Weblog | Week 48 2001

My results of the James Bond Villain Personality Test » "You are Dr Kananga. You enjoy tarot readings, growing drugs, and throwing people to hungry crocodiles. You are played by Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die."

Try out Google4MP3.

I've watched the last part of WWII drama Band of Brothers (2001) on the BBC on friday. I must that I was impressed. When I first heard about the series I thought it would be full of errors, like so many other American WWII movies. But it wasn't (well, not many anyway. There was the episode with the Dutch village, which had a sign saying "Paris x kilometers". Paris is not the center of Europe, and that sign shouldn't have been there. But okay). My compliments to the makers anyway. There is ofcourse also an official website you might want to visit.

I've joined the .blog girls. webring, check out the links at the bottom of this page.

Wat een gedoe toch weer. Eind van het jaar komt in zicht en dus weer tijd om mijn nieuwe OV kaart op te halen. Maar helaas was mijn toeristenkaart net een week verlopen. Dus toch maar een nieuw paspoort gehaald. Even fl. 73 gulden nog wat lappen en je kan weer mee tot 2006. Maar dan heb je ook wat. En nu dus ook mijn nieuwe OV gehaald. Wat een vreselijk moment zal dat zijn, als ik 'em af moet staan. Snik.

Today » World AIDS Day: Link and Think.
Sign the petition for vaccins at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) website.
Visit the AIDS Education Global Information System, which has loads of info.

Went to Den Haag with my mom today (I had the day off, you see). Unfortunately it rained most of the day, but we still had a good time. When we got home a surprise was waiting for me, since my package from Large had arrived. Hurah! So now I'm the proud owner of Danzig's first untitled album, Judas Priest with Unleashed in the East, and the Blue Oyster Cult double-CD pack, which contains their albums Cult Classics and Heaven Forbids. So I'm going to play some music now. Bye.

Just browsing through the Google Blog directory, and vanity caused me to search for myself. I found one result, for plasticbag.org "I'm not sure that the design for The Hermit's Tower is supposed to look like it does on a Mac - but it's an enjoyable read, so I'll forgive it quite a lot." I feel special. :-)

They Rule and now you can see who "They" are.

ZDNet's Research Center contains white papers, case studies, market research and analysis on a variety of industry topics. Check it out.

The Alternative Dictionaries, featuring international slang.

Almost every site is bombarding me with Euro information » for instance Ilse and de Volkskrant.

Bit of a theme night yesterday. First I watched Frasier, the episode called Sliding Frasiers, where two different scenarios of Frasier's Valentine's Day take place all dependant on events early in the show. After that I watched the excellent movie Lola Rennt (1998), which has a similar story.
"At home, Lola gets a call from her frightened boyfriend who has lost a large amount of gang money he was smuggling into the country. His only chance of staying alive is if she can get replacement cash to him in twenty minutes. Lola decides to try her father at the bank where he works. But exactly how things will turn out depends crucially, almost to the second, on how she sets off on her errand."
Ofcourse this has gotten my to wonder, what could have been different in my life, dependant not only on the big decisions you make, but also the little ones you make all the time every day. I wonder.

Just reading some info on VirusAlert about the latest mail virus. I to have been bombarded with mails with only the subject "Re:" and sometimes with an attachment. Why do people create these things. Sigh. Luckily Yahoo webmail filters most of the crap for me.

Wikipedia » a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch.

Yesterday, Tjerk bought the Wrox book 'Professional Apache' » "You will learn from the author's real-world knowledge of Apache's intracacies and quirks, including undocumented information gleaned from the Apache source-code and his administration experience. With this book, you will avoid the pitfalls and do it right first time."
I've flipped through it last night, and I must say, it looks pretty cool. I'll have to have a closer look this weekend. Also I'll try and post some of the pictures I've made with our new camera.

Take the Affliction Test Today! » Just so you know, I am Rabies.

I've joined BlogSnob » "It enables you to tell everyone Out There about your blog, thru simple textbased ads." My link is on the bottom at the right side of the screen. Just below the 'Related' header. Cool, huh?

The king is dead, love live the king! Read all about the obsolete desktop metaphor and the next computer interface.

Moviepooper, if you want to know the end, but don't want to see the movie.

Google, others dig deep--maybe too deep. "Search-engine spiders crawling the Web are increasingly stumbling upon passwords, credit card numbers, classified documents and even computer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers." (via Slashdot)

Oh, you may or may not have noticed that all external links in this blog now open in new windows. Better, right?

Nothing terribly interesting going on today. I've been doing some further work on the new e-Vision website, and I must say, it's going to be good. We've also taken some shots with the digital camera, of the inside and the outside of the building, to decorate the site with.
I've watched Boogie Nights last night, with Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler (excellent name). The movie surprised me, I especially loved the disco scene. Kudos to the choreographer. On the other hand I was very disappointed by Urban Legend, which I've also watched. Not that my expectations were very high, but it did not even live up to those.

Just in case you're interested, I'm re-reading Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon for the Xth time. That book never gets old. If you haven't already, go and read it.