Archive for the 'News' Category

Jun 21 2008

Mugabe has gone complete bonkers

Published by Bob Beela under News

Last statement from Mugabe: “Only God can remove me from power“.
Could somebody give this old man a big push, please!

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May 18 2008

How narrow minded can you be?

Published by Bob Beela under News, Podcasting

This week their were two ‘interesting’ items in the Dutch news.

Some top executives warned that they they would move the company headquarter to another country if the upheaval in the Dutch society, the Dutch press and Dutch politics about the level of their salary would continue,
A Dutch cartoonist was picked up by ten men of [...]

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Apr 25 2008

China says it will meet Dalai Lama’s representative - International Herald Tribune

Published by Bob Beela under News, Politics

This sounds like good news.
Is China getting the message?
China says it will meet Dalai Lama’s representative - International Herald Tribune
Technorati Tags: Dalai Lama,Tibet

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Apr 24 2008

Mugabe rival ‘clear victor’

Published by Bob Beela under News, Politics

Finally, the BBC news reports that Mugabe rival was the ‘clear victor’ of the ellections. Something we allready knew.

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Apr 24 2008

BBC NEWS | Technology | Developers question Mesh openness

Published by Bob Beela under News

As many of us use more devices/computers than one, this looks like a good development. I will try and sign up to the Beta.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Developers question Mesh openness
Technorati Tags: Live Mesh,Microsoft,Open Source

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Apr 07 2008

The Olympic flame

Published by Bob Beela under News, Politics, Sports

Today the Olympic flame was shown in Paris. The flame was extinguished three times before it was rushed to the relay’s endpoint [link to BBC article].
I don’t think it will change the method of economic imperialism used by the Chinese government. Maybe it will make them more careful but it won’t change them.

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Mar 31 2008

Fitna the movie (3)

Published by Bob Beela under News

The chairman of the organisation VNO-NCW, Bernard Wientjes, has said in an interview that any cost (loss of revenue) due to the publication of “Fitna the movie” should be paid by Geert Wilders. He actually is going to look into this and see if this is possible.
Silly man!

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Mar 28 2008

Fitna movie removed from LiveLeak

Published by Bob Beela under News, Web sites

Another message on the LiveLeak website:
Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
This is [...]

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Mar 27 2008

Fitna movie on LiveLeak

Published by Bob Beela under News, Web sites

Message on the LiveLeak website:
Welcome, and thank you for visiting LiveLeak.com. Due to an increase in traffic and targetted hacking attacks, we have had to disable certain features. We hope you enjoy all that we have available at this time and we further hope that you will visit us again to explore the full range [...]

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Mar 22 2008

Tibet story

Published by Bob Beela under News


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Feb 05 2008

Looks like Google is scared shit

Published by Bob Beela under News

If you read the New York Times article about the action Google is taking to crash the Microsoft - Yahoo deal, you can only conclude “They are scared shit“.
A lot of bloggers are writing about how Microsoft is going to kill Flickr. I think just the opposite. Yahoo and Flickr could mean a good change [...]

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Feb 02 2008

The party has started (2)

Published by Bob Beela under News, Nikon, Photography


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