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.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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.
It's like discovering the CERN LHC project in 4000 AD.
Both projects of civilizations which have collapsed or will collapse in the future.
Monday, March 09, 2009
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.
I was actually looking for the -IKRIP- site I found this video.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
funeral and plane crash
Last Friday family, friends and neighbors had the funeral of my neighbor. It was very emotional. I told my boss about it and she saw me dealing with my emotions. Maybe, she said, you should find yourself some help. I'm not quite ready to meet a shrink.
It's easy to tell another one what to do or what not to do.
My colleage is very lucky he survived the plane crash in Amsterdam. He's not the luckiest man because his wife is injured at the back side. I don't know much about her injuries. On the internet I saw a picture of my colleage (at the right, in the white T-shirt) being caterpillared to one of the ambulances.
Poor colleague, I wish him and his wife, aswell as the other victims lots of strenght.
It's easy to tell another one what to do or what not to do.
My colleage is very lucky he survived the plane crash in Amsterdam. He's not the luckiest man because his wife is injured at the back side. I don't know much about her injuries. On the internet I saw a picture of my colleage (at the right, in the white T-shirt) being caterpillared to one of the ambulances.
Poor colleague, I wish him and his wife, aswell as the other victims lots of strenght.
Monday, February 16, 2009
200 years after Darwin
This evening I cycled back home and came along the hospice were my neighbor would end her life. Two bicycles were parked close to the entrance. It was too busy to visit her I thought.
I already called my neighbor last Friday and she looked in her agenda and said that she also had time on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. She was a bit confused. She probably didn't know that it was Friday.
Tonight at 6.30 pm I was busy making diner when the doorbell rang. It was my other neighbor. She told me my neighbor died this morning. Luckily without any extra pain. She died in her sleep. She had some shots morphine though to kill the pain. At 7.30am CET this morning, 16 February, she passed away.
The sad thing is that she had some anxiety on the night before she died. She called 911 and told there was a dead body in the basement and that she would be next. So Sunday night the police stood at the doorstep of the hospice.
The door was opened by the night watcher and than it appeared to be the address were people die.
Today she's layed in the coffin which was immediately closed. She wanted that.
The last dead person I saw was my father in November 2007. I tell you, then people are used not to say a word.
Some time ago we talked about death and she described the afterlife, where she believes in, as a journey where you don't know where you go. It's not like a cash & carry journey which can be composed in travel stores. Where you know where you go. This is completely different. She doesn't know she told. It's more like the Charles Darwin his Journey on the Beagle.
For me the last 30 minutes with her were the best. Every minute was worth it. Of course after that I telephoned her. That were also very expensive minutes about her travels and the Journey of Darwin to the Galapagos Island, the Beagle, India, Mumbai.
More that 4 years suffering. I respect her toughness, but I hope she now make the journey of her life starting on 16 February 2009 (exactly 200 years and 4 days after Darwin's birth).
Respect Jeanette!
I already called my neighbor last Friday and she looked in her agenda and said that she also had time on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. She was a bit confused. She probably didn't know that it was Friday.
Tonight at 6.30 pm I was busy making diner when the doorbell rang. It was my other neighbor. She told me my neighbor died this morning. Luckily without any extra pain. She died in her sleep. She had some shots morphine though to kill the pain. At 7.30am CET this morning, 16 February, she passed away.
The sad thing is that she had some anxiety on the night before she died. She called 911 and told there was a dead body in the basement and that she would be next. So Sunday night the police stood at the doorstep of the hospice.
The door was opened by the night watcher and than it appeared to be the address were people die.
Today she's layed in the coffin which was immediately closed. She wanted that.
The last dead person I saw was my father in November 2007. I tell you, then people are used not to say a word.
Some time ago we talked about death and she described the afterlife, where she believes in, as a journey where you don't know where you go. It's not like a cash & carry journey which can be composed in travel stores. Where you know where you go. This is completely different. She doesn't know she told. It's more like the Charles Darwin his Journey on the Beagle.
For me the last 30 minutes with her were the best. Every minute was worth it. Of course after that I telephoned her. That were also very expensive minutes about her travels and the Journey of Darwin to the Galapagos Island, the Beagle, India, Mumbai.
More that 4 years suffering. I respect her toughness, but I hope she now make the journey of her life starting on 16 February 2009 (exactly 200 years and 4 days after Darwin's birth).
Respect Jeanette!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Life
What did Darwin think when he wrote things down in his dairy when the Beagle took him to undiscovered places? He collected material which he brought back home. That material he studied and compared. I don't know exactly how he did it, but at the right moment he wrote his book On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection.
It was published in 1853 by an editor named John Murray (and coincidental Murray did win the ABN AMRO tennis-tournament in Rotterdam today) From that moment man begin to think about his real origins. The evolution of mankind by coincidence.
A few day's (or night) ago I thought about a girl I studied with in my youth.
By coincidence her name appeared as first name on a list of the school we visited together years ago.
I googled on her name and found that she has a small company (Joe the Plumber like) close to my hometown.
There was more. I learned that she had mental problems for 10 years. She went to the psychologist. Therapy learned her that she hasn't dealt with the past of her grandparent who was in fact a collaborator in World War II.
The strange thing is that she is third generation!
These things live a life in the brains of people and are passed to next generations. Some alterations make mankind better adapted to crises. The evolution hasn't stopped.
It was published in 1853 by an editor named John Murray (and coincidental Murray did win the ABN AMRO tennis-tournament in Rotterdam today) From that moment man begin to think about his real origins. The evolution of mankind by coincidence.
A few day's (or night) ago I thought about a girl I studied with in my youth.
By coincidence her name appeared as first name on a list of the school we visited together years ago.
I googled on her name and found that she has a small company (Joe the Plumber like) close to my hometown.
There was more. I learned that she had mental problems for 10 years. She went to the psychologist. Therapy learned her that she hasn't dealt with the past of her grandparent who was in fact a collaborator in World War II.
The strange thing is that she is third generation!
These things live a life in the brains of people and are passed to next generations. Some alterations make mankind better adapted to crises. The evolution hasn't stopped.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Sissy Britons
In the Netherlands we have a representative in national Parliament listening to the name Geert Wilders. He made a movie called -Fitna-. He tells us that Islam is a danger for freedom in our country. He says more. He can say that because there is freedom of speech. Now the man is invited by a English MP to show his movie in the English Parliament.
The English Government didn't allow Mr. Wilders to enter Great-Britain.
This is unacceptable. Outrageous in fact.
A country which almost invented speakers' corner doesn't allow mr. Wilders in because of his opinion.
I think it's also not respectable to ban Mr. Wilders for the Dutch nationals who voted for him. He is a member of an European National Parliament and in the EU there is freedom to go where you want, even if you're a political nobody like me.
I think that Great-Britain has made a mistake not accepting Mr. Wilders. This must be a misunderstanding.
I think the Britons simply don't want him because of his haircut.
The English Government didn't allow Mr. Wilders to enter Great-Britain.
This is unacceptable. Outrageous in fact.
A country which almost invented speakers' corner doesn't allow mr. Wilders in because of his opinion.
I think it's also not respectable to ban Mr. Wilders for the Dutch nationals who voted for him. He is a member of an European National Parliament and in the EU there is freedom to go where you want, even if you're a political nobody like me.
I think that Great-Britain has made a mistake not accepting Mr. Wilders. This must be a misunderstanding.
I think the Britons simply don't want him because of his haircut.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Italy
In Italy a young woman died
What happend in Italy with Eluano Englaro is not really extraordinary. The media attention makes it horrible like manslaughter. But is it?
Now (February 26) she has passed away and does the media still write? Am I right that the mass media fooled itself again? Mass media doesn't know the meaning of the word integrity.
What happend in Italy with Eluano Englaro is not really extraordinary. The media attention makes it horrible like manslaughter. But is it?
Now (February 26) she has passed away and does the media still write? Am I right that the mass media fooled itself again? Mass media doesn't know the meaning of the word integrity.
Monday, January 26, 2009
work
Last Friday I had a scheduled discussion with my boss about the results I'll meet coming year; I had a quick look at it and I did realize that it was on my account and depended on coorporation with other collegeas, more or less specified, if I 'll meet the goals. Sunday I overlooked it once and I read about goals which are no up to date anymore. I went to bed and slept well till Monday morning.
When I woke up I had a positif feeling but strangly when I went downstairs to get my bike I suddenly had an awkward feeling that it would be a problematic day.
I didn't pay really attention to it. It became obvious at work at 9am I had planned a short consultation with my co worker. But it became a long one. We discussed both results and the goals we've to meet. Only at 12pm we were ready. Oh my, it's much time we spend but we made some changes in our interest.
I didn't feel comfortable with the situation knowing that I still got so much work to do.
I wrote some alterations/suggestions down and sent an email to my boss.
Tomorrow at 10 am I've another meeting so I stop writing in order to be sharp tomorrow.
When I woke up I had a positif feeling but strangly when I went downstairs to get my bike I suddenly had an awkward feeling that it would be a problematic day.
I didn't pay really attention to it. It became obvious at work at 9am I had planned a short consultation with my co worker. But it became a long one. We discussed both results and the goals we've to meet. Only at 12pm we were ready. Oh my, it's much time we spend but we made some changes in our interest.
I didn't feel comfortable with the situation knowing that I still got so much work to do.
I wrote some alterations/suggestions down and sent an email to my boss.
Tomorrow at 10 am I've another meeting so I stop writing in order to be sharp tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration
Everything worked out. Nothing happened on the day Obama could call himself president. Okay it worried me that they organization did keep up with the time schedule. It made me nervous. 12pmm, no oath, no president, new election. Oh my god everywhere little men calling themselves George W. Bush, George A. Bush, George B. Bush, George C. Bush, John McCain, A. McCain, F. McCain. They shout McCain for President. Oh my, skip Aretha Franklin peforming on the spot. Let Barack H. Obama swear his oath on the spot. It was only a dream. Than the judge and Obama came forward for the oath. This is the finishing touch.
Then my deception came, it was a sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band feeling.
I heard songs from the past but still present, I saw faces from long ago, I heard a dream which came true and I heard that at 12pm Obama was already President without swearing the oath.
Then my deception came, it was a sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band feeling.
I heard songs from the past but still present, I saw faces from long ago, I heard a dream which came true and I heard that at 12pm Obama was already President without swearing the oath.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Israel, Palestine -seize fire-
Yesterday Israel said that they met their goals. Today the Palestinians answered with a seize fire. Hopefully they stop the war efforts.
Probably this hope is idle because Hamas will succeed to rearm itself. That will allow Israel to attack again.
The stupidity of Israel is that they don't see that suppressed people will finally get away with the suppression. They'll fight for it.
I don't think Hamas is the right party for the Palestinians but they chose them in a democratic election. Why shouldn't the western world talk to them. Maybe they could learn some international diplomacy and that words are easier than the bombs they use.
Hamas has to build Palestine up from the bottom. Maybe the UN has to help the Palestinians as the UN does for many countries with a poor administration. Maybe even the EU could help. They got some expertise on the Balkan.
Economically a port in Gaza-city could boost the internal economy. That port has been hardly used. Hamas really didn't stimulate the economy. That's what they should do now.
A fishing industry for the local economy, outsourcing cheap labour to Israel, export of agricultural produce, tourist industry, maybe even a tax haven. And if the Jews are smart with money, why aren't the Palestinians? At least, the Hamas-leaders aren't.
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I was watching the inauguration concert on Sunday 18 January, when I heard the song "higher Ground". The melody was very familiar. Looking on the internet it was RHCP's song. Originally Stevie Wonder's.
The lyrics
It's just as my neighbor said lately when we discussed life and death.
She believes that there will be a next time on earth till life is okay. Then there will be a next level. It's actually the hope she has that everything will be different and better when she leaves the bad times behind her.
Probably this hope is idle because Hamas will succeed to rearm itself. That will allow Israel to attack again.
The stupidity of Israel is that they don't see that suppressed people will finally get away with the suppression. They'll fight for it.
I don't think Hamas is the right party for the Palestinians but they chose them in a democratic election. Why shouldn't the western world talk to them. Maybe they could learn some international diplomacy and that words are easier than the bombs they use.
Hamas has to build Palestine up from the bottom. Maybe the UN has to help the Palestinians as the UN does for many countries with a poor administration. Maybe even the EU could help. They got some expertise on the Balkan.
Economically a port in Gaza-city could boost the internal economy. That port has been hardly used. Hamas really didn't stimulate the economy. That's what they should do now.
A fishing industry for the local economy, outsourcing cheap labour to Israel, export of agricultural produce, tourist industry, maybe even a tax haven. And if the Jews are smart with money, why aren't the Palestinians? At least, the Hamas-leaders aren't.
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I was watching the inauguration concert on Sunday 18 January, when I heard the song "higher Ground". The melody was very familiar. Looking on the internet it was RHCP's song. Originally Stevie Wonder's.
The lyrics
People keep on learnin
Soldiers keep on warrin
World keep on turnin
Cause it wont be too long
Powers keep on lyin
While your people keep on dyin
World keep on turnin
Cause it wont be too long
Im so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
Im so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin
Till I reach the highest ground
Teachers keep on teachin
Preachers keep on preachin
World keep on turnin
Cause it wont be too long
Oh no
Lovers keep on lovin
Believers keep on believin
Sleepers just stop sleepin
Cause it wont be too long
Oh no
Im so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
Im so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin
Till I reach my highest ground...whew!
Till I reach my highest ground
No ones gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Dont you let nobody bring you down (theyll sho nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
Hes the only friend you have around
Fade
It's just as my neighbor said lately when we discussed life and death.
She believes that there will be a next time on earth till life is okay. Then there will be a next level. It's actually the hope she has that everything will be different and better when she leaves the bad times behind her.
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