Coping with public and private transport since 2001
Triple-yay! After my first proposal for a thesis was rejected by the university as the quality of the proposed thesis didn’t quite match the (high) university-standards, I sat down to rethink what Ordina was asking from me, and what I wanted myself. I met with the supervisors from both Ordina and the university to discuss the matter and came up
Continue readingThis morning, my former boss in Hoogvliet tried to call me but could’t reach me, so he left an urgent message for me to call him back. As he refused to say to my parents what it was about, they feared the worst: something really bad had happened to someone I knew. I got back a short while later to
Continue readingToday Guy is going to China for six months, or a little longer if all goes well. Right now, he is on his plane somewhere over the Gobi Desert trying to attack his boredom by placing blogposts on his website. What he is going to do there is still not quite clear to me, but I’m sure it will involve
Continue readingAs many of you know, I’m currently doing an internship at Ordina since the last week of July. To my great surprise, I found a note yesterday stating I could collect a bouquet delivered for a mr. Tijhof. Curious as I was, I went to our neighbours to retrieve the flowers only to find out they were sent for me!
Continue readingRight, after a very refreshing two-week stay at some tiny town in Austria, I’ve learned quite a few things about the place, and the very first would be: Internet is not something the Austrians would consider a necessity. During my twitching and eye-twisting my girlfriend tried to distract my attention from the lack of internet-access to more relaxing things like
Continue readingThis 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
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