Archive for June, 2007

Jun 30 2007

Scoble and the iPhone hype

Published by Bob Beela under News, Technology

I watched Scoble and Thomas Hawk on the ZoomrTV stream getting their iPhone.

They stayed their all night blogging and streaming. It was a bit idiotic but at was a big party with lost of fun people in line.
Next thing is checking out ebay and see how much a second hand iPhone goes for. There were [...]

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Jun 27 2007

Diesel particle filter not allowed

Published by Bob Beela under Politics, Technology

The European court has ruled that the Netherlands is not allowed to make diesel particle filters compulsory on new cars. Instead the Netherlands has to wait till the end of 2008. Making the filter compulsory in the Netherlands would be unfair the the manufacturers because they would have to make changes to the product only [...]

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Jun 25 2007

Motorcycle ornament (2)

Published by Bob Beela under Nikon, Photography


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Jun 22 2007

Motorcycle ornament

Published by Bob Beela under Nikon, Photography


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Jun 22 2007

Cool light

Published by Bob Beela under General

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Cool design!

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Jun 19 2007

Prof. Mr. Laurens Jan Brinkhorst

Published by Bob Beela under Politics

We have an ex-member of the Dutch government who is regularly showing us how thick the plank is in front of his head. When we held the referendum in the Netherlands he was the one who made remarks like; if we don’t say yes war will break out in Europe, all the light will go [...]

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Jun 17 2007

Le Mans 24 hours

Published by Bob Beela under Sports

I could not go to Le mans 24 hours, but I can watch it on RTL Grand Prix who is streaming it on the Internet. Great!!!
Unfortunately Jan Lammers is not doing very well and Audi can not be beaten.

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Jun 15 2007

Suicide bomb kills Afghan children, Dutch soldier

Published by Bob Beela under News

KABUL (Reuters) - Suicide bombers attacked foreign troops in central and southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing five children and a Dutch soldier in a day of renewed bloodshed.
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Jun 14 2007

ABN AMRO take over

Published by Bob Beela under News

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Atticus Capital isn’t the only hedge fund which wants Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people [...]

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Jun 14 2007

AT&T willing to spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA

Published by Bob Beela under News, Technology

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In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network. The move is spurred in part by the company’s decision to offer IPTV television service as part of [...]

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Jun 07 2007

The end of the Dutch Pinpas payment system?

Published by Bob Beela under News

Wiebe Ruttenberg of the European Central Bank has stated that the European Banks should introduce an European Debitcard system or they would lose that market to the American, Japanese en Chinese banks.
Cause of it all is the introduction of the Single European Payment Area (SEPA). The introduction of SEPA could have the effect of the [...]

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Jun 03 2007

Rostock 2007

Published by Bob Beela under News

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Tell me, what is your objective? Do you want to communicate? Do you want to make something clear? Do you have something new and radical which will change to world and solve all our problems? Or is it that you just want to have a fight with anybody you don like?
I do not think the [...]

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