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Very important news !!!

English Language in Europe

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English.'

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

Just watch it :)

You know, when you're at a party, and the guy or gal just doesn't have the music fit for that kinda evening. That's of course when Vibe Streamer kicks in.

I just got the new March issue of C't which finally contained another antivirus software review. For me personally, a virusscanner is unnecessary: there's no better protection than using a third-party browser (Opera) and your brain. However, you can't leave other people's computers completely unprotected, so an on-access scanner, at the least for viruses, in the best case also for spyware/adware, is a prerequisite when configuring one's computer. Since there's absolutely no software that's able to identify almost any virus, and protection rates are highly fluctuating between versions and definition files of the respective products, one of the most important criteria for me is the speed of the on-access scanner.

"Mrs. Holloway, we have made breakthrough in our investigation." That's what our beloved Peter R. de Vries said in a staged phone call to Natalee Holloway's mother after taping the confession by Joran van der Sloot. But this could hardly be called an ordinary 'breakthrough in the investigation', but rather solely the media breakthrough for De Vries. ABC will broadcast the report tonight (the show even included music from the Lost score), currently it's broadcasted for the second time on Dutch television. And what would a hit report be without the crying of a mother who now knows for sure that her child is gone forever. Ironically, the woman never shed a single tear and was only repeating herself to get some more minutes on tape. A horribly staged performance of a woman of whom one should think she would have a bit more respect towards her child than to cooperate in such a media climax. A girl has died, and the only thing the entire show emphasized on was the personal vendetta of De Vries towards Van der Sloot.