The weather, the whole weather and nothing but the weather. It has been one heck of a month, weather wise. To start with, we had massive leaks in the sky, throwing a wet curtain all over the island for days on end. When it wasn’t raining, a fierce and cold wind from the north...
Read more →I have been strugling with Cascading Style Sheets for the last couple of weeks. Somehow I couldn’t get my mind wrapped about a lot of the syntactic rules. Slowly I began to seriously doubt if I “still had it”. I had read tons of information, dumped numerous examples to my local disks for closer...
Read more →Maastricht is ne brede Maar Maastricht ‘t is lang Maastricht is de leukste stad Gesellig aan de zang – Maastricht Karnival Song Maastricht is not broad But, Maastricht, it is long Maastricht is the finest city Gesellig* on the song – Translation Maastricht is eene groete cafe – Maastricht Karnival Song Maastricht is one...
Read more →The programmer begins in gladness… Well, the day is done. I’ve made my money and eaten my bread dipped in olive oil, so I can begin. That day, that day in the fall of 1984, in Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands, had just begun. I had come from my flat on the Hondestraat to my...
Read more →From Bilzen to Luxemburg was easy enough, the road was clear and dry and the outside temperature was around zero degrees centigrade at 8 o’clock in the morning when I left our house. Approaching Luxemburg, snow started to fall, very lightly at first, then as Metz came closer, the snow got thicker. I never...
Read more →Less than 24 hours before the train leaves the station. I do not exactly have the feeling that I’m fully prepared, what with a whole list of people I still have to contact, my stuff (laptop, camera, scanner, and the assorted cables that go with that, let’s not forget the cables!) still largely unpacked,...
Read more →Voor de belangstellenden: we zijn volop bezig ons huis te koop aan te bieden. Wat een gedoe met makelaars. Voor ik vertrek zou ik dat graag afgerond hebben. Natuurlijk zijn we daarmee veel te laat begonnen. Bij de grote opruimingsactie (een dozijn abonnementen op computertijdschriften vanaf 1980, zo’n drieduizend kilo papier in het Yariske...
Read more →Wel, we zijn zo ver! Neen, niet zó ver… Wat ik wil zeggen is dat ik een eerste poging om onze avonturen te registreren en publiekelijk toegankelijk te maken met redelijk succes heb afgesloten. “Ja maar, er staat hier toch niets over Kreta!” Dat klopt, zoals ik al in de aanhef zei: “zó ver...
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