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Nothing new… It seems that particularly the British and Belgian press is very biased concerning Israel and the Middle East for years now. The Middle East is having a very difficult problem. We all know that.

But now the Britsh National Union of Journalists has voted to boycott Israeli products.

That you boycott products of a country as a private person, that is still a choice you could make…

But as a journalist organisation you can never be trusted again….

I have been away from home last weekend. I am a bit tired and wanted to take a little hike with my brother, just to relax. Finally we took the bikes out and went on the way. Wireless…
We took a Nokia E61, a Palm Treo 680, a standard gsm, a Magellan SporTrak Color (handheld) GPS and a QStarZ Bluetooth GPS ‘mouse’.

You wonder why we took all this ? We wanted to go out and play a worldwide high tech game: Geocaching (dutch: here).

People always want to travel to the other side of the world to see how life is overthere… And there is nothing wrong with that. I mean this is great. It grows more understanding for others I think…
The problem is that people (including me) don’t know what there is to see within say 50 km from there own home. That is a pity…

Don’t you agree? Tell me… With pictures if you can!

My almost Siamese twin ;-) Servaas and I have been discussing our switch from the Palm Treo 680 to the Nokia E61 as main phone an awfull lot… Before AND after….

We use our phone entirely different and so our needs concerning programs and available data are far from simular. But we both think the Nokia E61 is far superiour to the Treo 680 concerning connections.
We both thought we could live without WLAN and superiour Bluetooth support (like hearing the ringing tone in your ear through the BT headset) and that’s why we got both our 680’s flown in from the US by his BIL. (cheers Mate!)

But we simply can’t! A smartphone without WiFi is OLD SKOOL!!

I really want to have my data so I am still shopping for good replacements for Palm software on the Symbian platform.
I will miss: Datebk6 (respect!!), SmartListtoGo, CacheMate, Currency, HandyShopper (respect!!), and a lot of other programs.

I have both phones now. Use my E61 for communication and my Treo 680 for data storage now…

I have been to the UK the day before yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it.

I went to Newcastle with my brother, just to get a breath of fresh air… So we did… The crossing by ship wasn’t our best experience, but the best choice to get a real good breath of that fresh air…
I didn’t do my homework right, because it was an spontanious action to take the boat. Newcastle was a small size city to my opinion.
On the boat we discovered it was more than this… Nice… We like old history….

The last time I have been to the UK was about 5 years ago. That was London, but the feeling was the same, I do remember.

My observations:

- British girls are - generalized - cheap, use tons of (bad coloured and wrongly used) war paint and are therefore very unattractive, They are loud and quite some alcohol.
- British lads are - not generalized - agressive, real ugly and drink much too much alcohol, in liters I mean.

And the both have a predilection for sports shoes and tracksuits or a jeans and a t-shirt of a football/soccer team

I always had the idea of the British being soffisticated, clean and well-mannered. This is what the movies tell us, but nothing of that. Even at Marks & Spencer, a favorite of mine because the enormous choice of food I was surpised. People just leave the coffee cups on the table and don’t trow them away… I was (really!) shocked!

But I am not sure whether my observation is fair and that it was a a cross selection of the population in the whole UK. But why not?!

I am a bit puzzled…