From the monthly archives:

May 2007

US military dictatorship

May 21, 2007

What’s the difference between the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 70s and the United States of today? With CNN being the most ridiculous biased propaganda tabloid: Al Qaeda Aussie ‘happy’ to be jailed on home soil; or the line “watch Hicks emerge from a luxury jet“; the tone of those headlines are laughable. I promised myself in [...]

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Nirvana

May 21, 2007

How I miss this heavenly place.

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Why the pope visited Brazil

May 20, 2007

More then half of all Catholics in the world live in Latin America.  Every newspaper will tell you that the pope visited Brazil for the opening of the 5th Celam conference and to support a plan to stop the Catholic exodus towards the increasingly popular protestant churches. But the real reason why the pope visited [...]

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The White Cat

May 20, 2007

Officially the best Caipirinha in town.

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Best telephony setup

May 19, 2007

My HTC S710 (aka Vox) arrived yesterday (yep, Azerty keyboard).  We’ve had our share of sponsored Nokia N95 reviews, time from some real functionality.  After all: – The N95 is fugly. – And besides that it is way too big and too heavy to be functional for me. – Music and Radio on a mobile is [...]

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A Canadian in Belgium

May 18, 2007

Canadians and Americans visiting foreign primitive cultures like Belgium. Seriously now, the US has no priority of right?  I mean, any Latin American country has it, South Africa has it (just the same, only reversed). And priorities on roundabouts, confusing?  That’s also really simple: when you are on the roundabout, you have priority.  Same utterly [...]

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Wat zal het zijn

May 18, 2007

les Belges?  Trouw blijven aan het originele Caipirinha of verbasteren tot Caipirinia? Of de gemakkelijke uitweg en een Caipiroska bestellen.  Want dat is toch wat je hier uiteindelijk in België krijgt.

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