2001-11-22

welcome to hi-speed intenet access... Finally upgraded to a cable-modem system... Yiehaa... We feel the need...
The need for speed....
so you'll be hearing from us soon here... Uploading lots and lots of media. Stay tuned @wacondah.com

2001-11-15

So far so good,
implementing too much stuff here, but it seems all to be working
don't be worrying so much, man,
new content is ready to rock your soul

off for the weekend, so more next week, refreshing!
check this out: http://www.majesticthegame.com/
c ya

2001-11-09

Mobiles / Mentos COOL chews / Radio / Culture & Jamming:: a post to back up some stuff

To make sure we pass these messages along... We republish them here.

how many MOBILE numbers have you got... and how many different operators, country prefixes, etcetera...

Does a mobile phone make you mobile?

did you know that it's very difficult to listen into a cellular conversation, but only if both phones are moving at a speed generally faster than mere walking. The explanation is the following: moving along, your device scans the airwaves to pick up the signals of the nearest ANTENNAE, and without interrupting the conversation, you switch from 1 antenna to another.

But be carefull, apparently, some Dutch company developped a handheld device to trace the switching by keeping track of the SIM-card characteristics... This technology is already available for a very high price...

So while talking, keep moving... But remember to use a handsfree set in this country...
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Went out to the friendliest grocery in this country and bought some mints, without realizing it, i popped a couple & a flood of flashbacks starting pouring down the spine. Neurons started racing eachother to produce all kinds of sensations. Proust's cookies can come to you in any form... Keep your brain alert to the mystery! We don't know half the stuff that's going on.

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Culture jamming: taking the headliners of major corporations and transforming into what they really mean. Have you noticed that every big multinational organization has A/ a logo B/ "a motto" that sort of identifies what it stands for...

Ex: the Nike "swoosh" + Just do IT. CJam= you sweatshop member: JUST DO IT!!!

anyway, funny but also very sad to view how some people do not think for themselves. We spend much more time in front of T.V. than reading poems, books, opinions or essays, or just doing the stuff we love to do. Help! we are enslaved. somebody à la Bolivar should "liberate" us... But then again, this reference may be offensive to some Tribes in South - America. Oh, it's al sooo complex. But we should speak up, ventilate our thoughts and frustrations more and keep on TRYING to make this a better place... We should start with ourselves, clean in front of our own doors, recycle more, use less cars, stop buying so much plastic and generally be more AWARE of what we are doing here. Stop us from hiding, stop us from sticking our heads in the grounds

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Driving on the highway. Music tuned into a funky channel. We have a TRAFFIC - system here that enables you to get up-to-date, realtime info. This is especially frustrating when you're already in the wrong place, at the wrong time. More fascinating though is the fact that this system works with coded data being transmitted to your car-radio, so that it switches off the cd or casette deck, right before they transmit the message, and switch it back on, all automatically. Now, recently, after the traffic message has been read out by some sarcastic reporter on duty, they stash a publicity message right after it, and before the data is transmitted that switches on your cd or casette again. The price of useless information...

Anyways: do the marketeers really think that the audience is stupid? I like advertising, especially the creative ones that make you laugh or curious. So please: COPY-writers: do YOUR JOBS better.

Consumerism is our way of life
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http://www.worldpeaceradio.com

get out there: NOW!!! You' re missing a piece of the action

2001-11-07

The Code of the Geeks v3.12 http://www.geekcode.com

We recommand reading this and then interpreting the geekcodeblock will soon post here...

By the by: new sitedesign is up, running and waiting to be published. Check back very soon whether the threat is real or not...

2001-10-26

De Standaard Online Elisabeth...

More news on the newborn Princess Elisabeth.
101 shots were fired in the Warande - parc in Brussels at noon. Tradition rules in this country...

Perlentaucher

Perlentaucher.de - Literatur im Netz Schriftsteller

Check out this great resource for German Literature...
Yesterday night - conference in the KUB - University / Brussels
The Swiss Writer Thomas Hürlimann gave us a fabulous performance, reading excerpts from his latest book and confronting critics and the public: Reception - investigation of literary works : live!
The local student - association was having a cantus and were consuming tons of beer in the basement.
Outside a man got shot, DOA. The police blocked the whole area.
Returning home: BIG NEWS. Belgium has now for the first time a FEMALE Throne pretendent: Princess Elisabeth, born October 25th.

Seemingly random acts, brought together by the simple fact that one goes to these things.
In front of T.V. we would only have seen the BIG NEWS. And nothing of what "real" life is all about.

::Today::
visit to the ICI & Maintenant - exposition in the monumental building of Tours & Taxis. Fabulous, post-modern (?) and huge collectio
of present-day artists and artefacts who roam in this capital of Europe. (more info on monday @ frogg-umentary).

Now reading: Patrick Roegiers: L'occuliste noyé
and listening to the latest LAMB.

Counter Consumerism - liberate yourself from the screens...

2001-10-23

We experience strange phenomena these days.
1. we feel bad - because it seems that everything is running out of control. Event after event after event, we view the most shocking depiction of what this world has become.
2. we feel bad - because we experience the shallowness of information. Continually swamped by bits, bytes and so-called live images, we've been orphaned of the time so needed for reflection
3. we feel bad - because we're no longer in touch with the things we CAN understand. Who are we, to determine the implications of the globalized events right now. Everything is connected so it seems, but does anyone have an overview - and if they do, are they sharing it with us?

For fear of falling into the conspiracy-freak-trap, have you met anyone recently able to explain you what's going on?
Where's the sense in all this... The starving children, the amputated youngsters, the indoctrination of whole countries. WHAT FOR?
And where do we stand in all this, as ordinary decent (criminal) - citizens of the so-called Free World. Do you condone the shelling by your governement? Hate retaliates - love not. Are there any ethics left?

Has all the backpack travelling, the voyages through ancient continents, the hyperlinking of the world taught us any thing, any insight?
Brother! Where art thou?

People experience fear now, fear for their own material well-being, their hopes and futures, their loans and savings. What about the guys & girls without bank-accounts? Is it a strategic plan to keep them stupid? Ignorant? Hatefull and jealous?

2 years ago, we published some facts concerning the overseas aid to development, quoting from an oficial report... Less than 2% of our GDP's are spent yearly on the 3rd world... But we manage to keep an agricultural industry alive in Europe - artificially. More than 45% of the European Budget goes to this sector, whereas less than 10% work in it. And it's killing our environment. We produce milk, meat,grain, wine, butter, chocolate surplusses by the millions of tons. Some farmers burn off their surplus in order not to get fined. And all the while we bomb 15$ tents to smithereens with high-tech weapons that bring us no peace or safety.

We ALL should do something about this - starting in our own backyard. Get out there, spread the world, the revolution has begun...

2001-10-21

*** Frogg-outlook for the world***

The Beatles have this great song that starts with: " I read the news today, oh Boy,..."

Yesterday, his Frogg-iness, talked to some really interesting friend... This Lady presented all the characteristics of a Modern-Day Western, emancipated, socially-caring GentleWoman. An Immigrant in this country for 40 years, she displayed a shell-shocked state of discomfort with the outbreaks of racism and xenophobia recently. It's like we've ignored all these problems for years...
And now all of a sudden, we realize that it's too late.

Sort of like the Clash of Civilisations brought to a mere mortal. She displayed a panicky behaviour, irrational thinking, carried away by the media-coverage of anthrax-scares worldwide. Prank-calls of dust-filled letters have indeed been swamping the general public worldwide, in this country alone some 250 harmless enveloppes were examined by the Specialized men in their haz-mat suits. This is no fun anymore.


The more you talk to people, the better you can realize how much really everything has changed lately. The first raids of stupid spin-off jokes is calming down, and as the hysteria settles a bit, we are confronted with the EXPERTS::: ranging from biochemical warfare specialists to terrorist experts for the Middle East region.
This shows us 2 things
1. the public is ready to accept anyone as an expert on anything: no more rationale. YOU yourself can become an expert on a very complicated and/or simple matter like toilet-flushing, the man-handling of potentially lethal enveloppes, how to dig a trench in an urban backyard or how to analyze the new... More serious though is the willingness of the public to do away with all PROPER & OWN thinking: we readily accept anybody's (another Expert...) mis-interpretation of this old French POET Nostradamus. It's plain crazy that we accept these translations, read them and mass-forward them to everybody as if this were an exact trans-position of what the poor fellow meant by writing this... Cryptic poetry has always been the source of so-called predictions...

2. the media right now are in a difficult position: they rely on the war-faring countries for (dis)- information. This is very apparent on the VRT - state-owned televised news shows. Anchorman and Woman don't hesitate to hand out the qualification of DISINFORMATION to new from the Taliban... Since there are for the time being no "neutral" reporters in the region, we're confronted with what THEY want us to tell. So the conspiracy-guys must have the times of their lives.... Look at all the incidents of the Last 3 weeks, and you can only deduct that this IS NOT COINCIDENTAL anymore...

So caution... The truth is out there, but we'll probably never find out HOW CYNICAL the truth really is.
- Do YOU accept anything they tell you?
- Do you let your thinking be Controlled?
- Do you let yourself be misled by so-called accurate footage of the latest accurate smart-bomb - NOW with Digital Night Vision...

They better get some marketeers to work on the names of those operations, smart-bombs and special forces.
- DO you care if the latest GBU-26 is flown by a B2-Stealth bomber with laser-vision enhanced and radar-deflecting capabilities???

Or

Do you care about the politics? The meaning of it all, and what this is doing to the world, the environment & the people.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life in fear and agony of the unknown, the different.

We better inform ourselves... After all - we are all equal, on a genetic based scientific level, but yet so different.
Assumez vos responsabilités: vive la différence!
Diversity is a good thing, but it most be on a respectful basis...
We shouldn't be slaughtering eachother in wars. This is UNacceptable...

2001-10-09

Bought some great music today:

- Cigar Lounge
- Buddha Bar III
- Your music - your Lounge

Ideal for those rum-moments at the Tropézina-beach-club
que aprovecheis!

2001-10-02



On the question of nicknames or "handles", read this article in the faq - pages of slashdot.org.
They have a meaning.
Handles are part of our online identity. More often than not, this identity conveys an entirely different message than our given names.

Also people sometimes get frustrated, wondering aloud what the purpose of having multiple handles, emails,... ad infinitum is.
One answer: since it's all free and out there, why not organize your life better.
But... make sure you keep a CODE-BOOK handy, where you note (in real writing) all your different codes and passwords. They shouldn't be stored on your computer...


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Today I went for a walk in the park right next door, to sniff the breeze of automn, and to remind myself how ephemeral everything is. If you look at the landscape surrounding your habitat: don't you just wonder how long it has been like that?
Think back a couple of decades, forget about powerlines, stone buildings, traffic lights and roads. And then hug the nearest oak tree, because it has seen a lot of changes recently. Feel the energy that sort of "vibrates" from it, and think him/her for the wonderful job it does releasing oxygen...
Because after all, the tree-huggers may be right: this is it.
Quality of Life, Action for Life Quality of Life Airborne

This project deserves our attention.
Recycling waste and stimulating ununsed resources in companies worldwide. Rock, on QfL!

2001-09-18

Cynisch is het geparafraseer, het gegoochel met media en desinformatie, en het gebrek aan objectivering.
Cynisch zijn verloren mensenlevens, pijn en leed - waar ook ter wereld, en calculus in dit verband, antieke interpretaties, en holle ideologische demagogie.
Cynisch is het gebrek aan solidariteit, en ongepaste terughoudendheid. Cynisch is de gijzeling van samenlevingen, overal ter wereld, ahv terreur, en dreiging en angst
Cynisch zijn zovele zaken, waar ik verder over zal zwijgen, want er is al pijn genoeg, en het herhalen van pijnlijk bedoelde woorden en daden brengt geen soelaas, maar verbittering

laten we ophouden cynisch te zijn;
lees dit hieronder, van een Amerikaanse Vriend toegestuurd gekregen.
ik sluit me er bij aan
good luck to you all en... - i love you too ...

Someone sent this to me, and it just seemed appropriate for the
devastation and loss of life that occurred a few days ago
.
There is a great sorrow that spreads across our the USA today and will remain for
some time, but it's the little things that count. I would like any of
you that have had any connection to the carnage through relatives,
friends or co-workers to accept my sympathies. If you haven't heard any
news yet, let's all hope that when you do it is "all-good".
Peace be with you and within you, and we will all make it through
this.

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If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you fall asleep,
I'd tuck you in more tightly, and pray the Lord your soul to keep.

If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you walk out the door,
I'd hug you and kiss you and call you back for just one more.

If I knew it would be the last time I heard your name in praise,
I'd videotape each word, and play it back for days.

If I knew it would be the last time to spare a minute or two,
I'd stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming you know I do.

If I knew it would be the last time I'd be there to share your day,
Well, I'm sure you'll have many more, so, I'll let this one slip away.

For surely there is a tomorrow to make up for an oversight,
And we'll always get a second chance to make everything all right.

There will always be another chance to say our "I love yous,"
And certainly there's another chance to say our "What I can dos."

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get,
I'd like to say I love you, and hope you never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,
And today might be your last chance to hold your loved one tight.

So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it all today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you will surely regret the day,
You didn't take the extra time for a smile or hug or kiss.
And you surely aren't too busy to grant what may be their last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear.
Tell them how much you love them, and that you'll always hold them dear.

Take the time to say "I'm sorry, forgive me or It's okay,"
And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

Apologize and start anew
and tell the one who loves you, that you love them too!

Now obviously the person who sent this to you loves you, maybe as a
friend, maybe as more.
But pass it along to all your friends, because you never know when
this day will be your last.


Kind regards
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2001-09-16

this has been a sad week.
a terrifying week also
fear for chain - reactions, more assaults
and pain, uncalculable moutains of pain
we wish for everybody to find serenity
we wish for the victims that they may find peace
we wish for all who carry responsibilities to assume them with caution, dignity and raison d'état that proves we have entered the 3rd millenium
we condone violence in every possible way
we wish for peace, understanding and respect

on a monument in Flander's Fields, 3 words have been written down by our forebears: 3 small words carrying a great message
No More War
let us be students of history, how inaccurate this may reveal to be
for time has learnt us this: violence is not a solution, not even a means

may the just prevail, in a humane way, worthy of our respect