Dead ex-spy “It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong”. A famous quote by French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist Voltaire (1694 – 1778). And still true as Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel found out the hard way. Before his death on November 23rd nobody had probably ever heard of something called “polonium-210”. In fact it sounds like something from a bad spy movie. However, the truth seems more bizarre than any scenario from a cheap cloak and dagger novel. Litvinenko left Russia for the UK in 2000 after severly criticising his superiors on crime […]
ZionWiki has arrived
Just to let you all know: this Friday I added my own Wiki to my webserver. After I tried PHPwiki (which was very hard to configure and looked real ugly) I decided to install the #1 Wiki: MediaWiki. This is the same software that they run for Wikipedia and lot’s of other Wiki sites. I am going to dedicate my ZionWiki to the Serendipity (s9y) Blogging software and a bit about Ubuntu Linux. The Serendipity website has its own Wiki, but I think it doesn’t look good like a Wiki and I find it hard to search and find stuff. […]
10 years online – my story
I would almost have forgotten it, but 2005 marks my 10th anniversary of being “online”. To be more accurate: from approximately 1993 till 1995 I was ‘semi-online’ using a dial-up connection to some Dutch bulletin boards like “Utopia” (later to become the first Dutch Internet provider called XS4ALL). I also had my own BBS (called WindowsBBS) using the Spitfire BBS software version 3.4. Then, in 1995 I started working for an Internet company called “Riverland Networks” and this marked my first steps on, what we now know as the “Internet”. Looking back it is hard to imagine my life without […]
When looking back one is always right
When looking back one is always right Nothing is easier than looking back on things and analyzing them. Such is also the case with the war in Iraq. People that were against the war (like me) are afraid that many innocent people will get hurt. But now it seems it’s a walk-over for the US. I wonder how much longer the war will last.
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)”
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)” With the war going into another day, this is a truly interesting quote that popped into my mind. The Iraqi’s seem to be able to hold back the US and British army more than we expected and this will make it more and more difficult to tell when this war will be over. Just a dream? In the night the war started I woke up in the morning from a dream I had. Well, actually it was more of a fragment of a dream. The fact […]
Tripod’s messing up!
Tripod’s messing up! For those that know my webpage a bit longer and have visted my webplace more often, know that I had my share of problems with Tripod. Ok, its free and you get 20meg of diskspace (10 more than with my own ISP – UPC) and 1 gig of traffic for free a month, but they do mess up a lot. Very annoying! Well, they did it again! they deleted my vandegoor.tripod.com account! I have no idea why except when I tried to access it I got this message that the user was deleted becasuse of some violation! […]
The number of the beast
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 […]
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 […]