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Blogcast #5 2005-09-11 19:00 approx. 30 min. show. Today’s shownotes: 4 years after 9/11 Katrina music: “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp Dutch judicial scandal

While Katrina was dominating the headlines all over the world, another scandal has occupied the Dutch media: the story of an innocent man (31) that was convicted to 18 years imprisonment for the murder of a 10 year old girl. A murder that he did not commit. A fact wellknow by the district attorney and the NFI (national forensic institute, the Dutch equivalent to CSI). Still, they put him in prison. More disturbing: there is evidence that this happens more often than we all think. As it turns out the DA knew all along that the person he was going […]

Since I wrote about Katrina’s aftermath, the looting, raping, shootings etc. a lot has happened. For starters, Bush got of his ass and kicked everything into gear. Now the storm has passed, stories keep pouring out and videos from tourist that got trapped are also published on the net. It is mind-boggling that more than 1 million people were evacuated and at least half a million – if not more – are homeless, jobless and left to their own devices. Amidst all this one photo that I saw on flickr struck me in particular. It shows the whole drama in […]

Dear Mr. President: New Orleans is angry An open letter to the president from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, published Sunday NEW ORLEANS — Dear Mr. President: We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, “What is not working, we’re going to make it right.” Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism. Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and […]

Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Vacation is Over… an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Dear Mr. Bush: Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the […]

A few days before Katrina hit land, I told my girlfriend Carrie that I had a bad feeling about this storm. Not only was it one of the most powerfull in decades, it was heading straight for some heavily populated areas. But what is happening now, in the aftermath of it all, is really ridiculous. The situation is just completely out of control. CNN reports that people are literally dying in front of them. Where the hell is National Guard, the military the government? Where the hell is Bush? I am outraged by the situation. I was just roughly one […]

For a while now I have been trying to migrate my website to Linux. Right now I’m running a so called WAMP server (“Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP”) and I want it to become a LAMP server (you guessed it, that’s “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”). The reason for this is simple: stability and security. Windows has too much security problems and Linux just doesn’t. So I have been messing around a bit with my SUSE 9.3 install. But boy, installing and configuring is one thing, getting all old data to the new server (the actual migrating) is another thing. I have […]

One of the best inventions on the web are search engines. Not a day goes by without me using them. Or I should say: using “it”. Or even more specific: Google. I literally use Google every day. And in 99 percent of all cases I find what I am looking for. Well, some time ago, Google released Google Desktop (http://desktop.google.com) , which brought the power of Google to your (Windows) computer. Well, they now released version 2.0 that adds a shipload of options and extra’s. I was hooked on version 1.0 but 2.0 is really a huge improvement! It comes […]

Ok now, this is NO joke. This actually IS officially the World’s ugliest dog.. Pheww, it looks like a nightmare! In fact: if ZOMBIE-dog’s excist, they MUST look like this! This canine, is a 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested owned by Susie Lockheed of Santa Barbara, California. In June 2005, Sam won the “World’s Ugliest Dog” title at the Sonoma-Marin Fair contest for the third consecutive year. Maybe someone can perform an exorcism here!

As was to be expected: Mac OS X for the x86 platform (Intel) is already been hacked and now has been proven to run on (some) PC’s. For more information follow this link and this one as well.