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Frozen in time… Bloggers Unite for Human Rights!
May 15th, 2008 under Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 1 ]



frozen in time…, originally uploaded by tatyveli.

Freeze for a moment if you please and think about the lack of human rights in so many countries around the world.
Posting a few of my newest photos for the Bloggers Unite for Human Rights - today - 15th of may 2008.


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Bloggers Unite

My heart goes to all the innocents that are imprisoned, and to all the hungry and devastated by natural disasters, such as in Burma recently. May their situation change for the better and ASAP. And how is it possible that 2 million people’s lives are endangered because of the refusal of the junta to open up to a full-scale relief effort? Wake up world!


...rainbow and the frozen daisy... THANK YOU!

The photos above are an experiment that I was planning to do for quite some time. I decided to place some flowers in colored water and freeze these in. Under a certain angle the sun light hit the ice in such a way that a shine and rainbow colors came up from within and surrounded the daisy. Check the few leaves of the daisy pointing towards heaven like fingers … ( I like that ;) ) It reminds me that there are certain powers that could change events even when we tend to loose hope…


Earth’s Day - better late than never…
April 23rd, 2008 under Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 5 ]

...yellow blanket for Earth's Day...

Yesterday was Earth’s Day and I did post a photo on Flickr, the one you are seeing above this text, but did not post it on the blog when i should have - yesterday. You see my friends, I am very unhappy with many things in my life at this moment, and at times I feel like being in a black hole. Emotionally, I seem to be on a path that inextricably leads to solitude and suffering. This seems to bring me nothing but frustration and disillusionment - and that could easily lead to great sadness, or depression. What I hate most of all is whining and forgive me for whining here at the moment. I simply feel that you need some kind of explanation for the missing chapters, or better to say - the missing posts on my blog(s). I will definitely try better to do my best and post more often. Even if without writing I could at least post some more of my photos. Here are a few for you taken in the last few days. Talk to you soon my friends, and have a splendid and shiny week ahead :)

...maybe the red once have more...

...Have to go...

...is there some food left...


Survey about people’s reactions to the presidential candidates in the upcoming election
February 21st, 2008 under Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: none ]

The purpose of this survey is to examine how people think and feel about the political issues, parties, and candidates in the upcoming election. In the survey, you will be asked a series of questions about two political candidates, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. We are very interested in how individuals that find information on the web think about politics, and your participation would be greatly appreciated. In total, the survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is completely anonymous and you can skip any questions you do not wish to answer.

Click here to take the survey please

Please feel free to contact Chris Weber (crweber@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) at Stony Brook University with any questions or concerns. Thanks for your help!


Pondering the answer on the Cease and Desist…
February 18th, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 2 ]





Taty’s Deep Electric Blue Thoughts, originally uploaded by Smartzz.

To start the new week with a brighter mood, I decided to use the artistic work of Connie, a Flickr friend of mine. She did some bright and beautiful works with a few of my images that were blurred almost beyond recognition. The one here above she called: “Taty’s Deep Electric Blue Thoughts,” and this is the state of mind I am presently in. I’ll need another day or two until the answer to the law firm will be ready to send. Will let you know what will happen after the message of mine has been sent.


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On another note, this evening on one of the Dutch TV channels SBS 6, a girl was telling that she saw Maddy McCann in Montpelier - France. The French police took it very seriously and started the hunt for a guy of about 1.80m that was together with the presumed Maddy. I hope so much that it was indeed her, and that she will be found finally. My heart goes out to her and to her parents.

Talk to you soon my friends and wishing you a splendid week ahead :)


Cease and desist … and I would Love to Scream right now!
February 15th, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 3 ]



…Make up your mind…, originally uploaded by tatyveli.

This capture was taken by yours truly and describes best the title of this post and this is why I am using it. This morning when I checked my email all the lovely thoughts and memories of the Valentines Day yesterday vanished. Why? Because of the email that I received from the attorney of a huge and world known company, asking me to cease and desist the use of a domain name and the web site that goes with it, as according to them, I am in breech with the Intellectual Property Rights of the company they are working for…

Needless to say it but I got cold shivers all over me. The though that first crossed my mind was - how can I go against them - it would be crazy to even try. You see, I am like the ant against the elephant here. No matter how good of an attorney I have I would never win this battle as I do not have the time, nor the cash to bear with the consequences that a probable loss would mean for me. Ceasing the use of the domain name and site would mean for me cutting my bread and butter for at least 3/4 of what I now make a month. Meaning I would have to do with barely a 1/4th of what I earn right now. And the entire amount is worthless and not even enough to make me pay the monthly costs of the server I am using alone :(

Really my friends, I am so distressed and upset right now that I need to take a break and see to put my mind together and come up with a good enough plan as to where I will go from here on with my online venture. Will talk to you soon, and if you don’t see a post from me in a week means that I am too busy with this problem as they have given me only 10 days to solve the crisis. Bye for now.


…Smile and You Shall Receive?
February 11th, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 2 ]



…kissproof…kissable?, originally uploaded by tatyveli.


Again my friends - apologies for not having written on my blogs for longer than I thought. There are a few important things that I wanted to mention to you before these become old news as all of it becomes sooner or later.

What do you think about the statement in the title: “Smile and You Shall Receive?” Is it really so in life? In your life or in my life? It’s true of course that with sweetness you are catching more flies than with bitter or with other tastes, so it must be true. Why am I asking? Today in the newspapers I read that Ayaan Hirshi Ali, the Dutch politician that went to the US is now in France and asking for French nationality. You have heard about her of course, known for her outspoken criticism of conservative Islam.

She hopes to get French citizenship because, than she will not have to worry about the costs of her security. You see, when she went working and living in the US the Dutch government kept paying the costs for her security, but after 18 months they stopped with it. In the US she had to find funds to pay for her own security as the US government did not intend to pay for it.

I mean, don’t you all find it ridiculous that one is praised as an activist, as a hero, until it comes down to money. Than everyone turns and looks at the opposite direction like they have nothing to do with it. How is it possible that money is more important than anything else, or so it seems?

We will see if France will grant her the citizenship and if they will start paying for her security. For her sake I do hope that sooner or later some country will take the task upon themselves.

About Joran van der Sloot. His lawyer gave a statement that he has been in talks with the Dutch police force denying everything that he said on the movie taped in the car of Patrick van der Eem. He said, he was stoned while making the ridiculous declarations. LOL, I really laughed about it a lot, as this guy smokes constantly, and the tapes were from different days, and on different occasions, and he was always smoking :D . His attorney stated that he will remain in The Netherlands and always available if the Dutch Police needed him, and at any time. I guess he is praying that The Netherlands will keep him here and will not send him back to Aruba.





I will keep you updated when I know any news in regards.


P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case
February 4th, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 3 ]

Just as I thought when writing the earlier post, most of The Netherlands was watching P.R de Vries yesterday evening. It wasnt really weird as for almost 3 years Joran van de Sloot kept denying to have done whatsoever or being involved in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

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P.R. de Vries is talking with the undercover agent Patrick van
der Eem. The guy has won the trust of Joran van der Sloot.

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In the car of Patrick van der EEm Joran van derr Sloot is telling him
details about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

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The circle is the spot where Joran and Natalee have spent some time just
before she disappeared.

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P.R. de Vries is showing the spot where Jorankept her body hidden in the
bushes while he went calling a buddy of his to come and help him out.

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The spot on the beach was very near the Marriot Hotel.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

This could be how the scene looked like while he was hiding her body.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

P.R. de Vries is talking with the Head of the Justice Department on Aruba - mr. Hans Mos -
after showing him the hidden camera movies with the confession of Joran van der Sloot.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Here P.R. de Vries is calling Beth Twitty, the mother of Natalee
Holloway from Aruba, while asking her to come to The Netherlands.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Beth Twitty, Natalee Holloway’s mother while watching the hidden camera movie staring
Joran van der Sloot, saying the words on the screen.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Beth Twitty and P.R. de Vries while watching the hidden camera movie in his studio.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Joran van der Sloot while saying the words on the screen, and Beth
Twitty and P.R. de Vries watching it,

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

The shock written all over the face of Beth Twitty while listening to what Joran van der Sloot is confiding to Patric van der Eem - the undercover working for P.R. de Vries.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Beth Twitty finally knows what happened to her daughter and
she is so shocked from what she is seeing Joran van der Sloot
saying in the car of Patrick van der Eem.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Beth Twitty talking with P.R. de Vries

Beth Twitty was unable to look at the sea while she was in Aruba. She had the feeling of something so evil. The emotions were too much for her and the tears were rolling over her cheeks while stating this.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Here P.R. de Vries threw the book of Joran van der Sloot about
the Natalee Holloway case on the beach of Aruba and it was taken
by the sea.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

Patrick van der Eem helped justice as he wanted the case solved, and the fact that Joran van der Sloot wanted to earn cash from this case, while guilty and unpunished made him do it.

P.R. de Vries and the Natalee Holloway case

The book of Joran van der Sloot - filled with lies disappears in the sea…

In the coming days and weeks we will see what Justice on Aruba is going to do with these new facts. Will they arrest Joran van der Sloot. Will there be a trial, and will he finally get punished. I will follow the news and will update you when I know more.

This is a short video with English sub-titles.






Wishing you a great week ahead my friends and talk to you soon.


Dutch crime reporter solves Natalee Holloway case
February 1st, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 3 ]

Yesterday on the 8 o’clock evening news I saw the crime reporter Peter R. de Vries telling that he solved the case of the for such a long time missing US teenager Natalee Holloway. It was to be expected that the world news will pick it up, since her mother, Beth Twitty, arrived here yesterday morning after an invitation of Peter R. de Vries. He will be presenting the case this coming Sunday on TV, and her mother will be there too. It is more than likely that he has proof that Joran van der Sloot has done it. The proof consist of a by hidden camera taken movie of how Joran is confessing the crime to a buddy of his. One thing is for sure, 80 to 85% of the Dutch population will be watching this on TV, and most probably the world press and TV stations will be covering it too. And I feel so sorry for the loss of this beautiful young girl’s life, and for her parents.
This is what he said yesterday on TV, that she is not longer alive.


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Talk to you soon my friends, and have a nice weekend.


I C U - and I wish I really could :)
January 31st, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 2 ]



I C U - damage there…, originally uploaded by tatyveli.

Hello friends, and my first post of this week will explain why a photo of my eye. As the tile of this post is saying - I would love to be able to cee you after placing a photo of my eye(s) in here…wouldn’t this be great? Fantasy for now however, but who know, maybe one day soon such things will be a possibility… :)

As to the photo - since 3 days the right eye is hurting me a lot and I decided to take a few macro shots and see if there is something to be seen as with a simple mirror I wasn’t seeing anything. I took several photos of both my eyes, and the one you see here above is of the eye that is hurting. If you look closely you’ll see that there are two scratches, or lines, and both on the pupil and further on the iris.
I went to see my doctor and he is sending me to an eye specialist. I tried making an appointment for today but it will be on Friday, and until than I’ll have to keep the “pirate bandage” on my eye, and use some camomille bags on my eye to sooth the iritation.

What I did get as an advice from an eye specialist on Flickr is to check if there are antibiotic ointments sold here without prescription, and to see if this will help some. I will go to see for such shortly, in the hope that it will help me out of this pain and shortly.

My doctor told me that this is most probably caused by the long term pneumonia that I am having, and that it does not necessarily has to be an abrasion on the eye. And that these scratches are most probably old, and not causing the pain I am having.

The other news is that I purchased a domain name called KillYourself.org - hehehe, right, I thought it was such a very funny domain name, especially if you take it on the funny side. Imagine having someone who has made you mad, and angry as hell. I thought to send such people a note with a link on it to this site of mine…and imagine their reaction :D You could do that yourselves if someone pisses you off :)

Talk to you soon my friends and wishing you a great day!


Heath Ledger Tribute…
January 25th, 2008 under Useless rants, Useless news, Useless opinions, Totally Useless. [ Comments: 4 ]



Heath Ledger tribute, originally uploaded by mick walters/Billy.

Obviously most of you heard, or read about the tragic dead of the young and handsome Heath Ledger two days ago. The news hit me badly because I admired this young and so talented actor very much, and could not imagine how a 28 years old could pass to the other side at this age, and with the brightest future in front of him.

The photo above is a tribute to him from a young and very talented Australian photographer - Mick, or aussiemick on Flickr. He is of the same age as Heath Ledger by the way, and I found it so well done of him to post this wonderful tribute… May Heath Ledger Rest In Peace, and Peace be with his family and dear once.

On another note, the latest pills were working while I was taking them but once the cure was over all of it returned to where I was before the cure. Will be heading to the doctor later today and will see where will we go from here on. With, or without medications, at home or at the hospital. Wish me well my friends, and send me some healing energy the same way, I am sending you my big {{{HUGS}}} :) .
Talk to you soon here on Totally-useless.com .


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