There are so many people who have a digital camera. One can't go without one these day's. It's a necessity for the internet blogger.
So After long waiting, shopping and thinking I decided to buy a digicam after work.
It took an hour for the accu to load but then it works.
I got to install the software and have to find out some more features.
It's a NIKON btw.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Labour productivity
Tomorrow I'll have nothing much to do at work.
The people who keep the system updated don't want to work in the weekend.
So Friday at 12:00 pm the main system will be down. In the weekend they won't do anything and not until Wednesday we can work in het main system. This is really stupid. At the same time the Government wants to stimulize labour productivity.
Let's not forget I got to fill in an inquiryform for NIPO and donate the payment to Doctors Without Borders, even they don't need the money for relief in Asia right now. They can use the money on different places on the globe.
The people who keep the system updated don't want to work in the weekend.
So Friday at 12:00 pm the main system will be down. In the weekend they won't do anything and not until Wednesday we can work in het main system. This is really stupid. At the same time the Government wants to stimulize labour productivity.
Let's not forget I got to fill in an inquiryform for NIPO and donate the payment to Doctors Without Borders, even they don't need the money for relief in Asia right now. They can use the money on different places on the globe.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Survival of the fittest.
Scientists want to excavate an old middleageous burial site of people who survived the pest-pandemic. The team tries to get DNA from the survivers which can possibly lead to a cure against AIDS.
The scientists hope to find out why a part of the population HIV-positive don't get AIDS.
The team presumes that survivors of the pest-virus have built up a defense mechanism which also resist the AIDS-virus.
Hopeful news, but only on the wrong page of textpage. On a page with merely questionable and cynical news or news without content.
Next weekend will be a long one. Monday I'm off.
The scientists hope to find out why a part of the population HIV-positive don't get AIDS.
The team presumes that survivors of the pest-virus have built up a defense mechanism which also resist the AIDS-virus.
Hopeful news, but only on the wrong page of textpage. On a page with merely questionable and cynical news or news without content.
Next weekend will be a long one. Monday I'm off.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Laying eggs
In spite of the storm we had great temperatures in the last 10 days.
Yesterday we had a record warmth recorded on the mayor weatherstation of De Bilt.
The 10 day's average is 8.1 C right now. The average over the last 30 years is about 2.5 C. There must be a greenhouse effect in it.
Nature responds with early birds returning (yesterday evening I heard some geese, but they were not going to far north) I see trees developing leaves and blossom. Rare, but in the last decade almost normal.
But when winter hits, nature will face an enormous setback. In about a month the first bird will lay an egg, I 'll tell you. It's absolutely abnormal but true.
April is the month for the first bird and in May all birds will have laid their eggs.
We are changing the world's climate wanting more, more and more.
As consumers we want food from the other end of the world, while transport is environmentally ineffective. Why do we do that? Why don't we pay the fair price, I mean environmental cost included?
It's because we don't know the effect of the pollution or we minimalize it.
But everybody does it (flying intercontinental, consuming local food from the other side of the world, using too much energy, etcetera, etcetera) and it becomes a huge problem.
Yesterday we had a record warmth recorded on the mayor weatherstation of De Bilt.
The 10 day's average is 8.1 C right now. The average over the last 30 years is about 2.5 C. There must be a greenhouse effect in it.
Nature responds with early birds returning (yesterday evening I heard some geese, but they were not going to far north) I see trees developing leaves and blossom. Rare, but in the last decade almost normal.
But when winter hits, nature will face an enormous setback. In about a month the first bird will lay an egg, I 'll tell you. It's absolutely abnormal but true.
April is the month for the first bird and in May all birds will have laid their eggs.
We are changing the world's climate wanting more, more and more.
As consumers we want food from the other end of the world, while transport is environmentally ineffective. Why do we do that? Why don't we pay the fair price, I mean environmental cost included?
It's because we don't know the effect of the pollution or we minimalize it.
But everybody does it (flying intercontinental, consuming local food from the other side of the world, using too much energy, etcetera, etcetera) and it becomes a huge problem.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Sports and blogs
First I wanna thank the Dutch citizen of the peaceful Low Countries to donate almost $ 160 billion for the victims of the Tsunami. Hey, mind The Netherlands only have 16 billion people.
Lance Armstrong will ride the Tour de France at least one more time.
He and his sponsor Discovery agreed on one entry in the most difficult cycling competition in the world.
Shani Davis skated a worldrecord on the 1500 meters, the most difficult distance in speedscating. He improved the record of Derek Parra. And what about Chad Hedrick, he missed changing lanes. Cindy Klassen set a new worldrecord on the 1500 meters too.
Congratulations for both of them, but remember the World Championships are not until February in Moskwa. The Dutch will have many opponents on the W.C. in Moskwa.
And blogs, what are we blogging for. 8 Billion Americans blog and the number is growing, why? Self-esteem? What? Yeah, for me.
Lance Armstrong will ride the Tour de France at least one more time.
He and his sponsor Discovery agreed on one entry in the most difficult cycling competition in the world.
Shani Davis skated a worldrecord on the 1500 meters, the most difficult distance in speedscating. He improved the record of Derek Parra. And what about Chad Hedrick, he missed changing lanes. Cindy Klassen set a new worldrecord on the 1500 meters too.
Congratulations for both of them, but remember the World Championships are not until February in Moskwa. The Dutch will have many opponents on the W.C. in Moskwa.
And blogs, what are we blogging for. 8 Billion Americans blog and the number is growing, why? Self-esteem? What? Yeah, for me.
Sunday, January 09, 2005
The aftermath, Scheisse
Yesterday I wrote in my diary what happened in the last 2 months in the Netherlands.
It started with the Van Gogh assassination on November 2 2004 and now we got the Tsunami in Asia for which deprived people we collected over 120,000,000 Euro.
One can criticize that because other regions get less money for even worse disasters.
But I think that for a lot of people it opened their heart from a more hedonistic lifestyle to a more caring attitude. However the Dutch always give a lot personally to care-organizations as well institutionally (0.8 % of GDP is meant for development aid).
Aid workers fear the aftermath of this Tsunami disaster for the rest of the disasters which will occur in the next year. For these disasters will be less money of private persons because they only can give their money once, so the Tsunami affects the whole world.
For example Memisa (a member of Cordaid) will be fundraising for a project in Haiti next month. Memisa fears the worst.
And since January 1 2005 I am living like a tourist from a country far away because I need my passport near me wherever I go. That's difficult. Just going on a cycletour to the hills on my racingbike, where do I leave my passport? I don't know. What in summer when the heat arrived and I want to go for a swim, I seldom take money with me. A passport is not in question till now.
And this all is to make it saver? Don't fool yourself.
It's all Scheisse.
Stats of today:
41.30 k
25.89 k/hr
1:35:43 hr
45 k/hr (max)
T 582 k (batavus)
It started with the Van Gogh assassination on November 2 2004 and now we got the Tsunami in Asia for which deprived people we collected over 120,000,000 Euro.
One can criticize that because other regions get less money for even worse disasters.
But I think that for a lot of people it opened their heart from a more hedonistic lifestyle to a more caring attitude. However the Dutch always give a lot personally to care-organizations as well institutionally (0.8 % of GDP is meant for development aid).
Aid workers fear the aftermath of this Tsunami disaster for the rest of the disasters which will occur in the next year. For these disasters will be less money of private persons because they only can give their money once, so the Tsunami affects the whole world.
For example Memisa (a member of Cordaid) will be fundraising for a project in Haiti next month. Memisa fears the worst.
And since January 1 2005 I am living like a tourist from a country far away because I need my passport near me wherever I go. That's difficult. Just going on a cycletour to the hills on my racingbike, where do I leave my passport? I don't know. What in summer when the heat arrived and I want to go for a swim, I seldom take money with me. A passport is not in question till now.
And this all is to make it saver? Don't fool yourself.
It's all Scheisse.
Stats of today:
41.30 k
25.89 k/hr
1:35:43 hr
45 k/hr (max)
T 582 k (batavus)
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Stormywinter
Just over a year ago, winter '03, we had such weather as today, windforce 10, storm. The whistling and howling of the wind, the speed of the Dutch milkcoloured clouds, with some spots of lightblue. The trees are bending with each sweep of the wind.
The ferries to the islands in the north are cancelled. The wind is too strong for the relatively light ferries.
This weather is the reason my nick is stormywinter. I like this kind of weather. And I had to make a hotmail account. So I just looked at the weather and my name was born.
Here I am Stormywinter
update:
On my way back home from Albert Heyn (the Dutch US foodservice or Stop & Shop) I could not control my bike against the wind.
Later, after the storm reached its high, I trained some K's.
1st trip
34.19 k
25.12 k/hr
1:21:42 hr
39 k/hr
26,740 k (Giant)
The ferries to the islands in the north are cancelled. The wind is too strong for the relatively light ferries.
This weather is the reason my nick is stormywinter. I like this kind of weather. And I had to make a hotmail account. So I just looked at the weather and my name was born.
Here I am Stormywinter
update:
On my way back home from Albert Heyn (the Dutch US foodservice or Stop & Shop) I could not control my bike against the wind.
Later, after the storm reached its high, I trained some K's.
1st trip
34.19 k
25.12 k/hr
1:21:42 hr
39 k/hr
26,740 k (Giant)
Friday, January 07, 2005
Free as a bird
European championships icescating have begun this Friday
The wind is blowing from the medditerean and makes the temperatures rise skyhigh.
This weekend I'll do some training on my racingbike.
But first got to do some shopping at the groceries.
And the Tsunami? According to some people, within a fortnight the Tsunami will be forgotten and the world will be back to normal. And what an amount of money the worldcommunity collected! Why don't we do that for the people living in poverty, in fear and pain in central Africa? Aids is killing thousands of people per day. Yesterday the last son of Nelson Mandela died of A.I.D.S.
Who is next?
The wind is blowing from the medditerean and makes the temperatures rise skyhigh.
This weekend I'll do some training on my racingbike.
But first got to do some shopping at the groceries.
And the Tsunami? According to some people, within a fortnight the Tsunami will be forgotten and the world will be back to normal. And what an amount of money the worldcommunity collected! Why don't we do that for the people living in poverty, in fear and pain in central Africa? Aids is killing thousands of people per day. Yesterday the last son of Nelson Mandela died of A.I.D.S.
Who is next?
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Charity, don't speak
The Germans chose the most beautiful word in their language: Habseligkeiten, gadgets.
In the Netherlands it's: liefde. Just love.
The English chose mother.
The Americans chose the word charity
No doubt about it.
In the Netherlands it's: liefde. Just love.
The English chose mother.
The Americans chose the word charity
No doubt about it.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
mindcontrol
Allright, there are days like this day. Almost like this day.
Not completely similar like this day because 3 minutes of silence at noon is extraordinary. Especially when the whole of Europe is silent, commemorates the victims of the Asian Tsunami disaster.
This is mass mindcontrol.
Trainstations full of people standing still at noon.
Why? Don't they think about the misery underneath? Can't they go on doing the things they do on a trainstation? Hello fogs time is ticking!!! Even trains stop in the fields.
This is mindcontrol. The media and the Government have decided there should be 3 minutes of silence to commemorate.
What can an individual do not to go with the flow and reject the mindcontrol?
This is an open-end question.
Not completely similar like this day because 3 minutes of silence at noon is extraordinary. Especially when the whole of Europe is silent, commemorates the victims of the Asian Tsunami disaster.
This is mass mindcontrol.
Trainstations full of people standing still at noon.
Why? Don't they think about the misery underneath? Can't they go on doing the things they do on a trainstation? Hello fogs time is ticking!!! Even trains stop in the fields.
This is mindcontrol. The media and the Government have decided there should be 3 minutes of silence to commemorate.
What can an individual do not to go with the flow and reject the mindcontrol?
This is an open-end question.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Instead of warfare
Just thought 0.000001 second it was December. All the misery. It's spinning in my head all the time.
I don't like to watch the evening news. I've seen too many corpes of dead people. They can be found in the most impossible positions.
In a village half an hour drive from a mayor tourist town in Thailand people don't do anything with the bodies. They don't bury them, just cover them with plastic, a cloth or palmbranches.
The army over there has no eye for the death. They just care for the recovery of the motor of one of their speedboats.
And the head of a village on Sumatra begs to burn the death. But as they are Muslim the death have to be cleaned in a proper way and should then be buried.
This shows the inflexibility of Islam. People who rot away can not to be cleaned, washed or whatever. To prevent spreading diseases they should be burned.
Hopefully the world will offer a lot of money to do the right thing instead of warfare.
All Americans I ask not to be so naïve to watch FOX news and to believe the things they're saying, the supposed facts about the Netherlands, my country and Anne Frank's. Everything this newsstation puts in the air is covered with a dark black extraordinary conservative sauce.
The station is the litmuspaper of American attitude. And that minds me that the state is bad, very bad, I sorry.
My country is pure. The inhabitants do their utmost when others are in despair.
My country is curious, my country tollerates other opinions, my country is in some way smart enough to see that we can't cope with the USA, but that's not we're less. It's because we're smaller.
I don't like to watch the evening news. I've seen too many corpes of dead people. They can be found in the most impossible positions.
In a village half an hour drive from a mayor tourist town in Thailand people don't do anything with the bodies. They don't bury them, just cover them with plastic, a cloth or palmbranches.
The army over there has no eye for the death. They just care for the recovery of the motor of one of their speedboats.
And the head of a village on Sumatra begs to burn the death. But as they are Muslim the death have to be cleaned in a proper way and should then be buried.
This shows the inflexibility of Islam. People who rot away can not to be cleaned, washed or whatever. To prevent spreading diseases they should be burned.
Hopefully the world will offer a lot of money to do the right thing instead of warfare.
All Americans I ask not to be so naïve to watch FOX news and to believe the things they're saying, the supposed facts about the Netherlands, my country and Anne Frank's. Everything this newsstation puts in the air is covered with a dark black extraordinary conservative sauce.
The station is the litmuspaper of American attitude. And that minds me that the state is bad, very bad, I sorry.
My country is pure. The inhabitants do their utmost when others are in despair.
My country is curious, my country tollerates other opinions, my country is in some way smart enough to see that we can't cope with the USA, but that's not we're less. It's because we're smaller.
Monday, January 03, 2005
Being creative...
.... to give more to Asia.
Of course everyone has from time to time an idea to be better off financially.
I had one that's needs cooperation of the people who want to take advantage of my ingenuity. -Someone- has to say it!
In the Netherlands gifts to charity are tax-deductible for the amount above 2% of ones annual gross income.
So if the cooperators give money to our national charity organization for Asia, they should give the money to one person in a group who can transfer the total amount of money to the account of the charity organization. For example if the highest tax level is 50% (the maximum in the Netherlands), 50% can be claimed if the amount is more than the 2% burden.
This 50% can be a gift again next year.
The pity is that one got to earn a lot of money to exceed the 50% tax level
The people who do that don't have to use this cooperation.
The people for whom it could work earn too little that it's not worth it and the taxcollector won't accept high amounts of gifts without any questions.
Theoretically it might work, but practically it doesn't.
Of course everyone has from time to time an idea to be better off financially.
I had one that's needs cooperation of the people who want to take advantage of my ingenuity. -Someone- has to say it!
In the Netherlands gifts to charity are tax-deductible for the amount above 2% of ones annual gross income.
So if the cooperators give money to our national charity organization for Asia, they should give the money to one person in a group who can transfer the total amount of money to the account of the charity organization. For example if the highest tax level is 50% (the maximum in the Netherlands), 50% can be claimed if the amount is more than the 2% burden.
This 50% can be a gift again next year.
The pity is that one got to earn a lot of money to exceed the 50% tax level
The people who do that don't have to use this cooperation.
The people for whom it could work earn too little that it's not worth it and the taxcollector won't accept high amounts of gifts without any questions.
Theoretically it might work, but practically it doesn't.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
What a week....
What a week we had, I mean the whole international community, a seaquake triggering waves beyond imagination, killing maybe up to 200,000 people.
This killer has a name; Tsunami.
As a least 2 new born children, a boy and a girl are named after the wave, there is also some beauty in it's strength.
And the wave can't help it took so many lives.
This flood doesn't discriminate. It's strength flattened whole area's and destroyed everything on it's path.
Waves on a sea for which the hedonistic consumers, tourists from Europe, come, took their lives.
-It's disgusting how some tourist claim their beach after it's cleaned of the death people. Rats do that when there isn't enough space-.
The power of this disaster is interesting and tells us that we shouldn't underestimate the power of nature.
This killer has a name; Tsunami.
As a least 2 new born children, a boy and a girl are named after the wave, there is also some beauty in it's strength.
And the wave can't help it took so many lives.
This flood doesn't discriminate. It's strength flattened whole area's and destroyed everything on it's path.
Waves on a sea for which the hedonistic consumers, tourists from Europe, come, took their lives.
-It's disgusting how some tourist claim their beach after it's cleaned of the death people. Rats do that when there isn't enough space-.
The power of this disaster is interesting and tells us that we shouldn't underestimate the power of nature.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Welcome in 2005
Everything is quiet on New Year's day.
My first post in 2005 -shall I call it twenty five?-
I just came home by train after being with family.
The fireworks were beautiful, the food was good and happily we didn't consume any TV trash. We played Colonists of Catan and were all eager to win.
Okay, the night was a little short for me and the morning was dull. The New Year's concert at Vienna was prime. Reason to go out, into the fields.
Google words -to find my site (amongst other sites)-:
1. netherlands 3
2. fundamentalism 3
3. rif 3
4. caren 1
5. blog 1
6. site:blogspot.com 1
7. lissner 1
8. Hotmail 1
9. 2004/2005 1
10. web 1
11. Bagdad 1
12. Sint 1 13. girl 1
14. bagdad 1
15. Maarten 1
16. CristmasDay 1
17. writer 1
Total 23
My first post in 2005 -shall I call it twenty five?-
I just came home by train after being with family.
The fireworks were beautiful, the food was good and happily we didn't consume any TV trash. We played Colonists of Catan and were all eager to win.
Okay, the night was a little short for me and the morning was dull. The New Year's concert at Vienna was prime. Reason to go out, into the fields.
Google words -to find my site (amongst other sites)-:
1. netherlands 3
2. fundamentalism 3
3. rif 3
4. caren 1
5. blog 1
6. site:blogspot.com 1
7. lissner 1
8. Hotmail 1
9. 2004/2005 1
10. web 1
11. Bagdad 1
12. Sint 1 13. girl 1
14. bagdad 1
15. Maarten 1
16. CristmasDay 1
17. writer 1
Total 23
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