The people around me know that I am not into babies. Not because they wouldn’t be cute, but I can’t communicate enough with them.
But that’s my problem.

I am however always interested in human beings, of what age, race, country or religion.

The WHO, the World Health Organisation is following six women and their babies of six months now from around the globe. It gives you an idea about
the way they are living. What they eat, what their weight is and what they do with their children.

It gives a nice view on the very young lives abroad. That’s always nice.

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Oh yes, we Dutch are known for our windmills… That there are other things that could be nice to know, next to wooden shoes, (Turkey originated) Tulips, windmills and our fight against the the water.
This is exactly what we do all day: walking around on our wooden shoes to check that our dykes are secure, to protect the growing of the tulips. ;-)

But the guys and girls at our universities are doing their job (read: studying) quite well too. In this case from the Delft University of Technology.

This time they won the 3000 km international solar-powered car race in Australia with their Nuna 3.

Good job, kids! ;-)

I prefer winning a competition like this over the winning of a soccer game. It is a testing ground for possible alternative fuel technologies.
Winnning a soccer game does nothing for the envrionment.

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Not everything is going okay with the new Sony PSP.

I had it in my hands yesterday, ‘ for very first time…’ And it looked and felt just like I thought it would.

But now I read that there are ‘dead pixel’ problems with it that Sony doesn’t want to solve, under 6 pixels…
But 6 pixels is quite al lot on a small screen like this…
And next to that, there are some buffer overflow problems.

Haven’t I heard about this Sony arrogance before?

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Wireless Hotspots are hot. At least, this is what In-Stat tries to tell us.

In fact they are… But not the way they think, I think.

I have been on the road in Europe for quite some years now, and have been a heavy mobile user forever. I was one of the first users in my surroundings to use a notebook computer and Nokia 2110 with a cable and Gold Card modem of Psion when travelling around. (I still have it. Picture available ;-) )
People had never seen about this. A wireless connection over a gsm phone?!

After that modems got build into the gsm phones itself. You just needed a cable for the connection to your notebook. Both ways needed some attention, it did cost a bit, BUT it worked… on 9600 bps… So text only, please!

Now we are having a new era with all mobile possibilities like: UMTS, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, and so on. And even more to come.

There is only one thing I really don’t understand. Why not drop the prices to a normal level?
I know the business users don’t care about the costs, because they can get it back from their paid taxes.

But to my opinion, there are millions of people that would love to use a high (or at least normal) speed connection on vacation, at a reasonable price. For writing in their online diary, for their e-mail, for information on the place where they are.

I have been asked really absurd prices for a Wi-Fi connection in my room and I refuse to pay it.
I have my Treo 650 and a sub-notebook and take it with me being abroad. But most of the time I go to an Internet cafe. Forced by the stupendous amount of money I have to pay for a connection. And it doesn’t matter where I am: The Netherlands, Israel, Belgium, France, Spain or Germany…
It just doesn’t matter a thing…

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Before on the crab: I and II

Last weekend the campaign “Veilig Stappen“, Going Out Safe, started its second weekend in Zoetermeer, a town just over The Hague in the Netherlands.

For the first time all pubs, bars and restaurants and municipality were working to together to organise a big party in the middle of town to celebrate the start of this campaign.

It wasn’t a happy celebration.
In a exchange of word a young man was asked whether he was deaf. The answer to his answer were two shots in the head.
He didn’t lie a word, because he is indeed almost deaf. He is heavily injured in the hospital now.

Even after giving a honest answer can’t safe your life nowadays… It is a sad sad world….

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Hardcore Palm user like me are having a bad bad day…

Today Palm, Mickey$oft and Verizon are announcing the first ever Palm PDA (okay, smartphone) with Windows Mobile…
It is called the Palm Treo 700w.

Nothing more to say about it… Except that I hope that it reboots even more often that the Treo 650. ;-)

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