Coping with public and private transport since 2001
I’ll start with the pictures here: All those in Holland probably have heard of the Chinese freighter which drifted ashore last Friday. This Saturday, I went to the ‘Slufter’, which is at the very edge of the Maasvlakte, and saw the thing through my lens. It’s big, it’s bulky and old. Zhen Hua 10, owned by Shanghai-based Crane manufacturing company
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Continue readingSince this monday, we’ve been forced to vacate the flexplekken that have been my workspace ever since I started working on my thesis. Now, we have moved to the first floor in the buidling, and have taken up residency in what is called a ‘loungespot’. Yes, productivity is as high as usual. 😉 Take a look, and be amazed at
Continue readingWhen reading the title, they could very well be the subjects of a new plotline of a thriller by Frederick Forsyth, but these are not. I’m talking about the current controversy around two mishaps, two local PvdA politicians who have signed a rather dubious petition by an even more dubious and perhaps even mischievous group of radical mulims. We’re discussing
Continue readingWhen you thought you knew it all, it hits you. Green energy is, despite the obviously good looking color green which exerts a feeling of wellness and positive attitude, not only good anymore! Minister Maria van der Hoeven (of Economics) received a list of good and bad biomass (of which green energy is made) from Mirjam de Rijk from Natuur
Continue readingWe all know our world is dying, and we are to blame. Our rigourous spending and consuming behaviour has led to the demise of our ozone-layer and the process of global warming. As Al Gore told us: we’re doomed if we don’t do something about it. In that light, our government has decided to heighten the taxes on all leased
Continue readingAll for the sake of animal welfare, or so it seems to be nowadays. For every subspecies that mother nature has gifted our world with, we Dutchies have an action group that strive for the common welfare of the animal in question. Ducks, chicken, sheep, cows, rabbits; all have certain groups favoring the quality of life of the animals, and
Continue readingYesterday I went to the BookFestival in Ahoy’ Rotterdam. This grande sale of mostly crappish (but new) books it held over 6 times a year throughout The Netherlands and Flanders. It houses vast amounts of really cheap books, and books you probably will never ever read or see anywhere else because of their, probably justified, obscurity. They sell the leftovers
Continue readingWouldn’t we all like to get that? Free knowledge, in a society like ours, where knowing stuff is the key to success and a bigger monthly paycheck. In an effort to reduce the financial burden on (young) families, our Cabinet has ruled in their great wisdom all books in the Dutch version of High school (Middelbaar Onderwijs) should be supplied
Continue readingBesides the commonly understood disadvantage of size and weight of a dSLR, there’s another one: money. It seems to be an endless route: every time there’s more money to be spent on accessories, lenses and cleaning. I can hear you ask: cleaning? What? My reply will be: the sensor. Every time you change lenses, there’s the possibility of dust or
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