Parody on Balkenende... make sure to have your sound on!


Balkenende (Flash) about the election results.

As usual the VVD was the big winner among voters living abroad. They won 30% of the votes.

The Economist had an article about the influence of expatriates on national elections a few weeks ago. It's available online (for free).

"As a rule of thumb, though, émigrés are nationalists, even though they may at the same time be loyal citizens of their adopted country (96% of Australia's Croats are naturalised, and not known as lukewarm in their Ozziness). Perhaps the strength of nationalist feeling has something to do with feelings of guilt among those fortunate enough to live abroad, especially when the home country is under some kind of threat. Perhaps it has something to do with not having to live with the consequences of nationalism pur et dur. Perhaps it is because exile sharpens the sense of the country left behind. Issues may simply seem clearer from afar. In any event, absence certainly seems to make the heart grow fonder—and fierier."

A nice commercial of the Vrije Universiteit.


"The Vrije Universiteit congratulates her ex-students Jan-Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos and Gerrit Zalm with their election victories."


(through Bieslog)

A few weeks ago I made a simple extension to the website program I'm using that shows the 10 most recent comments. I thought it would be nice to share it with other people, so I posted a message on the official website of PhpNuke.


Interesting to see how my (English) message got copied and translated into various languages:

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An Italian website, Spaghettibrain.com:


Blocco Commenti Recenti (da PHPNuke.org)
guusbosman scrive: "Una piccola aggiunta a PHPNuke che mostra i 10 più recenti commenti. Fondamentalmente lo stesso CMS di altri, tipo quella che ha Pivot, non è molto complicato e forse più utile per qualcuno.

Scacricalo QUI o guardalo in azione QUI su Guus Bosman.nl. Siccome non mi piace registrarmi per il download nemmeno tu devi farlo.

Installazione banale, basta unzippare il file nella directory di PHPNuke e puoi andare. Non ci sono modifiche al database né richiesta di configurazione dei file."

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A Brasilian website:
Comentários Recentes Block

Uma adição pequena a PhpNuke que indica os 10 comentários os mais recentes. Bàsicamente o mesmos como outros CMS'es como o pivô têm, não é muito complicado mas talvez é útil a alguém.


Download Clique Aqui para ver o bloco funcionando at Guus Bosman.nl.

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A small reference on a German site:


"Block: RecentComments (von/from www.guusbosman.nl) für/for phpNUKE Version 5.5 - 6.x "

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In Hungarian:

A 10 legfrissebb hozzászólást (10 most recent comments) is megjeleníthetjük portálunkon.
A blokk megtekinthető működés közben itt, és letölthető a szerző oldaláról.



Telepítése:

Kicsomagolod a fájlt, és bemásolod a php-nuke gyökér könyvtárába.

A telepítéshez nem szükséges adatbáziskezelő program...

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Websites that use the Recent Comments block are for example Inascript.com (a Dutch site), Parting Visions.com and Yoohuu.lu.


It's nice to see this small program spreading around over the whole world so quickly.

Icons war.

The results still looks very nice, nobody thought this would happen a few weeks ago. It looks like a right-wing cabinet will not have a majority.

It's so nice to watch the elections with friends (and family).

Looking great...

Went home to get some papers and have lunch.

The mail brought a nice surprise for Sasha.

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It's a (legalized) copy of the university diploma.

Master of Science, congratulations!

The eldest male elephant in Europe will celebrate it's 50 birthday, according to Artis' press release.


'Dear minister president Hehru of India, we would love to have a little male Indian elphant, because our zoo has none. Could you please sent us one?'

Again a nice comic in Trouw today.




Picture: www.trouw.nl/zusje

Can I come with you voting daddy? -- Better not. Last time you filled in 6 of the circles. This is too important. -- They have a computer now Huib; better take her with you. So she can help you out.