Cogs can think.

This is just priceless! Someone in Romania sued god because he did not protect him enough against the bad influences from the devil (the man does 20 years for murder). He explains that he and god entered a contract during baptism, and that god has broken that contract– contract breach.

Priceless, priceless. Things like this make it all worthwhile :D.

Here are a few pictures of one of the prettiest ladies in the world… Dutch super-chick Chantal Janzen. If there’s one lady that makes my heart make summersaults…

And follow this link for the real stuff… *Yummie*. I’d give up a whole lot for one night. Really.

I’m quite sure now that I’ve got RSI symptomps. I’ve been having slight irritations in the lower tip of my right shoulderblade for a long time now, but they started out as, well, itches. I could just scratch and it was gone. Now, however, it has tranformed into a true form of pain, and I got quite worried. The pains can now also occur while not behind my computer.

So, tomorrow, I’m gonna call the doctor and have him examine my shoulder. For the time being, all my work will be done on my iBook, as I can use my iBook in any position I want.

I’ve been doing the exact same movements on Exp Zone and OSN for months now; it’s no wonder that these symptomps are occcuring. Let’s hope they’re easily remedied.

Apple has done it again.

They introduced a new iMac today, and it has all sorts of cool new features: built-in iSight, remote-control with a special application for watching DVDs, listening to music, showing photos. It also has a slimmer casing. However, Apple failed to include the one feature that would make the new iMac ubercool.

Where the fcuk is the TV decoder, Steve??

Really.

PS: Apple also introduced a new version of it’s white harddisk with a screen.

:o

A while back (on my old blog) I posted a list of the 5 cars I’d like to have. Now, I have to make a change to that list. First, let me, err, ‘re-list’ them:

Aston Martin DB9 (dark-green) (the closest a machine can come to Perfection)

Ferrari F430 (red) (best ass ever)

Corvette C6 Convertible (black) (awful build quality, questionable design, but fcuking raw)

Lamborghini Diablo (yellow) (no words to describe this monster. No wait, I got two. From hell).

Nissan Murano (orange) (extravagant design, Nissan endurance and quality, and kids friendly)

I’m sorry for the Murano, but it has to go. I’m replacing it with this:

Alfa* Brera (black!) (if there’s an English - Car dictionary, you’ll find “Alfa Romeo Brera” at the words “passionate sex”. Definitely not suited if you’re under 18).

Of course the Alfa Romeo will fall apart and disintegrate before you arrive home from the dealership, but who gives a fcuk. Worth the 20 minute drive. They should put up mirrors next to the roads so you can see yourself driving it.

* When addressing Alfa Romeos, one drops the ‘Romeo’ part when naming the car. So, ‘Alfa Brera’ and not ‘Alfa Romeo Brera’.

I just installed and set-up SUSE 10. This distro is the leader in slickness- completely graphical boot, and one that is completely integrated, so the various bootscreens (System, KDE) are all alike. Very slick. KDE 3.4 is of course taking 7 days to be set up correctly, but oh well, KDE is KDE. One thing that KDE has that GNOME lacks: decent tools to adjust and tweak window behaviour, so I can set the window behaviour as in BeOS. GNOME is heavily lacking in this area.

Also, Kpilot actually works! No cli action required! Wow, how modern!

And, KDE also beats the crap out of GNOME when it comes to the Zipdisk Mount Error Dialog! Here’s KDE’s version:

Seriously now, SUSE/KDE offers some vital functionality that Ubuntu/GNOME simply cannot offer me; of course KDE introduces about ten million other annoyences, but somehow I think I might take them for granted, seeing KDE offers decent window management, and normal Palm support. Only time will tell.

Now this was an odd day. Let me start from the beginning.

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This weekend, my dad was off to Praha (Prague) to see the World Cup qualifying match between The Netherlands and Cheska Republica (Czech Republic). Seeing that my country and the Czech Republic are two of the highest ranking nations on the FIFA list, this was a clash of football giants. Let me cut to the chase about the match: we smashed them with 0-2 and we qualified for the World Cup 2006 in Germany. We had the best qualifying series of all European countries; out of 12 matches, we won 11 and played one draw. Really good.

But anyway, this was the first weekend for my mother to be without my father since my mum got ill this January. Both my father and my mother weren’t looking forward to this: my dad didn’t want to leave my mum, and my mum didn’t want my dad to leave. However, this was a business trip, so my dad couldn’t really skip it, seeing that there were already a few cancellations. And seeing he’s head of the Tourist Dpt…

My grandmother (my dads’ mum) came to our house to stay the weekend. I picked her up friday. Even though my mum was very emotional on friday and saturday, it overall went pretty well, strong as she is. Then, this morning at 5am, disaster struck.

My mother thought it was one of our cats tipping something over, but in fact it was my 83 year old grandma who fell in the bathroom. My mum tried to help her up, but my mother wasn’t strong enough, so she woke me up, and together, we lifted grandma and tried to get her back to bed, but, she fainted, her legs lost strength, and we had to lie her down in the hallway. We grabbed a pillow, blanket, and my grandma lied there and passed away again. As it turned out, she didn’t fall because she tripped or anything, but she fell because she fainted.

We were in panic, basically. My mother already went through so much, and just the fcuking weekend my dad was gone, this had to happen. She said to me, “Dial 112!”. I looked back and replied, “How??” I was totally struck by panic, a weird feeling, I really didn’t know how to dial. So, my mum went downstairs, grabbed the phone and quite calmly (I told you my mum’s an amazingly strong woman) dialed the emergency services, and explained the situation.

I stayed with my grandma, but I was so afraid she was going to die, right there, right then. Seeing all the shit we’ve already been through this year (trust me, it’s not just my mum’s illness, a lot more has happened that simply isn’t none of your business), I had no idea what to do, say, or whatever. I was so scared.

Slowly, my grandmother regained concisiousness, and she started talking again. She didn’t have any pain (even though she wrecked a closet (!!) when she fell). Ten minutes later, the paramedics where there with the ambulance, and checked her for all sorts of stuff, and noticed that she had an irregular heartbeat. She was taken to the hospital, and there we sat, at 5:30am, and I said to my mum, “Right, I guess it’s still 2005.”

We phoned my uncle, and it took them a while to hear and pick it up. They rushed to the hospital. After that, we called my dad, explained everything, and then we took off to the hospital too. There, they checked her even more, took photos, xrays, the whole nine yards.

Now we know that while it looked disastrous, it wasn’t all that bad at all. She has hear problems, but nothing immediatly serious. She will stay in the hosptial for a few days though. She has a lot of pain in her leg now.

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All that is extra souer because my mom and dad are finally going on vacation tomorrow. And now this happens. Now, my parents are still going, but of course in a far less happy mood. I picked my dad up from the airport this afternoon.

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On the way back home this morning, say somwhere at 8am, my mom cried, “What have I done to deserve such a year?”

I really don’t know, mum. Really, I don’t.

Now that this week we’re celebrating the BeBox’ 10th birthday, it’s time to elaborate on what I think YellowTAB should do in order to give their business an extra push.

By the gods of the Olympos, Bernd, create a new BeBox.

Give it a dual-core processor. Give it some ram. Build on the classic design of the BeBox. Re-lit the blinkenlights. Do not name it ZetaBox. Make sure each piece of hardware in it works flawlessly with Zeta. Remember where BeOS came from. Remember who made BeOS, and from what company they came. Turn YellowTAB into a sort of Apple. Do it.

In return, I’ll promis not to say anything about bad yT-dev interaction. Really.

I don’t get it.

As the rest of the world knows, my government supported the war on Iraq. Even though 70% or so of the Dutch people was against, they still supported Bush and Blair in their bloodthirst.

As the rest of the world also knows by now, that war was a huge mistake. It was a war based on lies (weapons of mass destruction); and when those lies really turned out to be lies (as no weapons of mass destruction have been found), the US government suddenly forgot all about WMD and said that removing Saddam was the priority.

Yesterday, our secretary of Foreign Affairs finally said what my entire nation, and anyone else who isn’t kissing Bush’ ass, already knows: the war on Iraq was a mistake. He literally said that the war wasn’t “the smartest thing to do”, and that the pursuement of diplomacy would have been “a wiser thing to do”.

I applaud his courage. However, his words are not in line with government policy. So, today, my prime minister basically forced him to retract his words, because it is important that a government doesn’t sway, it may come over as weak.

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That I do not get. To me, a man is more of a man when he admits his mistakes. I have much more respect for people who are not afraid to admit when they’re wrong. My respect and admiration for the governmnent would have risen if they would finally say what everyone already knows. “We made a mistake by supporting the United States in their illegal war. It was foolish of us, but it is in the past. We want to express our sincere apologies.”

That is what real men would do.