A Dutch Life

What else to say? I want one

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The brilliant folks over at Common Craft have done one of their amazing jobs of reducing the complex to the simple, and here they tackle the big job of explaining the US electoral system. IT’s worth a look:

Sometimes I worry about that fact that I would be a lousy fugitive.

Didn’t know this was coming, but interested in seeing it…..

I got back to my bike yesterday to find the following items missing:

• 2 x handle bar grips (2 years old)
• 1 x bike bell (broken)
• 1 x detachable light (broken)

I’m not sure what the street value of these items are, but I would be surprised if it were enough to purchase a tulip at the end of tulip season. Of course my bike wasn’t the only one, many around me were also missing their grips. The strange bit was that some were only missing one, indicating to me, that the rubber raiders were actually being selective, picking and choosing their targets carefully. Perhaps I should take some pride in the cleanliness of my hands.

The Vista team wanted to put something to the test. Do people hate Vista because they actually hate it, or do they hate it because they heard they should. I have to say this doesn’t surprise me. In the MojaveExperiment they showed people “the next version of Windows” and captured their reactions. They loved it, and were most surprised to find out they were actually being shown today’s Vista.

My attitude to Vista has always been that it’s a great OS, it just shouldn’t have taken 5 years to build. Of course the biggest problem with Vista, and what probably messed up the launch and its reputation, was mostly related to drivers. Not only did they change a great deal of the fundamental driver architecture, but Microsoft did a pretty poor job of driving driver development through the literally tens of thousands of hardware vendors. Today, drivers are mostly up to scratch but it has been a long hard road.

Anyway, if you haven’t tried Vista, and just think it sucks, watch the overview video at least:

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

P.S. I don’t have an Microsoft shares anymore….This is just my never ending response to the many beatings I got at dinner parties over the years while being a softie. <grin>

‘Allah meat’ astounds Nigerians

"When the writings were discovered there were some Islamic scholars who come and eat here and they all commented that it was a sign to show that Islam is the only true religion for mankind," he said.
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"Supposing only one piece of meat was found then it would be suspicious, but given the circumstances there is no explanation," Dr Yakubu Dominic said.

I have also been laughing at The Onion for a very long time:

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

The lean of Amsterdam houses often makes me wonder….if one were to be removed, would they all fall over?

I don’t subscribe to many “funny” feeds, but one that has been making me laugh pretty much daily is the Fail Blog, here is a sample: