The donor show on Dutch TV

What a surprise to see all that commotion on TV about a Dutch TV program even here in Canada.

OK I will confess i am Dutch.

It is funny to see how the foreign media doesn't really does any background research before the air a topic on the news. The whole things about the Dutch program where 3 people that badly need a new kidney battle for the favor of a terminal sick person that is willing to give away her Kidney to one of them.

OK I have to admit that the program seems to be kinda vulgar but what people don't know is that the founder of this Dutch TV channel died 5 years ago (this week) and that he was very sick and in Need of again a new Kidney.

And of course what the TV channel BNN wants to achieve is to get more people to the point that they want to offer there organs for transplantation.

Today in the Dutch papers they even say that 4 more people contacted BNN to offer the Kidney. But BNN send them to the Donor registration because this program is only gone be on TV once.

So I think it could be a good way to attract some attention (and I have to say that worked).

But please news makers on this planet get all the facts strait before you make a news topic about it!

Standard

Today I was trying to help out a friend. She has a Sony car radio and it has an AUX port on the back. So I expected that they use the cables that are commonly used by car stereo manufacturers but NO Sony like to do things different.

Of course we already knew that they like to do things there own way (remember the memorystick) but wouldn't it be a lot easier if everybody would just use the same things?

Photo's

Today I needed to take photo's of the people that work at a company that I make a website for. And for lots of those people it seems to be so difficult to take their photo. And of course others want lots taken and choose the best.

It seems that we men are easier and just take a picture and that is good enough.

Come on ladies it is just a photo you can always change it if you want to.

Crack

OK if you live in the crack window capital of North America then you can expect it some day but this i was not expecting.

One night I park the car with a perfect windshield and then the next day we get record snowfall for that day in May and then when I get in the car the next day there is a BIG crack. Normally cracks start because of a chip in your windshield but i didn't see the chip otherwise i may have got it repaired. But a little investigating uncovered that there was a chip in my windshield it was just in the black part on the side.

So lets see if the crack gets bigger other wise I guess a new windshield is all I can do.

Come on it is MAY you know

OK the warned us about it but still I didn't really expect this much.

This morning I opened my eyes and what do I see SNOW and lots of it to (my guess 15cm)
what is goingon with the weather. Last week we where all sitting outside enjoying the BBQ and now there is a layer of 15cm of snow on my BBQ.

Before I moved to Calgary they warned me about the strange weather but this is insane.

I am just lucky that I like snow

If any one from Calgary reads this just hold on the weekend seems to be nice again!

Open your eyes

Sometimes I wonder why people are on the road so early in the morning.
Some of them are definitely still a sleep when they are driving.

This morning I was driving my car on highway 1 in Calgary when I saw that they closed down the most left lane (the highway is 3 lanes in that location) it was clearly marked and to me impossible to miss.

But still one person in one of those minivans decided to go to the left lane and then to see the road block and to ram his car back in the lane where he came from. He just missed the road block (he was lucky)

I wonderd what he was thinking. Maybe he thought:

- oooh a empty lane nobody wants to drive in the left lane let me try
- Lets quickly pass the car in front of me the 30 meters to the roadblock should be enough
- hmmm. my cofee needs a little bit more sugar
- or maybe he was just busy text messaging on his phone

I guess this will be one of those post you can expect from me.
Lets see what else will come up one of these days

A new blog

Hi all,

Thanks for visiting my new blog.

In this small little room in cyberspace I will keep you posted what is going on in my life and what I am running in to.

So keep coming back and see what I saw, thought, found and so on.

Enjoy,
George