Guus Bosman

Does anybody know whether the plural of beurs is beurzen or beursen?

When you search on Google for both words you'll find many companies that didn't seem to care and are using them both on the same webpage..

E-mail I received from a very good friend today:

"Joepi!!!

We hebben hem gekregen! Bug Bear! Neergeschoten door Good Old McAfee! We'll drink on that!"

(Yes!!! We got it! Bug Bear! Shot down by Good Old McAfee! We'll drink on that!)

Everybody knows that Amsterdam and New York are two of the most important cities in the world.

They are remarkable alike, as you can see on www.nycasd.com, a website comparing pictures of Amsterdam and NYC.

Beautiful pictures of "bag-carriers": men doing shopping and being bored.

It's a picture collection of Het Parool [source: tonie].

Google is celebrating it's 4th anniversary today.

They are now the most popular search engine on the web, and still growing in popularity. A feature they are currently testing is their news website, a digest of about 4000 news sources. The cool thing is that it's generated automatically, without any human intervention.

Okay, okay... I'm at work now but I just couldn't help noticing this interesting article on CNN.com.


There will be a sex-museum in New York! Big news of course. The museum in Amsterdam is also briefly mentioned.

Like I wrote about a week ago, the Dutch parliament can be viewed online.

Accidentally I found out that the British Parliament also has such a webcam, see here. Quote from today's debate: "terrorism is wicked and must be stopped".

Turns out that President Bush and Churchill are related. See this article on Ancestry.co.uk.

My father send me an e-mail about Opera, the browser he uses. They claim they are the "fastest browser on earth".



Don't know about that but they surely have a nice feature. They support CSS2 and when you switch from normal browsing to full-screen mode it will display a presentation version of your website, just like a PowerPoint show.



Here are two screenshots. The cool thing is that it's the same HTML code, it's just using CSS2 that they achieve this effect. Try it yourself at OperaShow (get Opera first).

Grey Davis is the governor of California, and some people accuse him of corruption. They made a spoof website 'E-Gray' that looks remarkable like E-Bay. E-Bay announced that they will go to court about it (article from News.com).