A small test on metadata. Spot the difference.

One difference, the first I added the tag downblouse, the second is free of tags.

What a difference metadata makes and what a shame that Flickr has become a site to look for porn. Sad, I always thought of Flickr as the last bastion of true artistic value but it seems that it has is being used like the rest of the internet is.

Ongelofelijk. Het is denk ik 20 jaar geleden dat ik voor het laatst in Assen (centrum) ben geweest. En de volgende keer dat ik daar ben, hoop ik het komende decenium niet mee te maken.

Assen was altijd al een lelijk provincie durpje en nu double so. De enige bioscoop is in de verherbouw, de laatste planoloog heeft lang geleden het licht uit gedaan en is gepromoveerd naar Lelystad.

Deze foto geeft de eerste armoede weer; een chinees in laagbouw moet zijn schoorsteen 5 meter boven het maaiveld hebben.

Maar hier -aan de rand van het cenyrum van Assen- begint de Armoede pas.

Ik kwam in een straat die zo naar was... zulke jaren 70 facades heeft ...

...dat de lokale "Beter Horen" maar heeft besloten om er een doekje voor te doen. Dat is armoede, armoede troef:

Assen, te klein voor het tafellaken, te klein voor het servet. En te lelijk om aan tafel te mogen zitten.

Today I got a "follow" from Podblanc on my twitter account. I get dayly followers I do not know, mosty stupid bots disguised as attractive girls that folow 5k people and have 20 followers (extreem stupid people who fail the Turning test ).

I always checkout my followers before follwing them, and it looked that this podblanc was human and ... is running a Drupal site at podblanc.com.

There are days that I feel proud. Proud to be part of a community that builds software that helps people to communicate. Proud to be in that community from the early days. So I have seen the tech communities that embraced Drupal as a tool to communicate. And then gave the media companies -new and old media- that had a good and cheap option to facilitate users. And then came the (from US PoV liberal) political parties in the US that enabled relativly unknown persons to run for president-candidate. Then the small local communities around churches, local red cross organisations and even the big ones like Amnesty. And I am proud that I was a very very small part in the world that enabled this.

But I never NEVER have been "proud" to be white. I never thought that one race, religion or sex is superiour above another. I have the luck to have old parents, who have been through what in central Europe is called "The War" (World War II) and have told me about the horrors. I have had the luck to have travelled around the world to see other people, get in touch with other cultures and to have visited Auschwitz. I know the horrors, I know the pain, I know about the waste of lifes.

I am not the hating kind of person, but somewhere deep in me, I hate people who hate people. And yes I do understand the paradox there. But I am not to keen on right winged Neo Nazi's who refuse to learn from the past, or even to accept the past.

So I am not proud that this white-site is using Drupal. I am sad that we created something that can be misused in this way. But like any tool, it can be used for good and bad. It is the person holding the knife that decides to create a sculpture or go for the kill, not the maker of the knife.

Sometime.. just like now. I wish the GPL was "a bit discriminating" for who it was legal to use and for who not. But you can not have a "bit of freedom"; you have it or you dont. And if that is what we are facing, I am proud that I am part of a freedom where stupid white (or black) people can say stupid things about (white or) black people ... using Drupal.

Proud but with a bad taste in my mouth.

Vanacht minder dan twee uur geslapen. De reden:

Aart heeft de waterpokken. Brecht had ze ook 2 weken geleden maar minder vurig en was wel hangerig maar was er relatief nog vrolijk onder.

Aart heeft echter veel en veel meer vurige pukkels die veel sneller kwamen. En daarom was hij om het uur wakker vanacht met jeuk, koorts en pijn voor 3/4 lang. Dus enkele korte hazeslaapjes "genoten" maar voel me een vaatdoek.

En dat terwijl Aart normaal een bijzonder vrolijk een mooi kereltje is:

Zie alle watterpokken fotos op flickr.

Why did America went to war in Iraq? To make sure barrels of oil would not be paid in Euros (as most oil countries want) but Dollars? For political purposes like a re-election? To leave a mark in history for a mad president? Who knows?

But not to find weapons of mass destruction, not to free a country and not for all the right reasons, if there are any right reasons to start a war in the first place. If you have some time to kill, checkout the videos on leadingtowar.com. Before you flame me for this posting, be sure to watch the video, in full.

The United States of America, misleading their own people, occupying a foreign country, prisoning "freedom fighters" in Cuba without trial, torturing people, legalising waterboarding.

And I thought that was in the past in another country? It is absurd that "the land of the free" seems to be nothing more then some "land". With a monkey in a white treehouse.