Saturday, 5 May 2007
Friday, 4 May 2007
Find your lost cat or dog
Terrible news, you lost your cat or dog.
Ofcourse before you panic, you have to search your property thoroughly. Look in your shed, the attic and other places you pet can hide.
After that, you need to get out of the house and walk the neighborhood while calling it often. Cats and dogs will often stay within walking range the first day. This first day (or two) will be your best shot to find your pet back. Don't go to bed, walk around.
In between post missing signs, handout flyers and contact animal shelters. After two days, animal control agencies will be your best luck to get united with your pet.
Some links with tips:
Ofcourse before you panic, you have to search your property thoroughly. Look in your shed, the attic and other places you pet can hide.
After that, you need to get out of the house and walk the neighborhood while calling it often. Cats and dogs will often stay within walking range the first day. This first day (or two) will be your best shot to find your pet back. Don't go to bed, walk around.
In between post missing signs, handout flyers and contact animal shelters. After two days, animal control agencies will be your best luck to get united with your pet.
Some links with tips:
Thursday, 3 May 2007
A secret
Some samples of facts, but also samples of how media (and public) put things:
At the 30th Antarctic Treaty Advisory Meeting, being held in New Delhi, worries were raised that tourism to the Antarctic could have serious implications for the delicate environment. Antarctica is considered the world's last great wilderness. Source: 70South
Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed. Source: Mongabay
Unless China finds a way to clean up its coal plants and the thousands of factories that burn coal, pollution will soar both at home and abroad. The increase in global-warming gases from China's coal use will probably exceed that for all industrialized countries combined over the next 25 years, surpassing by five times the reduction in such emissions that the Kyoto Protocol seeks. Source: NYtimes online
The facts are clear: Our world is changing.
The message we sent: Our glas is half empty. We're going down the drain. It all fails.
What we want: Good changes, welfare for everyone, nice holidays, seeing awsum environments, wood, income, work, energy, warmth.
Stop thinking in problems, stop thinking in what you don't want. Start thinking in solutions, start thinking what you do want. Our glass is half full.
Have a look at The Secret.
At the 30th Antarctic Treaty Advisory Meeting, being held in New Delhi, worries were raised that tourism to the Antarctic could have serious implications for the delicate environment. Antarctica is considered the world's last great wilderness. Source: 70South
Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed. Source: Mongabay
Unless China finds a way to clean up its coal plants and the thousands of factories that burn coal, pollution will soar both at home and abroad. The increase in global-warming gases from China's coal use will probably exceed that for all industrialized countries combined over the next 25 years, surpassing by five times the reduction in such emissions that the Kyoto Protocol seeks. Source: NYtimes online
The facts are clear: Our world is changing.
The message we sent: Our glas is half empty. We're going down the drain. It all fails.
What we want: Good changes, welfare for everyone, nice holidays, seeing awsum environments, wood, income, work, energy, warmth.
Stop thinking in problems, stop thinking in what you don't want. Start thinking in solutions, start thinking what you do want. Our glass is half full.
Have a look at The Secret.
Wednesday, 2 May 2007
Look it up... yourself
I keep it short today. If you want to look it up for yourself...
My plump starfish quickly lowered Lincoln's tie
Four NETS for Better Searching
Have fun!
My plump starfish quickly lowered Lincoln's tie
Four NETS for Better Searching
Have fun!
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
The Power of Internet is just beginning
"In one video, a U.S. soldier blasts insurgent gunmen with a heavy sniper rifle as the room fills with smoke. In another, members of an Iraqi family throw their arms around soldiers, weeping and rejoicing, after learning that their kidnapped relative has been freed.
The U.S. military has opened a new front in the Iraq war: cyberspace." Source: Los Angeles Times online
"It is becoming clear that with each passing election that the power of the Internet on campaigning and elections only grows exponentially.
What 2008 U.S. presidential candidate does not have a website?" Source: Helium
"Dirty Harry had his .44. Sherlock Holmes had his brain. Evan Guttman had his computer, the Web and a few thousand people he had never met. That was enough." Source: NY Times online
Propoganda, influence the mass and pillory, the power of internet is just beginning to accelerate. What to do? Try to stop it? Try to regulate it? Try anything against the internet?
NO WAY !
Two things what can be done:
1. Try to make internet users more aware of the process ongoing (instead of talking about the content). Not everything is true what is written. Encourage people to think for themselves. Establish a generic set of values and way to interact with the internet and it's content.
2. Use the internet for ad 1. It's there, just grab it.
The U.S. military has opened a new front in the Iraq war: cyberspace." Source: Los Angeles Times online
"It is becoming clear that with each passing election that the power of the Internet on campaigning and elections only grows exponentially.
What 2008 U.S. presidential candidate does not have a website?" Source: Helium
"Dirty Harry had his .44. Sherlock Holmes had his brain. Evan Guttman had his computer, the Web and a few thousand people he had never met. That was enough." Source: NY Times online
Propoganda, influence the mass and pillory, the power of internet is just beginning to accelerate. What to do? Try to stop it? Try to regulate it? Try anything against the internet?
NO WAY !
Two things what can be done:
1. Try to make internet users more aware of the process ongoing (instead of talking about the content). Not everything is true what is written. Encourage people to think for themselves. Establish a generic set of values and way to interact with the internet and it's content.
2. Use the internet for ad 1. It's there, just grab it.
Monday, 30 April 2007
Laugh for no reason
Two guys are walking down the street when a mugger approaches them and demands their money. They both grudgingly pull out their wallets and begin taking out their cash. Just then one guy turns to the other and hands him a bill. "Here’s that $20 I owe you," he says.
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job will be to sweep out the store." "But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied indignantly. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom -- I'll show you how."
The Perfect Worker
1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work in his cubicle. Bob works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be
10 classed as a high-caliber employee, the type which cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be
12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible.
Addendum:
That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the reportsent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numberedlines.
Ha ha ha ?
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job will be to sweep out the store." "But I'm a college graduate," the young man replied indignantly. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom -- I'll show you how."
The Perfect Worker
1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work in his cubicle. Bob works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be
10 classed as a high-caliber employee, the type which cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be
12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible.
Addendum:
That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the reportsent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numberedlines.
Ha ha ha ?
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Why do you give aid?
Ofcourse you're generous and care for other people. How about the next passages...
"Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent." Source: Washington Post
"Millions of pounds of taxpayers' aid money destined to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami is still stuck in the bank accounts of World Bank and United Nations organisations a year after the disaster, a report by the National Audit Office, Parliament's financial watchdog, revealed today." Source: Guardian Unlimited
"After analysing data from 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index, economist and emeritus Professor Wolfgang Kasper reveals, ‘A major cause for the rising tide of graft is foreign aid. Aid rarely reaches the poor and is rarely cost-effective. Despite assertions by well-paid foreign-aid lobbyists, unconditional foreign aid has failed. Thus, huge aid flows to Africa have only rewarded incompetent despots and kleptocratic elites, whereas absolute poverty has plummeted in India and China, countries which have received comparatively little foreign aid.’" Source: International Policy Network
"Corruption has been a seemingly insurmountable barrier to Russian development in the years since its economic and political transition began 10 years ago. Taxes are evaded through bribery, budget allocations for social programs are squandered for political favors, and foreign aid is embezzled by oligarchs for personal gain." Source: Impublished
I'm not suggesting you stop giving aid, but maybe you figure out a way to give aid in a way it does help the need. I'm not the man with the solution here, only suggest you think about this, talk with others and try to make a real difference.
"Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent." Source: Washington Post
"Millions of pounds of taxpayers' aid money destined to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami is still stuck in the bank accounts of World Bank and United Nations organisations a year after the disaster, a report by the National Audit Office, Parliament's financial watchdog, revealed today." Source: Guardian Unlimited
"After analysing data from 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index, economist and emeritus Professor Wolfgang Kasper reveals, ‘A major cause for the rising tide of graft is foreign aid. Aid rarely reaches the poor and is rarely cost-effective. Despite assertions by well-paid foreign-aid lobbyists, unconditional foreign aid has failed. Thus, huge aid flows to Africa have only rewarded incompetent despots and kleptocratic elites, whereas absolute poverty has plummeted in India and China, countries which have received comparatively little foreign aid.’" Source: International Policy Network
"Corruption has been a seemingly insurmountable barrier to Russian development in the years since its economic and political transition began 10 years ago. Taxes are evaded through bribery, budget allocations for social programs are squandered for political favors, and foreign aid is embezzled by oligarchs for personal gain." Source: Impublished
I'm not suggesting you stop giving aid, but maybe you figure out a way to give aid in a way it does help the need. I'm not the man with the solution here, only suggest you think about this, talk with others and try to make a real difference.
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