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Gregg’s out

May 30th, 2009 No comments
BGT 2009 contestor Gregg Pritchard

BGT 2009 contestor Gregg Pritchard

WTF! Gregg is out. He did an outstanding performance again and they voted him out! I guess they don’t want Susan to have real competion…

Gregg. You’re still my number one!

Edit: It surprised me Susan Boyle did not win :o

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Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List

May 21st, 2009 No comments

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Queen Sofia of Spain.

Prince Constantijn, Belgian Prince.

Philip Ntavinion Etienne, Belgium.

Étienne, Viscount Davignon Belgium.

Joseph Ackerman, Germany.

Keith B. Alexander, United States (NSA).

Roger Altman, United States.

Georgios A. Arapoglou, Greece (National Bank of Greece governor).

Ali Babacan , Turkey (Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy).

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal.

Nicholas Bavarez, France.

Franco Bernabè, Italy (Telecom Italia)

Xavier Bertrand, France.

Carl Bildt, Sweden (Secretary).

January Bgiorklount, Norway.

Christoph Blocher, Switzerland.

Alexander Bompar, France (?).

Ana Patricia Botin, Spain, president of Banco Banesto.

Henri de Castries, France.

Juan-Luis Cebrian, Spain Grupo PRISA.

W. Edmund Clark, Canada, CEO TD Bank Financial Group.

Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain (MP, Shadow Business Secretary).

Luc Cohen, Belgium.

George David, Greece.

Richard Dearlove, Great Britain.

Mario Draghi, Italy (Italia VANCA d).

Eldrup Anders, Denmark President, DONG A/S.

John Elkann, Italy (Fiat SRA).

Thomas Enders, Germany (Airbus SAS).

Jose Entrekanales, Spain.

Isintro phenomena casket, Spain (?).

Niall Ferguson, United States (Harvard University).

Timothy Geithner, United States (Minister of Finance).

Ntermot convergence, Ireland (AIV Group) (?). Is probably Dermot Gleeson, chairman AIB Group.

Donald Graham, United States (Washington Post Company).

Victor Halberstadt, Netherlands (Leiden University, frmr secretary Bilderberg Society).

Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Netherlands (Minister of Justice).

Richard Holbrooke, United States (Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan).

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (CC NATO).

James Jones, United States (National Security Advisor to the White House).

Vernon Jordan, United States.

Robert Kagan, United States. (Founder Project for the New American Century).

Jyrki Katainen, Finland.

John Kerr – Britain (Royal Dutch Shell).

Mustafa Koç, Turkey (Group Koç).

Roland GT, Germany.

Sami Cohen, Turkey (Journalist).

Henry Kissinger, United States.

Marie-Josee Kravis, United States (Hudson Institute).

Neelie Kroes, the Netherlands (European Commissioner for Competition).

Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, Greece (Group S&B).

Manuela Ferreira Leite, Portugal (PSD).

Bernardino León Gross, Spain.

Jessica Matthews, United States (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

Philippe Maystadt (European Investment Bank).

Frank McKenna, Canada (TD Bank Financial Group).

John Micklethwait, Great Britain (journalists, The Economist).

Montbrial, Thierry de – France President of French Institute for International Relations.

Mario Monti, Italy (University Louitzi Bokoni).

Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain (Minister of Foreign Affairs).

Craig Mundie, United States (Microsoft).

Egil Myklebust, Norway Chairman of Board of Directors, SAS.

Mathias A. Nass, Germany, Die Zeit.

Denis Olivennes, France (Le Nouvel Observateur).

Frederic Oudea, France (Société Générale).

Cem Ozdemir, Germany (Green Party).

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy. (Former Minister of Finance, President Notre Europe).

Papalexopoulos Dimitris, Greece (CEO, Titan Cement Co. S.A.) .

Richard Perle, United States (American Enterprise Institute).

David Petraeus, United States (US Central Command).

Manuel Pinho, Minister of Economy of Portugal.

Robert S. Pritchard, Canada (Totstar Corporation).

Romano Prodi, Italy (former Italian Prime Minister).

Heather M. Reisman, Canada (Indigo Books & Music Inc.).

Eivint Reitan, Norway.

Michael Rintzier, Czech Republic.

David Rockefeller, United States.

Dennis Ross, United States.

Barnett Rubin, United States. Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for CIC.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, Spain (Mayor Madrid, member Partido Popular).

Susan Sampantzi Ntintzer, Turkey (?) COULD BE: Guler Sabanci, President of Sabanci Holdings.

Indira Samarasekera, Canada. (President of University of Alberta, Member of the Board of Scotiabank.

Rountol Solten, Austria (?).

Jörgen E. Schrempp, Germany, CEO DaimlerChrysler.

Pedro Solbes Mira, Spain (Ministry of Finance).

Sampatzi Saraz, Turkey (banker) (?) Probably Süreyya Serdengeçti (former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey).

Sanata Seketa, Canada (University of Canada) (?).

Lawrence Summers, United States. (Director of the National Economic Council).

Peter Sutherland, Ireland. (Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International).

Martin Taylor, UK. (Chairman Syngenta AG).

Peter Thiel, United States. (Clarium Capital Management LCC, PayPal co-founder, Board of Directors, Facebook).

Agan Ourgkout. Could be: Ahmet Agah Uğur, Turkey (CEO Borusan Holding).

Matti Vanhanen, Finland, (Prime Minister).

Daniel L. Vasella, Switzerland Novartis AG.

Jeroen van der Veer, Netherlands (CEO Shell).

Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium (Former Prime Minister).

Paul Volcker, United States (Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board).

Jacob Wallenberg, (Sweden) Investor AB.

Marcus Wallenberg, Sweden.

Nout Wellink, Netherlands (Board of Directors, the Bank of International Settlements).

Hans Wijers, Netherlands. (CEO AkzoNobel).

Martin Wolf, Great Britain (Journalist Financial Times).

James Wolfensohn, United States (the former World Bank President).

Paul Wolfowitz, United States (American Enterprise Institute).

Fareed Zakaria, United States (Journalist Newsweek).

Robert Zoellick, United States (President World Bank).

Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (Minister of Foreign Affairs).

Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece (PASOK MP).

Yannis Papathanasiou, Greece (Minister of Finance).

George Alogoskoufis, Greece (former Minister).

George A. David, Greece (businessman, president of Coca-Cola 3E).

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Chrome crash bug

September 3rd, 2008 No comments

Hihi, first funny bug already found. Nothing serious, but it shows how much work the browser needs to get “stable”. You are using Chrome? Don’t hover this link then :)

The curious monkey wrote his own review. If you liked mine it might be interesting for you to read (psst, we should Blogroll) :)

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Google browser! Chrome is here

September 2nd, 2008 2 comments
Google Chrome

Google Chrome logo

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13. Chrome is live! Some people seem to have problems downloading it but the working download is right here.

First impressions:

  1. It can import my Internet Explorer preferences, bookmarks and passwords. Not from my Firebox, but that might have to do with me using the portable edition.
  2. Funny how most visited is designed. Really good overview with website previews, recently bookmarked list and a search history option.
  3. Too less options. How, for example, can I reject ALL cookies, except for listed domains?
  4. Funny, it has a “porno mode”: “You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
  5. Tabs dragged to a new window are not considered a new window. I therefor cannot align them with Windows.
  6. Zooming in and out is NOT as it is supposed to be.
  7. Ahhhhh, no support for add-ons (yet?)
  8. I see options for Google Gears, but the option to enable it has been removed from my WordPress admin page. Errrrrr…
Conclusion for now: I’ll stick with my current Firefox. Perhaps they should share some code with eachother to get the best of both worlds.
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Science Youtube smash

September 2nd, 2008 No comments

Who says science doesn’t turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance — about high-energy particle physics. Her performance has drawn a half-million views on YouTube.

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