yesterday's blog

Instead of yesterday's blog I'm on time now. Let's keep it that way.

blogging

Blogging everyday takes a lot of time....(especially in a foreign language, sometimes you really got to look for words, use a dictionary or phrase a sentence different)
I'm blogging daily the last month and that takes it's toll.
If I weren't blogging then I would spend my time on other things, much more photography (fotothing) and the stock exchange. I got to think about reinvesting € 13,000 from a property fund into something else.

Blogging, it's a kind of addiction. But maybe not everyday.

Work

The advantage of waking up a little earlier than expected is that one can start earlier at work, or having more time to get awake at home.
I divided the 3 quarters I was awake before the buzzer over the 2 parts.
I made myself a plate with a warm porridge and knäckerbröd, saw the breakfastnews and went to work.
It was silent there at arrival. 2 Colleagues sat there in the dark and told that the system was malfunctioning. Walking to my bureau I saw other colleagues sitting in the light and working. Though the system was out they could do other rthing on the computer and the had non system work.
I started up my computer and thought about week, also a Monday, when the system was down. If you know how much serious problems the system gives then, I thought at work, at what moment is it neccessary to update the system. The previous system was updated several times and lived it's own life. I can imagine that this present system goes it's own way if the don't control it. But this is a side-line.
Today the system was back online after 20 minutes. (exactly my extra time) Today was the first day that I damned the system. The vulnerabilty and the slowness of it are the 2 points of reconsideration if it is a perfect system for us.

The answer is that this isn't. Of course I would almost say. GWS4All is sacked.
But the supplier, Centric, doen't hear me I think. And if they read this post they won't do anything with the complaint (that's why Centric is mentioned, cause Centric sucks. Yes this is true.).

bike

It's a long way to the snow. Before you reach it you are cold and frozen, if you go on a bike.
After the fog cleared I took my bike and rode some kilometers to some snow, barely anything. I had to go further east.
At least I made a few stills in the forest.

Timewatch

Saw a documentary on television on the BBC tonight, called Inside the mind of a killer. It's a docu. about Hitler and what went on in his head before and during World war II. I won't bother you with the analyses made on him after 1943. (Nobody made a thorough psycho-analysis until that year)
After yesterday's log title, this situation can happen and will happen again. The most recent alike situation is the Serb Milosevic. Ethnic clinching; deportation, execution, mass-graves, that's Milosevic & Mladic inc.
It is silent in the process around the first one.
Also it is deadly silent in the case of Serbia handing over Mladic to The Hague-tribunal. That is really such a shortcoming of a country which wants to join the EU.

If something can happen it will.

Last night and in the morning we had the first severe storm of the season.
A woman was so clever yo park her bike close to the building. The front tyre was bent






Well in the afternoon the depression changed into a nasty one. In the eye of it was a cloudless sky but 100 kilometer south was snow. A constant flow of clouds with snow made traffic come to a halt. In the east of the country fell 15 centimeters of fresh snow. Trains and cars stranded and people had to wait for hours in their car for help. They got blankets to stay warm. One endless stream of cars, 70 kilometers in the east. Some accidents and immediately 20 k traffic-jam behind my house.
Teletext says that 700 kilometer, the radio mentioned 800 kilometer.
On a certain moment there was a single traffic-jam of 90 k in the south.
This is a damned traffic attack I spoke about, bad for the economy, environment and bad for health of people.

It's a complete chaos on the road and on the Veluwe (a forestry area in the middle of Holland) people are still waiting in their car.
Always thought that those situations won't happen here. The truth is it's happening.

storm

Tonight and tomorrow there will be a storm, lots of rain (for our standards) and after that we're in a cold winter depression. Temperatures will drop to zero degrees C. and there will be snow. Hello world, I don't know if I should call it real autumn or the start of winter, knowing that in many parts of the world (even in the middle of Europe) the winter has started.

This afternoon we had a high tea at work. Al the colleagues who had a birthday in the past quarter had something with him so all kinds of delicacies were placed on a table. The setting made it cosy. Outside the wind and the rain made it nasty there and inside it was warm and cosy. We should be lucky with such a bunch of colleagues.

Butterfly effect

One move of a butterfly in Florida to fly away could cause a giant storm in Europe. subsequently business stop for a moment, the damage afterwards causes a financial disaster which infects the bourses in Europe. -What-if-, a chaos theory, the butterfly-theory.

Also a movie the butterfly effect exists, see IMDB. I wrote about that subject already inside my head.

cars, machine power

The man at work who is going to make the access-application work... (the initial version doesn't work according to planning & control) has a car which goes fast. Real fast. Last week he had a professional in his car to learn him to make emergency stops. First it wasn't difficult. Stopping at 80 k/hr on a narrow road. The car has an anti-blocking system (abs)so that's not too difficult. After that they went to Germany were they got no speedlimits. His car tipped the 260 k/hr!!! Okay, said the pro, and now an emergency stop.
It seems that one has to pass a treshold and after that it's not difficult.
But 260, what a machine-power!

Amazing, human machines

What is amazing, astonishing? Who knows a little about speedskating and the developments in it should know it.
Last weekend there were time trials in the Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City. The results were good, amazing how many PR's the sporters skated and in 3 days 5 new Worldrecords were set. When I woke up in morning I was flabbergasted. The last set Worldrecord was the 500 meters, Shani Davis skated 15/100 seconds faster. Or a Dutch guy of only 19, who set the 5000 meter Worldrecord 90/100 seconds sharper. Amazing and what a power, human machines.

Freedom

There are more freedoms. Think about the Roosevelt four freedoms award.
Freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Freedom of expression

If someone say that Bush is responsible for more than thousand dead US-soldiers than that is a fact with which people will do nothing. Bush will not react on that accusation and the world keeps on turning.
If someone says on a pamphlet that Rita Verdonk, Dutch minister, is responsible for 11 deaths in a prison people say, "yeah, that happens everywhere" and they turn back to normal life.
But not Rita Verdonk, she will react on that accusation and subsequently says she responsible.
This is not on CNN.
The death of a sparrow, shot in a hall to prevent a show to fail. That was on CNN.

Freedom of speech

In a democracy every person has the right to state a message. It can not be that if the message is against the Minister in power dealing with political refugees, economical refugees, illegal foreigners, that minister forbids the message and forces the protesters to recall the huge pamphlet's on mainly sqauts.
See for yourself on this link

She, Rita, tries it with legal action, that's true. Though, if a Minister can't stand criticism, what kind of arrogant Government we got then in the Hague?

The first picture on the link shows the jail on fire with imprisoned illegals inside the gates. It's almost a concentration camp. Shocking but reality. Translated the text means: "travel agency Rita, for arrests, deportation and cremation. Adequacy until the bitter end." It is shocking.

democracy

A lot of work to do... the year's closing and the books are made up. Next year will probably a broken year cause the policy will be changed from July 1. Politicians can overrule this decision by the Cabinet and may be there is a majority against the plan. Problem will be that those politicians will often choose for the party line. If so then the majority will do what they don't want. Isn't that strange?

The same sort of democracy was seen in companies. In the 90's take-overs and mergers were happened almost daily and often large shareholders and small ones were against the plans of the management.
But today the take-over of IMS health by VNU business publishers was cancelled by a broad coalition of large shareholders like Fidelity. For the first time a Dutch company was weren't allowed by it's shareholders to do what it wants. That's called democracy.

early present

The Saints were good to me. I got a creative zen MP3 nanoplayer with FM radio.
Good for running, cycling and the holiday on my bike.


This is it. The earphones I didn't like to much. My old Sony-phones are better.