Blair and Bono, so cool.... NOT!

Blair needs to boost his popularity, and for this he needs "cool celebs". Yesterday he invited Bono at the Labour Conference in Brighton. (see NME article) Where Bono declared the historical words: "I'm fond of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, They are kind of the John and Paul of the global development stage, in my opinion. But the point is, Lennon and McCartney changed my interior world - Blair and Brown can change the real world."
Isn't that pathetic? How low can you go...

I will never forget the day when I discovered my dad's vinyl album "Boy" by U2. It was their debut album, and it sounded so fresh and energetic. Not outdated at all. Big difference with their later work where they sound more artificial, bombastic, crowd-pleasing, even cheesy.
I recently heard their new single, called Vertigo. I think it will be released somewhere in November. It sounds very much like a copy of "I will follow", from this first Boy-album... but lacking the freshness. Anyway, Bono is just not cool. Just like Tony, who is also a cheapo. Last year Bono attempted to give him a guitar, but Blair - who used to be in a band called Ugly Rumours - refused, because gifts above 250 £ he had to pay from his own pocket!!! Yuck.

Go FedEx!!! Go UPS!!!

I wonder if DHL will commit on paper that they will use less noisier planes. I don't think so. I think DHL has just been playing a game with the Belgian governments. Most probably DHL had already decided to move out of Brussels, but they wanted to play it that way that it was a decision of the Belgian authorities, so DHL itself is not to blame.

I would say: f*ck you, DHL, go to Leipzig, Frankfurt, or even Windhoek. Me and secretaries in my company use FedEx, where the service is fantastic.
FedEx has their European coordination center here in Brussels, plus a huge station near the airport. They don't have flights here in Brussels, but a truck is coming/going everyday from/to Paris, where FedEx invested in a huge hub near Charles De Gaulle airport, an area with very low population density.

So better let DHL (or better "Deutsche Post") move together with their noise, invest more in UPS and FedEx (both located in Brussels but without flights) so most DHL workers can be employed there.
Go FedEx!!! Go UPS!!! F*ck DHL!!!

DHL: infamous founder!

DHL is in the news, maybe they will move to Leipzig because a possible ban to come on nightflights. DHL was founded in 1969 by 3 Californians: Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn (the D, H, and L).
Hillblom, with Scandinavian roots (maybe we are far related!!!), had a funny reputation that I didn't see in any newspaper. He was also known as Larry "Hustler" Hillblom, and was known to have an Asian fetish and a specific taste for teenage girls. He lived on an island in the South Pacific where he imported Asian virgins for his pleasure. He had women on his payroll who were in charge of securing these virgins for him in Philippine go-go clubs and bars. In 1995, Hillblom's seaplane crashed near his home in Saipan and his body was never recovered, but he was legally declared dead.
Several women from the Far East who say they bore his children have come forward to demand a share of his millions. Now the obvious answer to paternity claims is DNA testing. But there was no body to obtain samples from and Hillblom's relatives were reluctant to provide blood samples. At one point, his mother turned down an offer of more than $1 million.
Doctors at UC-San Francisco said they had taken a mole from Hillblom, and the lawyers thought that would solve the dispute. But then it was announced there had been a mix-up; the mole belonged to someone else. Doctors said they did have scar tissue left over from Hillblom's 1993 surgery. But they refused to relinquish the tissue, prompting a legal battle that went to the court.
In the meantime, lawyers for the children commissioned DNA sibling tests to see whether Hillblom's alleged offspring had a common parent. The answer was yes for four children: two Filipino girls, a Vietnamese boy and a Palauan boy. Each received an inheritance of about $ 50 million.

UPDATE: the photo might probably not be Hillblom's, although it looked like on a Vietnamese newsite. Hillblom's photos are apparently hard to find, but there are a few on LVBlog!

Old schooltrip photo

An old schoolfriend Annika sent me a photo of a schooltrip we made to Gotland when we were in high school. I think we must have been 15 or 16 years old. Do you recognize me on the photo?