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FEMA briefing For those who missed the news: Associated Press has revealed that Bush was warned adequately about Katrina’s potential destructive power although he denied this later, saying that “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” In fact federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck in dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn’t ask a single question during the briefing but assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: “We are […]

Yuk. More snow. The whole week has been one big blur because of the snow. Last night was just incredible. I have been stuck in traffic jams in places that I have never been stuck before in my life. Off course for kids and such this is great. I remember how much I loved to play outside in the snow when I was a kid. And we did have some cool winters in the mid-seventies with at least 1 to 1.5 feet of snow. But when you’re commuting it is just a pain in the neck. Anyway: look at my […]

Yet another day with snow. When I woke up the world had turned to black an white once again. Unlike the other day my car was completely covered with about 2 inches of snow and I had to clean all the windows before I took off. In contrast to yesterday however, I made good progress. I guess people are getting used to the weather. Funny enough; for once I seemed to be going the right way and the traffic jam was on the other side of the road. Lucky me.. See the video’s for a quick impression: Snow covered carGoing […]

Phew. Spend more that 1,5 hours to get to the office this morning. Traffic was horrendous due to bad weather. Snow, wind, hail and rain. Everything they can throw at us. Here is a small clip that shows the snow on my car. In this part I was actually still moving. But right around the corner it stopped and it took me an hour to barely get 10 miles further. Good thing I had a newspaper with me.

‘Blatant lie’ When I heard about a week and a half ago about US vice-president Dick Cheney accidentaly shooting a guy, I didn’t think that much of it. I mean: accidents happen. But then some details started to leak out to the press. The fact that Cheney tried to keep the press out of the whole story, the fact that Cheney did not have the right permit, the fact the local sherif didn’t interview anyone until the day after etc. etc. And who can blame the guy for it: the more facts leak out the more stupid it all looks. […]

‘Fuckstomer Support’ So what the heck ever happened to ‘customer first’ and all that? What is it that companies do not get about the ‘customer’ and the ‘service’ in ‘customer service’ ? Why is it so hard to actually help a customer, let alone give them the feeling they are welcome and appreciated? This week showed me another excruciating example of a total lack of coordination, service and apathy when I tried to get a hold of someone in sales at Adobe in the Netherlands. And all I want is some information about their Adobe Graphics Server. So first I […]

Got it? Some time ago I wrote about the new and improved Windows Vista, although details where very sketchy at the time. In the mean time I have downloaded the latest beta version (didn’t have the time yet to fool around with it though) and read about all the new features (most of them are utterly useless in my humble opinion). Well, talking of useless: have you seen the proposed versions Vista will be available in? Holy toledo Batman, who has come up with this plan? What is this? Let’s confuse everyone and then hope they will still buy it? […]

I resurrected my phpBB2 bulletin board so people can discuss the Rayburn case there instead of on the original Blog. Just go to: The Rayburn Files. Somone also posted the case on the John Douglas Mindhunter Forums. I wonder is anyone will ever really crack the case.

Exhibit ‘A’ While the world as we know it is probably ending (because we are very likely on the eve of an ‘ELE’ not caused by a comet but by a 12 Monkeys like outbreak of H5N1), all I can obsess about right now, is a dead pixel in my 17″ monitor. Yup, my Acer AL1715 that is about a year old is displaying a dead pixel. You can see it only on a dark background and shows up as red (see exhibit A). First I thought it was a speck of dust and tried to rub it off. Very […]

Original or fake? Ok, we all know how good Microsoft is about ‘inventing’ new things and coming up with new, original ideas right? Well this year we will see the coming of yet another fresh, cool Windows: Vista! Yeah.. Right. Well, to get a sneak preview of it, watch these three part video of Vista getting re-introduced by Bill Gates himself: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.Yup, Micro$oft pulls it off once again. Way to go guys!