http://jaeweb.cantr.net snapshots of yet another chaotic mind Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:31:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Despite the fact that last year I left the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) and switched to the more (social-)liberal D66, I have always been a fairly big fan of Wouter Bos, the leader of the PvdA. D66 is a real "Third Way" party and Wouter Bos is a real "Third ... http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2010/03/05/history-in-politics/ This is basically a note to myself to investigate later, but this is interesting. I had already heard that newer version of SPSS allow for programming scripts in Python, which is a huge improvement removing some of my doubts about SPSS. Now I see that you can also call R ... http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2010/03/02/r-in-spss/ Sometimes I really don't like Dutch politics. Here's a little news item in the NRC Handelsblad, which translated by Google Translate (and slightly edited) states: "The Commissariat for the Media (CvdM) designated the Netherlands Muslim Broadcasting Foundation (SMON) for the next five years to provide airtime for Muslims. It concerns one hours ... http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2010/01/04/muslim-television/ A nice lecture on individual freedom by Boris van den Ham (in Dutch): http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2010/01/02/individual-freedom/ Thought it wouldn't hurt to quote this nice summary of the election of the President to the European Council: "27 EU leaders met behind closed doors over a cosy dinner in Brussels to thrash out who will represent Europe's 500 million citizens on the world stage, without so much as ... http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/11/20/eu-democracy/ I always feel I am acting too arrogant when complaining about the Irish political system and I know I am unreasonably biased towards the way the Dutch political system works, but especially during the recent economic crisis, I sometimes really worry about how Ireland is run. Here is an interesting ... http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/11/15/irish-politics-and-electoral-system/ Who knew Go could be deadly! http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/11/13/go/ Now these are what I call cool resumes. http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/09/28/resume/ The Irish campaign on the Lisbon Treaty: (And yes, this is fake ...) http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/09/26/vote-no-or/ http://jaeweb.cantr.net/2009/09/16/piano-story/