Guus Bosman

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Spring flower 2

Sun, 01/26/2003 - 11:35am

Because I don't like winter I'm always optimistic about the coming of the spring.

Our plants seem to share this optimism.

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fun

Online Tetris

Sun, 01/26/2003 - 3:41am

With the risk of losing one of my most frequent visitors to another site: online Tetris!

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fun

Putin and Dobby

Sat, 01/25/2003 - 3:44pm

Very interesting article at the BBC about Putin and Dobby:

"Dobby the house-elf could be taken to court because some people think he looks like the Russian president.


They are angry because they think the filmmakers deliberately modelled Dobby on the face of Russia's boss, Vladimir Putin. "

Our beloved prime-minister Balkenende is also mentioned. (Found it through Loglynx).

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dailylife

Spring flowers

Sat, 01/25/2003 - 5:45am

They don't smell but they are beautiful.

Flowers.

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fun

''Wouter Bos doet niet meej''

Fri, 01/24/2003 - 7:35am

Parody on Balkenende... make sure to have your sound on!


Balkenende (Flash) about the election results.

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politicsnews

Expatriates vote VVD

Fri, 01/24/2003 - 6:02am

As usual the VVD was the big winner among voters living abroad. They won 30% of the votes.

The Economist had an article about the influence of expatriates on national elections a few weeks ago. It's available online (for free).

"As a rule of thumb, though, émigrés are nationalists, even though they may at the same time be loyal citizens of their adopted country (96% of Australia's Croats are naturalised, and not known as lukewarm in their Ozziness). Perhaps the strength of nationalist feeling has something to do with feelings of guilt among those fortunate enough to live abroad, especially when the home country is under some kind of threat. Perhaps it has something to do with not having to live with the consequences of nationalism pur et dur. Perhaps it is because exile sharpens the sense of the country left behind. Issues may simply seem clearer from afar. In any event, absence certainly seems to make the heart grow fonder—and fierier."

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vu

VU students

Fri, 01/24/2003 - 4:25am

A nice commercial of the Vrije Universiteit.


"The Vrije Universiteit congratulates her ex-students Jan-Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos and Gerrit Zalm with their election victories."


(through Bieslog)

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guusbosmannl

Recent Comments Block

Fri, 01/24/2003 - 3:05am

A few weeks ago I made a simple extension to the website program I'm using that shows the 10 most recent comments. I thought it would be nice to share it with other people, so I posted a message on the official website of PhpNuke.


Interesting to see how my (English) message got copied and translated into various languages:

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fun

Icons war

Thu, 01/23/2003 - 11:18am

Icons war.

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politicsnews

Watching election 2

Wed, 01/22/2003 - 5:19pm




The results still looks very nice, nobody thought this would happen a few weeks ago. It looks like a right-wing cabinet will not have a majority.

It's so nice to watch the elections with friends (and family).

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