Maybe we come to a solution for world-peace when every single person on this earth who could have access to a PC with Internet connection sits behind it and starts a blog about world-peace.
The person will be busy with it all day. Why? Because all day long he (not necessarily a he) thinks about what will be in his blog at the end of the day. So no time for shooting and no time for bombing!
But actually more and more blog write about war, being in it, observing it.
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Hnk's blog and aunt Naima.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The fastness of darkness
Check in at 8 pm GMT and discover how slow the sun sets in Holland
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
heath
Climate change is a factor in international affairs nowadays.
More and more we realize that increasing temperatures are a prelude for what is coming. Maybe more specific is it to say that temperatures show more fluctuation tending to be higher.
Some newsgroups deny it. People can point at regions where temperature has dropped, where summers were actually colder than normally. That's why I am more specific.
In Europe we have a heath wave which is in the Netherlands extraordinary. It never happened that July gave 9 day's higher than 30 degrees C. There are 9 days left and the temperatures will remain high. Also the average temperature is high and probably will be higher than record month July 1994.
I'm not sitting on my balcony because it's to hot. I let the wind go through my house but it doesn't get any cooler. The short rain shower this afternoon was good. It didn't bring cooler air however.
Last week temperature even topped the 35 degrees. Let me tell you that I took my bicycle for a bike ride in the evening. After 40 k or so I was back home. It was to warm to ride.
Last night I did the same race on a later moment. When I arrived at the racing track I saw that the sun had set the grass and trees along the track on fire. The fire-brigade came and put out the fire.
I saw a new fire and put it out with sand. A second fire engine arrived moments later. They could do nothing else than put some water over the fire place.
While writing this I see a parallel with the fire place called earth.
The middle east; set on fire again, Israel-Lebanon
Somalia; the tone of war against Ethiopia.
Hateful tongues of demonstrators tell nothing but war rhetoric.
Those hateful tongues don't do anything to extinguish the fire.
Bury the fire under the sand of voices telling that we don't want another war, just peace.
More and more we realize that increasing temperatures are a prelude for what is coming. Maybe more specific is it to say that temperatures show more fluctuation tending to be higher.
Some newsgroups deny it. People can point at regions where temperature has dropped, where summers were actually colder than normally. That's why I am more specific.
In Europe we have a heath wave which is in the Netherlands extraordinary. It never happened that July gave 9 day's higher than 30 degrees C. There are 9 days left and the temperatures will remain high. Also the average temperature is high and probably will be higher than record month July 1994.
I'm not sitting on my balcony because it's to hot. I let the wind go through my house but it doesn't get any cooler. The short rain shower this afternoon was good. It didn't bring cooler air however.
Last week temperature even topped the 35 degrees. Let me tell you that I took my bicycle for a bike ride in the evening. After 40 k or so I was back home. It was to warm to ride.
Last night I did the same race on a later moment. When I arrived at the racing track I saw that the sun had set the grass and trees along the track on fire. The fire-brigade came and put out the fire.
I saw a new fire and put it out with sand. A second fire engine arrived moments later. They could do nothing else than put some water over the fire place.
While writing this I see a parallel with the fire place called earth.
The middle east; set on fire again, Israel-Lebanon
Somalia; the tone of war against Ethiopia.
Hateful tongues of demonstrators tell nothing but war rhetoric.
Those hateful tongues don't do anything to extinguish the fire.
Bury the fire under the sand of voices telling that we don't want another war, just peace.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The irony of war is that you can win it
When it is a game, the score is Israel 224 Lebanon 21 in human sacrifices.
It could be David against Goliath. And this time David isn't an Israelite.
World do something about it!
China hasn't a role in it. It treasures it's unbelievable 2nd quarter growth of 11%.
The G8 can't come hardly to a compromise. And as most compromises are soft, Israel can go on to ruin Lebanon.
Stop Hizbullah and Hamas not the Palestinian and Lebanese people!
But as a friend said, when you clean the mess, you'll get dirty.
It could be David against Goliath. And this time David isn't an Israelite.
World do something about it!
China hasn't a role in it. It treasures it's unbelievable 2nd quarter growth of 11%.
The G8 can't come hardly to a compromise. And as most compromises are soft, Israel can go on to ruin Lebanon.
Stop Hizbullah and Hamas not the Palestinian and Lebanese people!
But as a friend said, when you clean the mess, you'll get dirty.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Israelli sourbroth
At least 200 death civilians on Lebanese side, 15 on Israel side.
And they're onnly half way according an Israeli source.
Israel can go on fighting Hizbullah (meaning destroying Lebanon) until the end of this week before public opinion is really against Israel.
Israel will use this week to slaugter a people without sanctions according to a spokesman. What a cowards in their Parliament did the Israelites choose.
I never wish them a war of 80 years like the Netherlands had against Spain.
- maybe I got to change some things, will be updated-
And they're onnly half way according an Israeli source.
Israel can go on fighting Hizbullah (meaning destroying Lebanon) until the end of this week before public opinion is really against Israel.
Israel will use this week to slaugter a people without sanctions according to a spokesman. What a cowards in their Parliament did the Israelites choose.
I never wish them a war of 80 years like the Netherlands had against Spain.
- maybe I got to change some things, will be updated-
Sunday, July 16, 2006
What a war!!
photo APOr is it child's play. The north of Israel and the south of Lebanon as a playground for overaged children.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Monstertour
In the last post I dreamt about a monstertour to the north.
Today was the day I did it.
Starting at 9.35 am and finishing at 10.05 pm, I cycled for 10 hours and 20 minutes today. The distance? 243 k I believe. I never did that on a racing bike.
After 40 k I reached Amesterdam. A lot of people were running in the park along the Ei (a historical place because here the river mouthed into the Southern sea)
I easily went along Durgerdam, Holysloot and Marken.
In Enkhuizen I had cycled 120 k when I reached the road through lake Ijssel and lake Marken The picture is what I saw flying over this dike in 2004. You can can see that even the colour of the water is different.
After 160 k I was sick of being stuck in Lelystad (built on the bottem of the sea), a town with a 70's infrastructure.
You never can find your way in these kind of towns. It took me a lot of time. (Amsterdam is better, if you stay on the mainroads)
But I made it to Harderwijk (back on the old land). From there it was easy to get back home. (in the meantime I discovered a bypass aroud Amersfoort).
It was very windy and the temperature was good (around 25 C) So I can't complain.
Today was the day I did it.
Starting at 9.35 am and finishing at 10.05 pm, I cycled for 10 hours and 20 minutes today. The distance? 243 k I believe. I never did that on a racing bike.
After 40 k I reached Amesterdam. A lot of people were running in the park along the Ei (a historical place because here the river mouthed into the Southern sea)
I easily went along Durgerdam, Holysloot and Marken.
In Enkhuizen I had cycled 120 k when I reached the road through lake Ijssel and lake Marken The picture is what I saw flying over this dike in 2004. You can can see that even the colour of the water is different.
After 160 k I was sick of being stuck in Lelystad (built on the bottem of the sea), a town with a 70's infrastructure.
You never can find your way in these kind of towns. It took me a lot of time. (Amsterdam is better, if you stay on the mainroads)
But I made it to Harderwijk (back on the old land). From there it was easy to get back home. (in the meantime I discovered a bypass aroud Amersfoort).
It was very windy and the temperature was good (around 25 C) So I can't complain.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
dreaming
I'm longing for next weekend. Why, I never have that feeling before Thursday. Maybe because the 4 weeks off were good? Then the holiday did it's work, however I didn't forget my passwords and that's often an indication how far away work was in my holiday. So obviously not far enough!
So maybe that's why longing for next weekend. Nothing special will happen then, the weather will be fine, excellent weather to make a monstertour to the north on my racing-bike. Never did that on a racing-bike actually. Okay, I'm dreaming. The Tour de France is still going on in my head.
Not this way.
So maybe that's why longing for next weekend. Nothing special will happen then, the weather will be fine, excellent weather to make a monstertour to the north on my racing-bike. Never did that on a racing-bike actually. Okay, I'm dreaming. The Tour de France is still going on in my head.
Not this way.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
jobtalk
Thursday the office had a farewell party on the terrace of a local pub. The picnic in a park was cancelled due to bad weather expectations. It wasn't necessary to cancel the picnic because the weather was fine and every one had the mood to go to the park.
Okay in the pub we had lemonade, fresh beer and -bitter balls-. (How to translate that?) And the colleagues and I enjoyed it. 4 Hours later we all wished our colleague good luck in his career.
Friday was a quiet day. It was day many people were off. So on the islands in our office it looked like every one was stranded on an uninhabited island.
At the end of the day I had a conversation with our interim manager. He has talked with every one except me and another colleague. The im. wanted to know what kind people he has to deal with. He asked about my education, how I got my job, what my attitude is in this job, what I want to achieve and what I think is positive and negative in this organization.
Well to say something about the last thing mentioned. I have a feeling (especially now, a week after my holiday) that the department is devided in 3 factions. There are changes before the end of the year and that creates tensions.
For example the workhours registration. One coordinator is right on top of it, controlling everything. The other coordinator has a more control attitude. While in the third group the responsibility is for the employee himself. It will not really be checked. If there are irregularities you got to talk yourself out of it and some registration is clever.
I only told him some global worries.
I didn't give him an example of how the atmosphere is poissonned at the moment. Like the way a coordinator talks about an employee. Confidencial information and the way he talks about it.
Maybe I am wrong but if the spiral is down then some people will resign when they're offered a better job.
Some photo's, under which my holiday.
Okay in the pub we had lemonade, fresh beer and -bitter balls-. (How to translate that?) And the colleagues and I enjoyed it. 4 Hours later we all wished our colleague good luck in his career.
Friday was a quiet day. It was day many people were off. So on the islands in our office it looked like every one was stranded on an uninhabited island.
At the end of the day I had a conversation with our interim manager. He has talked with every one except me and another colleague. The im. wanted to know what kind people he has to deal with. He asked about my education, how I got my job, what my attitude is in this job, what I want to achieve and what I think is positive and negative in this organization.
Well to say something about the last thing mentioned. I have a feeling (especially now, a week after my holiday) that the department is devided in 3 factions. There are changes before the end of the year and that creates tensions.
For example the workhours registration. One coordinator is right on top of it, controlling everything. The other coordinator has a more control attitude. While in the third group the responsibility is for the employee himself. It will not really be checked. If there are irregularities you got to talk yourself out of it and some registration is clever.
I only told him some global worries.
I didn't give him an example of how the atmosphere is poissonned at the moment. Like the way a coordinator talks about an employee. Confidencial information and the way he talks about it.
Maybe I am wrong but if the spiral is down then some people will resign when they're offered a better job.
Some photo's, under which my holiday.
Monday, July 03, 2006
first day at the office.
Everything is obviously the same at work.
Looking a little closer things have changed.
First of all, we got an interim boss. He spoke every employee exept me. Some things will change immediately. There are taskgroups for the changing workload. They must explore the change for our office.
Our office will move to another building, in other words back from were we come from. Hopefully we got a better atmospere. One taskforce prepares the removal and makes plans for our needs in the new building. October 1 will be the day.
Also one colleague will leave this week so thursday is a party. When the weather is fine it will be in a park. Great.... we just have a dutch heath wave.
Looking a little closer things have changed.
First of all, we got an interim boss. He spoke every employee exept me. Some things will change immediately. There are taskgroups for the changing workload. They must explore the change for our office.
Our office will move to another building, in other words back from were we come from. Hopefully we got a better atmospere. One taskforce prepares the removal and makes plans for our needs in the new building. October 1 will be the day.
Also one colleague will leave this week so thursday is a party. When the weather is fine it will be in a park. Great.... we just have a dutch heath wave.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Wanted, a rectification
A few day's ago there were suddenly 22 readers of my blogspot page... how come?
I learned that Caren, the famous writer of several books wrote about my post of that day.
Caren you exaggerated. I didn't lose my ID or identity (card). If so it was worse and my cycletour was definitely over.
In Portsmouth I almost bought a book of Caren. In Ottakar's bookstore they could find it and I couldn't remember the title and full writer's name.
I learned that Caren, the famous writer of several books wrote about my post of that day.
Caren you exaggerated. I didn't lose my ID or identity (card). If so it was worse and my cycletour was definitely over.
In Portsmouth I almost bought a book of Caren. In Ottakar's bookstore they could find it and I couldn't remember the title and full writer's name.
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