Winter photopost
Below an assortment of pictures taken, some with my phone, some with a real camera, of wintery scenes. Enjoy! Edit: pictures are moved to full-view only. Click below to see them. 😉
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More spam-related fuss
Since a couple of days I’ve been noticing an increase in spam-comments. Historically ranging from the infamous penis enlargements to comments telling my how to buy cheap medication, spams have been pretty straightforward. Usually, a spam comment exists of several links, very little text and all sorts of different spellings and synonyms of the words medication, penis and bigger. This
Continue readingShort thesis-update
Since it already is the 18th of December, I’m telling you, my precious readers, the thesis is nearing completion. There still are major loads of work to do, and since my thesis coordinator at the university (again) is away for some time next week it’ll be a mad dash to the end. Wish me luck here, at least I’ve rested
Continue readingBack to medieval times
People living in the randstad in the Netherlands, tend to underestimate the rest of the country, as it just is not the Randstad. Anything beyond the large urban conglomerate spanning from Amsterdam to Utrecht and Rotterdam is not up to speed, and less developed. I’m not in favor of this snobbish attitude towards (17-7)/17*100 = 59% of the Netherlands, but
Continue readingStop! Wintertime!
Today can be considered to be the very first day of the Winter of 2007. I woke up this morning, and directly froze off a limb when I exited my nice warm bed. The view here in Nieuwegein can only be described as foggy & cold, luckily the temperature has not dropped below zero degrees Celcius, it probably will soon
Continue readingWindows Vista + XP-based network drive == error
We’ve got a new Vista-based computer at home, to do the all-important financials and some random surfing. As our house is also equipped with a pc dedicated to be the media-server, and it runs on XP. (I know, I’m too lazy to set up a Linux-based, Samba enabled box 😉 ) It is running quite steadily for quite some time
Continue readingWind & sand
There are some advantages with living near to our coast. After you take away the hard wind, the warm winters and cold summers, the near complete absence of snow & ice, the large quantities of German’s taking over entire villages, the big amounts of Polish, Romanian & Bulgarian workers wreaking havoc in supermarkets and electronics shops and the fact that
Continue readingRefunding a party of woman-fobics
If you are Dutch, you most certainly know them: SGP. The abbreviation stands for "Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij", a very strict party of reformed Christians. Recently they made all the headlines as the state-funding of the party was cut off, due to the fact women cannot be a participating member of the party, nor will they ever be as party-regulations clearly
Continue readingAnnouncement: spam has hit the fan!
I’ll let the image do all the talking: I’ve hit 1K of spam comments! Yay! Update: (14:00) Two more! 😉
Continue readingThesis update December
Wow, with Sinterklaas on our doorsteps, it cannot be long before the merry days at the end of the year will commence. I’m already getting hammered with Christmas advertisements, and it will only intensify over the next few weeks. Over here, a gentleman’s agreement has been made amongst store-holders to only start advertising Christmas inside their stores and in the
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