“Après nous, le déluge” – Louis XV QotD

Finally. I can throw away my old newspaper clippings. Now we have Google’s News Archive Search

“This victory proves that it is possible to race and win at the highest level in cycling without using banned drugs.” via – David Millar QotD

I hike through the Netherlands with some friends. A day per month, along longdistance routes (LAW). Look at some photo’s if you like Dutch landscapes and people having fun.

“Ask why. Ask it all the time, ask it any day, every day, and always ask it three times in a row.” via – Ricardo Semler QotD

Did you know this year is the European Year for Workers’ Mobility and Eures offers job vacancies in 29 European countries?

Did you know this year is the European Year for Workers’ Mobility and Eures offers job vacancies in 29 European countries?

“The very success of successful organizations makes them conservative toward change.” via – Kevin Kelly QotD More…

I just added a new column to the webzine Livre. If your can read Dutch: feel free to read my new column about Open Books and the older columns.

“Information should be stored and managed centrally, but Knowledge should be decentralized and managed to understand who the experts are and how best to contact them, rather than expect them to dump the contents of their heads into a managed database.” via – Jeffrey Phillips QotD

These years many wars were about oil. Future wars will be about water. Imagine: could you live without oil? ... but without water?!

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.” via – Gibran Kahlil Gibran QotD

I’m off for a week hiking and mountainbiking in the Eifel National Park and the Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel on the German-Belgian border. We hire a house in the village Kalterherberg, near the beautiful town Monschau. We plan to visit Camp Vogelsang, an interesting military complex build by the Hitler-gang, until recently occupied by Belgian troops and now open to the general public. On the way back home we’ll ride the bike around and spend the night in the Herberg Smidse in Limburg.

“A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” via – David Richmond Gergen QotD

I’ve bought a 2GB (!) SDCard and a tiny Sharkoon cardreader. I use the card as extra drive in my Treo pda. I synchronize the most used files from my PC onto the card – at hand at all times for all workstations I can use. I’ve also installed more sticky software, i.e. my favorite software Firefox and OpenOffice. There is a huge (and free) pack of portable software, as you can see on Portableapps and Portable freeware. Now my tiny USB-stick is a personal finetuned PC. And secure, since I can format the SDCard with an SMS-message, using Butler software.

“There is little doubt that the Earth’s climate is now warming, and there is wide consensus in the scientific community that human activity is the most likely cause.” via – Tapan Munroe QotD

The times they are a-changin’ (aka) on the web. Calendars, ToDo lists and more software can be run from a webserver, with only a browser on your PC (or notebook, or workPC, or Internet-cafe, or USB-stick). Now the web offers a free fullblown texteditor: ajaxWrite.

“Apart from Al Qaeda, the only other foreign terrorist organization with the current capability, reason, and potential intent to commit a serious act of terrorism in the USA is Hizballah, which is revered by some intelligence experts as the ‘A’ team of terrorism.” via – Gordon Woo QotD

“Apart from Al Qaeda, the only other foreign terrorist organization with the current capability, reason, and potential intent to commit a serious act of terrorism in the USA is Hizballah, which is revered by some intelligence experts as the ‘A’ team of terrorism.” via – Gordon Woo QotD

“The base of the work is one of individuals believing in themselves, trusting themselves in the moment and being accepting of themselves and the people around them.” via – Martin de Maat QotD