Coping with public and private transport since 2001
Saturday, and the bigger part of yesterday, my blog fell out of the air. It was planned maintenance, and I would like to apologize for the fact it happened unannounced. On the bright side: it brought some new hardware to the server, and it now runs a newly configured install of the OS. You’ll probably don’t notice it, but the
Continue readingWhen I was snooping through my visitor-stats, and the browser-use of those visitors, one thing is apparent: most visitors are using Firefox. 46.6% to be precise, which is quite a lot compared to the use of Firefox in the Netherlands; which is about 15% according to tweakers.net. Also, over 25% of the visitors is (still) using IE6, and this is
Continue readingAnd here I am, comfortably sitting inside, sipping my coffee and looking out to see nothing but rainy and stormy weather. I have to admit: I am privileged enough to appreciate these circumstances. I could do worse. Gathering research data goes rather well, currently I’m gathering and comparing definitions of what a portal is, and summing up similarities. These will
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 readingThings do change. They also do in the digital world, and so does this blogging software. I’ve recently upgraded my software to a newer version and have taken the opportunity to check out solutions to issues I’ve been encountering during the use of this blogsoftware. Luckily for me, I’ve managed to at least solve one of my issues, which is
Continue readingWhile computers themselves are meant to make life easier for us humans, they also create a lot of extra problems, including some luxury-problems. Today, I was having at least one of the last category: I wanted to add an image to a post. In WordPress (this blogsoftware) it can be done, but is far from easy. No thumbnails could be
Continue readingToday was one of the biggest days in this trimester so far, I’ve had to hand in 5 deliverables today of which 3 were for the seminar. The other two were for another course, Managment Control & ICT, which had 1 assignment to be completed by us individually and one in a group. And frankly, they suck. No, not my
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