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| 01 Jun 2008 01:48:28 pm |
 Internet fraude! |
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Ongelofelijk! Mijn eerste post in 2008.
Ik heb gewoon weg geen tijd genomen om te posten.
Waarom dan nu ineens in het Nederlands? Tsja, waarom niet.
Vandaag even 1200 spam berichten over WOW goud en allerlij medicijnen weggehaald.
Shiranai.com heeft afgelopen week een mail ontvangen van iemand die ons niet helemaal vertrouwd.
Die persoon claimt dat hij of zij spreekt namens een van de mensen die mee gaat in Augustus dit jaar.
Als dit inderdaad zo is, wat nog niet bevestigd is, dan is die opmerking van die persoon helemaal terrecht!
Hoe kun je nu als nietsvermoedende goudeerlijke internet gebruiker zien of iets helemaal 100% in orde is of niet.
Dat kun je niet!
Een site en of organisatie moet vertrouwen uitstralen. Doet deze dat niet, tsja... vertrouw hem dan niet!
Zou ik ook niet doen.
Straalt die site het echter wel uit,v ertrouw het dan OOK niet! Ik heb de afgelopen maanden veel gekocht over internet en ben ook enige keren getild door Ebay mensen die niet 100% leveren wat ze zeggen en een keer door een computer onderdelen leverancier waar ik iets duurs gekocht had.
Die laatste heb ik teruggevorderd met mijn credit card. Die paar e-bay dingen gingen om een niet werkende batterij voor mijn telefoon en een niet syncende oplaadkabel (usb) voor mijn telefoon (hij laad wel op, maar synct niet).
Wat kun je doen als je een site niet vertrouwt:
- Neem contact met de mensen op via e-mail.
+ Reageren ze niet? --> Niet vertrouwen
+ Reageren ze sloom en niet duidelijk --> Niet vertrouwen
+ Kun je niet via e-mail reageren? --> Helemaal niet vertrouwen!
- Laat je zelf alleen geruststellen door de personen in kwestie als ze iets van een garantie buiten de eigen organisatie om kunnen geven.
+ Gaat dit in de vorm van e-mail, controleer dan het zendende IP in de headers van het bericht.
+ Kun je eventueel (telefonisch?) contact opnemen met de contacten buiten de organisatie?
+ Probeer in contact te komen met andere klanten van die organisatie en vraag om meningen enz.
Vertrouw je de organisatie niet, ga er dan ook niet mee in zee!
Dit geld voor iedere internet organisatie en ook voor zaken of organisaties met echte winkels.
Peter Langhout en een aantal andere reisbureau's zijn zo ook naar de klote gegaan en hebben een boel klanten gedupeerd.
Ik zou zelf Shiranai ook niet zomaar vertrouwen! Vraag om garanties, probeer dingen uit te vinden van mensen die al eerder mee gegaan zijn (hebben ze een blog ergens? kun je zo contact opnemen?) of kijk of de organisatie of een onderdeel er van minstens zijn ingeschreven bij de KVK. Zo heb je in ieder geval een bestaand adres voor die organisatie. Maar ook dit is niet waterdicht natuurlijk. Ons KVK nummer is 14058822
Het belangrijkste is gewoon: Als je gevoel zegt dat het niet klopt, ga er dan niet mee in zee. |
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By : niels
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| 30 Dec 2007 03:18:34 am |
| In Japan once more |
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On December 25th I left with a group of 24 people to Osaka, Japan . We assembled at Schiphol as per usual slightly more then 3 hours before departure.
Because the last few times there was some trouble with the trains, I opted, at the last moment, for a cab ride to the airport. At least all of that went without a glitch this time round.
Everyone was on time and we headed for check in without delays. I had an emergency exit seat again but the flight was half empty, because of Christmas. So halfway through the flight I got too tired and found 3 un-occupied seats. I kicked the armrests up and used all 3 seats to sleep comfortably… well, sort of 
After arriving in Tokyo, Thomas and I got ourselves a shower at the shower centre. I really needed one to feel half human again. After showering, getting money and rail passes for all the kids, we checked in for the Osaka flight. Emergency Exit again \0/
After arriving in Osaka, we took a detour to CoCo ichi followed by going to bed.
The first real day in Osaka I did something… for the life of me I can’t remember what exactly.
Yesterday we went to Arashi Yama after picking up tickets for the Bennie K concert. I returned the tickets straight away because instead of 29/12 the concert was 29/2 -_-;; I gave up going to Kagoshima to attend this concert and now it appears that it’s in February! Damn it!
However, we went to Arashi Yama instead and it was really cool.
Today we went to Miyajima! I took some pictures. Here they are.
(pictures to be added later) |
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| 02 Dec 2007 08:51:38 pm |
| December 2007, a troublesome start of the month |
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Yesterday, was supposed to be a day of joy for the family.
My mom turned 65. The age where, in the Netherlands, you can start profiting from some senior citizen benefits like cheaper public transport etc.
Well, Friday night, my mother and father were still cleaning the house a bit for the guests due to arrive on Saturday. I live in the attic of the house and heard my mother shout my name at 01:30 am (I needed to get up 5:30, start work at 6:30).
I ran down to find my dad, lying on the floor. He couldn't get up.
He apparently fell over a protruding leg of a stepladder and fell on his back.
Since he couldn't get up, we looked up the number of the doctor's emergency service.
After office hours, you get a tape that tells you the number of some people with some medical background in a call centre with 1-2 doctors on duty to answer the call-centre people with difficult questions.
Since I usually remain calm in situations like these, I was asked to talk to the call-centre lady.
The sadest thing of this is, that at first, after calling these people, you get a message that: Whatever the reason you're calling, you will be billed for a doctor's consultation. This is one hell of a expensive number to miss-dial.
Then, you get to listen to a computer.
Quote : Good evening. Please note that in case of an emergency, you should press 1
About 35 seconds after the computer starts speaking, you get another ring tone and someone picks up.
This, is the sad state of current welfare state. But wait, it gets worse.
The kind person first asked if the patient was in pain, then asked me for medical details which was great. Then asked me to search for some documents and did we have insurance or not. Of course we have.
Then I was out on hold for about 40 secconds. After which, the lady tells me they are sending an ambulance to pick my dad up and examine him at the hospital in Dordrecht (close by).
The ambulance guys came straight away and were there in under 10 minutes. They were great and thought, due to one leg being shorter then the other, my dad's hip was broken. Which appeared to be the case.
He was driven to the hospital, where they confirmed a broken hip. After some 2 hours, an Iraki guy that spoke Dutch badly, came to my mother and my uncle (who followed them to the hospital) and told them and my dad (who was placed on a bed somewhere in the hall (not in a room)) that: Due to your age and that your breakage is not an emergency, you will be about 4th in line and should be operated upon around 14:30.
At that point, they decided to drive his bed to a room and put some IV"s in him.
Around 16:00 my mother was kind of anxious because she heard nothing from the hospital yet. My brother, who had by that time arrived at our house, called the hospital. Oh, yes, mr. V. Yes, ehm, he should be heading in for his operation around 17:00 and back at his room around 22:30 What? Why didn't you let us know about this? We were worried sick. Sorry, we only call after an operation has been completed. Well, can we at least come see him after he comes back from the OR? Visition hours are from 12:00 till 13:30 and 19:00 till 20:30. Come on, it's his wife. It's her birthday today and she's very anxious about his welfare. grumble.... well, all right, but only his wife and she can take a quick peak. Thank you.
To give them credit, they did call around 22:00 that my dad was back at his bed. I was home by that time, since I had to work till 18:00 and could not take the time off.
But, apparently, you can't be helped directly at a hospital any more and matters as Age and Insurance matter for your status as a patient. I wonder what they'd do if the PM was brought in with the same injury.
I figure they will not just drop him on some bed in the hall and then operate upon him maybe 14 hours later, if they can find a hole in their busy schedule. Even though he's getting older and a broken hip is not an emergency...
Class difference, even in this type of situations make me sadder and sadder to be living in a country that is going down the drain in a speed faster then a Hikari shinkansen.
No, I don't believe fruitcakes like Mr. Wilders are the solution. Hate mongers never are. You saw what happens if hate mongers get to power in the 1930's. Do I have a solution for our country? Not one that will still work.
I am not blaming the doctors on this, but the whole system that is Americanising more and more.
Anyway, we had a great start of December with a broken bone and a ruined birthday. On top of that the weather is shite too >_<
I hope the rest of December proves to be better.
It should be for me, storage wise. Just got myself a new 1TB HDD to store my copied CD's on for easy playback.
I started converting all my CD's to lossless audio so I can put them in storage and just have 1 HDD with all my music. It probably won't fit but having 2 discs is still saving loads of space compared to the current wall with plastic boxes. |
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By : niels
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| 17 Sep 2007 08:03:14 pm |
| Yoshinogari |
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Today we left at 05:20 to catch the 05:28 subway to Shin Osaka.
From there we took the train to Hakata, where we transferred to the local train to Tosu.
Instead of taking the local, we should have taken the express, but we didn't now that yet
After arriving in Tosu, where the sign said it was 34 degrees in the shade -_-;; we waited for about 35minutes to catch the local train to Yoshinogari Koen.
After having arrived at this station, we took the north exit and started looking for clues on how to get to the park. A nice Japanese person came from some office and wanted to give us some flyers we already had. Then pointed towards a sign, 1o meters ahead which clearly showed, Yoshinogari, 940m that way.
So, the long and odorous journey to forgotten history of 300 BC began.
Ater having travelled through meters and meters of rice fields (well, we wero on small roads in between) we came before a big parking lot, an impressive building and walked towards that.
The kind lady behind the ticket counter gave us a translator device that speaks to you in English when a key combo is typed. We had to pay a bond of 500 yen to make sure we would hand back the device.
Then, after paying the entrance fee of 400 yen, we could enter the park.
It was a great experience. We took quite some foto's.
After having seen the park, we went back to the entrance, gave back the devices, got a free towel, because it was so freaking hot and I was telling Robert that there is a possibility to actually go back to Tosu by bus.
right at that moment, a bus was screaming past us towards Tosu station.
Oh well, just our luck.
We decided to walk the many, many, meters back to the Yoshinogari Koen station and take the local from there.
When we were a mighty 340m away from the station, just besides a Yoshinogari hut, we were joking about the black clouds above us. We just finished the joke when someone pulled on a cord and water started flowing down faster then the Mississippi river. We decided to duck it out on 2 chairs underneath the Yoshinogari hut on stilts. However, the weather lords decided that with the copious amounts of rain, there should be winds.
So there was only a spot of about 10cm there we could remain relatively dry.
When it was almost dry again, about 5min. later, e made a jog for the station. Arriving there just at the moment the rain streamed down yet again.
The train came in 10mins. later and we got to transfer to a Kamome express to Hakata in Tosu.
Arriving in Hakata made me want to get a fisheye lens for my camera, as I could not fit all the houses I wanted on one picture at Yoshinogari and was determined that this should not be the case for any other opportunity I might get at taking pictures.
So Rob and I went in to Yodobashi Hataka to get my lens and a UV filter. I got everything and got more points on my point card then I wanted to have. So in addition, I paid 400 yen for a new DS game with some weird mouse like controller.
To see if I really did not like Okonomiyaki or Modanyaki we went to Fugetsu in Yodobashi and try if the one I ate last April was just not very good, or that I really do not enjoy the stuff.
I must say, this was quite edible. Possibly due to the fact we added cheese to the mix.
I thorougly enjoyed my meal and a drink.
Afterwards we returned home around 21:00 and were not hungry any more.
That stuff really fill you up.
Tomorrow is a day I am spending to work on Kaze stuff and visiting Tom in his restaurant. Then we're supposed to go to the Aquarium here in Otaku... ehm Osaka. So don't expect a post on the 18th. |
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| 16 Sep 2007 09:28:32 am |
| Kayukan |
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More info on the day we spend in Osaka to visit the aquarium can be found on Robert's blog.
We did manage to go eat at Chica's and Charlies which has expended quite a lot Because Tom's restaurant (Oude Kaas) was closed on Sunday -_-
Robert's blog |
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