MF On The Road

Friends and family for Nick against Duchenne

Duchenne Heroes Guido, Ron, Maurice and Rachid rode for 7 days, through 4 countries, 100 kilometers a day with 1 goal; to help raise money to fight Duchenne, a muscular dystrophy disease that my great little friend Nick suffers from. It was strange yet familiar, difficult yet easy, fun yet sad, inspiring yet maddening, all at the same time. And that was just to see them finish, let alone to actually do the ride. Help here, please.

For sale from a friend in Florida

If you want to retire in a warm climate or are looking for a vacation home where the sun always shines, this is it: Tarpon Point in Cape Coral, Florida. It sits at the base of the Caloosahatchee River and takes approximately 5 minutes to get into the Gulf of Mexico. By boat, it's directly behind Sanibel and Captiva Island. More info about the condo is here.

Hosting eDay 2008 was no Picnic

I hosted eDay again this year in Rotterdam. Here I welcome Wired's Jeff Howe, the inventor of the phrase crowdsourcing, to the stage.

During a quick break and filming for our own report on 925 (online next week), I was interviewed by a Dutch marketing website.

And back on stage with Brian Kalma from Zappos, an incredibly successful e-commerce company from the US: a billion $ revenue!

And as the other 1499 attendants roamed the hallways talking to friends and business associates...

... I was in the main hall for almost 10 hours.

It looked lonelier than it was on stage.

I got help from a few nuns handing out awards for Holland's most popular website.

But in the end, your favorite host started showing signs of fatigue and resembled a news anchor from a small town in eastern China. Overall a good day with fantastic presentations from Lawrence Lessig (Stanford) and Dan Lyons (Newsweek), better known as Fake Steve Jobs.

Anna got married!

Our lovely assistant Anna looks like an angel and sings like an angel. It was only a matter of time before some lucky SOB would make an honest woman out of her. Okke did and we wish them all the health, love and happiness.

Their friends and family made this very entertaining video - but it's not the same without Anna singing.

We discovered Ottie and Stef around the campfire.

Nice day for a 'Lenny Kravitz meets the Kelly Family'-wedding, as the invitation said.

I'm a giver.

I took a picture of Helena and Stef, when suddenly this so not Lenny Kravitz meets the Kelly Family man stepped into the picture. That's what happens with an open bar.

I gently got rid of him.

Meanwhile, back inside Wouter and Marijntje were getting into the groove.

Guido is fourty something!

But he doesn't look a day older than fifty!

If you thought you deserve a better job...

... then how about these guys?

I don't know who is doing worse, the lady in the blue dress and orange helmet on the, eh, on the watchamacallit, or the dude blowing his own horn next to her.

Amsterdam opened its cultural season right underneath me last weekend. I think I prefer the regular traffic.