Category Archives: Truro NS

And it’s also a birthday! Happy Birthday, Gayle!

brings recreating test environments, setting up compilers, ODBC links, reinstall of the patch-generator (my own, based on NSIS, which I highly recommend) and particularly, checking out modules, source code and making sure that all the source directories in CVS are … Continue reading →

Alfons managed to export existing WordPress data, which I imported over here this very morning. What I basically did was updating (update set…. wp_posts/post2cat etc.) the IDs of posts and post2cat tables with the latest known entry of the dyndns … Continue reading →

Why would my network connection drop (literally the hardware) when I do a simple tracert on my Windows b0xen? I presume the problem may lay in the router or the cable modem. I have to try it on my Linux … Continue reading →

A couple of sidenotes on the Veterans hospital visit, earlier today. While I’m not-so obviously Dutch, events where Dutch people appear always put me in a ‘cautious’ mode. For example, for me it was easier to talk to Canadians than … Continue reading →

We (wife and me) managed to get to the Veterans’ hospital in Halifax in time, despite of the poor weather conditions: it was pouring rain and visibility was pretty poor. Upon arrival, The Honourary Consul (Peter McCreath) introduced the chairman … Continue reading →

Which one is more evil? strcpy or strncpy? Google suggests ‘strcpy is evil’ when looking for ‘strncpy is evil’. Or as the author of this page says: The usage of char * and strcpy causes horrible memory problems due to … Continue reading →

It came to my attention that this year it’s the Queen’s 25th coronation anniversary. Which led me to look around for quotes and events that happend around that 1980 coronation. I can only remember the infamous pictures of a smoke … Continue reading →

Last night, I decided to try to listen to a couple of podcasts. Podcasts, as you probably already know, are fragments of (uh) spoken things. Some people call it the next installment of blogging. Some say it’s the future of … Continue reading →

I was always under the impression that Jelly, or rather, gelatine, was made from seaweed. Nope: Made from bones and some acid. Uh. Yummy. There are alternatives, which brings me back to the seaweed I just mentioned: particularly agar-agar, that … Continue reading →

I didn’t break the Internet today. It was him! Really. update (Apr 16th):We did it.

Last night, I watched the premiere of the NBC series ‘Revelations’ and I’m not really impressed. That’s mostly because of the fact that the premiere was only one hour long, marginalizing Bill Pullman’s and Natascha McElhone’s (links after pressing the … Continue reading →