2010/07/07 Amsterdam
Marshes
Kayak
Alex Beam wrote a funny column in today’s Herald Tribune about BP:
“Someday we will look back on these days and smile. Mel Brooks discovered the lighter side of Adolf Hitler less than 25 years after the end of World War II. Soon, we too will guffaw at the suggestion that anyone ever ate shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, or paddled a kayak through the marshes — what marshes? — of the Mississippi River Delta. Times change, and we change with them.
Godspeed, my friends. And thank you for drilling.”
Times change, and we change with them, that’s undoubtedly true.
Well, some people don’t. That’s something you could easily forget if you only rely on television and newspapers.
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Psycho's?
Seeing multinationals as a person you will have to conclude they are psychopaths. Doing whatever is neccesary for their own benefit...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation
this turns into a blog within a blog
Jan
Blog-looping this is called technically. Didn't you know that?Milan
I've never heard of blog-looping.The truth is that we don 't give a damn about BP. Indignation is only used as a front for our indifference.
Arnon
May I ask what the reason is for your staying in Amsterdam? Could it be that you are a true but secret fan of football? Could it be that you are here to soak up the sweet vibes of victory that awaits the Dutch nation? So that someday you will look back on these days and smile.Maybe 25 years from now you will discover the lighter side of you. 25 years from now you will say: "I was there when the Dutch team won the world cup and it was sweet!"
Sander
Does this computer keep track of the other computers that logged in on the blog? Can you see if I visited this blog on the 11th january around 11am from my computer. Somebody used my name in a hit and run accident.Sander
I mean your computer or programme.Mieke
The site stores the IP address from which comments are made. The access logs are only kept for several weeks before being deleted.So if you have a comment (use the little dot next to the time to get a link to the specific comment itself) made by someone else under your name, I can check from which IP address the comment was made.
Sander
I am looking for traces what I did that day around eleven, because I am in need of an alibi.Mieke
You didn't comment between jan 10 - 23:28 and jan 14 - 13:44. So I am afraid I can't prove you didn't speed, run a red light or commit a murder on jan 11...Bah, this means the police is going to take my picture monday.
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