Religion is always something tricky to talk about. Before you know it (and without meaning so), you insult people or making them angry. Misunderstandings are easy to take place. And yet I will write about religion in this article. This because I notice lately much confusion with people around me about how I think about…
Category: My personal opinion
Easter breakfast
Yesterday we Sanne (who stays with us for Easter), Marion and I did some shopping for Easter breakfast. The idea was that we would prepare it together and enjoy it together. But things went a little different. It seemed that Sanne was awake rather early this morning. When time arrived to start to prepare the…
Encryption….
Did you know that it takes 10 hours to encrypt a terrabyte external hard disk with a rather fast machine using TrueCrypt? I didn’t, but I found out today *grins*. Although some parts of the government will not agree with me, I think nowadays encryption becomes more and more important. We all have information that…
A black day for the Internet…
I just read that two big Dutch Internet-provider, XS4ALL and Ziggo, are ordered by a judge to block the site of The Pirate Bay. This is in my opinion very bad. Why bad? No, not because the content that you can get at The Pirate Bay. To be honest, I never even connected to their…
Farewell 2011… Hello 2012…
So at the end of the year it almost custom to look back at past year and pondering a bit about it all. Overall I can say that has been a good year, which doesn’t mean that no sad or bad things did happen. Most sad thing that happened this year is of course that…
Christmas, some thoughts about it…
Today I saw a discussion about Christmas on Facebook. It was about “Keep Christ in Christmas”. Rather some reactions were claiming that Christmas should not be a commercial celebration. With that I agree. Funny fact was that the “Keep Christ in Christmas”-statement was coming from a webshop where you can buy all kind of things…
11-11-11
Yesterday it was 11 November 2011… A normal day it may seem, but not for everyone. For a big group of people it was 11-11-11, a very special day it seemed. Lots of people married this day, thinking this would bring good luck (so much for trusting your relation to need something like that as…
To process or not to process…
This I like so much. An evening of complete relaxing. The lights in the living room are dimmed. Some candles are lighted. A concerto from Bach fills the rooms. A wonderful mood… Marion was reading, but by now she is sleeping on the couch. A nice sight. She is fallen into a deep sleep. You…
Halal and Kosher
Yesterday I listened to a discussion about “halal” and “kosher” meat. One of the persons in the discussion was a big mouth who clearly had not sorted out the facts. First of all, over here in The Netherlands animals only may be slaughtered by trained people… no matter of halal or kosher guidelines are followed….
Give freedom and space to move….
If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were! At times it can happen when you see or read a saying or quotation that really strikes you and of which you feel it is really true. So for me with the saying above. I…