Monthly Archives: June 2013

Maybe in a few years time everyone will have forgotten this week. Awful weather, riots in Brazil and Turkey because of corruption and abuse of authority, every European country trying to cope with debt and drastic budget cuts, and of … Continue reading →

Recently, a good friend passed onto me a report from Denmark where some young girls had carried out an experiment to investigate the damage caused by WiFi (in this case a router) on living organism; they had chosen watercress and … Continue reading →

This year was special; for the first time a Father’s Day present and 3 wonderful children congratulating me. It means a lot. Not too long ago, over one of the Friday family dinners, the conversation turned to “what does it … Continue reading →

The ‘Big One’ is a hypothetical earthquake of magnitude ~8 or greater that is expected to happen along the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in California. Such a quake will produce devastation to human civilization within about 50-100 miles of the … Continue reading →

Friday nights are special; that’s when the kids get together at my place for dinner. If nothing gets in the way, the 4 of us have a nice family time eating what I or Guus have prepared. Last night, with … Continue reading →

Guus got home at 04.30 this morning after celebrating his exam results – yes, he passed! At 09.30 he had to hand his school books in at school and I (naïve father) waited for his return to make the ritual … Continue reading →

Any moment now, Guus will get his exam results; between 15.00 and 17.00 the school will call him. He is relaxed and off with his friends to wait for this; I am home and not relaxed. I know he has … Continue reading →

He is 94 years old, ailing in health and again in hospital; the news today was “reassuring” and he seems to be responding to treatment for a recurring lung infection. The African continent waits with some unease what will happen … Continue reading →

Julian Assagne, Bradley Manning and now Edward Snowden are but three of the so-called whistle-blowers; people who collect and then release very sensitive information which they believe to be their duty to the general public. The three are not particularly … Continue reading →

Quite some time back, I posted on an unusually large phone bill sent to a lady in France. It was for 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros (£9.4qn). Today, another big number error; this one at a bank in Germany. The clerk was transferring … Continue reading →