Coping with public and private transport since 2001
This time of year, it seems a lot of people are taking a few days off to go some place the sun always shines. Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Egypt are popular destinations, as is France for most Dutchies. Next week, I’m also AWOL, I’m going to Austria with my girlfriend to breathe in some healthy and fresh mountain air,
Continue readingYes, today I will post a message about market functions. As many of you know, I study Economics and Informatics which kind of tells you the theoretical how of this post. "de Volkskrant" informed us August 7th about plans made by dutch parties SP and CDA to limit the trade of tickets to concerts and festivals via the internet. Unfortunately,
Continue readingPeople always say commuting is very boring as there is nothing to bee seen, and as they cannot do what they want at that time. I very much disagree; in the public transportation there’s always something going on. And no, I don’t mean the trains not running on time. The public transport is always filled people, and as some might
Continue readingThe folks over at WordPress keep on working to create a better experience for us all. This time it is a security upgrade for the 2.0-branch, which brings the software up to quite a nice number: 2.2.2 Several updates have been fixed, including several severe flaws, including a XSS-hack. All solved bugs can be found here. I usually don’t post
Continue readingYesterday my hoster decided to migrate from version A of his software to version B, which wouldn’t be such a problem when everything went well. However, you’ve probably guessed by reading the title of this post that it didn’t went well. Backups were made, and the migration was done, backups were restored and everything failed to work. Bugger. It turned
Continue readingThis year is like no other, since the last three years. The DTM at Zandvoort will experience me visiting on Sunday. The day started well and truly wet as we drove from our homes to Haarlem to catch a train to Zandvoort. It was soaking wet during the entire trip to Haarlem, and our windshield wipers had their work cut
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