Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.
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It all goes in cycles.

September 27th, 2011 |

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

Charlie Chaplin, the superb closing speech from The Great Dictator, 70+ years old and still as relevant today as ever.

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Link:

May 18th, 2011 |

Gotta Secret?

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He’s not a Banker…

March 11th, 2011 |

…he’s a very naughty boy.

Or maybe there is something you should know :-)

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Thinking dreamily of Barbera

January 12th, 2011 |

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riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17
n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1
K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D
Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70
…. yeah, that worked huh?

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HaHaHa

December 7th, 2010 |
“It is dispiriting and upsetting for anyone who cares about the American tradition of a free press to see Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Robert Gibbs turn into H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman and John Dean. We can only pray that we won’t soon be hit with secret White House tapes of Obama drinking scotch and slurring his words while calling Assange bad names.”

- David Samuels in The Atlantic

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Note for everybody else…

December 7th, 2010 |

http://213.251.145.96/

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Note to self…

November 18th, 2010 |

xkcd: Duty Calls

I really should try harder to remember this..

Embedded courtesy of XKCD.com and the beauty of their Licence.

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Spammers.. twats.

June 28th, 2010 |

Getting a little problem with those inadequate idiots… the sex-pill scammers. If you see one of their sad adverts appearing in the comments don’t worry, it will be rapidly deleted.

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No Fly Zone

April 20th, 2010 |

My bicycle is totally immune to volcanic ash (at least while it is high in the atmosphere), and my travel plans have not been disrupted at all.

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I only like tropical phish!

May 15th, 2009 |

So, I just had a sudden message from an infrequent MSN contact.. It went like this:

This appears to be a incoming scam attempt.

Danger.. Phishermen at work.

Looks like a phishing attempt… no reputable site would ever ask for your MSN username and password.. The alarm bells went off for me immediately. I’m sure http://ImageStoriez.com/ is a scam.. Now who do I notify? :-S

My other concern is that this probably means that one or the other of us has had their MSN account or system compromised in order to send the initial IM to me in the first place. So who has the infected machine.. is it their end or mine.. or is it somewhere in between? Irritating stuff.. and all just because the world is stuffed full of antisocial greedy people and ruled by a profit at any cost motive.

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Curious

July 3rd, 2007 |

“Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to them. Objectivity turns listeners off and is a money loser.”
Just what I’ve been thinking too.. Amusingly it’s from someone who is also selling something, a book about modern-day Brownshirts.

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Long day yesterday

December 15th, 2006 |

The Diana enquiry report came out. Drunk driver trying to outrun paperazzi, in probably the worlds safest car, three people were not wearing seat belts. They died, the one who belted up survived, that says more about this than any conspiracy theory.

Thinking of conspiracy, I feel really sorry for Mohamed Al-Fayed, I don’t blame him about his reaction because the British establishment -is- crap enough to have murdered her, but in this case an accident is the most plausible explanation.. And Al Fayed is a man who has lost his son and is in terrible grief, he has my deepest sympathy.

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