The number of the beast In all the commotion around the upcoming war in the Middle East, people regain new interest in all the biblical and other mystical prophecies that surrounds these global events of epic proportions. Although I consider myself not religious in a biblical sense, I do find these prophecies – or better said: the interpretations of the prophecies – very interesting (one look at my DVD collection will reveal some movies with a very religious theme). So I dug up some interesting things on the net. Let’s start with the bible, King James Edition in English, and […]
Give peace a chance – Point of no return
Give peace a chance – Point of no return At the same time I’m writing this, probably a thousand other people are also filling their Blogs with the same words: Give peace a chance. Although I did not attend any of the so many peace protests that went on yesterday (see: CNN.com – Cities jammed in worldwide protest of war in Iraq – Feb. 15, 2003 and CNN.com – European protesters fill cities – Feb. 15, 2003), I do support the effort to keep peace. Even my girlfriend in the US did attend the peace rally that went on in […]
Unraveling Donnie’s mystery
Unraveling Donnie’s mystery Before I start raving about the peace protests that went on yesterday all over the world, I will just start with a lighter subject; Yesterday I bought the Donnie Darko DVD. Yes, it’s true. I shelled out some 20 Euros (at this moment it’s the equivalent of about 23 dollars, since the Euro went up) and bought me the “DTS Special Edition” supposedly “loaded with extras”. Ever since I discussed the movie on Feb. 3rd, I couldn’t help being (and staying) very mesmerized by it. There was another coincidence that I didn’t mention here yet. When I […]
Getting there
It feels like the war can break out this week. Bush’s war rhetoric isn’t going to end soon and we just know he wants to start a war. Whats up with that and whats up with Korea? Are the US afraid to tackle the problems they have with Iraq by diplomacy? They are not doing anything war-like against Korea. Movie freak I watched Donnie Darko again the day before yesterday. Then I gave the film to a colleague of mine to watch it: he liked it too. I will buy this movie soon. Its about $20 but worth every penny. […]
“In measuring a circle one begins anywhere”
“In measuring a circle one begins anywhere” Ok, its 23:45 on a Monday night and I just saw a movie that left me puzzled way beyond usually. I pride myself in being rather a movie buff and I own a fast growing library of DVD’s including the Sixth Sense. Now, I have seen some Sixth Sense rip-offs like “The Others” but none of them came close to leaving me behind with a very very disturbed feeling like this one did: “Donnie Darko”. There, I finally said it. I never ever heard about it, never ever saw a preview or anything […]
Bizarre coincidence?
Sometimes life is so weird. I was reinstalling a PC of a friend and I put XP on it. Now you might know that XP has this login screen with little icons on it. You can change them and replace them with a photo of yourself if you want. It seems that XP chooses a random icon to represent the people that can login. I created 2 users so I had 2 icons. Now here comes the bizarre coincidence: XP choose an icon of…. the space shuttle! I could *not* believe my eyes but it is true. Go through the […]
The Final Frontier
Wow. That’s the only word I can think up for now. This afternoon I received an e-mail alert by CNN stating that NASA had lost contact with the space shuttle while they were on their re-entry to earth. Needless to say this is again a big tragedy. I still remember when the Challenger blew up years ago. Now the Columbia is gone and with it a fine crew of 7. Off course this will set back all the missions planned for this and coming years. I’m sure they don’t allow any shuttle to lift-off until they have a clear idea […]
Clear and present danger?
I watched the RTL4 and NOS news this morning (for those not familiar with these channels: they are Dutch TV-channels) to get a glimpse of the State of The Union, as presented by Pres. Bush last night. Well, what can I say, it couldn’t be more clear: the US is gonna attack Iraq no matter what. They don’t need proof or a smoking gun either: “Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent,” Bush said. “Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?” What this means (in […]
Blogger sucks!
Nice free service I thought. Well publishing something to my page seems hardly possible: although Blogger states “upload successful”, it turns out that checking the FTP log actually states it DID NOT work.. Grrrr…
Where is the smoking gun?
Call me suspicious, but why can’t the UN produce a smoking gun when it comes to the evil empire Iraq? Maybe Iraq isn’t half the threat the US wants the world to believe. On the other hand: if they (they as in ‘the US’) really want a war, you would think they can ‘invent’ the proof they need. Afterall: they were able to blame Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy back in the 60’s. So how hard can it be to forge some documents and convert them into the smoking gun they need? Or plant some […]