lean

At work we have had some workshops about lean. What is it is my first thought when I heard before that we are going to work more lean. When I googled the word lean I found this embedded video.



That opened some doors, we are talking about (Toyota) Kata. Kata is the ongoing process of improvement of your products of production process. My idea is that it is a part of how the employee approaches his work. Do I get the best result if I do this or that. Or there would be less bottlenecks if the process would be like this instead of that. Kanban, Just in Time management and the other stuff from logistics. But in fact it is a management tool how to cut the costs.

This is my last post without. Tomorrow I'll see the orthodontist for my brace. I'll have it for a couple of years. The quad-helix will be for 6 months.

winter

Finally the winter of 2011/2012 is coming. Next week the temparature will drop to -15 degrees C.

Last season (december 2010) this video has been made.

Sailing

Congrats Laura Dekker. You made your dream come true; sailing solo around the world in 1 year.

spain

Por qué conseguiría en este sitio la vez última tan muchos visitantes de España? Viene porque es una crisis económica. Eso aplica más a allí que aquí. El porcentaje del desempleo en España va al 21%. En los Países Bajos el 6% está. El "Spanjaarden" conoce los Países Bajos de los años 50 y de los años 60 del siglo anterior. Por esta razón no es ciertamente extraño que los jobseekers intentan en los Países Bajos. Qué haría si tocaría a parados. Iguales pero entonces en los Estados Unidos de América. Un libro a escribir referente cómo la gente que trabaja en el gobierno piensa referente a su trabajo. El trabajo periodístico. Haría mi trabajo de mi manía. (automatically translated with Bing!)

Why would I get on this site the last time so many visitors from Spain? Does it come because of an economic crisis? That applies more to there than here. The unemployment percentage in Spain goes to the 21%. In the Netherlands it is 6%. The Spanish know the Netherlands of the 1950s and 1960s. For this reason it is certainly not strange that jobseekers try to get a job in the Netherlands.

What I would do if I would touch unemployed? The same but then in the United States of America. A book to write concerning how people who work with/for the government think concerning their work. Journalistic work to do. I would make my work of my hobby.


Waarom zou ik op deze site de laatste tijd zoveel bezoekers uit spanje krijgen?

Komt het omdat het een economische crisis is. Dat geldt meer voor daar dan voor hier. Het werkloosheidspercentage in Spanje gaat naar de 21%. In Nederland is het 6%. De Spanjaarden kennen Nederland van de jaren 50 en 60 van de vorige eeuw. Het is daarom zeker niet vreemd dat werkzoekenden het in Nederland proberen.

Wat zou ik doen als ik werkloos zou raken? Hetzelfde maar dan in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Een boek schrijven over hoe mensen die werken bij de overheid denken over hun werk. Journalistiek werk doen. Ik zou van mijn hobby mijn werk maken.

Canadian

I heard this song in the morning from the Canadian band Walking off the Earth. It's a lot better than the original.

Happy New Year 2012

Everyone best wishes for 2012.

Be positive in everything you do. That is the way you deal with setbacks which will be.

But learn from what happened in the last century


I watched Cultura24 and saw Nneka with Soul is heavy. Astonishing!

WHY think ya

In the beginning there was a man. Then there was a woman.
They created a son. And another son. The sons started started a war.

What the h*** you think you are....

Arab spring

Since February this year a wave of anger of the people of North African countries and on the Arab peninsula paved the way for new rulers. The transition isn´t swift. Many people died and even die today because the struggle goes on. However this revolution is considered by the EU-parliament as a major turnpoint in history.

The 2011 Sakharov prize goes to five Arab Spring activists. Egyptian Asmaa Mahfouz rallied fellow citizen to protest through Youtube videos, Facebook and Twitter posts. Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi, once Libya's longest-serving political prisoner, is now trying to rebuild his country as a member of the National Transitional Council.

Razan Zaitouneh, a Syrian human rights lawyer, exposed murders and human rights abuses committed by the authorities. Ali Farzat's cartoons helped to inspire revolt, and led to Syrian security forces to break both his hands. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest humiliation by the Tunisian authorities. His death sparked the wave of protests now known as the Arab Spring.


It is thought that the Arab countries only changed regime for another one and the possible introduction of the sharia is a real treat for society.

Maybe that is not the real problem. Maybe the real problem is the large part of uneducated people without an independent view.

new

I have to find other suppliers of kitchens. To find a cheaper one. to compare prices.

decisions

Kitchen

Tomorrow I´ll be informed about the possibilities of a new kitchen in my future new home. I wonder what choices there are. I honestly never thought about a gigantic kitchen. But now there are opportunities to install something better. With the new home I got to improve the situation. So lets see.

La crise

La crise financiere; this was June 2008. Now it's 3.5 years later and it's upgraded to la crise financiere mondiale!

When I went to bed last night after a very hectic day (later more about that), I heard the newsman with an update of the news. A former Minister told his opinion about the Euro. In his opinion the Euro-project failed totally. The Euro-currency he meant, I think.
I went to bed a little worried. This morning I thought that the financial markets would react on that opinion. But no, it surges after the losses of last weeks.

critizism

Papandreou has been critizised in the media many times.
A Dutch clip make some Greeks furious. The clipmaker got many hatemails... even the Greek Embassy protested that freedom of speech is important, but this is a bridge to far.

Nobody understands fucking satire in South east of Europe.Some.Greeks have no self reflection... it's sad that olicharchic Greece think that they invented democracy.
Greece has been run by families since it became a republic of the Orthodox.
This clip represents the anger of the unorthodox world....

condemn

I wrote some things on the Internet about the crisis in Greece and the politics involved with it. It seems that the Greek politics is like an oligarchy of families, one of them is the Papandreou family.

A minority ruling the Greek nation. Isn't that a huge contrast with the referendum Papandreou wanted to save his ass. democracy had to save olicharchy. Democracy is only meant to be for men with 6 slaves or more. Isn't it all ironic?
The referendum he wanted to use to clear his own internal problems. He wanted the other party to support his plans to keep the Greek into the EU. This operation almost succeeded but Papandreou lost his position. Talks proceed.

Italy is another problem. Yesterday evening Berlusconi almost resigned. Today he almost found a way out to stay for a while. He has made a condition for his resignation.

The financial markets shiver with this kind of news. Economist have no words for this crisis. They are speakless, finally.
This is really almost the implementation of the worst case scenario. And you know what people don´t know, life is going on like yesterday and 2 years before.

The past 3 years nothing happened to solve these inevitable problems with politics in the EU. This decisiveless EU parliament and EU-Government with highly paid EU-officials I condemn strongly.
It's not because what they are, it's because what they do and the system in which they work. Change has to come from within, from the people, from me.
It doesn't come and that is what I condemn too.

Poor

At last, the leaders of 2 southern countries who are responsible for the bad state of their country have gone.

A new one listening to the original name of Papademos might take over the office of Papandreou.
The father of the people takes over the office of the dynasty of 3 Papandreou's:
- Georgios Papandreou (1888-1968), former Prime Minister of Greece;
- Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996), economist and politician, former Prime Minister of Greece;
- George Papandreou (born 1952), politician, current Prime Minister of Greece.
(see Wikipedia)
It's time for a change in Greece. Finally there can be an united coalition of the 2 parties in Greeece.

The other one is the man who is not a gentleman at all, Berlusconi, a godfather of some Itailians. He might leave office tonight.

The crisis is political. There is also an economic crisis but that's not the main problem.
The EU ignored the problems of the debt countries and now we got to pay the debt to save these countries. I heard that Italy is to big to save. If it means that the EU can't save Italy, we need help of the International Monetary Fund to solve those big problems.
For this we blame of course Berlusconi...
And ourselves of course....