Category Archives: General

This summer, my family and I stayed near Leiwen, in Germany, a small town on the right bank of the river Moselle. One of the things I like to notice in a landscape are tracks of a recent past, which … Continue reading →

Editing the table in previous post gives me some problems. Hopefully, nobody sees a distorted page. Seems to be an interference with the Blogger HTML, probably due to all code within these links… Two days later, I have found IE5.5 … Continue reading →

Remarkable 1: remittances of immigrants from third world countries form a substantial part of the GDP for most of those countries. In some cases this money flow is even the biggest, or almost the biggest part of the GDP! see … Continue reading →

Finally something to blog: my genealogy is operational. Still in its infancy, but nevertheless another project being started: genea.lindosblog.com I also published new pages in the airblog reports, and included a link to it from the projects page.

At last I did find some time to adjust my settings for this blog. Most work went into scaling up the Tagore page. When you come across this page, well, hello. But, sorry, so much time goes into these projects, … Continue reading →

Want to learn (the) Dutch? Look what Steven Pemberton, back in 1993, had to say on the “IJ disaster” and the “-isch stupidity” and many more. Want to know about the history of the Dutch language? See an overview originally … Continue reading →

TEST: Still problems with “view web page” and “recent blog” links in Blogger. Publishing is also not yet into the correct map.

Antennas of cellphones will become very small soon, as reported by the NY Times (reg. req.). I hope they will be fabricated with other stuff then the present ones. Arthur C. Clarke, SF writer, and Leonardo di Caprio, patrons of … Continue reading →

I accidently did find this site useitorlooseit with useabili-teas on Jakob Nielsen (my hero, and I mean that) (post script March 2011: Jakob’s site is still live as it was in 2002. No matter the jokes, Jakob is right in … Continue reading →

Compare these: the april 2001 bulletin of the Harvard Business School has a Q&A with Suzy Wetlaufer. She seems a nice person to me, both from text and photo. But then, The Wall Street Journal of 5 March 2002 (is … Continue reading →