Category Archives: General

As FaceBook is absorbing now most of my thoughts and activities, there is still room to share more in depth. So I will restart using my blog for this, in addition to FaceBook. Just came across this inspiring TED talk … Continue reading →

Next step, Twitter Tools has been installed on this blog. Somehow one issue was remaining: to show recent tweets inside blog. This appeared to be solved when changing settings. Strange though that at first, when I saved these settings, my … Continue reading →

On the Dutch biodiversity, which is one of the world’s most investigated.

A just reread an old article by Steve Pemberton on Dutch speling: “An Englishman’s Difficulties with the Dutch“. Nice if you understand Dutch and English. The Dutch overestimate the simpleness of their language compared to English. Steve is also chairing … Continue reading →

Fareed Zakaria, in his first year as editor of Newsweek International, came to international prominence with his cover-story The Politics of Rage: Why do they hate us?“, published three weeks after September 11, on October 15, 2001. His conclusion: Islamic … Continue reading →

A recently came across this: a belief test

Quote from professor Mostafa el-Abbadi, considered to be the true inspiration for the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He was not invited for the official opening, even though his book on the subject was distributed to the guests at the opening ceremony. … Continue reading →

Just found out the other day about Googlefight. I tested it on “Love” against “War”, and Love won, at 50.0 million against 39.8 million. No surprise I was not the first to fight this battle. One of the first entries … Continue reading →

A recent report from UNCTAD provides a list of 100 countries and companies, in order of its contribution to the world economy. There are 29 companies amongst them! First, at 45, is Exxon, which is a bigger contributor then Pakistan. … Continue reading →