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English language output from Dutch news agency ANP.
Author: graybo
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links for 2007-03-08
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EU business loses out because we shout and point
An EU study says that businesses are losing thousands of euro of business due to poor language skills. Not surprising, really, although I have to say that I’ve found it to be exceptional that a business I’ve dealt with has not had a fluent English speaker (and I’ve dealt with thirteen of the 27 nations), except in Spain which seemed stuck in the dark ages when I visited last year. Having said that, it is presumptuous and perhaps short-sighted of UK-based businesses to rely on the superior education systems that exist elsewhere and that give most Europeans educated in the last twenty years at least a basic grasp of English.
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Drug bars and property prices
Hmm. Is it odd that I should read this news article and ponder what impact it might have on property prices? And I’m not sure about the Belgian idea of logging foreign number plates, as it is likely I will be driving along the roads between Maastricht and Tongeren and Lanaken complete with GB sticker.
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Community Club of the Year
One in the eye for Lewes DC.
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links for 2007-03-06
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Wiki software that drives Wikipedia, amongst others. Uses MySQL.
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Wiki software that works without a database.
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Wiki software that works without a databse.
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Wiki engine comparison site
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links for 2007-03-05
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Bed and breakfasts throughout the Netherlands
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Flawed thinking
The LibDems want to introduce a tax on homes worth more than £1million.
So, aside from it being a tax on aspiration as well as a tax levied on those whose home has increased in value without them moving house, what’s to stop the über-rich at whom this headline-grabbing proposal is aimed from renting a home in the UK and actually having their main home (and, presumably, their principal tax liability) in some other country? Remember Mick Jagger in the Seventies? He moved abroad primarily to escape the punitive taxes on the rich, taking much of his money with him – and money held overseas can not be taxed in the UK, so the Treasury actually loses out, not gains, from such a policy.
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links for 2007-03-02
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Restaurant in Tiercé. Locally famous after Nicolas Sarkozy had dinner there. Now even more famous after we had dinner there.
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Has del.icio.us changed the way I blog?
Yes.
Oh sorry, were you expecting more? Well, if you insist.
I’ve noticed a similar trend on a few other blogs – the old style of posting a very short entry with a link and short comment (sometimes no comment at all) gives way to a (more-or-less) daily digest of links, most usually with some sort of explanatory note or comment. On the plus side, it means that I am tending to post more links here, which is probably a good thing, but I’m not sure that the links that I’m posting are necessarily that interesting to readers as I tend to use del.icio.us to bookmark things that are of interest to me as well as those that might interest or amuse you. As it is, it possibly renders the “amusing links” category virtually obsolete as I now tend to put those links in via del.icio.us (bl.ood.y d.ot.s!).
Whether it means that I will actually write more longer posts to provide something relatively interesting to read between the link lists is another matter. I do seem to be writing a little more here at the moment, which I think is a good thing (though you may not agree). I may even write something interesting one day, although those of you who have been foolish to hang around for the better part of seven years waiting for that to happen don’t seem to have learned your lesson yet.
I’ve also wondered what del.icio.us and other similar sites might mean for the traditional linklog site. At the moment, sites like Darren’s continue to use the familiar linklog format, with Darren having a link to his del.icio.us feed in the sidebar. But will the social bookmark sites change or even eventually kill off the linklog? Couldn’t Darren simply feed his del.icio.us output into LMG? Or have I missed something?
UPDATE: I should add that I like and admire LMG and would hate for it to die a horrible death. The same goes for Darren.
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links for 2007-03-01
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Cat5e network cable rated for outdoor use.
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Repeater for 802.11b/g wireless systems
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I have no idea what is going on in this game – it is a bit like those polar bear and penguin games, except you are a girl in a short skirt who rides into a bloke on your bike, sending him flying. Mad and Japanese, naturally. My record is 3470.20 metres.
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simple puzzle game, found via Tom Coates.
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Comparing Dutch and British children
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