Guus Bosman

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What to vote?

Thu, 01/16/2003 - 9:16am

What to vote?For those who don't know what to vote, Wouter sent me the perfect solution.

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chess

Tools 2

Thu, 01/16/2003 - 8:42am

Tools - the sequel:


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politicsnews

Hope

Thu, 01/16/2003 - 5:57am

It would be great if it is true that Job Cohen is the candidate prime minister of the Labour party. Yesterday he said:

,,We hebben vreemdelingen hier gehaald om werk op te knappen waar we zelf geen trek meer in hadden. We hebben ze daarvoor nog nodig. [...] Vergis je niet: bij veel allochtonen is er een enorme gretigheid om het in Nederland te gaan maken, een gretigheid die ik bij autochtonen wel eens mis.''

(,,We took foreigners to do the jobs we don't feel like doing. We still need them for that. [...] Don't be mistaken: many foreigners are very eager to go for it in Holland, an eagerness I don't always see in the natives.")

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ourhouse

One year Hooimarkt

Thu, 01/16/2003 - 5:23am

Today it's exactly a year ago that we first entered our current house with our own key. From that day we were working 3 weeks to get everything ready.

A detailed description of the moving you can find in the look back at 2002. My father sent me a few pictures of the day we moved.

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internet

Happy birthday©

Wed, 01/15/2003 - 1:05pm

I never knew that the song 'Happy Birthday to You' is protected by copyright. This story however, describes the history of the song and the copyright transfers.

For private use you don't have to pay royalties but for commercial use you do. The song generates about $2 million in royalties annually.

From the article:
The next time you hear "Happy Birthday" in a movie -- and now that you’re listening, it won’t be long -- stay for the credits at the end of the movie.

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politicsnews

Focus group campaigning

Wed, 01/15/2003 - 12:00pm

Perception analyser.NRC Handelsblad made a focus group of 25 people watch the last TV debate and measured their reactions using a perception analyser.The article describes what the reactions of these viewers are on statements of the party leaders.

This kind of tools were also described in the book I read on last years campaign of the Labour party (PvdA).

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fun

Tea kettle for sale

Wed, 01/15/2003 - 11:13am

On the Urban Legends Page I found a reference to somebody putting an teapot for sale online with a rather unfortunate picture...

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guusbosmannl

Back in time with Guus Bosman.nl

Wed, 01/15/2003 - 9:27am

Old version of Guus Bosman.nl.I've found the old version of my website! You can find it here.

It's the first website I had ever made; it dates from 1999. That was just after I came back from Bulgaria and two years before I registered 'guusbosman.nl'.


It is so nice to see some pictures of Florijn again.

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movies

Die Another Day

Wed, 01/15/2003 - 6:20am

Die another day.We went to the Chess New Year's party yesterday, in Zeist. Sasha and I got a ride from Mark and Saskia. It was uncertain till the very last moment if we would be on time... but we made it! Well, at least for the main course of the dinner.

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internet

Voting story

Tue, 01/14/2003 - 8:36am

On Slashdot I found an interesting article about the computer problems that caused the American national TV stations to be so wrong in their predictions of who would be president.

"There was not enough collaboration between the networks and the IT people. And, worse, there was nothing we could do about it. You can't postpone an election."

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