visiting
Beijing:14 August: Tennis 16.00 - 22.00h : (Singles en Doubles quarterfinals)15 August: Judo 12.00 - 16.30h Men's 100+kg & Womens 78+ kg Preliminairies15 August: Volleyball 20.00-23.30h Women's, USA-China & Japan…
Olympics websites
Official Beijing Olympics siteOfficial Beijing Olympics venuesOfficial Beijing Olympics sports event schedule WikiPedia 2008 Olympics siteIOC 2008 Beijing Olympics siteWeather at the Olympic sitesMascots for the 2008 Olympics
China Olympics trip opening blog
From 12-08 until 31-08 we will be visiting China and the Olympics. First 5 days Beijing then Hong Kong and some trips inland. I'll be posting updates on our ventures…
iMovie HD 6 start new movie as NTSC and not PAL
I was creating a new movie in Mac OS-X 10.4.11 iLife's iMovie 6.0.3 and it selected NTSC as the default video format. I was creating it WITHOUT first connecting a…