Coping with public and private transport since 2001
This year the floor beneath our Christmas tree has been riddled with presents, many more than last year. I don’t know why, but the festivities spurred an unknown generosity among the both of us. Therefore, this year brought me not one but two sets of Lego! I can thank my GF for both the 8297 and the magnificent 8258. Below
Continue readingOn a few occasions during you project, but mostly at it’s final stages, you’ll be doing extra time to get everything done. This often includes dining with your colleages whilst doing your job. This is what you get the day after:
Continue readingIt’s been quite a while since we’ve returned from our holiday to Greece, and I’ve been very busy editing the raw pictures I’ve taken. In total, there’s over 2000 photo’s that needed attention, which was reduced to 1850 due to the crash of my HDD and the incomplete restore from my memory cards. Of those, the following made the cut
Continue readingAs I promised to you: here’s the next 40!
Continue readingAnd here’s part #3. 🙂 Still with me here?
Continue readingYesterday, our central heating system broke. I’m guessing it did, as I’m no heater-expert… The little flame isn’t burning anymore, and it’s not coming back on. No matter how hard I try. We kind of figured it would happen some day, as the system was built in back in 1992, and wih an average lifespan of about 15 years, ours
Continue readingI’m still really busy working on the pictures we took during our holiday. Today, it’s creating panoramas by stitching them together. There’s a whole lot of tools capable of doing so, including the ancient Photostich, several paid programs, and my saviour: Hugin. I like! Free to use, maintained by the community and easy to use. What more to wish for?
Continue readingI left you with a statement about what happened, and this is what. I lost about a year worth of photo’s through a very unfortunate series of events. Firstly, my synchronize-software was inadvertently convinced that the external drive containing the pictures was the ‘destination’ drive, instead of the ‘source’-drive. This lead to the deletion of the last year’s worth of
Continue readingUnfortunately, I’m writing this to you on the very last day of my holiday. Tomorrow, it’s back to regular business for us. *sulk* Pictures will follow shortly. Even after everything that has happened…
Continue readingRight now, I’m typing this from my mobile phone, while sitting comfortably on a lounge seat sipping my double espresso while in Greece. Well, life isn’t too bad like this. Today has been a day filled with sand, salt water and protecting ourselves from the inevitable sun. 30spf is barely enough. With about 35¤ Celsius in the shade it’s what
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