Peace

In the midst of on economic crisis nations realize what's more important than economic prosperity. That's a long and durable peace.

I know there are some people who ignore that. Like an Israeli Professor, but his country is constantly at war. Israels Prime Minister Netanyahu prefers a long and durable peace with the Arab world. Watch and see how this episode in the history of the Israelites continues....

The Netherlands did host the World Forum on Afghanistan today. Appr. 70 countries were in The Hague to show unity. Some citizen in The Hague said that their city needed this Forum to show their importance to the World (of course there are some temporary tribunals of the International Court of Justice and it's headquarter)
It needed to be a success. Well, saying that some 70 countries talked about the Afghan situation they had their success before the chairman opened the meeting.

Today was a really fine day. Time to enjoy the sun. In my lunchbreak I went outside to eat an Italian icecream. Sitting in the sun close to a small sluice in the river. Because of the running water from the sluice I didn't hear the city noise.

At 1 pm my colleage and I had an appointment with another department. My colleage works temporarily at another location and forgot the meeting. After a phonecall he did come with some delay. Actually I forgot the meeting too, but Outlook reminded me when I was upstairs again. It must be the tranquillity of the afternoon.

Days when everything works out without troubles are really fine days. And this was one of them, one day of peace.

just some thoughts

I had a discussion with my boss about my complaint. I told her almost exactly what's in the previous post. She said that she shares the problem and wants me to monitor and do what's necessary to keep progress.

This month I started more frequently to cycle. Not only short distances of 30 kilometer, I increased the distance to 96 km occasionally.
Last night daylight saving time is valid again. We got an hour extra at the end of the day. The nightingales-season (some people who ride together some kilometers) has started last Wednesday. Next Wednesday I'll be there to for some 60k after 6 pm and of course after work.

work

I'm a bit down because of the spirit at work. We promise time and time again that we'll pay our debts automatically. Some preferred creditors only have to email their invoice in a CSV-format. We will use the CSV as input for our data-system. After some checks and with a datarun we finally pay the invoice on a client basis. Just as we do manually till this moment. Today I learned that the March invoices will also have to be paid manually. It's insane. I got no words for it -and I got to do it-.

My boss asked me lately if I have a schedule what I do daily. I told her that I start the day paying invoices and finish the day. Of course there are some things I have to do in between but they all have to do with paying those invoices.
She asked me to write down my complaints about the whole situation. Well, this might be the first incentive.

freedom means responsiblity

On CNN Dick Cheney, former vice President of the USA said that the policy of President Obama endangered Americans. I have to laugh. He is past, passé, finito, histoire, vergangenen Zeit, verleden tijd. So why does he make that statement?
Does this man feel any responsibility for the things that happened? Guantanamo Bay, Abu Graib? Waterboarding?
Dick Cheney you're as guilty as can be.

The USA under the Bush administration were harmful to the open society. Protecting America's values it was called. Freedom expresses it all. If the republicans were still in power, a massive protection wall would be created to stimulate the own economy. (where is freedom when wealth is at stake?) That protection wall denies that America's power is borrowed power. China and other investors don't want the protectionists to rule the USA and the world. And America has to please them.
America and freedom? I think it's becoming a nightmare.

Freedom of speech is one of the 4 freedoms but I had the feeling while editing this blog that I didn't write down things I wanted to say. Possibly that's a matter of taste.

archaeology

You should read this Der Spiegel article about an engineering project in the Roman empire, millennia ago.

It's like discovering the CERN LHC project in 4000 AD.

Both projects of civilizations which have collapsed or will collapse in the future.

I don't IKRIP yet

With a couple of deceased people in a few years time for me personally and knowing that many of my blog visitors lost close people too an exhibition drew my attention. We all die in the end. But when the end is now, there will be know one to look after my blog to say I'm gone. It's feels the anonymeous blog has become a part of my real world. This is where

I was actually looking for the -IKRIP- site I found this video.

change = turmoil = succes?

A formula on how to survive the crash of world economies

Oeps, the world's stock indexes in week 10 of 2009 reached their lowest level in one or two decades.
The world is in turmoil. The IMF and World-bank shiver. Obama, Brown, Merkel, Sarkozy and all the other heads of State catched a cold or better are seriously ill.

Economies are wrecked. People with land as their property must be the lucky ones. Buy some sheep now, cows as well as some pigs. Don't forget the chicken. Together with homegrown vegetables you'll survive the food-crisis. It's not a Third World problem alone anymore. Have a horse or two.

Make your own water-well. Water will also be a product where people fight for.
Have some trees left on your property for shade and timber for repairs to your house.
Make yourself self-supporting like in the old days, before we traded on a massive scale.

The 2 horses I mentioned are ment for transport. The price of gasoline and oil will rise while wages fall. There will be a massive change in wellfare and wellbeing.
Maybe that's the change Indians in central America spoke about.

Capitalism is on the brink of extinction. It's the not C who rules the world anymore. The W should go to a regulated economy. The Asian model to say so. Did a Chinese economist already won the Nobelprice on Economies? I wonder.