Feb 27 2006
Link: BBC News website.
The French government has decided to change the laws that prevent the merger of two major French energy producers; Suez and Gaz de France. The French government will have a large say in this new company. The Italian energy producer Enel has recently expressed interest in a merger with Suez. It [...]
Feb 27 2006
link: Geekpedia News.
Some hoepla about a new device by Microsoft. It looks like an A5 tablet PC if you ask me. Take a look at the pictures.
This is the snippet tool you can also get on the Tablet PC.
Feb 17 2006
This is a post about a site you should really visit; Crossing the BLVD.
On the site it says; ‘a kaleidoscopic view of new immigrants and refugees living in Queens, New York ? the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States is a project of EarSay” .
I’ve browsed the site for some time and it [...]
Feb 15 2006
Adobe Lightroom is a product aimed at the ‘professional’ photographer who wants to manage his portfolio. It looks real stylish and promissing. Adobe already has another product in its portfolio aimed at management and presentation of a photo portfolio; Photoshop Elements. It also has editing functionality. Question is going to be; is Adobe going to [...]
Feb 14 2006
Recently a cartoon appeared in the German newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’. Subject of the cartoon was the discussion in Germany whether the German army should take on the task of providing security during the World Football Championships. It depicted the four Iranian football players fitted with explosive belts flanked by four German soldiers. Off course the [...]
Feb 10 2006
Google has presented their new desktop search tool.
It is a nice tool but it comes at a price. The price you pay is your privacy. With the tool you can index your documents which can be stored on more than one machine. In order to do that Google will have to transfer your data to [...]
Feb 10 2006
© Martin Rowson 2005/Guardian
It is becoming more and more clear that the whole excitement about the cartoons is one big constructed media event.
It is far from true that Mohammed has never been depicted. In the past hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary [...]
Feb 08 2006
Some 200 pieces of art are to be returned to the heirs of the original owners.
It is not known what the heirs are going to do with the paintings. A large number of them can be seen in the current collection of Dutch museums.
Strangly enough the paintings are not returned to the heirs on ‘legal’ [...]