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This video from yesterday’s match between Club Brugge and Westerlo says enough about the loss of Club Brugge’s 26 year old striker Francois Sterchele.
A fitting tribute to a player that always smiled.

It gives me the shivers every time I look at it, this is soccer also. 

Last night on his way home, Francois Sterchele (26 years old) died due to a traffic accident. For an unknown reason he lost control of his Porsche Cayman S and crashed into a tree.
In his first year at Club Brugge, he scored 11 goals, not as much as last year when he ended up at the top spot with 21 goals for Germinal Beerschot, but he managed to get is top transfer to one of the bigger teams in Belgium when he signed a five year contract at Club Brugge.

Although I’m a fan of another team, it was always a joy watching him play. You could see he still had lots of fun when playing soccer, that’s what made him as good as he was I think. He stayed normal like every other guy.

Club Brugge and his family and friend have lost a great friend, a marvelous player and an excellent teammate today.

This weekend the last soccer matches of the season in the Belgian competition will be played, but I’m convinced that every team will take some time just before kickoff to honor Francois Sterchele and his family and friends.

After the latest Pagerank update, this blog now officially has a PageRank 3.
Last Wednesday I’ve seen some other blogs that changed PageRank and I’ve started to check mine on some datacenters.
At that time mostly I’ve got the response ‘off’ from the datacenters, so I knew for sure the update has started. So Friday night I’ve tested it again and now I get PR3 responses.

So what’s the fuzz about PageRank you might be thinking?
I feel PageRank is so much overrated the last years. I’ve seen numerous of Blogs or sites that have a PR1 or even PR0, but get thousands and thousands of visitors every day. So why care about it?
Well if you want to make some money and you don’t have thousands of visitors a day, a good pagerank can help you with it.
A lot of sites that help you make some money measures your site’s ‘popularity’ by your pagerank. The higher your PR the higher the payouts.

There are a few things you must consider if you want to get a higher pagerank yourself.
First of all look at your own site, make sure you get your SEO right.
After this you can search for the quality backlinks to your own site. The more the better.

And you, did the update changed your PageRank?

If you’re like me a big fan of the TV series Heroes, you’re probably also tired off waiting for the next volume to be aired.
Here in Belgium, every Monday a new episode of Heroes Volume Two is shown, but I’ve seen those episodes almost 4 months back, thx to Sci-Fi Channel. So at the moment it’s very painful to see the re-runs (at least for me) once again.

*Spoiler Warning, If you still haven’t watched Volume Two completely, skip the following lines*

Seeing these episodes once again makes me want to see the next chapters even more
Especially if you’ve seen the last episode of volume two, where Sylar injects himself with Mohinders blood and is able to use his telekinetic powers once again.

*Spoiler end*

In the 2nd season, the best improvement they made was the introduction of Adam Monroe, played by David Anders. He’s able to live forever, partly thx to Hiro who time-travelled back to ancient Japan to find his idol Kensei or Adam.
I’m wondering how they’re going to make the storyline continue with the twisting plots like they had until now.
If it wasn’t for the big Hollywood writers strike, they had aired it already, but last thing I’ve heard is that they’re going to air the next volume somewhere in September 2008.

Anyway I can’t wait, can you?

Today’s 5th stumble took me to UAddit’s Web 2.0 workplaces.

In this post he shows some pictures of the workplaces or offices that are behind the most common web 2.0 sites.
He starts with the offices from Twitter, that’s really gaining popularity the last month among bloggers. If you want to follow my tweets, you can select follow in my profile, by this link or by the large T in the right sidebar of my site.
Further in his post he shows the office’s of Facebook, Digg, Craiglist, Mozilla, Joost, flickr, Last.fm, Jaiku, LinkedIn, netvibes and Reddit.

Also for every Web 2.0 site he has added some info about how the site started, who founded it and so more. Especially Flickr is interesting, started in 2004 and sold to Yahoo only 1 year later for $35 Million. Talk about fast money

Anyway, sure worth a visit.

Last week’s stumbling Friday received 2 comments. And as a reward, I’m going to search trough the sites of those 2 commentators to stumble 1 post each.