If you were at the "James Bond Birthday Party" I organized with my friend Gerald on the October 25th for ouyr 60 years old combined, stay tuned as the pictures will be only soon...  
#  29.10.2003

 Here are some news about YABON. First, thanks to ->Picosearch, you can now search for keywords through the entire website.

Next, I have slightly change the order of the right panel. The archive section now comes right after the search box and just before the friends list. Also, the Archive list is now presented in reverse-chronological order, meaning that older month are in the end of the list.

Finally, ->Icogs is now semi-officially beta. This will be publicly advertised shortly (at least, I think so...). Icogs Beta means new layouts, new functionalities, better handling of the existing one,... YABON was move from the alpha version to the beta during this week-end. If you don't know what Icogs is, you can still have a look at my previous post called Let's Go!. It was my first post of the reborn YABON where 8 made a small Icogs presentation. Note that official Icogs documentation is not yet available. 
#  28.10.2003

 Here is yet another scam message I've recieved in my mailbox. I report it here because he is somehow different from the usual "Hi I'm MBOULOU GOULOU UKULELE from South Africa Central bank and I need your help...". If you feel like this is true, call the guy to claim your winning price!

WebmastersGlobal Email Lottery
25A Prinz Franz Straat
5700 Roermond, Rotterdam
Netherlands
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
Ref Number: 50049/337-9678
Batch Number: 54555222-WMG/2003
Sir / Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
Webmaster Global Email Lottery programs held on the
30th August, 2003. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number 5000234 with Serial Number 5423-5789
Drew lucky numbers 2,4,6,8,10,12,14, which consequently
Won in the 1st category and have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay of US$500.000.00 (five
hundred thousand United States Dollars).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been processed and your money paid out
to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 200,000 companies and 30,000,000
individual email addresses and names from all over the
world. This promotional program takes place every
three-years.

To file for your claims, please contact our FIDUCIAL
AGENT in The Netherlands or your Winning claims and
Processing on 0031-625294599. (Contact Officer-
Sam Taylor of Transatlantic Security BV). Please, be
aware that our Paying Bank will affect Payment Swiftly
upon satisfactory report, Verifications and
validations provided by our processing Agent,
Mr Sam Taylor that have been designated to your file.

Remember, all winning must be CLAIMED not later than
31st of october 2003. After this date all unclaimed
funds would be included in the next stake. Please note
that in other to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications remember to quote your reference
information in all correspondence. Furthermore,
should there be any eventual change of information
please inform our Agent as quickly as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff
and thanks for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified. Members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this
program.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Mildred Van Borch
Games / Lottery Coordinator.
Webmasters Global Email Lottery
Central Europe Zone 2.

 
#  23.10.2003

 Ok, I doubt you'll be interested by the following story if your are not a french speaking one living in Belgium for more than, lets say, 20 years...

You can stop to pray now, because Malvira is back. She was rapted some days ago when someone stole a car in Brussels without knowing that the famous puppet of the ->Magicland theatre was in the trunk of the car. Find more information in your usual ->daily newspapers. Be sure you'll watch the ->RTBF on the October 31th for the reunion of Malvira with ->Phillipe Geluck 
#  22.10.2003

 The answer is rather simple: go to ->google, type "weapons of mass destruction" then click on "feeling lucky". And now read the displayed page.  
#  20.10.2003

 And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

The Book of Mozilla is one of the most well-known Easter eggs of all time. Typing about:mozilla into the Location Bar of a Mozilla-based browser (or indeed, an earlier Netscape Navigator release) causes a verse from The Book of Mozilla to be displayed. Find out more at ->MozillaZine. 
#  14.10.2003

 While looking for some reactions on Governator election in California (see the previous post below) I found this: George W. Bush now has a ->campaign blog (http://georgewbush.com/blog/). Sort of, read on. This shows how ->Howard Dean's highly wired campaign, with the Dean's ->Blog for America (http://blog.deanforamerica.com/) and the ->National Dean in 2004 Meetup Days, is making the hit.

Regarding the official blog of GW Bush for the 2004 Presidential elections, here is a small comment of Dean, titled You Knew It Was Coming:

Mr. President, I'm a blogger. I know blogs. Bloggers are friends of mine. And your site, sir, is not a blog. We welcome all readers of this new somewhat blog-like site to use this as an open thread to discuss what you think of it, because the Bush folks aren't interested in letting anyone comment. 
#  09.10.2003

 Some reactions here:

Well, I think it's a bit of an embarrassment. California used to be the most wonderful place in the world to live and now we are the world's laughing stock. Arnie may be a wonderful guy but he knows nothing about governing the world's fifth largest economy. It's hard to believe this has actually happened. Tom Mcguire, in BBC's In Pictures: California election: reaction.

To borrow the format of those old doctor jokes, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that we are unlikely to have to sit through Terminator 4 for quite some years now. The bad news is that the biggest state in America has just chosen to entrust a $3bn deficit to a man who has no experience of politics and no discernible policies. [...] For playing the role of leader, Reagan had spent at least a decade in makeup. What's startling about Arnie is that he parlayed himself from movie star to politician in so short a time that his most recent No1 box-office hit - Terminator 3 - isn't out on DVD yet. From Guardian unlimited's Some mistake?

Such has been the flavour of the Schwarzenegger campaign from the outset: a virtually content-free policy platform delivered in soundbites in carefully choreographed settings well away from the conventional arenas of democratic politics. Sure, Mr Schwarzenegger gave interviews, but mostly to the entertainment press; he never sat down with a heavyweight reporter for an in-depth policy discussion. Sure, Mr Schwarzenegger held so-called town hall meetings, but the audiences were all supporters to begin with; the real town hall - citizens with questions and reservations and perhaps even a touch of hostility - was kept deliberately at arm's length. For The Independant, Andrew Gumbel in To the jubilant victor, the spoils: a massive deficit and a divided state. Arnie's troubles may just be starting.

Were recalls held in every state, it's quite possible that 50 governors would find themselves paying the price for one president's ruinous national economic policies. Tonight the voters in California directed their frustration with the country's direction on their incumbent governor. In Statement by Governor Dean on the California Recall.

This is the state that produced one of the greatest university systems in the world. This state is the home of some of the finest minds in science, technology, business and the arts. There are probably more bona fide geniuses in this state than in any other. And yet, it must also be said that this is the state that elected Arnold Fucking Schwarzenegger as governor. You stupid, stupid fucks. In a fake California Governor Gray Davis' concession speech by Brian Flemming. 
#  09.10.2003

 Sometimes I wonder if everybody knows that two people are needed to make a baby, a mother and a father. I mean a woman and a male. Each time we, Isabelle and I, recieve, by mail, an advertisement related to Alice, our 1 year child, the envelope is addressed solely to my wife. Never to me, never to Alice and, over all, never to Isabelle and I together, as a couple of parents. This is somehow humiliating. It consolidates me in the idea that the current Western civilization has organized everything so that womans can have a baby, all alone. The father is not needed anymore. Men must fight to keep their position and status as a father. This is true on a legal point of view, this is true on a physical point of view, this is true on a educational point of view. Finaly, this is particularly true when things start to go wrong between the mother and the father.

Read this slowly: this is completly unacceptable. Unacceptable. Because paternity is not as "evident" and somehow as "natural" than the position a mother has in regard of her child, everything should be done to reinforce and durably harden the role of the father in the growth of his child. period. I do not want to start a deep and long argumentation on the topic because this is easy for everybody to make its own opinion. I just want to stress how I see the current situation, which, IMO, partially explains why so many men give up their paternity. 
#  01.10.2003