May 30 2005
So France said ‘No’. 45% in favour and 55% against the new EU Constitution. Will this change anything for the result of the Dutch referendum?
The Dutch politicians in favour of the EU Constitution have changed their message during the weekend. Up to the weekend they emphasised that the EU Constitution would improve our position in [...]
May 29 2005
Today the F1 race the Germany ended with a bang. In the last lap the front suspention of Kimi Raikkonen gave in after he flat spotted his right tyre some six laps before.
How disappointing it was for Kimi and his (my) team, this is how racing should be. In spite of the risk of [...]
May 28 2005
Tdavid wrote an excellent piece on the rant between Adam and Dave. The comments are exceptional.
Read them, I’m sure there is more to come.
May 27 2005
Today the KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute) registered a
temperature of 30 degrees Celsius in the middle of the Netherlands. In the
south of the Netherlands the temperature even went up to 32 degrees. This
weekend the temperature will go down again to a normal 20 degrees.
May 26 2005
Tonight the chairman the European committee was on TV (Mr. Barroso).
Guess what the message was: If you vote “No“, we will punish you! Look what happened to the others who tried it after the Nice treaty (Ireland and ..). We just went ahead and we changed nothing in the treaty, so just roll over and [...]
May 26 2005
Today (May 26 2005) Dave Winer posted a reply on the pileup between him and Adam Curry.
In January Adam went to Florida to meet up with his friends to talk about the future of podcasting. Among those friends was Dave Winer who had been talking with Adam for weeks about going into podcasting business. [...]
May 23 2005
The remarks about the referendum are getting better and better these days.
Lately the politicians are getting more nervous about the possible outcome and are covering their ass by making remarks like: “There is no problem because 80% of the house of representatives wants the new European Constitution” and “You cannot blame the people because the [...]
May 20 2005
WMA Music File Format Support in PC Link and the launch of the radioio music service.
You should have received yesterday an email from Philips outlining future release plans of Streamium products. We acknowledge that the product is not currently ready for the WMA Services or My Media. However, we would like to communicate the following [...]
May 19 2005
An article in the New York Time describes the hostile situation between the fans of Manchester United and Malcolm Glazer after his take over of the club.
I quote:
How do English soccer fans hate Malcolm Glazer, the billionaire businessman who this week took control of Manchester United, one of the world’s most famous soccer teams? Let [...]
May 18 2005
The debate is heating up in the Netherlands. Better said, the debate is about nothing these days but everybody is shouting.
Our government is spending another 3.500.000€ to convince the Dutch people to say “Yes” at the referendum.
The opposition is playing in on our frustration about the EU as a whole. Dead easy of course as [...]
May 15 2005
This morning I saw this small message in the newspaper. It says that about 132 US majors have joined in an initiative to get the US to agree with the Kyoto treaty. Good this is that it is backed by Democrats and Republicans.
Let’s hope Bush gets influenced as well.
SEATTLE - Burgemeester Greg Nickels van Seattle [...]
May 14 2005
Things are heating up between the Founding Father Dave Winer and the Podfather Adam Curry.
In his recent blog entry Dave is threatening to kick Adam �in the ass�.
Make love no war!