So Thomas finally gave me my valentines day present yesterday. It was worth waiting for ( I love the idea of buying stuff for people when you see it - instead of finding something stupid for a special occasion).

I got a book called “how to be a rockstar freelancer” - now if you have followed me on my Toothless Tiger blog - you would have seen my rants about how companies shouldn’t organise themselves as companies - but as rockbands. So this book was right down my alley. And the outlook that I will begin freelancing again from june 1st, this book is a real catch ( also it is published on lulu.com -which my book (raw text finished by august 1st) also will be.

But it identifies all the different problems/episodes I have been having since I decided to start Toothless Tiger 4 years ago.

the first thing as a freelancer I take away from this book is “focus on what you can do, instead of what you can’t do”.. I think it’s highly recommendable =)

Mary Hodder whom I had the pleasure to meet at e-handelsprisen 2008 blogged in february about an article in the NY times , that would probably make a vast ammount of my female tech peers rant as well.

Enjoy and beware of the “feminisation of the internet” =)

So here’s what has been happening to Pan lately. First of all we are discussing renaming her to “Pan the pirate” or “Pan the pirate grrl” because she’s gonna have a brand new identity when we’re done with her. Still it’s really hard work but we are starting to get somewhere. Here’s what happened:

Pan is now officially taken out of the water (please note the lovely algas on the bottom of it)

Starting cleaning the boat and taking out the water

Penny the sailor getting ready to start taking of the old paint.

So after a weekend of taking of paint on the inside of the boat - we have a come a long way and have found out that we need a paint removing tool until next weekend ( all 3 of us had paint in our hair, noses and ears after the beginning of the paint-removal job. ( we need to do both the interior and exterior of it)

After talking to an expert (Thomas’ dad) and subscribing to all kinds of boat forums ( where we have no idea what people are talking about) we have decided to start by ensuring the boat is completely dry and staying that way.

This means that we will have to use around 8000 DKR ( ruffly 1750 dollars) on 3 skylights and new rubber for the windows. So we need find those money somewhere… All in all Pan is gonna be costly and around 100.000 DKR in total ( new engine and all)

Maybe I should set up a paypal account and hope that the blogosphere will take this lovely boat in their arms and own it with us.

anyway… My thought is quite wacky. But when Pan is done being retronized - it will be the official Toothless Tiger office. Yes and it will be the first danish boat coworking place.

Is it just me - or wouldn’t it be incredibly cool ? … it makes sense to me =)

Oh and if you have any ideas for funding - please let me know.

just a quick thought for the day: wouldn’t it be amazing if somebody actually did a bikewash service ? I would so have my biked washed and groomed there.. You can get your car washed - but your bike you have to do yourself..

an ecological bike wellness center =) - awesome

Not only am I soon getting a new surname ( may 24th to be exact) but we also have a new addition to the family… and no I am not pregnant ( even though our daugther wants to have a kidsister or brother at some point).

I have taken over a boat. And not just any boat. The most magic nostalgic boat - in my eyes that is.

This is the boat I lived on in summers all my childhood together with my great - grandmom, my grandfather and my grandmother. The boat was purchased in the 1970s of my great grandfather as a “retiring” to his carrier on the sea ( he was a boatbuilder and sailor of format=) . It was nurtured and loved by my mothers family and used all the time during my childhood.

Then something happened. Within 4 months both my grandmother and grandfather went to better places and my great - grandmother was too old to care for the boat. So it decayed and it was a pestilence to my mother who has her hands full.

This winter she passed the boat on to me so now it’s mine. She’s placed on the northern pier of the harbor in Elsinore (guarded by Kronborg and all).

This following week she’s is being taken out of the water so we can work on her all summer (08) - and have her ready to rumble and roll next summer. (09)

Her name is Pan and she’s an (still ugly) magical boat. And this is gonna be the biggest crafting project of mine - but we ( me and Thomas) has begun the retro-nization of the boat (bringing it back to it’s origins of the 1970s.)

I am making a danish blog about her (you’ll have the link later) and the work with her - but I will keep you posted here as well. Here’s my flickr set about the retronization process.

So I guess you have never met Henriette Weber - the sailorgirl. Well I am in heart. I have been racing boats all my youth. I live and breathe with the ocean ya’ll - surprise =)

I have volunteered to do marketing for blogprisen.dk - and we did an “employee meeting as a podcast on blogmagasinet.dk“ - it was really fun and Rasmus did a good job editing the podcast from 1.5 hours to 20 mins. So go listen (it’s in danish)

or does he ? - is this advertisement ? - naaah - could it be ?

here you go:

Crossposted at ToothlessTiger

Those of you who have heard me speak at events lately - have heard that I am talking about fighting the emptyness of consumercapitalism. the story of stuff is an excellent place to reflect on this - you should at least watch the video…thanks to Anders Bendix for sharing the light on this issue =)

Just a quick notise - I am dividing my blogs into a personal blog and a business blog. Henrietteweber.com is about me as a person and my thoughts and rants and well personal experience, it’s where my friends find me. Toothless Tiger is gonna be about the business rock band.  So the content here will change a bit. If you still want your full dosis of Henriette you should also subscribe to the Toothless Tiger blog.