Today we got the approval for our apartment in Belo Horizonte. We’re flying in next week.

I was looking at the google analytics page for my wife’s shiny new blog and something caught my attention which is in line with the impression I have on Brazil after living here for 5 months.

Notice how except for the big dot (which is us), almost all traffic is coming from the south? It sucks, but this is representative for about everything here. Everything is happening in the south of the country.

Beaches or 8mb banda larga, though choice.

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Front page news. Are you kidding me?

Jeffry Degrande on April 6th, 2008

Belgian Headline news! A guy got arrested for surfing the Internet using a wi-fi network in his
neighbourhood. Hah! Video in dutch, sorry.

‘So what?’. Why this has to make frontpage news? This happens all the time. When I was living in Belgium I deliberatly left my wi-fi networks open. I don’t mind people […]

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my life upside down, again.

Jeffry Degrande on April 1st, 2008

April is going to be a month of change for my wife and I. I’m living in Brazil for 5 months now and once again everything will be thrown upside down.
small change
First, we finally convinced ourselves to quit smoking. Both of us have been smoking too much and too long. I’d like to […]

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Hostgator just ate up my dreamhost account

Jeffry Degrande on March 30th, 2008

I originally ran this, and other domains on dreamhost. They seemed good enough
for what I needed. Descent prices, ssh access, multiple domains. About a week
after I signed on I already started regretting it. I simply can’t work with their fill a box until
it collapses methodology.
I like to work late. After midnight our […]

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Entering the realm of wordpress themers

Jeffry Degrande on February 26th, 2008

In between projects I finally managed to get my very first wordpress theme finished.
You can download it here.
Tell me what you think.

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