Hirsi is leaving us
So, now we know; we have a really strict immigration law in the Netherlands and an even stricter immigration minister.
Yes, you may enter the country but you you must tell the truth about your name, place of origin en age. If you don’t, you won’t get access, even we if we find out years later.
Does that sound harsh? Well, how many other countries act the same way; US they are erecting a fence on their south border, Denmark act the same way, Germany ditto, UK ditto, who else?
The attitude of the minister has lead to some controversy in the last couple of years. Nevertheless she is a popular politician simple because she is straightforward and she does was says she will do.
Unfortunately, with taking away the Dutch citizenship from Hirsi she has taken one step to far. Yes she has lied about her age, origin en name, but she has done a lot of good for the Dutch society, asked a lot of critical questions, ruffled a lot of feathers and as a result is under 24 hour protection program.
In this case the minister should have said; Yes, you have lied, on that fact you should be kicked out, but taking in account your role in Dutch society and the fact as a result you need 24 hours protection we will grant you the Dutch Citizenship.
The Dutch parlement has pressed the minister to reconsider her decision or she can leave.
DRM versus Free world: 1:0
Bummer.
The French have watered down their proposal to force suppliers to open up their DRM systems (Apple and Microsoft e.g.).
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Chicken!!!!
Will they never learn?
Here we go again, I told you so, I new it!
Merkel has said that when Germany takes over the chairmanship of the EU, they will try to get the EU constitution accepted.
No thank you, France en the Netherlands already said NO once. We are not going to do that again.
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Mambo testtrack
As I wrote in the previous entry, I am in the process of testing Joomla and Mambo. I want to replace the PHPnuke software I use for a couple of sites. Joomla didn’t work for me so I moved to Mamboserver.
Yesterday I tested the 4.6 RC1 version. I dumped that one quickly because it complained about safe mode settings. As I didn’t wanted to change that in this stage of the process I moved back to 4.5.3.
That seems to work. There are still some things like; finding a good variable based template, keeping a welcome message fixed as first message on the website, finding some good components for a gallery, a forum, a league table, etc. There is tons of stuff but it is all close but no cigar.
Move from PHPnuke to Joomla
I run a couple of website of which some are based on PHPnuke. As PHPnuke is not very safe plus development is slow, I’m now testing Joomla.
Conversion is a problem, installation is not easy. But it is promissing
Server down
Due to maintenance my VPS was down for four hours. Not bad after being up for more than 1,5 year.
Cool design from Japan
From the FosFor gadgets site [link]. A very cool design which can match the Apple designs.
Ravenstein dyke in the winter
42km ski Marathon in Engadin
My brother finished the 42km ski marathon in Engadin in Switzerland on March 12 2006 [link] [Engadin link]. Conditions were harsh. The temperature was minus 20 degreed Celsius and he had a 60km/hour headwind.
Result: 5 hours – 26 minutes 51 seconds
Behind on winner: 2 hours 53 minutes 29 seconds
Avage speed: 7,7km/hours
I am more of the type who goes downhill and up the hill in a chairlift.
Google on board
Engadget is reporting that VW is incorporating Google satellite in their next generation navigation solutions [link].
Now Engadget is reporting that Honda is adding Google Earth to thei navigation systems [link].
Althought I think it is cool I’m also afraid that the US government is going to ask Google where you have been (as you are using Google).
Oooops Nokia
