DIY old timer: Le Patron

Last weekend, I ran into an old pal from high school (Kenny Butstraen) and guess what: he’s building cars! Up until recently, he was mainly focussed on building Le Patron: a kit car based on a Citroen 2CV chassis. Last year, with this car, he was the youngest distributor at the largest car expo in Belgium. For Dutch reading people, there’s an interesting article by HLN.


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But his real passion is in building authentic replica’s or models of special vehicles, for example, for use in war movies. At least, that’s what I understood from the very short talk I had (we met in a DIY shop just before closing hour ;)) and what I find on the website 🙂


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Very interesting stuff! I’ll try to meet up with him and hope to get back to you with more pics from his work place! 🙂

Google Reader shared items

A few months ago I started sharing items through google reader. It saves a lot of time if you just want to share some link you obtained through some rss feed, so you don’t need to create a post for that.

Tonight I noticed Google launched some kind of integration layer for that. So from now on, you can see my recent shared items in the sidebar. 🙂 It looks like the “read more” link actually provides a separate RSS feed which you can subscribe on if you don’t use Google Reader.

Post test…

I just posted something and somehow, it doesn’t show up on the front page… There is no draft anymore. One moment I thought another post was lost. 😉 Until I found it back in the database. Some people are complaining about new posts not showing up immediately, but no one has investigated the matter thoroughly… I hope I don’t have a similar problem. 😉
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UPDATE: It seems somehow, when publishing the draft, the timestamp didn’t get updated *rolling eyes* 😉

Finally…..

For some time already, I felt the need to share my little techy things with the world from time to time. Now it has finally happened: the conception of matties blog.
In this blog, I plan to share some daily ‘techy’ rants. Things I’m surprised of, things I want everyone to know (because they should ;)), things that really frustrated me, things I put together… As a side effect, I have a log for myself to find things back later 😉

Hope you Enjoy