Category Archives: Oude blogposts Steeph

Moved my blogging activities

Dear readers, It’s impossible for me to do two blogs at the same time with the right quality and the right frequency. So I decided, for the time being, to put most of my effort in the Dutch group weblog Sargasso. Steephs blog will only be updated when there is something that needs to be [...]

Those on the right stick to Microsoft IE more

Last year I wrote about the clear distinction in browser use between visitors of right leaning weblogs versus those off left leaning weblogs (political that is).This week Firefox 1.5 went public. A good time to do the same test again.Unfortunatly, DailyKos was out of the air and I couldn’t find a comparable site.Here are the [...]

(De)Construction

Yesteday I finished an assignment for one of the major Dutch banks. The results will be in the media next Monday. But that’s not what this is about. When working for that bank, I had to park my car some distance away from that bank. And each day I walked the same route.On that route [...]

Dutch got their own Kilt

I love whisky. Most of all Scottish wishky. So that’s why it nice to hear the Dutch now have their own Tartan Kilt. Now we can drink whisky in the right attire. It was designed by Dr. David Wishart and contains the colours of the Dutch flag (red, white and blue) and Orange (of course). [...]

Proposed Iraqi constitution analysed

It wasn’t something I could resist. Given my reputation, I had to look at the proposed Iraqi constitution. Wasn’t easy given the fact that I was ill this week. But next week it might be old news, so I had to give it a try. If this constitution will make it anyhow. The parties involved [...]

Ignoring the facts regarding oil, again and again

Three items related to Peakoil. First one on manipulating the timing of a report. From the Progress Report (via Suburban Guerrilla): ”BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONCEALS FUEL ECONOMY REPORT: In late July, “the Environmental Protection Agency made an 11th-hour decision…to delay the planned release of an annual report on fuel economy.” The decision to block the release of [...]

Everything could change – 1

So this is the first in my serie on my latest initiative.I’m trying to create a new political movement! But not one in the traditional sense. Not like today’s political parties. I want a movement that looks at the current set up of our democracy and society. And then come with proposals that fit this [...]

Extreme Democracy

Attacks by terrorists are seen as attacks on democracy.In the Netherlands the results of the recent referendum showed how insecure we are about our own democracy.In the US people doubt the democratic process on state level and they also see serious problems regarding the role of the media as watchdog of democracy. In these times [...]

Coming Oil Crisis – some links

Since another small record was broken regarding the oil price (over $59 dollar today), it seems like a good time to dump some recent links I’ve gathered surrounding the topic of Peak Oil. A report obtained by AlJazeera shows that the US government is aware that the peak oil is coming. But so far no [...]

My fifteen minutes of fame visualized

Well, actually it was something like 15 days of fame. Thanks to all the attention for my work on the EU Constitution.But it is all over now. Peace has come over my site once again. This is this years page view graph. No need to explain what the impact of national attention was. And this [...]

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