Yesterday I got a brochure in the snail mail from Memira. This company has a chain of clinics all over Scandinavia where they perform both refractive eye surgery and RLE by using methods like LASEK, LASIK & FemtoLASIK/FLIVC. They seem to be doing quite well, with 42 clinics in Scandinavia, and 230,000 treatments (unclear whether that is 230,000 eyes or 230,000 eye-pairs…) completed successfully(?).
I have been thinking about getting rid of my glasses off and on for quite a while. Every now and then I’d come across an ad or a web site about it, but so far they have not been able to convince me… until now perhaps?
After reading the brochure of Memira I checked out their site for additional info, and also emailed them some questions. And of course I used the research tool of the 21st century: Google! 
I was unable to find anything negative about neither Memira nor the methods they use, so if I am satisfied by the answers on the questions I emailed them, I will sign up!
Their brochure does state that about 1 out of 5 people who knock on their doors gets turned down because they do not meet the criteria of Memira, or because Memira thinks a treatment will not have the expected result.
I hope/think I am part of the remaining 80%… 
After driving through many, many towns the Google Street View Guys finally arrived in Castricum, the town in the Netherlands where I grew up. Both Google Earth & Google Maps now have various streets of Castricum available, although they haven’t made it all the way to the street where I grew up yet, the Bachstraat. This crossing of the Oranjelaan and the Soomerwegh is as close as they’ve gotten so far. Other streets which are covered are: Zeeweg, Van Oldenbarneveldweg, Bakkummerstraat, Vinkenbaan, Ruiterweg, Prinses Beatrixstraat, Mient, and more.
Now I guess I just have to be patient, and sooner or later I can see the house of my parents there…
Here’s an interesting one… Now that TPB is (temporarily?) down, people start looking in other places to find their torrents. One interesting place which most people probably don’t even think about is… Google!
The all-indexing search engine also happily indexes torrents and makes them available to the general public to find. About 4,420,000 when I am writing this post…
Thanks, Google!
As soon as Google announced its Android OS for mobile phones it quite appealed to me.
I’m currently quite happy with my Nokia N95 8GB, but still…
The HTC Magic, currently available over here in Norway is not quite my style though… I prefer my phones to be black!
I also want a phone with at least the specs of my current phone, also when it comes to photo/video capabilities. It looks like the upcoming Samsung I7500 meets most/all of these specs with its 5 megapixel camera. (Not sure about its video recording yet though. The N95 does 640×480, 30 fps. Not many phones available yet which can beat that, even 2 years after the N95 hit the streets.
Although… The HTC Hero looks pretty cool as well, and it has more RAM than the Samsung I7500. (Question is: Does Android need that extra RAM?). It does not have the same nifty AMOLED screen as the I7500 though…
And then there’s of course the rumoured Sony Ericsson XPERIA (aka Rachael) with its 8mp camera.
Hmm.. To be continued!
