I would rather write about gps and other nice toys, but I have been watching Belgian television this morning. This is easy, as we share the same language Dutch / Flemish.

There was a coverage about French women who are going to The Netherlands to have a termination of their pregnancy. Again on their way to The Netherlands, just like drug couriers.

Does this say something about MY country or, in this case, the stupidity of France?!

Is The Netherlands a country without laws and with stupid ideas on drugs, abortion, and so many other subjects? I don’t think so.

In The Netherlands we have quite liberal (as in: liberty) ideas about things. It doesn’t mean that there are no discussions about these important issues.

Abortion is not always the solution, but to condemn, and even sabotage (yes, with filmed and recorded proof!) the intensions of women who have probably a reason not to have a baby.

So women still have nog right to make their own descision, within medical ethics and the law, even in France!

Vive La France!

Wolfie, Go Home!

To my opinion this missing/kidnapping is a very sad and for all personal tragedy for the parents. But the Dutch media, following the really hysteric UK press, are making a real hype of it.

There are children missing in every country in Europe (just to take a geographic dividing line) every day and we don’t hear anything of it. But this news is BIG and everywhere!

The news came as the family and friends of Madeleine McCann launched a fund to help trace the four-year-old and bring her abductors to justice.

Unveiled at Leicester’s Walkers Stadium yesterday, Madeleine’s Fund is inviting people to make donations in person at their local bank, by post or via the internet to help pay for Maddie’s parents, Gerry and Kate, to stay in Portugal to continue their search.

citation from icLiverpool.co.uk

Even David Beckam is donation money, out of the USA.

I have another comparison in my head, but saying that will be about the same as blasphemy. If you want to know, ask me…

source: De Volkskrant (sorry, Dutch only)

European Initiative

Thanx you, Nespresso

Really years and years ago I did go to Amsterdam about once a month.
It became to crowded to my taste and I almost don’t hear my own Dutch language in the streets anymore. I love other languages, but not ONLY…

Sometimes I have to go there (for work) and enjoy it there for a short while…

But Amsterdam is always good for nice pictures. Even when made by a 0.3 megapixel camera of a Palm Treo 680!!

In these modern times there a people that invite other people, like friends and family, for a botox party.

When using botox I think you are stupid, but okay that is my opinion. In the case that you really want that, just have your own fun, go to a clinic to have it done.

I saw a program on tv of a group of friends and people that know each other. They invited a adviser, who brought a doctor (can I see your license, please!) to do the job right away, in the kitchen!!

“We are having a really enjoyable evening and I thought why not?!” a young guy says into the camera.

Yes, it is quite normal to put a unstable neurotoxic into you face. I thought that it could damage you brain…
You are right. In this case there is no way damage anything, there is nothing!!!

Now he has published a book that has the title: Peace Not Apartheid. As I heard the title I frowned my eyebrows. After hearing parts from the book I made a comparison with some high rank dutch politicians (former prime minister Van Agt for instance) that have formed a form of latent anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism, like Jimbo does. It is at least biased, but probably worse.

There are so many lies in the book: Page 62: When I met with Yasir Arafat in 1990, he stated, “The PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel. The Zionists started the ‘drive the Jews into the sea’ slogan and attributed it to the PLO.

I was drawn to this lie: We all KNOW by fact that this is not the truth!

I am not going into it deeply because others do that much better that I could ever do. And next to that I must be honest that I did not read the book. But also in this case: others did the (good) job!

Read on at CAMERA. They made a roundup of all criticism on Jimbo.

Something related: Jimmy Carter Center gets Arab money. And I mean loads of it…

And a strong voice from Kenneth Stein here
Another article on Aish

I lost count…

“That is our policy” – is is a frequently used sentence in the USA, I am sure. It think they see it as a magic word: policy. To my opinion it is an ANTI-magic word.

This is part-I don’t know in the Palm Treo 680 from the USA saga. For earlier parts look below!

After having trouble to become Europe’s first COPPER Palm Treo 680 owners, my best friend Servaas and I were prepared to bug his bil (brother in law) to help us out.

We did ask him to order two COPPER Palm Treo 680 at the Palm Treo store with an American creditcard.

We are still empty handed. The TWO orders we had were dumped by Treo Store and we still don’ know why.
We did order two times because we both wanted to get the Palm Music Pack (for BOTH phones) for free with our order.
After a call we got the answer that there were no copper ones anymore and thats why our order was just skipped.
After that still lots and lots of copper treo’s have been shipped… Huh?!?!

Still empty hands, okay, a grey phone on its way from the States.

[27-01-2007]
End of the story is that we both have an American, but graphite Palm Treo 680. Taken from the States by my buddies bil.
We were still waiting for copper Treo’s to buy if available in Europe. No one could tell us when the first ones would be there.
But last week we did hear that Palm is stopping the production of the copper 680…

I could buy one at ebay, but I am really so sick of it!!!

[and I don't even talk about the (severe!) battery and other problems]

Before:
Part 1 – Palm discrimination
Part 2 – No European Palm Treo 680 order in US
Part 3 – Palm Treo 680 plans

It is not going to be like that…

Around Christmas I will receive a graphite (read: GREY) Palm Treo 680 from the USA, while I could have had one from November 22nd in The Netherlands.

I will tell you later how this could be possible…

I tell you, between you and me: it is that I don’t like pyromanics!!!

The Crab will relaunch today @ 18:00 CET

Why? We want to be GREEN!!! Nothing more, nothing less!

Tell the world ! The Crab is now about environmental issues, health and such, more than we already did.
Let us tell you how to go green in your life. And you tell us! Please?!

Not for programming reasons, but for the fact that the American commercial network NBC is paying two billion (read: 2.000.000.000) dollar to have the finals (and parts of the Winter Olympics of 2006) in the US living rooms on prime time!!
Swimming finales are preferably in the early evening because of physiological point of view. This seems to be the case with all international finals.

I am not interested in watching sport, but in this case the soul of the Olympics is sold for a huge amount of MONEY.

One of these people in The Netherlands is a man called Thom de Graaf. He will be appointed (!) mayor of the city of Nijmegen in the east of The Netherlands.

The guy was D’66 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Government Reform and Kingdom Relations and resigned in 2005 because he was against appointed mayors and wanted mayors to be elected.

He will start his new job on January 8th, 2007

Thom, You Suck BIG TIME!

Surinam is told to be still one of the most beautiful countries in South America. I want to see the spots where my grandfather could have walked.

I really want to go there….

Looking for your Surinam roots too? Go here: Stichting voor Surinaamse Genealogie – Dutch only

[If you are here for Liza, go here! ;-) ]

Years and years ago I did write and did send faxes to makers and distributors of software (Adobe (PageMaker), Norton, Borland (Paradox and Quattro), etc) why I had to pay a (sometimes much) higher price in Europe than in the US. And no, I am not talking translated software! Just the original UK English of US English versions!

Now it is said that we have a global market and that about everything is available about everywhere. Yeah, right!

I am still not able to get a Sony Mylo in Europe and now for the first few months we will not have the coloured Palm Treo 680 in Europe. This is what Palm says on their website: “Arctic, Copper, and Crimson available in the Palm US web store, Palm US retail stores and Palm Canada web store only.”

We still have to get a life with the graphite Treo 680…

I like that colour too, but I want to have a choice on my own!!! I don’t like to be dictated.

[Latest (December 4th, 2006) on this: HERE!]

[I am so sorry, Liza. Had to let you go. ;-) ]