Category Archives: We-reflect-news

I find it a kind of weird: the first Chinese manned spaceflight was a great succes when the Chinese astronaut was proudly shown to the media after touchdown. However, most media only have a handful of pictures and a just … Continue reading →

I see that it’s making headlines, but all newsagencies are reporting that China has started its manned spaceflight project. Right now at this very moment. There’s hardly any news coming through, since the official Chinese news agency appears to be … Continue reading →

Is this coincidence, I wonder, when Alfons recalls veering up when he hears Piaf during the Dutch movie ‘Phileine zegt sorry’, while at the same time the BBC was commemorating the singer (October 10th, it was the 40th anniversary of … Continue reading →

During last week’s power outage I frequently phoned ‘home’. During one of those conversations with relatives oversea, someone mentioned something about the troubled state of the Dutch monarchy: apparantly one of the sons of the queen was intending to marry … Continue reading →

Holding the shift key while restarting our old MSX home computer made sure that all disk based initialization routines were skipped or ignored, leaving us with that extra bit more of memory needed to execute BASIC or assembler programs. I … Continue reading →

A bunch of (self-proclaimed) computer addicts have participated in a competition to destroy their hardware in a spectacular way. 300 people in the city of Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, ‘kicked mice’, ‘threw keyboards’ and ‘creatively destroyed monitors’. Ironically, the price for doing … Continue reading →

The media was out there covering hurricane Isabel. CNN had 3 reporters out and all of them showcased their experience covering Mother Nature like a regular football event. Watch Jeff Flock’s hairdo blow away! No: Watch Susan Candiotti’s waterproof lipchap!. … Continue reading →

More Reuters: the agency reports that a group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against hardware and computermakers, claiming that their advertising is deceptive, overstating the true size of harddrives. The suit names Apple, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, … Continue reading →

Over at Reuters an article about Microsoft and their ambitions to sidetrack Google, the ever-popular search engine. The company is pretty confident too. Says a strategist of Microsoft:    “The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to … Continue reading →

Canadian Idol, naturally, smashed Canadian records. The 2 hour sitcom show will probably make into today’s hot topic of the day, most likely replacing regular number one topic, the nation’s weather (Calgary = snow!, Ontario = Isabel). The Globe has … Continue reading →

Isabel, the tropical storm currently beating the Caribean, is gearing up for the East coast. That is the US East Coast of course, but there is a possibility that it will be moving up towards Ontario and Quebec (however, it … Continue reading →

News? The new (Arafat) appointed prime minister of Palestine. I thought it was nice of him that he said the following to the media:    “I want to see the Americans, what kind of guarantee they will (give). I’m not ready … Continue reading →

Two Singapore inventors (and their company) say that they have created an OS that is able to run both Windows and Linux applications. Better yet, it apparently is capable of running Palm OS applications too. The company (Radixs [Flash!], formerly … Continue reading →