Douwe Osinga's Blog: May 2003

Saturday, May 31, 2003

Euro revival

So the Euro rebounded and the economists all around the world scramble to come up with reasons to explain the behaviour, reasons that are no...

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Google Answers online

I just put google answers  online. This little script uses google to answer historical questions, ie you give it a search term and it return...

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Gas heaters with more than 100% efficiency

Of course this is nothing new, but today was the first day I heard about it. Gas heating with an efficiency of more then 100%. It seems impr...

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

The cost of patents

A lot of people who think they have good ideas from time to time, decide that getting a patent costs too much money. From 10.000 USD who can...

Friday, May 2, 2003

Cruelty to animals

Bird flue rages through my home country, the Netherlands. We have a history of efficient farming, but lately one cannot but wonder if someth...

Muslim fanaticism

Lately I have been wondering about moslim fanaticism. When you think about it, they aren't really that fanatic. You hear about the thous...

Real Politik

The whole Iraq thing showed once again that foreign policy is nothing more then real politik. Morals and ethics is nothing more then dressin...

The war is over

So, the war is sort of over, or has it just begun? You seem to hear more of the Syria-is-next theory lately. Let's try and hold in the B...