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Tutta la mia prossima settimana è dedicata a “Implementing and Administering Windows 2000 Directory Services“. Augurami buona fortuna.

Grazie a Andrew Sullivan ho trovato una citazione da Pim Fortuyn che ti permette di farti un’idea direttamente dalla fonte:

“Large groups in the community are lagging behind in social and cultural terms. These groups often originate from countries which did not participate in the Judeo-Christian-humanist developments which have been taking place in Europe for centuries. These shortfalls in development are highly regrettable, as they result in a divide in society and form a threat to the functioning of our large cities.

“This must be tackled vigorously, on the one hand by paying extra attention to housing, schools and cultural education for these groups, but on the other by requiring these groups to make a maximum effort themselves. Cultural developments which are diametrically opposed to the desired integration and emancipation, such as arranged marriages, honour revenge and female circumcision, must be fought by means of legislation and public information. Discrimination against women in fundamentalist Islamic circles is particularly unacceptable.

“In a democratic society like ours, all citizens have the same rights and obligations, irrespective of race, gender, beliefs and nature. There is a division of Church and State in the Netherlands, and therefore also of mosque and state. Thanks to the division of powers (the executive, legislative and judiciary powers), citizens can develop themselves in relative freedom. Our hard-fought freedoms are worth protecting against increasing fundamentalism.”

Su questa base lo hanno accomunato a Le Pen. A me personalmente sembra più un Pannella.

Cosa sai di Pim Fortuyn? Sai quello che ti hanno detto le televisioni: cioè poco di vero, niente di certo. Ma dall’Olanda il blog di Adam Curry ti racconta la vera storia di quest’uomo.

Curry chiude con delle riflessioni molto amare su cosa vuol dire essere nel mirino dei media:

“I’ve been in the public eye for more than 18 years, in Europe and the US. I’ve enjoyed fame and recognition, which comes at a price.

That price isn’t privacy, as many would have you believe, the price is the cost of the truth.

I’ve been interviewed hundreds of times. By broadcasters, publications, newspapers, magazines, school papers. You name it, they’s interviewed me.

Not once, ever, has the result been factually correct.

And that’s the battle, you feel so violated and wronged when someone or something of authority states an untruth about you. It takes tremendous amount of effort to correct or re-direct the flow of the press.”

Anche Andrew Long ne parla nel suo blog, e ti spiega come la stampa uccide una figura pubblica:

“…and that, folks, is how character assassination works. No, you don’t have to lie (although you can get away with it). You don’t have to be one-sided (even though that’s the norm these days anyway). You can even tell the truth somewhere in the story, like this article did. The result, whether intentional (most likely) or not (highly doubtful, as the intelligent journalists working for the “paper of record” are undoubtedly the most highly coveted in their field), is an insidious form of sludge-slinging that works to exterminate the voices of those who dare to disagree with established opinion.”

Tu vienimi a raccontare dell’etica del giornalista…

Su kartoo.com, se accedi alla rete con una connessione veloce, le ricerche su internet diventano esperienze visive molto interessanti.

Si tratta di un motore di metaricerca, ovvero puoi scegliere quali motori interrogare. Da oggi kartoo diventa la mia interfaccia ufficiale verso google (motorino, ti amo ancora ma…).

Grazie a Chris per la fantadritta.

Come quando arrivi a un sito che non ti lascia entrare perché il tuo firewall non permette l’identificazione del browser:

The requested URL /cgi/fark/go.pl?location=http://www3.primushost.com/~stevem/girlz.htm&IDLink=173788 was not sent from server go.fark.com because your browser didn’t set the USER_AGENT variable.

We don’t serve pages to clients that don’t identify themselves because they tend to be spammers trying to siphon email addresses off of our site. (Not always, but often. Or you could have your browser security settings set “waaaay paranoid”.) Either way, to be on the safe side and to protect our users, we’re giving you this wonderful little error message page instead of a real one. We don’t really care which browser you use, we just care that you’re not a spambot address harvester. Tweak your browser’s security settings. Thanks. Tastes like chicken.

Naturalmente apprezzo i motivi, ma continuo a pensare che non sono io a rimetterci. Ad esempio, quando carico una pagina e vedo il buco del banner che non mi sono beccato, godo smodatamente.