neo & trini

hehe, can't really say more about it at the moment. other than it is awesome. if you'd like i can write a little review about it.

see ya

for once not an xkcd comic

LINK

i'm working for them now...

Wij waren daar gisteren, (terugvlucht van nog maar eens een trouwfeest) en hebben daar wel veel politie gezien op de luchthaven en ook op de autobaan enzo, we dacht natuurlijk dat we geflitst werden. En op de luchthaven weet je nooit of dat allemaal normaal is of niet.

We zijn naar een trouwfeest geweest in de Eifel, de Eifel is echt mooi. Zoveel kleine dorpje boven op bergjes met kasteeltjes en kerkjes. het ziet er allemaal zo'n een beetje uit zoals je je teutoonse koninkrijkjes zou voorstellen, van het een kasteel kunt ge der 3 andere zien. suuuuupermooi.

artikels:
destandaard
sueddeutsche zeitung

anyone else see see this story.
this freaks me out a bit. I don't really know what to believe of all this, but the premise: "someone betting 4.5 billion the market will lose 35%-50% by the end of september" what? Either this person/group really is stupid, or they are really sure? Sure of something big happening.
what do you think.

my guesses are
1. just a hoax.
2. self-fullfiling prophecy: just because someone is betting so much, it must mean something is gonna happen so you better sell your stuff now, and .... well you get the picture. just another way of the all to popular fearmongering these days.
3. step 2 in china's silent cold war.
4. another bin laden event about to happen.

i incline to go for 1. riiiight?!?

Four tiny orpahned hedgehogs are snuggling up to the bristles of a cleaning brush - because they think it's their mother.

The four inch long creatures are being hand-reared by staff at the New Forest Otter, Owl and Wildlife Park in Ashurst, Hants.

Workers say Mary, Mungo, Midge and Slappy get comfort from playing with the centre's cleaning brush and enjoy rubbing against it.

The smells on the brush, which is used to sweep a yard, remind the hedgehogs of their natural habitat while the texture reminds them of their mother.

"Because they have very poor eyesight you have to appeal to their sense of smell and touch by giving them different scents and textures.

"They like natural scents and have enjoyed playing with our cleaning brushes, soil, leaves, flower pots and the like.

"They particularly seem to enjoy rubbing against the brush.

"It may sound odd but I imagine the bristles feel a bit like their mum."

He added: "Three of the hedgehogs came to us because their mum was sadly crushed by a council palette truck at one of their depots.

"They are only a couple of weeks old.

"The fourth one is a little bit older and was found wandering around a back garden in the middle of the day.

"The home owner left it alone for a while to see if it would find its mum but after a few hours it was still by itself so she brought it into to us."

The hedgehogs will be fed until they are full-sized and then they will be released back into the wild.

John said: "We are feeding them milk powder mixed with kitten food - but they don't like fish flavour - they prefer nice meaty chunks.

"When they get older they will move onto proper cat food and will occasionally be given slugs and snails as a treat.

"There has been a real surge in slugs this year because of the wet weather so hopefully that will mean a good year for hedgehogs too.

"I would urge people not to kill garden slugs with pellets because the poison will be passed on to hedgehogs and a build up of poison could be fatal.

"If the weather is good they could be released in a month or so, otherwise we will feed them over the winter so they do not hibernate and then relase them in spring."

People can't be bothered to make easy energy savings

Some ways of cutting carbon are cheaper than others. So, at different carbon prices, different sorts of methods of abatement become worthwhile. Vattenfall, a Swedish power utility, has tried to quantify which ones would be worth undertaking at what price (see the chart).

The result is a testament to economic irrationality. The measures below the horizontal line have a negative abatement cost—in other words, by carrying them out, people and companies could both cut emissions and save money. At a macroeconomic level they would boost, rather than reduce, economic growth.

Lighting, for instance, accounts for some 19% of the world's electricity use. A standard incandescent light bulb costs around €1, says Theo van Deursen, chief executive of Philips Lighting, and uses €15-worth of electricity a year. A low-energy one costs €5-6 and uses €3-worth. The payback on investing in a compact fluorescent bulb, therefore, is less than a year. Yet low-energy lighting makes up only 30% of Philips's sales. Mr van Deursen admits to being disappointed. Sales are rising faster in the developing world: there, people pay more attention to electricity bills than they do in the rich world.

Economists trying to explain this apparent irrationality suggest that the savings are too small and the effort involved in change too large. People find their electricity bills too boring to think about; within companies, those responsible for keeping bills down may not have the authority to spend the necessary capital. Another explanation is the agency problem: that the developer who would have to pay higher capital costs up front will not be forking out for the electricity bills. Besides, people buy houses not because they have good insulation but because they have pretty views.

Compared with pursuing greater energy efficiency, the abatement measures into which so much money is now being poured look rather expensive. Carbon capture and storage and wind and solar power, for instance, all have positive, and relatively high, abatement costs.

But the cheapest sources of abatement are difficult for policymakers to get at. Billions of different actors are involved. They cannot be targeted in the way that a few hundred factories can. What is more, a moderate carbon price is not likely to be effective, since people clearly do not care enough about cost.

One policy option is to decouple the utilities' revenues from the amount of electricity they sell. That gives them an incentive to increase the efficiency of power usage rather than to produce and sell extra power. California is already doing this, which is presumably why electricity prices there are among the highest in America, while consumption is relatively low.

Energy-efficiency standards, such as building regulations, are another option. Economists generally prefer to avoid rules that specify what companies can produce and how, because they require governments, rather than markets, to allocate resources, and markets tend to do a better job (hehe; yeah this article is shamelessly copied out of the economist, and as such this freaky thought. cfr: a translation I did for Tommy last week on welfare states and their organizational options). But if, as in this case, a public as well as a private good is involved, and the market does not seem to be doing its job properly, there is an argument for governments giving it a nudge.

There are lots of energy-efficiency regulations in place already, and they are being tightened. Incandescent light bulbs are the top target at the moment. Both the European Union and Australia said earlier this year that they are planning to ban them. But the man in the vanguard of this green revolution is Fidel Castro, who started phasing them out two years ago.

The Economist

So, just looking at graph! The suggestion would be to insulate! I remember Gunther putting quite some money to that. Replace your light bulbs. In our flat they are almost all but replaced (buy them cheap in the IKEA). Leave the diesels at home, car-sharing! or bike sharing like bicing in Barcelona now.

wat is spirit eigenlijk?

op de site van de standaard kan je dit doen.

wat is spirit eigenlijk?

op de site van de standaard kan je dit doen.

If you use your computer a lot -- and let's face it, you do -- you've got to stop using the mouse if you want to be at all productive.

You know that. You use the common keyboard shortcuts. But are you maximizing your keyboard ninja skills? Rate yourself by seeing how many of the following 101 keyboard shortcuts you actually use.

100 points or higher is the Ninja rating. And yes, you'd have to use both the Mac and Windows OS's to get that rating. A true Ninja works independent of the OS.

Firefox

* Page down and up. Spacebar for page down, Shift-Spacebar for page up.
* Find. Ctrl+F, or Alt-N for find next.
* Bookmark page. Ctrl+D.
* Quick find. /.
* New tab. Ctrl+T.
* Go to search box. Ctrl+K.
* Go to address bar. Ctrl+L.
* Text size. Ctrl and + to increase text size and Ctrl and - to decrease text size.
* Close tab. Ctrl-W.
* Reload. F5.
* Go to home page. Alt-Home.
* Re-open closed tab. Ctrl+Shift+T.
* Keyword bookmarks. This is the most productive tip of all. If you go to a site a lot, bookmark it (of course), and then go to that bookmark's properties (right-click on it). Give it a short keyword in the keyword field, save, and from then on, you can just go to the address bar (Ctrl-L) and type that keyword to go to your site.

Gmail

* Compose. C.
* Reply. R.
* Reply all. A.
* Forward. F.
* Archive, and next. Y+O archives the current message and opens the next.
* Delete, and next. #+O (i.e. Shift-3 + O) to delete and then open the next message.
* Send. Tab-Enter to send a message after composing it.
* Search. /.
* Navigate. J and K to move up and down your list of messages.
* Conversation view. N and P to move to the next or previous messages in Conversation view.
* Mute. M will archive a conversation and make all future messages in that conversation skip your inbox.
* Select conversation. X will select and check a conversation so you can tag, archive or apply an action.
* Save draft. Control-S.
* Go to inbox. G+I.
* Go to Starred. G+S.
* Go to Contacts. G+C.

Google Reader

* Item up/down. J and K.
* Page up/down. Space or Shift-Space.
* Toggle star. S.
* Toggle share. Shift-S.
* Mark as read/unread. M.
* Open. V opens the current post in a new tab.
* Keyboard shortcuts. ? will bring up a help screen.

Windows

* Create application shortcuts. To create a keyboard shortcut to any application, right-click on the application's shortcut icon (such as those on your desktop), and enter a keyboard combination, such as Ctrl-Alt-W for MS Word.
* Toggle between apps. Alt-Tab until you land on the app you want, then let both keys up. Or hold down the Windows key and press Tab to cycle through taskbar buttons to get to your app, then press Enter. Adding the Shift key to either method cycles in reverse.
* Go to the desktop. Windows key-D.
* Context menu. Instead of right-clicking to get a context menu, press Shift-F10. Then scroll up or down the menu with the arrow keys.
* Shut down. To quickly shut down your computer, press Windows key and then U. Once there you can also type S for Standby mode, U to shut down, or R to restart.
* Most common. You know these, but for true noobs, some common application shortcuts: Ctrl-O for open, Ctrl-S for Save, Ctrl-N for New, Ctrl-W to close a window, Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-V to paste, Ctrl-X to cut. Ctrl-Z to undo, Ctrl-Y to redo. To see the clipboard's contents in MS Office, press Ctrl-C twice. Ctrl-Home to move to the top of a document, Ctrl-End to move to the bottom.
* Menu bar. Pressing Alt gets you to the menu bar, and you can scroll around using the arrow keys. Alt plus the underlined letter of each menu option takes you to that option. Or just memorize the keyboard shortcut for that option for even faster keyboarding.
* Windows Explorer. Windows-E goes to My Computer. Then use the following.
* Display subfolders. NUM LOCK + Asterick Sign(*).
* Display contents. NUM LOCK + PLUS Sign(+).
* Collapse selection. NUM LOCK + Minus Sign(-).
* Highlight text. In a document, use Ctrl-Shift plus arrow keys to highlight blocks of text quickly. Ctrl-A to highlight everything at once.
* Permanent delete. Shift-Delete will delete an item permanently without sending to the Recycle bin.

Mac OS

* Toggle Dock. Option-Cmd-D to show and hide the Dock.
* Hide others. Cmd-Option-H hides every other app besides the one you're in. Simplifies your screen.
* Close Finder windows. Cmd-W to close the current window. Option-Cmd-W to close all the windows in an application.
* Expand folders. Option-Cmd-Right Arrow to expand a folder and nested sub folders in List View in the Finder.
* Forward and back. Cmd-[ and Cmd-] works in the Finder, Safari and Firefox.
* Screen capture. Cmd-Shift-3 for the entire screen. Cmd-Shift-4 to give you cross hairs to create a selection on the screen.
* Log out. Shift-Cmd-Q gives you 2 minutes to change your mind before logging out.
Shift-Option-Cmd-Q doesn't give you that time.
* Empty Trash. Shift-Cmd-Delete.
* New tab in Safari. Cmd-T.
* Help. Cmd-shift-?.
* Boot from CD. Press C during startup (right after the chime) to boot from a CD.
* Change startup volume. Option-Cmd-Shift-Delete during startup bypasses the primary startup volume and seeks another startup volume such as a CD or disk.
* Super Get Info. Cmd-Option-I brings up a live Get Info window, enabling you to view and alter many file and folder stats with a single window.
* Sleep, restart and shutdown. Cmd-option-eject, Cmd-ctrl-eject, and Cmd-Option-ctrl-eject.
* Force Quit. Cmd-opt-Esc is a basic but very useful one.
* Quick FTP. For quick and dirty FTP, Cmd-K will open the Connect to Server command.

Excel

* Edit cell. F2, probably the best shortcut to know.
* Select current column. Ctrl-Space.
* Select current row. Shift-Space.
* Format as currency. Ctrl+Shift+4 (i.e. Ctrl+$).
* Format as percentage. Ctrl+Shift+5 (i.e. Ctrl+%).
* Home. Ctrl-Home selects A1 on the current worksheet.
* Insert date. Ctrl-Semicolon.
* Insert time. Ctrl-Colon.
* Copy above cell. Ctrl-Double Quote enters a copy of the cell above (without formatting).
* Format Cells. Ctrl-1 opens Format Cells dialog box.
* Navigate worksheets. Ctrl-Page Up and Ctrl-Page Down.
* Multiple enter. Ctrl-Enter instead of just Enter after entering data into one of several preselected cells will put the data in all those cells.

Word

* Default formatting. Ctrl-Space turns on normal style for the current selection or subsequent typing.
* Paragraph spacing. Ctrl-0 (zero above the letter keys) adds or removes a line of spacing above the current paragraph. Ctrl-1 (above the letter keys) changes paragraph to single-line spaces. Ctrl-2 (above the letter keys) double-spaces the paragraph. Ctrl-5 (above the letter keys) makes the paragraph to 1.5-line spacing.
* Updating date/time. Alt-Shift-D inserts an updating date. Alt-Shift-T inserts an updating time.

Internet Explorer (only use IE if you want to live dangerously)

* Navigate. Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow to go back or forward, and Ctrl-N to start a new window.
* Favorites. Ctrl-D to put the current page in your favorite list. Ctrl-B to open the Organize Favorites dialog box.
* Quick address. To quickly to to an URL, type Ctrl-L and enter the address.
* Home. Alt-Home to go to your home page.
* Refresh. Ctrl-F5.
* Find. Ctrl-F.

Outlook

* Send/receive. To send or receive mail on default accounts, press F5.
* Go to inbox. Ctrl+Shift+I.
* Go to the Outbox. Ctrl+Shift+O.
* Reply. Ctrl+R.
* Mark as read. Ctrl+Q
* New message. Ctrl+Shift+M.
* New contact. Ctrl+Shift+C.
* New appointment. Ctrl+Shift+A.

AutoHotKey

* Mac OSX users will use Quicksilver, which can do virtually anything using the keyboard. Windows users don't have that luxury, but there is AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/download), which takes a little bit of setup, but can do some wondrous things for your productivity once you've entered all your favorites and their hotkeys.
* Signatures. Set up the text replacement features of AHK to type in one of your multiple signatures quickly. For example wsig1 and wsig2 could each expand to one of your two work signatures, and so on.
* Common email replies. Do you type some of the same replies every day? Enter them into AHK, each with a shortcut of just a few letters, and they will instantly expand to your common replies.
* Common html code. Use the same codes over and over each day? Set up AHK to enter them much more quickly.
* App launcher. Launch every commonly-used application with a keyboard shortcut of your choice.
* Favorite web pages. All of my most commonly used web pages (banks, Gmail, Google Reader, and many more) have a quick-key combination assigned.
* Favorite folders. Have certain folders you open a lot? Assign keystrokes.
* Favorite documents. You get the idea. This is great for commonly-used templates, or logs, that you open a lot.

How three million Germans died after VE Day

Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh

Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history - he serves a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly uncomfortable reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of Iraq unfavourably to the post-war settlement of Germany and Austria.

MacDonogh argues that the months that followed May 1945 brought no peace to the shattered skeleton of Hitler's Reich, but suffering even worse than the destruction wrought by the war. After the atrocities that the Nazis had visited on Europe, some degree of justified vengeance by their victims was inevitable, but the appalling bestialities that MacDonogh documents so soberly went far beyond that. The first 200 pages of his brave book are an almost unbearable chronicle of human suffering. advertisement

His best estimate is that some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities. A million soldiers vanished before they could creep back to the holes that had been their homes. The majority of them died in Soviet captivity (of the 90,000 who surrendered at Stalingrad, only 5,000 eventually came home) but, shamingly, many thousands perished as prisoners of the Anglo-Americans. Herded into cages along the Rhine, with no shelter and very little food, they dropped like flies. Others, more fortunate, toiled as slave labour in a score of Allied countries, often for years. Incredibly, some Germans were still being held in Russia as late as 1979.

The two million German civilians who died were largely the old, women and children: victims of disease, cold, hunger, suicide - and mass murder.

Apart from the well-known repeated rape of virtually every girl and woman unlucky enough to be in the Soviet occupation zones, perhaps the most shocking outrage recorded by MacDonogh - for the first time in English - is the slaughter of a quarter of a million Sudeten Germans by their vengeful Czech compatriots. The survivors of this ethnic cleansing, naked and shivering, were pitched across the border, never to return to their homes. Similar scenes were seen across Poland, Silesia and East Prussia as age-old German communities were brutally expunged.

Given that what amounted to a lesser Holocaust was unfolding under their noses, it may be asked why the western Allies did not stop this venting of long-dammed-up rage on the (mainly) innocent. MacDonogh's answer is that it could all have been even worse. The US Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, favoured turning Germany into a gigantic farm, and there were genocidal Nazi-like schemes afoot to starve, sterilise or deport the population of what was left of the bombed-out cities.

The discovery of the Nazi death camps stoked Allied fury, with General George Patton asking an aide amid the horrors of Buchenwald: 'Do you still find it hard to hate them?' But the surviving inmates were soon replaced by German captives - Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and even Auschwitz stayed in business after the war, only now with the Germans behind the wire.

It was Realpolitik, not humanitarian concern, that caused a swift shift in western attitudes towards their former foes. Fear of Communism spreading into the heart of Europe, and the barbarities of the Russians - who kidnapped and killed hundreds of their perceived enemies from the western zones of Berlin and Vienna - belatedly made the West realise that they had beaten one totalitarian power only to be threatened by another.

Even that hardline Kraut-hater Patton was sacked for advocating a pre-emptive strike against Russia. Building up West Germany and saving Berlin from Soviet strangulation with the 1948 airlift became the first battles of the Cold War - even if that meant overlooking Nazi crimes and enlisting Nazi criminals in the 'economic miracle' of reconstruction.

Although MacDonogh roundly condemns all the occupying powers, the British emerge with some credit. Apart from one Air Marshal who looted art treasures; and an MI5 interrogator nicknamed 'Tin Eye' Stephens who ran a private torture chamber, British hands may have been grubby, but were not deeply blood-stained. British squaddies preferred to purchase their sex privately with a packet of fags or a pair of nylons, rather than in the Soviet style.

MacDonogh has written a gruelling but important book. This unhappy story has long been cloaked in silence since telling it suited no one. Not the Allies, because it placed them near the moral nadir of the Nazis; nor the Germans, because they did not wish to be accused of whitewashing Hitler by highlighting what was, by any standard, a war crime. Giles MacDonogh has told a very inconvenient truth.

I wis i thought of these, i wish i had the gimp/photoshop skills to do this. I'm busy downloading pallettes and brushes and logotypes. let's see.

how are you all?

i want to be able to do this, too.

encontrado en LA PLATAFORMA POR UNA VIVIENDA DIGNA

english and dutch short versions below

"Todos los españoles tienen derecho a disfrutar de una vivienda digna y adecuada. Los poderes públicos promoverán las condiciones necesarias y establecerán las normas pertinentes para hacer efectivo este derecho, regulando la utilización del suelo de acuerdo con el interés general para impedir la especulación. La comunidad participará en las plusvalías que genere la acción urbanística de los entes públicos (Art. 47 Constitución Española)"

Esta iniciativa ciudadana apartidista y sin ninguna afinididad ideológica concreta, surge espontáneamente de la idea de que los jovenes y no tan jovenes, tenemos parte de culpa de la irracionalidad que estamos sufriendo en materia de vivienda. Un principio recogido en la Constitución es el acceso a una vivienda digna y no lo estamos defendiendo adecuadamente.

Este derecho se lleva vulnerando desde hace mucho tiempo sin que ningún gobierno hasta ahora, haya puesto en marcha medidas reales para protegerlo, como deben hacer según la Carta Magna. Y visto lo visto, si nosotros no defendemos su cumplimiento, nadie lo hará en nuestro lugar, puesto que son muchos agentes implicados y muy poderosos, los que han inventado esta nueva forma de esclavitud y están beneficiándose a costa del futuro íntegro de muchas personas: bancos, constructoras, inmobiliarias, ayuntamientos...

Uno de los mecanismos que nos da la democracia para reclamar nuestros derechos no protegidos es la manifestación. Con esa intención estamos organizando sucesivas movilizaciones y actos en los que al menos se nos oiga. Quizás consigamos que las distintas instancias del gobierno, legislen en contra de la especulación inmobiliaria y consigan frenarla, o quizás no, pero lo que si es seguro es que despues de que nos oigan, nos tendrán más en cuenta y no ejercitarán la pasividad que han demostrado en este asunto durante estos últimos años. Tú también tienes que hacer algo.

Entonces hay una manifestacion grande este finde en barcelona en contra de la especulacion, por pisos con precios podemos pagar sin hypotecar el resto de nuestro vida. Entonces sabado 24 de marzo a las 17h en placa catalunya. VAMOS!!!!

mira aqui para mas informacion, is si quieres hacer carteles, hay unas aqui, aqui, aqui y aqui.

English
Big manisfestation this saturday the 24th starting at 17h at placa catalunya to protest the ever rising specalution and cost of living here. hundreds of thousands of apartements are empty in Barcelona yet we still have to pay astronomical prizes. I know i don't like to throw all that money away and just give it to these bloodsucking bastards. Let's go all together and get noticed.

look here for more information and fo posters and banners go here, here, here and here.

Nederlands
Er is een betoging dit weekend, zaterdag de 24ste om 17h in placa Catalunya tegen de ongebreidelde speculatie van de immobilien in spanje. In ons geval meer bepaald Barcelona. honderdduizenden huizen en appartementen leegstaan terwijl wij toch astronomische prijzen moeten betalen voor miniruimtetjes. Dat vind IK niet fijn in elk geval. Zullen we allemaal samen gaan zaterdag, en ze dat laten horen?

Ga hier kijken voor meer info en als je posters wil maken dan kan je die hier, hier, hier en hier vinden.

screenshot from Heroes. who's car is it? what's special about it?

a post without ..., to ease your mind that there is nooooo conspiracy

no conspiracy, i tell you.
at all.
never.
believe me yet?

www.flickr.com

www.flickr.com

Ow yeah, i'm such a nerd! Can you guess what made this movie night so exceptionally -yet intentionally- bad?

dit vind ik echt een mooie
heb er nog een paar op mijn flickr log gezet.

trouwens: mijn ecologische voetafdruk wordt als maar kleiner:
heb steeds meer apparaten die ik met mijn zonnepaneeltje kan opladen (genoeg zon in bcn).
heb alle lampen vervangen thuis door IKEA spaarlampen.
kzet op de weg naar huis 's avonds telkens 10tallen pc's uit op het werk.
en we wonen met 4 ipv van 3 op dezelfde oppervlakte. (hehehe, vals-spelen een beetje, ik weet het).
en jullie, ondernemen jullie nog actie?

I just found this Ikea reklameke and maaaaaaaan is it funny; but then i found the one below

it's hilarious, and freaky...

ik heb de tekst wat aangepast om het wat generischer te maken, maar raad eens in welk land dit een wet is!

CHAPTER 272. CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER

Chapter 272: Section 36. Blasphemy

Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred "sort of money", and may also be bound to good behavior.

wel kijk hier van waar dit is

België bezet vijfde plaats op lijst dodelijke natuurrampen

BRUSSEL - België staat op de vijfde plaats in de lijst van landen die getroffen door dodelijke natuurrampen. Dat blijkt uit cijfers van de Verenigde Naties.
De VN telt mensen die zijn omgekomen door extreme hitte of kou ook als slachtoffers van een natuurramp, zoals een aardbeving, een overstroming of een orkaan. Daardoor scoren Nederland (vierde met 1000 doden door de hittegolf van de voorbije zomer) en België (vijfde met 940 doden) hoog in de lijst.

In de top 10 staat nog een derde Europees land: Oekraïne. In 2006 stierven volgens de cijfers van de VN 801 inwoners van het op één na grootste Europese land als gevolg van een koudegolf.

Azië is nog steeds het werelddeel waar de meeste natuurrampen plaatsvinden. In Indonesië kwamen in mei volgens officiële cijfers 5778 mensen om bij een aardbeving; op de Filipijnen kostten een tyfoon en een aardverschuiving het leven aan in totaal 2511 mensen.

meer info:

* International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
* Persbericht : 2006 disasters in numbers
* ISDR: Three European countries among the top ten deadliest disasters of 2006
* de standaard zelf

woehahahaha

de standaard publiceert vandaag rapporten over de vlaamse scholen, ik dacht ik pik er die uit die veel ons nauw aan het hart (ahum) ligt.

K.A.
Over de school:
Adres: Parklaan 89
Gemeente: 9100 Sint-Niklaas
Telefoon: 03-780.79.00
Fax: 03-780.79.06
Email: info@atheneumsintniklaas.be
WebSite: http://www.Parklaan.com
Type: Deeltijds Beroeps
Directie: Olivia Chandler (Nog AALLLLTTTIIIIIJJJJD jong)

Verslag:

Sterke punten

* Het dynamisme, de bereikbaarheid en het enthousiasme van directie en de meeste personeelsleden.
* De inspanningen van verscheidene personeelsleden in diverse taak- en werkgroepen.
* De open communicatie met ouders en leerlingen.
* Ondanks de zwakke input blijft men streven naar een behoorlijk studiepeil in de meeste studierichtingen.
* De goede interactie tussen de verschillende onderwijsvormen binnen de campus Parklaan.
* De leerlingen uit verschillende onderwijsvormen vormen een leefgemeenschap.
* De positieve houding, het voorkomen en de omgangsvormen van de leerlingen.
* De goede uitrusting voor lichamelijke opvoeding en van sommige vaklokalen.

Punten voor verbetering vatbaar

* Het onderhoud van gebouwen, gereedschappen, machines en toestellen.
* De leermiddelen die in verscheidene vaklokalen en werkplaatsen verouderd of ontoereikend zijn.
* Het zwakke studieniveau van de studierichtingen Carrosserie-Plaatbewerking (derde graad BSO) en Nijverheidstechnieken (tweede graad BSO).
* Het minder goed functioneren van enkele personeelsleden die nascholing en/of engagement niet tot hun attitude maken.
* Het niet gebruiken van nieuwe technologieën, recente leerboeken en didactische middelen in sommige vakken.
* Het niet opvolgen van schoolverlaters (vervolgresultaten hoger onderwijs en tewerkstelling). * Een ernstige bijsturing doen om de belangrijkste leerplandoelstellingen van de studierichtingen Chemie en Elektromechanica in de derde graad TSO nog dit schooljaar in voldoende mate te realiseren.
* De leerplandoelstellingen voor esthetica in de derde graad ASO Grieks-Latijn, Latijn-Moderne talen en KSO Beeldende kunst in voldoende mate realiseren. Aangezien esthetica in het ASO georganiseerd wordt als complementaire activiteit heeft het niet realiseren van de leerplandoelstellingen geen gevolg voor het advies.
* De leerplandoelstellingen voor expressie in het derde leerjaar van de derde graad Kinderzorg in voldoende mate realiseren.
* Het aankoop- en indienststellingsbeleid optimaliseren, de apparaten en machines beveiligen en uitrusten met de voorgeschreven veiligheids-, onderhouds- en gebruiksinstructies, jaarlijks evacuatieoefeningen organiseren in elke vestigingsplaats en de elektrische laagspanningsinstallatie conform de vigerende reglementering maken.
* De nodige maatregelen treffen zodat de regelgeving m.b.t. sanctionering van de studies gerespecteerd wordt en uitgestelde beslissingen enkel gegeven worden in uitzonderlijke en individuele gevallen zoals voorgeschreven in de omzendbrief SO64,8.1.2(25-6-1999).
* De regelgeving omtrent laakbare praktijken m.b.t. verkoop van diensten en producten respecteren en toepassen in de studierichting Haartooi/Haarzorg.
* De werkpunten in de respectieve deelverslagen ter harte nemen.

Dringende actiepunten

* Een ernstige bijsturing doen om de belangrijkste leerplandoelstellingen van de studierichtingen Chemie en Elektromechanica in de derde graad TSO nog dit schooljaar in voldoende mate te realiseren.
* De leerplandoelstellingen voor esthetica in de derde graad ASO Grieks-Latijn, Latijn-Moderne talen en KSO Beeldende kunst in voldoende mate realiseren. Aangezien esthetica in het ASO georganiseerd wordt als complementaire activiteit heeft het niet realiseren van de leerplandoelstellingen geen gevolg voor het advies.
* De leerplandoelstellingen voor expressie in het derde leerjaar van de derde graad Kinderzorg in voldoende mate realiseren.
* Het aankoop- en indienststellingsbeleid optimaliseren, de apparaten en machines beveiligen en uitrusten met de voorgeschreven veiligheids-, onderhouds- en gebruiksinstructies, jaarlijks evacuatieoefeningen organiseren in elke vestigingsplaats en de elektrische laagspanningsinstallatie conform de vigerende reglementering maken.
* De nodige maatregelen treffen zodat de regelgeving m.b.t. sanctionering van de studies gerespecteerd wordt en uitgestelde beslissingen enkel gegeven worden in uitzonderlijke en individuele gevallen zoals voorgeschreven in de omzendbrief SO64,8.1.2(25-6-1999).
* De regelgeving omtrent laakbare praktijken m.b.t. verkoop van diensten en producten respecteren en toepassen in de studierichting Haartooi/Haarzorg.
* De werkpunten in de respectieve deelverslagen ter harte nemen.

Commentaar

De doorlichtingsverslagen van het KA Sint-Niklaas en de MS dateren van 2001. Het KTA waarrond de meeste opmerkingen werden geformuleerd was toen pas gefusioneerd met het KA en is ondertussen volledig afgebouwd.Ook de MS fusioneerde het jaar daarop met het KA Sint-Niklaas.

De afdelingen Bouw, Carrosserie, Nijverheidstechnieken, Electromechanica en chemie werden opgeheven waardoor de opmerkingen i.v.m de verouderde infrastructuur niet meer van toepassing zijn.

Ondertussen hebben er zich heel wat wijzigingen voorgedaan waarbij ondermeer aandacht is gegaan naar het vernieuwen van materiaal, het opzetten van een gezamenlijk pedagogisch beleid en een betere doorstroming van leerlingen.

Tevens wordt er geen rekening met het positief advies naar aanleiding van het opvolgingsverslag waarin alle opmerkingen werden opgeheven en er een positief advies is uitgebracht.

kan iemand dit eens uitproberen, ben benieuwd of dit werkt.

Locked Keys In The Car

Locked your keys in your car? Did you know this?

If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone on your (or someone else's) cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button of your key fob (clicker), holding it near the phone on their end. Your car doors will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.

Distance is no object you could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk!).

Editor's Note * It works fine! We tried it out, and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!

Editor's Note: I locked the car had my youngest daughter call me while I was far away from the car. I clicked open into the phone and I could hear the car doors unlock through her cell phone. My daughter confirmed that sure enough the doors opened.

Pass this one on to your friends

dat deed ik dus net. ik heb geen auto dus kan het zelf niet uitproberen.

the tags here are soooo cool. you'll probably need to look at the pic in close up to read them (so go to flickr)

Traffic Jam

aaaaaaaaah ooooooooooooh zo lief

iemand zin om een van deze sites te gaan bezoeken tussen kerst en nieuw

Sky watchers in western Europe and Africa, northeastern North America and Brazil may get a brief treat this weekend with the height of the Leonid meteor shower.

The meteors are expected to reach peak intensity around 0445 GMT on Sunday (2345 EST on Saturday). The most intense part of the shower will last only a few hours.

Dat wil dus zeggen 5:45 onze tijd op zondagmorgen, versta ik dat goed

Under dark skies, people may spot about 100 to 150 meteors per hour, making the Leonids one of the best showers this year. But it will pale in comparison to meteor showers from 1998 to 2002, when observers counted thousands of meteors per hour.

The reason for the difference is that every year around this time, the Earth passes through a different trail of debris left behind by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle on its passage through the inner solar system every 33 years. Over time, pressure from sunlight segregates the dust and rocks in these trails into separate groups.

In 1998, Earth encountered a very rocky stream, which led to bright fireballs in the sky. This year, however, Earth will encounter a dustier trail of debris that was shed by the comet in 1932 – and that dustiness will translate to fainter meteors.

From Earth's perspective, the meteors appear to originate from the constellation Leo, hence the name Leonids. But the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, so meteor experts suggest leaning back and taking in as much of the night sky as possible.

ok ik denk dat we dat dan maar gaan doen, ik heb hier een grasveldje boven op een berg ontdekt (de collserola die barcelona insluit), dat zou dus perfekt moeten lukken alleen ja euh daar foto's van nemen.

There should not be much moonlight to interfere with observing the Leonids this year, so meteor watchers will just have to hope for clear skies over the weekend

Never Get a Job

July 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina

Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”

She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”

Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”

It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account? Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me, and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?

Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.

Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.

Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?

How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?

Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?

Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.

Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.

Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?

You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.

What a generous person you are!

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.

6. Having an evil bovine master.

When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”

Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.

So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.

Who’s your daddy?

7. Begging for money.

When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?

Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?

If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”

8. An inbred social life.

Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.

If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!

9. Loss of freedom.

It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.

God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!

Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”

10. Becoming a coward.

Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.

I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!

Still want a job?

If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.

If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.

Happily jobless

What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.

And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.

Here are some free resources to help you get started:

* The Courage To Live Consciously (article on how to transition to more meaningful work)
* Podcast #006 - How to Make Money Without a Job (audio)
* Podcast #009 - Kick-start Your Own Business (audio)
* Podcast #014 - Embracing Your Passion (audio)
* 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (article)
* How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (article)
* How to Make Money From Your Blog (article)

One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.

All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.

The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.

You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is standing down, President George W Bush has announced after bruising losses for Republicans in mid-term elections.

woehoew!!!!!!!!

op de BBC and AP net verschenen!!

eindelijk

vooral de allerlaatste zin van dit artikel. mooi. echt mooi*

voor de liefhebbers de holocaustcartoons: op irancartoons.com

en om het nog cooler te maken, dit hotelletje stond op een vulkaan!

dit ga ik thuis zelf maken, dan hebben we eindelijk een contraptie om te recyleren, dat werd mooi tijd.

de grappigste reklame affiches die ik tegenkwam in duitsland, er bestaat hier nog een andere versie van en dat is een groen mars mannetje die zijn pols bezeerd heeft. hilarisch. Foto's van het oktoberfest komen nog en daar moeten we ECHT eens samen naartoe! ben nu snipverkouden dus euh.. hopelijk dit weekend

now that's what i call camouflage

if you want to make one yourself, click this

Vind de 100 films in deze foto

anyone still remember this one?

Sinds de site inderdaad aan het overspoelen is, dacht ik dat ik mijn bijdrage dan toch maar eens lever. excuses: het is hier zoooo ongeloofelijk heet, dus ik moet veel tijd op het strand zitten en in de zee spelen. ik heb ook net een nieuwe job, en heb daarmee kweetnie hoeveel werk. maar wel cool. echt de fijnste job die ik ook had (ik werk voor het Quality Department: woehahaha ik, nee serieus). En daarenboven is jan en alleman jarig in de zomer dus nog meer op het strand zitten ('s nachts dan) en zwemmen ('s nachts ook). plus nog al de uitstapjes daarbij, en mijn twee nieuwe huisgenoten (helpen verhuizen, installeren, aaaaaaaaargh).

de foto's zijn van de summerparty van het bedrijf waar ik werk. WE HAD FUN. hadden met een paar vrienden gigantische waterpistolen gekocht, aangezien de summerparty aan een zwembad is: endless supplies of fun... woehahaha. Daarmee bedoel ik de bar. foto 4 (de beste van heel de avond) en 5 zijn gelinkt. wat ik toen nog niet wist, is dat het water uit dat pistool van de startrooper net uit de diepvries kwam....................aaaaargh.

ok next....

man i wish could do this too

go to flickr to see the BIG version of this, (click on the picture)

today it's 06/06/06!!! seriously. i hope you are not suffering from hexakosioihexekontahexafobia? (no i'm not making this up)

"Let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six," says Revelation, the last and obscurest book of the bible.

Vlad the antichrist

Meanwhile, Vexen Crabtree, the Minister of the London Church of Satan, plans to go to one of the alternative clubs that are celebrating 06/06/06. "My official take on it is that 666 is really only a Christian number," he explains. "But any excuse for a party is a good one." Crabtree dissociates the Church of Satan from the Temple of Set and the First Church of Satan, saying it is the only Satanist group that is "sane and worthwhile".

He says any Satanists who actually worship the Devil, rather than revering "Satan" as an abstract value, are "immature, unstable and nothing to do with us". It is perhaps reassuring for people of other religions to see that Satanists have the same controversies as everyone else.

At the other extreme, some Christians have foretold dire events. Tom Chase, a New Age Christian writer from the US, has used astrology and the Bible to calculate that the antichrist will emerge, followed by an asteroid collision and within a year or two the battle of Armageddon. The antichrist, according to Chase, is Vladimir Putin.

The majority of scholars interpret the number of the beast as a reference to the Roman emperor at the time Revelation was written - either Nero or Diocletian. They both put large numbers of Christians to death. And using the Jewish system of Gematria, where each letter is given a number, either name can be made to add up to 666 - or 616 as some early versions of the Bible had it.

That has never stopped Bible readers applying it to their own times and enemies though. The Pope has been the most common choice throughout history - even among Catholics. Napoleon, Martin Luther, Hitler and Bill Gates have also had their moment in the numerological spotlight.

The book "Is George Bush The Antichrist?" was published in 2004 in the US. The answer was yes, showing all kinds of ways of doing the maths to get the president to equal 666. Ronald Wilson Reagan was also a popular contender for a while - just count the letters. He even retired to 666 St Cloud Road, Bel Air - although he took the precaution of changing the number to 668 first.

Equally afraid of the number of the beast - hexakosioihexekontahexaphobic, if you will - some expectant mothers have been asking to have their birth induced to avoid the ill-omened day, according to the Sunday Times.

It is also told how, during the recording of Iron Maiden's album The Number of the Beast, their manager had a crash with a van driven by nuns and the repair bill came to £666. The story has been repeatedly confirmed by members of the band - though as the good book says, the devil is a liar.

and don't forget:

d-day is 42 years ago! king albert II has his birthday today.

wow

de apple ads?

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

in een daarvan gaat het over een mopje dat pc's altijd moeten herstarten : in plan "you moved your mouse: you need to restart your pc for the new settings to take effect"

soooow, kwas vandaag updates aan het downloaden op mijn terrasje in de zon, hihihi. en dan plots zei die het volgende:

hij staat nu al zeker sinds boris en martina trouwden aan. (nog net iets langer eigenlijk, maar ben niet zeker hoe lang juist). onafgebroken, maar nu dus na 3-4 maanden moet ik dus herstarten.

damn....

ik weet nie of ik aan het stoefen ben of aan het klagen.

meer van dit vind je hier

I'm not really sure where San Cata was, but to get there we needed to cross the woods for more than a hour. For us city-folk, quite a challenge. no injuries yet.

rrrrrrrrrr* *: hihihi interpret that as you like, hehehe

eating...

and looking at eating...

and drinking... and the first injury here: glass is sharp mikey!

a potatoe with a heart

hihihi, as promised

playing frisbee, in the background

city people in the wild, luckily no permanent harm was done.

we found las españolas en secreto

some of them are fun:

wil je er nog meer zien? nog honderden meer

Find the Face (in the Beans)

let's help fooike on this one, small tips and hints only.
i'll start:
1. the face looks coffeebrown....

not so long ago a certain someone complained about the lack of serious activism and relevant stuff on the hog, well this link should go a bit that way. And steven, if you want you can do this to

, but you may not like something like adsense. and another good reason to go away from windoze and towards open source/linux/ and or REAL computers like apple, look at steve -i will fucking kill google-balmer at one of his windows presentations, iiiiieuw is that really who you'd want to give money to receive all your spyware, and viagra popups and millions of botch-up security -HAH- patches?

on another note a friendly unwitting neighbour is now supplying me with a stable network connection, thanks to this little app, and i was watching the news belgian news yesterday: who is JOE? wtf, are you guys ok? no riots have broken out?

chernobyl, some i really like the landscapes, the emptyness, the sadness:
Lost city of Pripiat in pictures
Graveyards of used vehicles
Ghost Villages

(some blue sky)

i think this one is the best one, since i finally figured out you need a lot of ground to make the planet not look to warped and freaky

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let the whole gif load (last one from me flying had 12 pictures this one has 297 so, be patient...) tell me what you think of it.

luckily i have a wireless keyboard

identify all the cables and win a nice prize*

*disclaimer: no promises made

(hey you guys/girls: The text below was a post by a "Den Vandron". The link is now dead, but it's a pretty interesting rant

On the topic about an so-called-inevitable conflict with Iran:

Speaking as a Canadian who is fond of judicious language, I feel that this situation deserves careful and measured thought. So let me just open with:

Den Vandron Quote:
Is your entire f*cking country on crack??? Are all you Americans out of your cotton picking minds??? Are you completely freaking delusional? Homicidal? Psychotic? Have you lost any shred of a moral compass? WHAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS H. CHRIST ON A CRUTCH IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!!!

Let me offer up one small datum which may completely change the equation for you: According to the CIA (If they have any credibility left.) Iran is at least five years away from a nuclear weapon.

Five years.

Five years is time for diplomacy to accomplish a hell of a lot.

I would also point out that the Atomic Energy Commission, various other international bodies and other inspections have essentially found no sign that Iran is even working on a nuclear weapon.

The only actual evidence that Iran has anything close to nuclear weapons technology is blueprints *that the CIA gave to them!*

Have you all forgotten that the evidence on Iraq was spectacularly wrong? Have you all ignored the fact that it was fabricated? Why then are we going down the exact same road of stage managed, fabricated pseudo-evidence and wild-ass hysteria?

What is wrong with you people?

This entire crisis has been manufactured, and has been years in the making.

Stop and think back five years. What did we have five years ago? A moderate reformist Iranian government making overtures to the United States, rebuilding its relationship with Europe, liberalizing its society, and modernizing its economy.

Post 9/11 vigil in Iran. 9/11 comes along, the Iranians are overflowing with sympathy. Mass candlelit vigils are held in Tehran. Iran offers aid and cooperation.

Iran hates the Taliban who have executed Iranian diplomats and massacred Afghan Shiites. Iran hates Saddam Hussein. Iran hates Al Qaeda which is a Sunni Fundamentalist organization which declares Shiites infidels and subhuman.

Iran shares its intelligence with America - they even arrested Taliban members and handed them over to US custody.

So we've got the Iranian spring; things are finally going to sort out.

And what happens? The Bush administration rebuffs every Iranian overture and does its best to instigate a cold war. Afghanistan is invaded, and suddenly, the Iranians are looking at American troops and allies on their eastern border. Then Iraq is invaded, and American troops and allies on their western border. Then bases and treaties in Uzbekistan, and whoops, there's more American troops and allies on the northern border. The Persian Gulf is filled with American warships and carrier fleets.

Now the Iranians are surrounded. And the tough talk is constant. Iran is part of the 'Axis of Evil' and Americans tell each other "Baghdad, humph, real men go to Tehran." Essentially, America has been threatening military action against Iran for the last five years, and has surrounded the country on every side with troops, bases and allies.

American aircraft invade Iranian airspace regularly, American special forces undertake operations inside Iran and Americans regularly accuse Iranians of interference in Iraq.

Dick Cheney pontificates about Israel bombing Iran *after he has just handed over to Israel the long range bombers and bunker busting bombs* required to do the job.

Meanwhile, the United States undertakes economic warfare against Iran, interfering with its business dealings with third party countries, trying to scuttle a pipeline deal with India, and it goes on and on. The hysteria about the Iranians nuclear program is just more of the same.

Now how in God's Bloody Name do you think the Iranians are going to respond to that. Should they concede the nuclear program, abandon their pipeline project? If so, its not going to do them any good. America will just seek more concessions. Each surrender will be met by new demands. This isn't hard to figure out. It's exactly what Bush did with Iraq.

Perhaps overtures, good will gestures, trying to act like a peaceful nation. Did all those things, doesn't matter. The Bush administration is still on a collision course.

So, the Mullahs are concerned that they're faced with a homicidal crazy state, the Iranian people are scared. When people are scared and faced with an aggressive warmongering power which keeps threatening to attack them, continually trespasses on its borders and is undertaking economic warfare... who the hell are they going to elect? Ahminajad may be a crazy bastard, but you assholes, you utter assholes did every thing you could to elect him short of donating 50,000 Diebold machines and mailing his party the trapdoor codes.

So, having pursued a psychotically aggressive course, you've backed Iran into a corner, and engineered a regime which refuses to back further.

And *you* are the victims in all this? *You* are the ones under threat? It's *self defense*???? And of course, you goofily believe that you can just bomb or nuke Iran with impunity? Holy microeconomic theory batman! Holy Microeconomic Theory Batman! Iran's nuclear facilities are distributed across the country and in hardened sites near population centers. So any strike that cripples a significant portion of Iran's nuclear capacity will inevitably be so large and kill so many people that its going to be tantamount to inviting full scale war.

Think about that. Iran is 70 million people, an area five times the size of Iraq, not disemboweled by 12 years of sanctions and air raids. On the other side of the coin, America's ground army is busted and tied down in Iraq. There's no troops to throw at a major Iranian military force, so you have to hope that bombing will do the trick. The occupation forces in Iraq are in occupation and not territorial defense mode. And Iraq is 65% Shiites who are probably not going to be happy that you're blowing up their brother Shiites.

Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz is so narrow that sinking one supertanker will block it indefinitely, and Iran borders the strait on three sides. Block Hormuz and any naval groups inside the Persian Gulf are trapped there. Any naval groups outside the Persian Gulf are trapped outside. Forget about any oil coming out of the Persian Gulf from Iraq, Kuwait, Quatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Think about what that does to the price of oil, and to the world economy. Think about what that does to dependent countries like Japan, India, China and Europe.

In short its so appallingly stupid and colossally risky, that I can see why your idiots in charge might consider using nuclear weapons. But throw a few nukes around and see how the rest of the world reacts? Every dirt-wad country is going to be mortgaging the Presidential palace to get its own nuclear deterrent from Pakistan or North Korea. How do you feel about the Indonesian Bomb, the Malaysian Bomb, the Thai Bomb, the Myanmar Bomb, the Algerian Bomb, the Saudi Bomb, the Egyptian Bomb, the Brazilian Bomb, the Argentine Bomb, the Venezuelan Bomb, the Cuban Bomb, the Japanese Bomb, the Canadian frigging Bomb. You are no longer trustworthy. North Korea, always borderline psychotic is going to be mondo difficult to deal with. You've just guaranteed yourself a full fledged nuclear arms race, balls to the wall with both Russia and China, and quite possibly Europe.

And of course there's no guarantee that the rest of the world will allow this. Do you want an armed standoff with the Russians. Suppose they 'loan' their finest interceptor jets, pilots and radar systems to the Iranians... Do you want to meet *that* on a bombing raid? And if you do meet *that* what are you going to do when half your planes are blasted out of the skies conducting an illegal raid on civilian populations in a foreign country? Cry? Send a harsh note?

Launch a first strike?

World goes boom. What happens if the Chinese decide to hold Taiwan and South Korea hostage? What do you do? Back off Iran or sell out East Asia?

Hell, in that kind of standoff, someone sneezes and its not going to matter who launched a first strike.

Or would you like an economic standoff, say with Europe, or with Japan and China. Suppose that the Europeans or Chinese decide "screw the worldwide depression, you assholes are just too dangerous to have around." Trillions of dollars get dumped on the market, loans get called in, the bottom drops out of your dollar, its thousand per cent inflation and no manufacturing base and your own trade embargoes. So much for America.

I mean, its morally wrong, its stupid on every level. And yet here you are discussing why maybe you should get out in front of the Republicans on this, or planning your surrender to Bush. Why are you even discussing this?

What is wrong with America?

... oh no wait

some more foto's i really liked from yesterday

wow, the foto doesn't do it justice but, [insert god(s) of your preference] was at work here!

Sandra got arrested while i was displaying some halo/fading out

i like the colors and expression on this one

fatsie, or 3 months, or xampi, or...?

tunnel train girl

well the pic's don't need much explaining, now do they? we went skiing, i had slept the previous night for like 1 hour. Sandra and Miren didn't really sleep much more that night. So needless to say we had very interesting fiery discussions on various political topics and were deeply involved in metafysical filosofical debates. (read: i slept till we arrived and the La Molina train-station.)

the weather was soooo nice, really sunny. we used sunscreen factor 90 yes that's right: NINETY!!! and i can still feel i was touched by some sun. there weren't too many people there, as it was one of the last days of usable snow.

the banana suit- eh euh yeah, well how can i explain.... it gets worse. i fell, with those extra tight way to small bodysuit, and i broke... way to much. let's just say i had a frozen butt, and felt reaaaallly exposed.

and have a look at what else was flying up and down the mountains. can you find it?

DRM rootkit installations and REVENGE:

what we do is:

1. I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
2. And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
3. and run like hell.

SPAM mail:

1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A
2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B
3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope.
4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand.
5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling.
I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.

Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

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you can find all this fine stuff at bash.org. BE CAREFUL YOU PROBABLY WON'T WORK FOR A FEW HOURS I YOU DECIDE TO GO THERE. i for one am keeping them spam mails!

Who needs to pirate software with a list like this?

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org

POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml

Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/

Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/

MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm

TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:

Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm

Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:

2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html

Zonealarm Basic firewall -


FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:

1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/

AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/

Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/

POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:

CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/

Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html

AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

hey, this weekend start really badly and really well, and this in the timeframe of 5 minutes at around 7:30 on friday. The bad: work -> you know, one of those emails you never want to get, and then definitly not on a friday at quitin' time. and almost simultaniously Sabrina calls, she just landed, woehoew. i like calls like that

so, friday was fun after all.

we ate in a little restaurant t,Suzette, where they make some really nice pancake fantasies (you got that from the name), after which we went completely Auberge espanyol and went to la paloma. see pictures below.

and on saturday we hung out round the beach, sunny weather, a little frisky but oh soooo nice.

euh, no podria no ponerla, estas flotando solita, mencanta

hihihih, made you look! lol

op de voorlaatste foto, kan je een scene van de x-files herkennen. "x-cops" heet die en is een parodie/persiflage op cops: die toevallig een mulder en scully tegenkomen in the slums. hehehe. Niemand wil op de camera openlijk zeggen dat ze een weerwolf zagen, scully houdt haar hand de hele tijd voor de camera, stapt uit beeld, fluisterd hehehehe. Maar Mulder schaamt zich natuurlijk nergens voor, waarop de groep dan vaak in de camera kijk, a la "wtf?" hilarisch!

Calculate your ecological footprint, bery interesting but maybe a bit basic
sofie had an score of 4,5 mine was 3,5 (but ofcourse the questions about the heating is quit diff), nonetheless try it out

bewust verbruiken
interessante tips en weetjes

artikel over sluipverbruik
interessant

vlaams overleg duurzame ontwikkeling
genoeg voor vandaag

this is a really cool story of getting your own back! Karma points and kudos to the creators!!

Sorry allemaal dat niet gaat over hilarische cartoons, en het in brand steken van ambassades, je zou bijna denken dat er niets anders meer gebeurt, buiten overdadige sneeuwval in het hoge noorden, vice presidenten die per ongeluk mensen neerschieten, premiers die zichzelf toffer als napoleon vinden, homorechten in World of Warcraft, of fosset die het net gehaald heeft, de virginvlucht van zaventem naar barcelona bijna net niet , irakies worden nog steeds misbruikt door de britten, die eigenlijk meer zouden moeten sexen, of net gereleased in turkije: Valley of the wolves, enjoy

weinig verhulde copy paste journalistiek in de standaard

luiaards

Gypsy jazz version of Super Mario Bros 2 song
i like this tune

Honda Civic Ad (skip the flash, watch the movie)
like this tune too

The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005
No dubya didn't win

Nice Video of a New Painting Tool From the Folks at the MIT Media Lab
this one is in the category: I want one

New Powerbook Audio Stutter / Looping / Echo problem
Just my luck, this problem .... I am having it. I switch and i buy a defective series powerbook. everyone that bought a 15" powerbook since oct 2005 till now is having this, FOK SHIT HELL AND DEVIL. Please tell everyone! apple is ignoring me/us, the bastards!

ok, that'll do for a monday morning.
raoul out

zet eens een aireke op

Forget planting trees to negate your SUV's contribution to global warming -- according to Stanford University atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira, forests in the wrong location can actually make the Earth hotter.

Plants absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, so scientists and policy makers have long assumed new forest growth helps combat global warming. At an American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco earlier this month, however, Caldeira rolled out a provocative new finding: Trees may be good at capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but their dark leaves are also very efficient at soaking up sunlight, which is later released as heat. At certain latitudes, the net effect of these two processes is warming, rather than cooling.

"Forests do store carbon, and as a result, the planet initially cools a little -- maybe tenths of degrees," Caldeira said. "But over the long term, trees' heat absorption warms things up more."

Caldeira and colleagues at California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory created a computer simulation showing that if most land areas in northern latitudes were covered with forests, the planet would be six degrees warmer than it is today. Forest growth in equatorial areas, on the other hand, reduced global temperatures in the simulation because the warmer air in these regions allows more moisture to evaporate from the leaves of trees. This produces substantial cooling that cancels out the effects of heat absorption.

These seemingly maverick ideas have met with serious interest among some climatologists. "Planting trees definitely sequesters carbon dioxide, which tends to lower temperatures," said Eric Adams, an ecologist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's environmental engineering department. "But the trees also do absorb light that might otherwise be reflected, which causes warming."

"It's very interesting that changing land use -- whether that means growing trees or cutting them down -- can have an effect on climate," added David Erickson, director of the Climate and Carbon Research Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. "That effect is working in conjunction with the impact of greenhouse gases."

If future studies confirm Caldeira's findings, his work could have a substantial impact on environmental policy. Currently, programs like Carbonfund and the Chicago Climate Exchange support the planting of temperate forests in various regions of the United States in order to reduce global warming.

In the United Kingdom, for-profit Climate Care offers customers the chance to "cancel out" the carbon-dioxide emissions they produce by donating to a fund that supports reforestation efforts. Its Stratus package, which costs about $130, is billed as making one person "completely climate-neutral for the whole year."

Caldeira's research suggests efforts like these are off base. "Organizations should not be giving these kinds of credits," he said. "Planting forests in mid-latitudes should not be considered equivalent to using renewable resources."

Carbonfund spokesman Craig Coulter, however, urged caution. "If scientific consensus shows that this study is valid, then of course we'd have to take that into account," he said. "But there's always been tit-for-tat among academics about different methods for calculating the impact of reducing carbon, and I'd want to see more studies along these lines before making policy changes." He also pointed out that planting trees has a variety of environmental benefits unrelated to global warming, such as restoring threatened animal habitats and preventing the erosion of topsoil.

Caldeira stressed that lawmakers shouldn't advocate chopping down swaths of forest in hopes of reducing global temperatures a few degrees. He thinks investing in new sources of clean energy, like hydrogen and biofuel, is a better way to address the global-warming problem.

"Earth systems are very complicated -- you might be able to reduce warming by cutting down some trees, but that wouldn't be good for the environment overall," he said. "The less we interfere with the system, the more likely we are to have a healthy planet."

WIRED

75 band references in this picture! can you find em?

75 band references in this picture! can you find em?

en kwas nie ziek. hihi

Ford moet 61 miljoen dollar betalen na ongeval 4x4

MIAMI - Een rechtbank in Miami heeft autofabrikant Ford bevolen om 61 miljoen dollar te betalen aan de familie van een jongere die om het leven kwam bij een ongeval toen hij meereed met een 4x4 Explorer. Dat werd gisteren vernomen van de advocaat van de familie van het slachtoffer. Volgens advocaat Bruce Kaster nam de jury deze beslissing na de getuigenis van een ingenieur die voor Ford werkt. De ingenieur had de fabrikant in 1989 aanbevolen het zwaartepunt van dit model te verlagen om de stabiliteit van het voertuig te verbeteren. Deze aanbeveling werd pas in 2001 toegepast.

De jury kende de familie van Lans Hall 61 miljoen dollar schadevergoeding en intresten toe. Hall (17) kwam in 1997 op een autoweg in Florida om het leven. Het voertuig waarin hij als passagier meereisde, ging meerdere malen over de kop nadat de bestuurder kort insluimerde.

,,Ford wilde de verkoop van de Explorer niet uitstellen. Bijgevolg, om zo veel mogelijk winst te maken, bracht het een voertuig op de markt waarvan ze wisten dat het onstabiel was'', bracht de advocaat naar voren.

De autofabrikant moest al miljoenen banden vervangen ten gevolge van honderden ongevallen met Explorers die veroorzaakt werden door gebrekkige banden. Bij deze ongevallen vielen in totaal 271 doden.

I warned you! you shouldn't have clicked.

That's the reason why i stopped using hotmail

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i want one

Miss België klaar voor China

Miss België Tatiana Silva Braga Tavares vertrekt morgen naar China waar ze op10 december deelneemt aan de verkiezingen van Miss World. ,,Ik vertrek met een gezonde ambitie, en ben blij dat de druk op Belgische meisjes nooit zo groot is als die op meisjes uit de Centraal- en Zuid-Amerikaanse landen. Als die het niet halen, worden ze door hun land uitgespuwd.''

ps: braga= slipje in't sjponsch

the beautiful people, ohw yeah

Pfiieuw for a second there i tought we were stuck in sepia

Last saturday, on the eve of winter and during a full-blown fishermen strike, we decided that Mosselen would be a good idea, we emptied the supermarket and got together for a feast long to be remembered (by those that didn't fall alseep, that is).

Home-made twice fried real frites are being prepared

I swear I didn't take that picture! seriously! las chicas in the kitchen, los hombres preparen ze roof (i should stick with one language)

don't they look nice,... and tasty... I'm talking bout the MOSSELEN you perv!

mmmmmmmh,.... (the orange bowl holds hand-whipped mayonaise, pfffieuw muscel-kater - hey a joke! on so many levels, ok maybe just two... grrmbl)

mmmmh, just a few more moments before the fries are ready

finally! frietjes!

after lunch, the party died down a bit, and Michael has a new nickname, try and guess it...

straight out of the Xampagneria and allergic to fish came these two cuties! all together say "Aaaaah"

koffie, cafe, kaffee, coffee

love in the hamacka

some more love

and then we moved on... afterparty at Erico's. that was fun. pictures of that event will follow shortly

Las Bombachitas (con/avec Manu Chao).

Manu con las Bombachitas (ofte in schoon vloms: Manu en de slipjes! hihi). yeah he's there somewhere

and we are too!

Dominatrix Eva and at the other side Manu Chao who steps outside the picture..... again!

the beautiful people .... aaaaaaaaaaah (Marilyn wasn't there)

After 5400 pictures my camera isn't really to happy anymore in the dark, sjucks. my previous camera lasted untill 5555 pictures (search the archives to find out what happened). It starts making these wierd lines over the picture. damn, i don't like it. so is that the limit, really 5000 pic's and that's it

Symbolen zijn gevaarlijk, vinden wij. Hoe meer je achter een vlag aanloopt, hoe meer kans dat ze in je gezicht wappert. Is het dan nog de moeite waard? Die vraag willen we stellen, met respect voor ieders opvatting.''

Hoe meer je achter een vlag aanloopt, hoe meer kans dat ze in je gezicht wappert.......... Hilarisch!

de standaard

Nu hoeven we tenminste geen angst te hebben dat een of andere simpele minister van ons de lokale harry de potter van onze noorderburen weer uitmaakt. pffieuw

Portrait Illustration Maker

la polla is eindelijk af en geeft licht 's nachts. redelijk indrukwekkend, maar niet zo simpel er al rijdend foto's van te maken. Het heeft iets fout, maar dat vind ik er juist zo fijn aan eigenlijk, hoort eigenlijk helemaal niet thuis in het urbaan barcelonesk landschap, of juist wel?! geen idee. zal er proberen meer close up's van te maken dan kan je zelf oordelen

hihi tziet eruit als vista. wel fijn

vanavond optreden van las bombachitas (vrij vertaald als "de slipjes"), nieuw groepje van Manu Chao. hopelijk morgen fotos daarvan.

i like this last one because soo much is on it, even the eye

oh yeah she's back! i hope she goes jogging in a babydoll on paradise island again.

is that a tree in you pocket, or are you just happy...

i'm starting to realise i want a lot.

Eind oktober verschijnt het boek ,,Weer een groot lexicon van nutteloze feiten'' van Hein Meijers en Simon Rozendaal. een voorproefje.

De teddybeer ontstond toen de Amerikaanse president Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt het niet over zijn hart kreeg een beer neer te schieten.

Einsteins eerste wetenschappelijke artikel ging over het gedrag van vloeistoffen in rietjes.

Ivan de Verschrikkelijke stak de architect van het Kremlin de ogen uit om te voorkomen dat die nog eens zo'n mooi gebouw zou ontwerpen.

Als hij op de foto moest met zijn Diana, ging prins Charles altijd op een trapje staan.

Donald Duck is in Finland ooit verboden geweest omdat hij geen broek aan had.

Lego staat voor ,,Leg godt'': bouw goed.

's Nachts is de mens een streepje langer dan overdag. In de ruimte zelfs vijf centimeter langer.

Tijdens het niezen staken alle lichaamsfuncties, inclusief de hartslag.

Vrouwen knipperen twee keer zoveel met de ogen als mannen.

Mannen moeten het doen zonder vrouwelijke geslachtshormonen. Vrouwen daarentegen hebben bijna evenveel van het mannelijk hormoon testosteron als mannen.

Een zestigjarige heeft vijftien keer zoveel licht nodig om te lezen als een kind van tien.

Zestig procent van het menselijk lichaam bestaat uit waterstof, vijfentwintig procent uit zuurstof en tien procent uit koolstof.

Jongetjes worden doorgaans overdag geboren, meisjes meestal 's nachts.

Het menselijk DNA komt voor zestig procent overeen met dat van de banaan. De muis is genetisch voor 97 procent identiek aan ons en de aap voor 98 procent.

De mens vangt zijn leven aan met 30 verschillende botten. Na 18 jaar zijn dat er 206 geworden.

Tanden zijn geen botten, maar verharde huid.

Fleece wordt gerecycleerd uit gebruikte polyesterflessen.

Zuurstof is een van de giftigste stoffen in de natuur: het breekt vrijwel alles af.

Dokter Alois Alzheimer ontdekte de naar hem genoemde ziekte toen een patiënte na het eten van bloemkool met een varkenslapje volhield dat de spinazie overheerlijk was.

Een kolencentrale brengt meer radioactiviteit in de lucht dan een kerncentrale.

Een prima methode om de echtheid van een diamant te beproeven, is erop te wasemen: een echte diamant beslaat nooit. Niet overtuigd? Doe hem in een glas met water. Als er een streep verschijnt, dan is hij gelijmd. Nog steeds twijfels? Geef er een klap op met een hamer. Een echte diamant kan daar beter tegen dan een ,,nepsteen''.

Om aan salpeter te komen, essentieel voor buskruit, moesten Napoleons soldaten wateren op compost.

Door rode wijn bij vlees te drinken, lost het vet van vlees op in de tannine van wijn.

Salvarsan, het medicijn tegen syfilis, werd ontwikkeld tegen slaapziekte.

Er is in de wereld duizendmaal zoveel uranium als goud.

,,Weer een groot lexicon van nutteloze feiten'' van Hein Meijers en Simon Rozendaal, verschijnt op 25 oktober bij uitgeverij Contact. EN IK WIL DIT BOEK VOOR KERSTMIS!

Joss Whedon is my master now. Totally. Yesterday we went with a couple of friend to The Sitges festival of fantastic cinema. Owh Yeah. We went to the opening ceremony and opening movie: Serenity. Also very cool was like the "entregacion" of the "premios". One thing really struck me there. They posthumously gave a liftime achievement award to Robert Wise. he directed such movies as The Haunting (1963), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). These last two... this guy made the sound of music AND the first star trek, wow respect. Ok after the gala, THAT what we came for:

Serenity is the spin-off movie from the –oh so wrongfully- scrapped tv series firefly .

Oh my god, it was good! It was better then good. Joss Whedon was there. and also Nathan Fillion (Mal or the captain) and Summer Glau who plays River. If that means anything to you guys (I can only imagine all this could only mean something to Boris, anyway). They made a nice little speech about going back to gritty sci-fi, like the original star wars/battlestar galactica. And make it correct. In space there is no sound! In the series this is really cool, the silence is often eerie. In the movie space scenes are often near or in atmospheres. So it kind counteracts the greatest promise of this movie.

The cool thing spaceships have no shields, no warp drives, no transporters, no phasers or photontorpedos. The Han-Solo-type-hero’s ship doesn’t even have a weapon.

It’s very cool sci-fi and to prove that we brought two unsuspecting girls with us to the premiere and…. They liked it!

Go see it, and ... for the tv series… euh mail me

interesting document:
"Deila Smith's" Basic Blockading Guide

letterlijk uit de standaard:

.cat wel, .xxx (nog) niet

Internet
De Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN), de instantie die beslist over de structuur van internetdomeinen, heeft de beslissing over de lancering van de extensie .xxx opnieuw uitgesteld. Domeinnamen met het achtervoegsel .cat zijn wel al mogelijk. Het domein kan gebruikt worden door personen of organisatie die de Catalaanse cultuur of taal in de kijker zetten. Of door iemand die een website voor zijn huisdier wil opzetten natuurlijk.

Overigens, als de Catalanen hun eigen domein krijgen, waarom de Vlamingen dan niet? .vl mag dan niet zo sexy staan, er bestaat zeker een publiek voor.

naar aanleiding van een discussie deze week over het inherente rascitische karakter van, het is eender welk, nationalistisch/superioriteits gevoel . iew!!!!

it was a while ago since i last was in london, i didn't remember it looking like that at all! i got of the train at waterloo station, didn't take the wrong bus (those of you who where there remember for sure) this time, I couldn't get a pic of londonbridge, just outside this view.

so we went to this bar (first pic in the series), but on my way home i couldn't help but freak out at the numder of cameras they have, this is a small portion of them on the way to london bridge. Also have a look at the opening times, the bar closes at... 11 every night! unreal. was a funny experience though. Everything is soo different there.

I felt rather farther away from home, then i do in spain sometimes (except for the macho-latino-stuff ofcourse). like: They have freaky money! (i forgot to change money before, off course), they have freaky elektricity (had to buy one of them adapter thingies, on the airport, because i forgot), they drive at the wrong side of the street, which makes all interactions outside the hotel or the office really dangerous, then euh.. restaurants stop serving food at like nine 'o clock!!!, bars close at like eleven, they have wierd message playing at airport like: "Don't leave any bagage unattended, or it wil be destroooyyyed", not even like removed or anything, no' BAFFF BOOOOOM destroyed. wow.

And then the language they speak! I love it, i really really love it. Not only the vocabulary but the accents and everthing.

Last thing is/are the girls... wow I thought they only walked around in their skimpy dresses her in bcn, on vacation, in the summer, nooo no, they do that always! And it seemed they keep the prettiest ones at home (o ow i feel macho stuff coming up)... go check it out yourselves

shakespeare's theathre, not the real one off course

an amazing sky above london, last saturday

the eye of london, not so far from the Tate Modern Museum! go visit it

aaah

Well after a long investigation, it seems the cameras weren't broken as
the police claimed, they just misplaced the tape. It can happen to anyone
(the misplacing, not the lying)

me standing on the greenwich oº meridian

this is also standing on the greenwich oº meridian

ok so which way should i go then!?!


luckily they contructed the metrostation with the right way up...

Apple and Google are ahead of Microsoft in key markets, but Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hopes to take them from behind.

"At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something," Gates told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "underscoring the fact that it wouldn't be unprecedented to come from behind now".

Apple's 'fantastic job'

He concedes that Apple has done "a fantastic job" in music and also describes Google as the "far-away leader" in Web search. On the latter point, Gates says: "Big honeymoon for them. Even if they do 'me, too' type stuff, people think, 'wow.'"

The Microsoft head honcho also looks at Nokia and Sony as competitors with a lead on his firm, "because of the breadth of what we do".

The wide-ranging interview also looks at Microsoft's multiple strategies, as it tries to expand its business beyond its profitable operating system and Office software markets.

Microsoft's global effect

On Office 12 he states: "Well, this is the world's most popular application, and people sit and use it hours and hours a day, and so any advance we make in Office can actually drive up global productivity in a significant way."

The Redmond company still has its own teeth, he warns: "In those areas where somebody else has done well, that's great. We'll match what they do, we'll bring new things to it, do it better and integrate it in with other things. And so it's very healthy for the consumer. We see that in search, we see it in music. It's not new at all that that's out there."

Gates also reveals that Microsoft's settlement with the US Depatement of Justice over its anti-trust violations isn't "preventing us from being very, very innovative" in Windows Vista.

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what do we remember:
Apple and Google are ahead of Microsoft in key markets,
but Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hopes to take them from behind. !!
oooowkey¿!
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applegeeks
Macworld Daily News

so this is how we work in spain!!

A very cute girl, with some really nice parents you guys(girls) are doing dat goed!!!

the players
____________________
Indra - Randy - Seth - Raoul

i broke my Tetris record on the plane to Belgiiiiium, and this at like 8:30 in the
morning 11km above france, this vacation was of to a good start,
the score is 284942! try and beat that!

a little tower stands in front of stevens piano

stevens kippetje and myself propped in the back almost underneath all the
bbq equipment, mainly meat (RRRrrrrrr), tables and garlic

a few minutes before reaching the BBQ grounds! this is not looking good, ow nooo!

de bbq en de helden die dat goed doen.

puuuuuuuuur natuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur

people were having fun, and there was music, soooooo much music,
artists performing and stuff, it was quite a sight. just like last year i wonder:
do I know normal people?


sooo much music, or was it noise!¿!, it was loud, that for sure.

we are wierd! and ashamed, or what are we doing now?

oh yeah, playing the werewolves! that was it, as you can see only one person didn't move.

oooooooooooooooowkeeeey!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

after all that wierdness the rain stopped and we moved outside. we scared some scouts,
played some more werewolves, walked with tents, enjoyed some more fine belgians beers,
and played with fire

Hamster laadt gsm op

11:44:05

BRUSSEL - Een 16-jarige schooljongen heeft een systeem ontwikkeld om zijn mobiele telefoon op te laden zonder netstroom. Zijn hamster Elvis wekt de nodige energie op in zijn loopwiel.

Peter Ash verbond het loopwiel in de hamsterkooi met een generator, die op zijn beurt de gsm-lader van stroom voorziet. Als de hamster twee minuten in het rad rent, kan Ash een half uur bellen. Ash diende zijn uitvinding in voor zijn wetenschapsproject op school. Zijn leraar was niet danig onder de indruk: het werk was voor hem niet meer dan een C waard.

Hamster-powered phone charger

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part of his GCSE science project. Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster's exercise wheel and connected it to his phone charger.

Elvis does the legwork while Peter charges his phone in an economically and environmentally friendly way. He came up with the idea after his sister Sarah complained that Elvis was keeping her awake at night by playing for hours on his exercise wheel. "I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine," he said.

"Every two minutes Elvis spends on his wheel gives me about thirty minutes talk time on my phone." The teenage inventor was given a C for his project and has been awarded a D overall for the course.

the links

site in het nederlands
site in english

any ideas, how to fix this?

In 1973, James Doohan complained to his dentist, who advised him: "Jimmy, you're going to be Scotty long after you're dead. If I were you, I'd go with the flow.

Actor James Doohan, who played the chief engineer Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, has died today at the age of 85.

boldly go where no man has gone before

This was the inaugural fiesta of an art exibition en el centro civico de Barceloneta, since art wasn't really visible in the pictures i took, i put in afterwards.
I didn't draw the monsters myself, they come form this site called the creatures in my head, really funny site, which has an whole bunch of these nice little critters.

The new logo I did on the top of this site comes from: grappa white is the option i chose there, you can do some really nice things, there.

I seem to have become a volunteer for blokwatch.be as well, go check it out.

a little more bloedsinn, hihi

A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!

Het internet vergeet niet

Professor Boudewijn Bouckaert haalde eergisteren op de site van Nova Civitas nog een keer zwaar uit naar de VLD-top, maar bedacht zich blijkbaar en verwijderde het schotschrift weer. Geen links meer op de homepage van de site en niets te vinden via de archieven. Wie een beetje met de URL's op de site goochelt, kan de originele post echter nog altijd lezen.

UPDATE (8 juli 14.40pm); de tekst is volledig verwijderd van de site van Nova Civitas. Wij visten hem nog snel op.

UPDATE 2 (9 juli): Boudewijn Bouckaert, die ondertussen uit het partijbestuur gestapt is, plaatst op de website van Novacivitas een verklaring n.a.v. het artikel in De Standaard van 8 juli. ,,Het artikel dat in De Standaard verscheen citeert correct een aantal zinnen uit de tekst maar selecteert de citaten op die wijze dat er een totaal verkeerde indruk wordt gewekt over de aard en de inhoud van de tekst'', aldus professor Bouckaert. ,,Wat hij (Bart Brinckman, auteur van het artikel, nvdr) niet mocht doen is dit artikel voorstellen als een serieuze tekst en, zeker niet als een schotschrift op de partij'', verduidelijkt Bouckaert nog.

Het originele artikel van Boudewijn Bouckaert:

6 JULI 2005
GEBETEN OM TE BIJTEN !

Ik ben geen lezer van De Morgen, wel van een krant, namelijk De Standaard. Het bestaan van dit ‘progressief’ product en het ‘journaille’ dat het brouwt, beroert bijgevolg amper mijn leven. Totdat je voor dit beertonnetje van zelfverklaarde maatschappijverlichters een ‘target’ wordt, een te elimineren obstakel voor de realisatie van hun groot gelijk. Totdat ze hun scheldproza en leugenmachines met niets ontziende gemeenheid op u richten. De eerste dagen ben je er niet goed van. Je voelt je gekwetst, je voelt je belaagd, je voelt je gehaat door een machtige bende. Een bende die dagelijks tienduizenden Vlamingen bereikt. Dit laatste is goed nieuws voor Yves Desmet en zijn equipje vuilspuiters. Dat is net wat ze willen: ‘Gebeten om te bijten’. Of om Alice Nahon te parafrazeren: ‘Heb ik voor het slapengaan een mens (die niet denkt zoals ons) wel kwaad gedaan?’ Hun ethiek is die van het kwetsen, van het onderuit halen, van het verdraaien, dit alles in naam van het grote gelijk: een ‘progressief’ Vlaanderen. Lees daarom aandachtig wat volgt: een objectief portret van de intellectuele leider van progressief Vlaanderen, geborsteld met eigen verf.

DE SAGA VAN SMETTIE : DE SIEGFRIED VAN PROGRESSIEF VLAANDEREN

Voor Yves Desmet, de tengere korporaal van het DM- gezelschap, leek de wereld mooi in mei 2003. Paars, zijn bewonderde wonderformule om het walhalla in het hiernumaals te realiseren, had zijn ‘moment suprême’gekend. Yves Desmet was de man die voordien het onmogelijke had waargemaakt, namelijk een links product zonder staatssteun op de markt te houden. Daarmee is hij een unicum dat- en hier verlaten we even ons ironiserend niveau- terecht onze lof verdient. Hiermee slaat en verslaat hij de rest van het links-cultureel subsidiantendom, dat zonder staatsgeld, afgeperst van grotendeels Vlaams belangstemmende arbeiders en zelfstandigen, er nooit zou in slagen zijn ‘experimentele’ realisaties zoals urenlang schreeuwende masturberende vrouwen, met fecaliën beladen canvassen of tsiep-tsap-tie-tie-tie-decibels voor de schaars bevolkte zalen te brengen. Yves is a left market-hero! Dat was nog nooit gezien. Yves’ product was weliswaar gegangmaakt door het weekblad dat handig televisieprogramma’s combineerde met kut-, penis-, pies- en kakproza en zo de aandacht van de Vlaamse collegejeugd trok. Maar toch, Yves had het onmogelijke gerealiseerd, hij had links in de ‘commerce’ gebracht.

Dit succes bracht Smetje op grootse gedachten. Vijftigduizend Vlamingen willen dagelijks een euro neertellen voor deze linkse pak papier. Vergeten we dan maar niet de talrijke lezers die daar niets voor neertellen maar rond halftien s’ochtends de progressieve jeugdhuizen binnensleffen om hun koffie op te slurpen en in hun ijver om zich een geweten te laten schoppen de snel tot vod verworden Vlaamse pravda aan elkaar doorgeven. Als je deze ‘avant garde’ van de bevrijding van Vlaanderen erbij telt kom je snel tot een dikke honderdduizend lezers.

Wauw, moet Yves in een helder en verlicht moment gedacht hebben, hierin schuilt de ‘backbone’ van een nieuwe politieke macht: een macht die Vlaanderen weg zal tillen uit het conservatief-grootkapitalistisch-nationalistische Standaard-tijdperk naar het tijdperk van het eeuwige centrum-linkse Morgen-feest: het land waar kerken verplicht worden naast de heilige hostie ook een condoom aan hun gelovigen uit te reiken, het land waar een vrouw slechts respectabel is na tenminste één abortus, het land waar hippe ‘gay’-ondernemers de les spellen aan verzuurde syndicale hetero’s, het land waar een kind zijn ouders kan ‘fahnden’ bij de progressieve kindertelefoon wanneer het papa of mama betrapt op een goedkeurende blik bij het aanhoren van Filip Dewinter, het land waar het Europees sociale model, waarin twintig procent privaat-sector-werkers zich afjakkeren om het overige tachtig procent te onderhouden, onverveerd wordt verdedigd tegen die reactionaire geldwolverige Anglo-Saksers, het land in de spits van de diplomatieke oorlog tegen de Amerikanen die het hadden aangedurfd onze ‘progressieve’ vriend uit Irak aan te vallen.

Om dit centrumlinkse utopia te bereiken moest het lezersgild van het dagelijks verschijnende rood Pallieterke (nvdr-met hierbij excuses aan het echte Pallieterke, een kwaliteitskrant in vergelijking met Yves’paperpack) tot een politieke macht worden omgetoverd. Tussen allerlei groepen en tendensen verspreid in democratische partijen( nvdr-Ge hebt dit voorlaatste woord toch goed gelezen, he! niet die partij die één miljoen stemmen heeft behaald;daarvoor werd immers het algemene stemrecht niet ingevoerd) zou Yves een magische centrumlinkse band zoeken, een politiek-ideologische cocktail, die door een publiek van divers ogend pluimage met evenveel smaak kon gedronken worden. En Yves toog op zoek. De diepere eenheid vinden onder de schijnbare tegenstellingen. Yves Desmet, de Vlaamse Gramsci !

Een eerste obstakel voor Yves’ natte droom waren de Marx Brothers. Dit soort was in 1989 bij ‘la chute finale’ uitgestorven verklaard, maar zie, anders dan de dodo en de neushoorn, kon deze species aan de omgekeerde Darwin-wetten ontsnappen. Verschanst in hun universitaire departementen en hun bloedrode praat- en klopclubjes, gingen zij op zoek naar een nieuwe vijand. Enkele leden van het revolutionaire militantendom hadden per abuis een niet-links economisch weekblad ontcijferd en daarin de beschrijving van een nieuw monster gelezen: de globalisering. De kapitalisten zouden nu de gehele wereld, tot het kleinste dorp in binnen-Kongo, in hun systeem verwerken. Door de globalisering zou de wereld herleid worden tot een mega-circustent van Ham- en Cheeseburgers-vreters. Makkers ten laatste male, het linkse gild trok weer op pad.

Yves die, door beroepsomstandigheden gedwongen, al meer dan één niet-links economisch geschrift had doorworsteld, was tot de vaststelling gekomen dat het met die rode staatseconomie toch maar niks was. Ludwig von Mises was reeds honderd jaar voordien tot die conclusie gekomen, maar de ene is wat rapper dan de andere. Yves begon derhalve de Marx Brothers de les te spellen. De rode broeders waren niet goed bezig. Ze moesten niet kloppen en schelden op ondernemers maar op de ‘fascisten’. Vele ondernemers, aldus de Smet-mantra, zijn hardwerkende wroeters die zich door verdienste naar boven hebben gewurmd. Het beste voorbeeld was toch hemzelf ! Natuurlijk heb je nog van die verborgen krachten van het grootkapitaal, die tot de conservatieve schurkendom moeten gerekend worden. Maar het merendeel van de ondernemers, daar kon je best mee leven. Trouwens, had een economische nieuwlichter zoals Florida, niet verklaard dat in streken waar veel homosexuelen leefden, het ondernemerdom het best floreerde. Zeg nu nog eens dat ondernemers reactionaire uitbuiters zijn. De Marx Brothers moesten dus stoppen met roepen : Weg met het kapitalisme ! maar al hun krachten bundelen tegen de echte vijand, het fascisme en conservatisme, verscholen in het pandemonium van het Blok, de Rooms-Katholieke kerk, de rechts-liberalen van Nova Civitas, de flaminganten, enz.

En Yves’ papierwikkel zou elke dag smeuïge verhalen opdissen over fascisten die hun vrouw afranselen, Dewinter met een Ku Klux Klan pinnemuts, Anke Vandermeersch met een Stahlhelm, Dedecker die, toen hij de straat overstak, goedendag zei tegen Frank Vanhecke, Sandra Colen, opgemerkt op het nudistenstrand waar ook Jörg Haider zijn meubelen tentoonspreidde. Beloofd: elke dag zouden de Marx Brothers zo een verhaal krijgen, op voorwaarde natuurlijk dat ze hun DM-eurootje neertelden. Voilà, zo bleven de Marx-Brothers in het Smet-gelid zonder hun onnozele praat erbij te moeten nemen.

De absolute keurtroepen van Smettie’s centrum-linkse heir zijn natuurlijk de klassieke SPA-ers. Die zijn ten eerste met veel. Minder talrijk dan de ‘fascisten’, maar allez, er toch dichtbij. Bovendien worden ze geleid door het allersubliemste wat er op de aarde te vinden valt. Een eenvoudige volksjongen, die door het tappen van bier en frenetiek herhaalde glimlachjes naar de Hasselaren, het Horeca-dom was ontgroeid en het, een beetje gesteund door peetvader Agusta Claes ( een anekdotisch detail, nvdr), tot rode leider, eerst van Hasselt, dan van Limburg, tenslotte van Vlaanderen had gebracht. Steve en Yves, bijna elkaars evenbeeld. Mocht de wetenschap al celfusie kennen zouden we kunnen overgaan tot de creatie van de perfecte ‘homo centro-sinistro’.We stoppen Steve en Yves in een cyclotronachtig apparaat en wat komt daaruit te voorschijn : STYVES , de roze Übermensch die kranten volschrijft en ze ook verkoopt, die pinten tapt in drie volkscafés tegelijkertijd, die de ‘fascisten’ aan zijn voeten doet kronkelen, zoals de aartsengel Michael met de duivelen, die verkiezingsoverwinning na verkiezingsoverwinning binnenrijft en zelfs de Hasselaarse pastoors weet te bewegen uitnodigingen te bussen voor de plaatselijke Spaholebi-afdeling.

Vroeger, in het pre-smet-tijdperk, werden de dagelijkse progressieve druksels op het partijbureau van de rode kameraden geschreven. Een scheve letter in de Vooruit over Jos Van Eynde, en de C4 lag klaar. Bijna zo erg als in de VLD vandaag. Maar nu is alles veranderd. De rode partijgenoten laten Smetje en zijn ‘crew’ lustig schrijven, zonder enige tussenkomst. Dat hoeft ook niet. Steve en Yves voelen elkaar perfect aan. Er is hier sprake van centrumlinkse telepathie. Yves maakt met zijn schrijfsels de opening en Steve duikt erin. Met Steve zijn Spa-ers en Spiritisten was dus alles koek en ei. Geen problemen aan dit front.

Maar ja, met de optelsom van de Marx Brothers en de menigte, zwemmend in Steve’s zog, kom je niet aan een ‘centrumlinkse’, ‘progressieve’ meerderheid. Hoe dat oplossen? We zouden het stemrecht kunnen ontnemen aan de ‘fascisten’. Met hoe meer die dan zijn, hoe gemakkelijker je aan een ‘progressieve meerderheid’ komt. Kameraad Adolf deed dit in de ‘Reichstag’ in 1933 . Door de stemmen van de communisten als niet bestaande te beschouwen kwam hij aan zijn twee derde - meerderheid voor zijn volmachten (nog een VLD-term). Nee, deleten dit ideetje, de parallel zou een beetje te opzichtig zijn.

Yves liet niet af en vond, na talloze recepties van de Vlaamse ‘beau monde’ nog andere, nooit waargenomen of in kaart gebrachte progressieven. Hij vond ze -en nu moesten niet alleen de Marx Brothers zwaar slikken, maar ook de rode vuistenballers van Steve’s club- bij de VLD ! De VLD progressief, en dat van chef-pennelikker van de rooie gazet van Vlaanderen ! Volgens de Marx Brothers waren de liberalen bijna even erg als de ‘fascisten’, want, zo leerden hun heilige boeken,’ fascisme = kapitalisme in staat van beleg’. Hitler en Mussolini zijn dus eigenlijk liberalen die zich bedreigd weten en daarom de grote middelen bovenhalen. En nu gaat Smettie Wonder die even progressief gaan noemen! Allez, moest het daar beter weer zijn, we vragen onmiddellijk onze transfer aan naar Noord-Korea.

‘En toch is het juist’ zei progressieven-uitvinder Smettie. De VLD is progressief en waarom? Omdat Karel Degucht op de ‘gay’-parade liep! Tussen al dat schoon gebronzeerd mannenvolk, hun wapens geladen en gericht, tussen de hermafrodieten, transseksuelen, bestiofielen, necrofielen, wurgseksfanaten, Liebfraumilchdrinkers, lavementverslaafden en Evangelische onanisten, liep daar schoon, met zijn dasje en kostumeke…….Karel Degucht ! Hiermee trotseert Kareltje de banvloeken van brave huismoeders, die zo vergeten dat de VLD voor een belastingsaftrek voor onthaalmoeders heeft gezorgd, een nieuwe Encycliek van het Paapse monster, de schimpscheuten van de Oostendse garnalenliberaal, een negatief hoofdartikel in het alombekende weekblad ‘t Scheldt, en wat nog meer. Per foto van Karel, gekiekt tussen de stoottroepen van het opperste progressievendom, verliest de VLD minstens duizend stemmen bij dat reactionair Vlaams klootjesvolk. Maar Karel’s progressieve doodsverachting verslapt niet en met stijve blik gericht op het oosten, volgt hij onberispelijk het volledige ‘gay’ parcours. Dat alleen bewijst al dat de VLD bij de progressieven moet gerekend worden. Maar Smettie had argumenten ten overvloede om zijn rode DM-snuffelaars te overtuigen. Zie daar bijvoorbeeld het broertje van de blauwe leider, Dirkske, die met zijn clubje ‘cabinettards’, een libero-progressistische tankdenk heeft opgezet. Dirkske viel daarin wel twee keer per week de katholieken aan, de rechtse libertarische zakken, de NOVA CIVITAS-verzuurde middenstanders, de markt-fundamentalisten. In samenspraak met broer Guyke werd de loftrompet gezongen van die schone anti-globalistische madamekes zoals Norena Herz en Noami Klein. Moet er nog progressief zand zijn ! Weet je, fluisterde Smettie zijn linkse wenkbrouwenfronsers toe, er bestaat in de VLD een geheim progressief netwerk dat op een dag de rechtse zakken zoals de garnalenliberaal en dat halffascistisch kutprofessorke zal buitenzetten. Dat netwerk heet Vlaanderen Links Duwen. Als dat progressief netwerk de VLD volledig heeft overgenomen moeten ze niet eens kosten doen om nieuwe affiches te drukken. Dus, aldus Smettie,van de blauwen moeten we niet bang zijn. Ook daar kunnen we op ons twee oren slapen.

En tenslotte, aldus onze progressieve Achilles, is er- moet het nog herhaald worden- het ACV-ACW. Toegegeven, daar lopen veel pastoors rond maar – en zeg dit niet al te hardop, zei Smettietje tot zijn verbouwereerd links wondervolkje- het zijn bijna allemaal aanhangers van het Cardino-marxisme. Het Cardino-marxisme is een combinatie tussen de katholiek-paternalistische gedachten van braaf ACW-proostje Cardijn en de Trierse gaucho-aartsvader. Een unieke combinatie in de wereld ! Zoals je het austro-marxisme hebt, heb je ook het Westvlamo- of Cardino-marxisme. Volgens deze stroming in het marxisme moet je de kapitalistenklasse vooral aanvallen met wijwater en het lezen van rozenhoedjes. Er bestaat zelfs een typisch cardino-marxistisch weesgegroetje. Dat gaat zo:

Wees Gegroet Marxia (heb je hem?)
Vol van granaten,
Fideel zij met u,
Gezegend zijt gij boven alle Vlaams Belangers,
Gezegend zij de vrucht van ons CM-lidgeld,
Heilige Freya, moeder van Billie,
Subsidieer ons,
Arme Delegees (en leden van het comitee voor veiligheid, gezondheid en de verfraaiing van de werkplaatsen)
Nu en in het uur van Poupehan
Amen

Welnu, - en je kon een speld horen vallen in de linkse vergaderingen waar Smettie achter het MEWAF-tafeltje zat- als je goed oplet bij de ACV-ACW-jaarmissen waar Luc Cortebeeckx wordt gehuldigd, en de lippen van de ACV-delegees nauwlettend volgt, dan zie je dat ze niet de klassieke weesgegroet van die achterlijke Pool (die zoveel goeds in Oost-Europa heeft kapotgemaakt trouwens) prevelen, maar het cardino-marxistische gebed. Lap, weer twintig procent progressieven bij.

En zo kwam Smettie-boy tot 50 % of meer progressieven in Vlaanderen. En dat was nog maar een begin. Had men hem toegelaten om een geheime missie te beginnen in het hol van de Vlaamse leeuw, bij de ‘fascisten’, dan had hij daar zeker nog meer progressieven ontdekt. Och jong, laat Smettie doen en hij vindt wel voor 99,99 % progressieven in Vlaanderen. Een verkiezingsuitslag zoals bij de kameraden in Duitsland in de goede tijd van ‘Auf, auf zum Kampf’. Alleen ‘Sturmbahnführer’ Flieppie, Gerolf den Annekesnest, de garnalenliberaal en dat kutprofessorke, benoemd om rode praat te verkopen, maar die dan toch wel zijn verstand kreeg zeker, zijn zowat de enige Vlamingen die Smettie nooit tot het progressieve kamp zal kunnen rekenen. Maar dat is geen probleem, de linkerzijde heeft zowat haar eigen technieken om met lastigaards om te gaan.

EPILOOG

In 2005, amper na 650 Morgens, ligt Yves’droom aan scherven. Het netwerk Vlaanderen Links Duwen sputtert. Het markt-fundamentalisme is er in opmars. Supreem-progressief Kareltje wordt er op één lijn gesteld met garnalenliberaal Dedecker en Bouckaert ligt nog altijd niet buiten. En het tsjevendom herrijst en houdt zelfs een rechtvaardige kinderherverdeling tegen. En Stevetje -lief manneke toch- is achter een vastbenoemd bureautje gedoken!

Smettie, progressief Vlaanderen bidt U, doe toch iets om het tij te keren!

Boudewijn Bouckaert

Haarsnit maakt Natalie Portman verdacht

Actrice Natalie Portman (de tweede Star Wars -trilogie, Closer) werd onlangs zonder aanwijsbare reden door de politie tegengehouden en ondervraagd, en wijt dat aan haar weggeschoren haar. De 24-jarige actrice reed door de Midtown-tunnel die de wijken Queens en Manhattan met elkaar verbindt, toen ze tegengehouden en ondervraagd werd. Portman is ervan overtuigd dat dat gebeurde omdat ze er ,,verdacht'' uitziet: voor haar volgende film V for vendetta schoor ze haar haar helemaal weg, een look waarmee ze op het festival van Cannes opzien baarde. Bij de controle bleek dat Portman onlangs in Israël en Duitsland is geweest (telkens voor filmopnames), wat haar nog verdachter maakte. Portman: ,,Ik mocht de tunnel niet in, de politieman zei me dat ik de brug moest nemen. De logica van deze vorm van terrorismebestrijding ontgaat me.''

i should have found this a bit earlier! this would have been the perfect birthdaygift! damn. Imagine walking in the street DRRRRIIIIINGGGGG DRRRRIIIIINGGGGG "hello, hey yesss, que tal, bien bien bien" woehahaha lol rotfl! Hey if any of you nerds are considering buying some stuff of thinkgeek, let me know maybe we can buy stuff together and share the postalcosts? and then at the yearly BBQ at stevens we can meet up and divide the loot.

Ah on that topic. The VUELING site seems down, i haven't been able to book any flights yet, hope this'll work soon. and for Pukkelpop also, which would be the same weekend, would it not? cool,... let's see.

THE STICHING CONTEST AINT OVER:

a small street where i work all stitched up.

ME ME AND ME

somehow people say i've changed since last year,...., that i have evolved. ... euh ... I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. wierd.

Or pitch me against me friend that come and visit me here in bcn, people seem to think we look different, that you guys look older, more mature, more settled and what not. but then i look at pic's like these and think WHAT???? and i'd tell them: "I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response, other than I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response" woeps before i get trapped in a time loop, lets go home now. Oh yes the picture:

Raoul OUt!

1. Tokyo Story - Japan, 1953, Yasujiro Ozu
2. La Règle du Jeu - France, 1939, Jean Renoir
3. Lawrence of Arabia - GB, 1962, David Lean
4. The Godfather Trilogy - US, 1972, 1974, 1990, Francis Ford Coppola
5. The Seven Samurai - Japan, 1954, Akira Kurosawa
6. Citizen Kane- US, 1941, Orson Welles
7. Raging Bull - US, 1980, Martin Scorsese
8. Vertigo - US, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock
9. Some Like It Hot - US, 1959, Billy Wilder
10. 8½ - Italy, 1963, Federico Fellini
11. Doctor Strangelove - GB, 1963, Kubrick
12. Singin’ in the Rain - US, 1952, Kelly
13. Taxi Driver - US, 1976, Scorsese
14. The Searchers - US, 1956, Ford
15. The Seventh Seal - Sweden, 1957, Bergman
16. Sweet Smell of Success - US, 1957, Mackendrick
17. Sunset Boulevard - US, 1950, Wilder
18. The Third Man - GB, 1949, Reed
19. The Apu Trilogy - India, 1955, 1956, 1959, Ray
20. Les Enfants du Paradis - France, 1945, Carné
21. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - France/Spain/Italy, 1972, Buñuel
22. Andrei Rublev - USSR, 1966, Tarkovsky
23. The Passion of Joan of Arc - France, 1928, Dreyer
24. Viridiana - Spain/Mexico, 1961, Buñuel
25. Toy Story - US, 1995, Lasseter
26. Rashomon - Japan, 1951, Kurosawa
27. Wild Strawberries - Sweden, 1957, Bergman
28. To Be or Not to Be - US, 1942, Lubitsch
29. Sunrise - US, 1927, Murnau
30. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - US/New Zealand, 2001-3, Jackson
31. 2001: A Space Odyssey - GB, 1968, Kubrick
32. The Battle of Algiers - Algeria/Italy, 1965, Pontecorvo
33. Alexander Nevsky - USSR, 1938, Eisenstein
34. Belle de Jour - France/Italy, 1967, Buñuel
35. Casablanca - US, 1942, Curtiz
36. GoodFellas - US, 1990, Scorsese
37. Tristana - Spain/Italy/France, 1970, Buñuel
38. The Magnificent Ambersons - US, 1942, Welles
39. Breaking the Waves - Denmark/Sweden/ France/Netherlands, 1996, Von Trier
40. Sullivan’s Travels - US, 1941, Sturges
41. Frankenstein - US, 1931, Whale
42. The Battleship Potemkin - USSR, 1925, Eisenstein
43. Double Indemnity - US, 1944, Wilder
44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - US, 1975, Forman
45. Weekend - France/Italy, 1968, Godard
46. Jules et Jim - France, 1962, Truffaut
47. À Bout de Souffle - France, 1960, Godard
48. Bonnie and Clyde - US, 1967, Arthur Penn
49. Wings of Desire - France/West Germany, 1987, Wenders
50. Fitzcarraldo - West Germany, 1982, Herzog
51. If . . . - GB, 1968, Anderson
52. The Wild Bunch - US, 1969, Peckinpah
53. The Red Shoes - GB, 1948, Powell, Pressburger
54. Annie Hall - US, 1977, Allen
55. Tom Jones - GB, 1963, Richardson
56. On the Waterfront - US, 1954, Kazan
57. West Side Story - US, 1961, Wise
58. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - GB, 1960, Reisz
59. The Grapes of Wrath - US, 1940, Ford
60. Great Expectations - GB, 1946, Lean
61. The Leopard - US/Italy, 1963, Visconti
62. Schindler’s List - US, 1993, Spielberg
63. Ashes and Diamonds - Poland, 1958, Wajda
64. A Nous la Liberté - France, 1931, Clair
65. Antoine Doinel Tetralogy - France/Italy, 1959-79, Truffaut
66. Mr Smith Goes to Washington - US, 1939, Capra
67. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday - France, 1953, Tati
68. Laurel and Hardy Shorts - US, 1928-38, Parrott/Horne/Kennedy/Marshall/French/Blystone
69. Chinatown - US, 1974, Polanski
70. Star Wars Trilogy - US, 1977/80/83, Lucas/Kershner/Marquand
71. Gosford Park - US/GB, 2001, Altman
72. Rear Window - US, 1954, Hitchcock
73. Aguirre, Wrath of God - West Germany, 1972, Herzog
74. A Short Film About Killing - Poland, 1988, Kieslowski
75. M*A*S*H - US, 1970, Altman
76. Viskningar och Rop - Sweden, 1972, Bergman
77. All the President’s Men - US, 1976, Pakula
78. Cabiria - Italy/France, 1957, Fellini
79. King Kong - US, 1933, Cooper
80. Gone with the Wind - US, 1939, Fleming, Cukor, Wood
81. All Quiet on the Western Front - US, 1930, Milestone
82. Fanny and Alexander - Sweden/France/West Germany, 1982, Bergman
83. North by Northwest - US, 1959, Hitchcock
84. The Band Wagon - US, 1953, Minnelli
85. Yojimbo - Japan, 1961, Kurosawa
86. Brief Encounter - GB, 1945, Lean
87. Deliverance - US, 1972, Boorman
88. Fargo - US, 1996, Coen
89. Cabaret - US, 1972, Fosse
90. Once Upon a Time in America - US, 1984, Leone
91. Days of Heaven - US, 1978, Malick
92. The Adventures of Robin Hood - US, 1938, Keighley/Curtiz
93. High Noon - US, 1952, Zinnemann
94. His Girl Friday - US 1940, Hawks
95. Manhattan - US, 1979 Allen
96. Duck Soup - US, 1933, McCarey
97. Henry V - GB, 1944, Olivier
98. This is Spinal Tap - US, 1984, Reiner
99. Bad Day at Black Rock - US, 1955, Sturges
100. The Graduate - US, 1967, Nichols

i saw 27!!!! how many did you see? let's have a pissing contest.

sorry i can't the quality better in flash, I don't understand

my first attempt at flash

i took this picture yesterday at like 22:00 at the beach in near dark!
more or less the coolest picture i ever took

Hey you guys! Who is up for a Katan online? tomorrow maybe? we make a date let's say at like 9 and meet in msn and skype (is more fun if we can really talk to each other). it seems that this is fro free for only a limited time, so how about it. write in the comments when you can, when we should meet. you might have to install msn 7.0 if you haven't already. what say you?

supermathematics???? what about regluar mathematics ...and euh what now??? binding games... that really must be paradise

In related news i went to the cinema yesterday, since Steven and Gunther will be here shortly: i heard myself asking for "three tickets for star wars please", wow how many times will you be able to say something like that. damn. i happy like a 5 year old fantasizing about the icecream he is going to get if he is nice.

omigod, these original WW and superman covers and cartoons are really, but really BAD, some of them are outright... i dunno... well i you want the x-rated ones: mail me!

"lalala luke luuuuke, i am your father. that was from sta wars" dixit Tommy Boy

Shit how can you not on this planet, these days... damn. Don't look at the picture if you have a weak stomach (whatever that means).

Moments like these are, what keeps me sane.

gaaaaaay

this is the first time i ever wrote code! wow, i'm really proud and pleased with myself.

i think i'll do this wall again someday because it's really twice as long, and put a lonely person in there, the funny thing is this is actually a really busy street. it'll look sooo cool.

no i'm not looking at comics!

Saturday at "la paloma". Can you see it?

I got her autograph! yihaa (gracias guapa)

Como vive el mundo...

Al diplomático Noruego Charung Gollar, le fue encargado presentar ante La ONU el mes pasado un gráfico, mostrando los principales problemas del mundo en el 2004. Presentó una serie de 8 gráficos titulada "El poder de las estrellas" y fue aplaudido por la simplicidad de la idea.

Su trabajo, a pesar de no tener ninguna pretensión, fue presentado para participar en el Premio Nobel de Marketing Politico. Lo mas importante es la leyenda de cada bandera. Está en Portugués, aún así, la idea es tan simple como brillante, y se entiende perfectamente.

angola

brasil

burkinafaso

china

colombia

somalia

EU

usa

the background is ready, the new rims are ready, now i just need to draw the pilot en
render for three weeks, this is soooo much fun

Oh ja: something else

Everyone with an internet connection: INSTALL skype! and call me for free, nada, nieinte, rien de knots, zip, zero, nothing, niks, niets nul, nichts!!!!
Just let me know your username mine is quite obvious!

look at my see through screen, found the idea on de standaard's weblog
they linked to the flickr site where you can find some really nice examples,
mine is very amateurisch compared with these

as i said i was changing the wheels, i really like em now

The Egg Car

soon...

I did something I haven’t done in a really long time, did it yesterday. it took so long since last time partly because we lack the equipment at my place, and at the other side, you normally don’t just go asking around: “please can I?”, now do you

I did have a chance when i was at home with x-mas, but Belgian TV is just so damn good! I did not make it out of the couch, not even to get me something to drink at 4 in the morning. Yes even then tv was still wauw! Well compared to whatever we get on tv here.
Spain is definitely the worst ever. I dunno what’s wrong with these people, but they must have monkeys walking around with the cameras, it’s worse than mtv in the nineties. Even badderer is what is in front of the camera: gossip national sport number one.
In the homeland we had big brother (here it’s already years six of that misery), but here they have like a gazillion big brother-analyzer programs, in a ratio like for every 1 minute of BB they 1 hour of gossip programs about that, and that on all channels.
The peeps invited to these are always the famous deep décolletée-ed Spanish furies; who will invariably the topic, will heavily disagree on something (this can be whatever: somebody’s hair colour, a smile, a shoe... seriously whatfokkingever) and start fighting compassionately about it. That’s the whole point! Spanish Olympic sport nr 1 argue!

But they don’t seem to get any better at it. Main points in winning an argument are:
1. Cleavage
2. Rudeness
3. The volume of whatever it is they yell
And in that order. Unless your name is David Bisball and you yell: “Buleria Buleria”, that wins everything.

There however seems to be a difference in Spanish tv and Catalan tv in this, Catalan screaming shows –i can’t hardly call them talk shows- are really a bit more reserved in that aspect. They don’t yell and fight like that, but sadly enough they are not that much of an improvement, because these always seem to suffer from the Antwerp defect (de zon schijnt uit mijn gat) or we-are-the-centre-of-the-universe syndrome. And thus boring as hell (they do however share the same likeness for cleavage though).

So I did something I haven’t done in quite some time.

de kippetjes-generator

Anna made this site as a project for her university (a little flash, a dash of Java, some pdf). Completely unbiased as I am I think the result is really rather cool.
But hey don't take my word for it, just go to: annsns' homepage and see for yourself. you can create girls, read a cool story and it's in german, what more do you want, Boris you really need to read this, and practise those language skills.

On other random news, I had a scanner here with me that i already tried to install a year and a half ago when i first came, and it never worked. Now that we have internet, i thought i could finally make the darn thing work by downloading the right xp drivers. i connected the thing and looked for drivers for an hour, didn't find ANYTHING! so before i wanted to fling the scanner out the window i pushed SCAN...

drrrk zwak bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

it worked! i will never understand computers. But now i have the complete multimediacenter at home. whoehoew!

And yesterday i also installed doom3! (i got from a brazilian friend of mine whose pc was powerfull: "well thanks you can't do anything with that anyway, is it not!" i'll hold to it for you.) freaky that game is, almost couldn't sleep. aaaargh.

LART: //
Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool.

1. n. In the collective mythos of scary devil monastery, this is an essential item in the toolkit of every BOFH. The LART classic is a 2x4 or other large billet of wood usable as a club, to be applied upside the head of spammers and other people who cause sysadmins more grief than just naturally goes with the job. Perennial debates rage on alt.sysadmin.recovery over what constitutes the truly effective LART; knobkerries, automatic weapons, flamethrowers, and tactical nukes all have their partisans. Compare clue-by-four.

2. v. To use a LART. Some would add “in malice”, but some sysadmins do prefer to gently lart their users as a first (and sometimes final) warning.

3. interj. Calling for one's LART, much as a surgeon might call “Scalpel!”.

4. interj. [rare] Used in flames as a rebuke. “LART! LART! LART!”

the reason I'm posting this is because of one our helpdeskagents here, who bears a remarkable resemblance in complete and utter incoherence to some desksidesupportdude colleague who posted awhole bunch of tickets made this guy. read the hilarious helpdesktickets of George . This guy is not our colleague, but we have his bro, Urkel let's call him.

you know what, i'll search out the artwork of our guy and post some here.

BOMB-A-TRON™
http://www.rationalenquirer.org/features/bomb_a_tron.php
Car Bomb Attack in Baghdad kills 12
By raoul Zellien
Reuters
Wednesday, February 23, 2005; 8:07 AM

In Baghdad today, explosives packed in a car detonated at a police checkpoint, killing 12 police officers and injuring 8, witnesses said.

US troops and tanks sealed off the area, which was strewn with parts of flaming wreckage and human remains.

The driver of the Opel Astra slammed his bomb-laden car into a pickup truck that was used to block the gate leading to the police checkpoint and detonated the load of explosives, said policeman Dick Catroynca.

The blast was extremely powerful, hurling the body of one of the police officers more than 100 yards, witnesses said.

"I heard the explosion, and it shattered glass everywhere," said Anna Zimmer, a 26-year-old merchant. "I saw cars burned and destroyed, fire, and body parts all over."

U.S. officials called the attack a sign of the insurgents' desperation.

"The fact of the matter is we're keeping the insurgents off balance and they're reeling backward. They're trying to come at us and we're giving it right back," Sergeant Collin Grant said.

"The terrorists are growing more desperate in their attempts to deprive the world of a free and peaceful Iraq and they're trying to put it all on the line and give it all they can."

There was no claim of responsibility for the latest Baghdad attack, but it followed warnings blared from mosque speakers that Iraqis should stay away from police installations.

The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on Tuesday (dat is vandaag) to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".

Je kan het verhaal bijvoorbeeld hier vinden.

Of misschien kunnen we het ook over ander interessant nieuws hebben, zo las ik daarnet dat Condoleezza Rice gisteren in Brussel sober bruin mantelpakje aan had, en wee O... wereldschokkend dat Laura Bush een vaal roos pakje aan had. Hallo!?! Leuker vond ik de uitspraak: Het Europese publiek was misschien een tikkeltje koel, maar stond toch open voor de boodschap van de president. Achteraf reageerden de meeste aanwezigen van uiterst tot voorzichtig positief .

En las je dit. Of zag je de spoken in de windsor toren in Madrid?

Na verder te lezen over de gearresteerde iraanse bloggers, blijkt natuurlijk ook alles weer twee of meer interpretaties te hebben, hier onder de post op How fantstically transparent that the US Government doesn't really need propaganda any more - it can just rely on bloggers. Anyone notice that this is happening as the US is gearing up to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian government?

This is not to say that the Iranian government is good (as an athiest I would not do well there - or in the USA), but surely it is not coincidental! Yes there are problems in taking such action as that of the Iranian government, but ask yourselves why not elsewhere? Why is it that Iran is the focus when the USG is threatening it? Why is did you guys not choose to support these bloggers:

Sherman Austin, imprisoned by the US government
Kevin Sites, censored by CNN
Zouhair Yahyaoui, arrested by the Tunisian government
Ibrahim Lutfy, arrested by the Maldives government
Cai Chongguo, censored in China
Jeff Ooi, arrested by the Malaysian government
The Radio Free Nepal blog, suppressed by the Nepalese King.
Liu Di, arrested by the Chinese government
Dozens of US Soldiers' blogs in Iraq, which Michael O’Hanlon (Brookings Institution)believes “ has much less to do with operational security and classified secrets, and more to do with American politics and how the war is seen by a public that is getting increasingly shaky about the overall venture.” foreignpolicy
This is to say nothing about censorship in Saudi Arabia, Burma, Columbia, Israel, Western Europe, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan...

I hope you all get the point.
Lee.

het is natuurlijk wel een beetje krass, maar toch wel erg toevallig hé, net als de vs op het punt staat iran aan te vallen...

anyway,

for my newest renderisation... ah euh no just kidding.
Check out my new watch!