An elegant 3 STAR dinner in Amsterdam

08:16 mareku 0 Comments

We had an excellent Gourmet Dinner at No & Go. No spend hours and hours preparing and it was worth every minute of it :-)
With the help of the Cooking books of Dieter Muller (the famous German 3 star chef) she prepared a dinner that could compete with the food Dieter himself makes.

Peace 50 years later

04:55 mareku 0 Comments

By now, the little sectioned circle has become so familiar, it feels as if it had no genesis, that it just emerged out of a collective folk culture, like the Star of David or a nursery rhyme. But in fact it can be traced to a single inventor, Gerald Holtom who arrived at the image by combining the semaphore signals for the letters N, for nuclear, and D, for disarmament. The first is a figure with arms held downward and out from both sides; the second, a figure holding one arm above its head while the other points to the ground It debuted on April 4 in London's Trafalgar Square at Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons and it is still going strong (and neccessary I am afraid)

Save Mehdi!

08:47 mareku 0 Comments

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2004 but later
discovered that his boyfriend had been arrested by the Iranian police,
charged with sodomy and hanged.He fled to Holland because the Britisch Government wanted to sent him back to Iran. Now he has the chance to be sent back to Britain by European Law. Today a vital discussion in Dutch Parlement will decide over his faith.

Rita is proud of holland

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Verstuurd met BlackBerry van KPN

Check in with your blackberry

10:08 mareku 0 Comments

Now that the Terminal 5 disaster is almost over we can focus on real progress: electronic checking in without having to print out your boarding pas with an acient barcode. Continental Airlines’ electronic boarding pass pilot program lets a  security worker scan the image of a bar code on a BlackBerry.

The technology being tested by Continental uses a two-dimensional encrypted bar code, which is much tougher to copy than the one-dimensional bar code used by many airlines for boarding passes printed online

Mobile devices can so become a crucial part of traveling, that means battery chargers and reliable wireless signals will be even more critical for a stress-free trip though... ;-)

Hmmm.

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Worst Movie EVER!

07:19 mareku 0 Comments

Just saw "Zomerhitte" (Summer Heat) from Monique van der Ven after the short story by Jan Wolkers. I am happy that Jan died before he could see this picture, because otherwise this would have killed him instantly.
The dialogues are ridiculous, continuity not existing and production very bad. I stopped counting all the mistakes in this movie after a half hour or so - it was just to much. Luckily the Dutch audience can see right trhough this rubbish and no wonder that this is a huge FLOP.
(If we aren't even allowed to see Waldemar naked - what's the point of having him in the film anyway...? :-) )