Category Archives: Truro NS

I have a problem with flag-waving people. There you have it. No matter how you turn it, flag-waving still smells like nationalism to me. Of the worst kind. It’s the symbolism that turns me off: it happens everytime I see … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I discovered that the DVDs I ordered 4 weeks ago didn’t arrive because of an error in the paperwork. Today, I discovered that I had an account at the same store, something I wasn’t aware of. Weird. Additionally, we … Continue reading →

Something weird struck me today. I promised someone to copy a file to a disk and discovered that my diskdrive on my (almost new) laptop was gone. It’s not there. It was never there. When buying the computer, 4 months … Continue reading →

For no good reason we made ‘oliebollen’ today, using our secret recipe. Well, it’s hardly a secret. It takes flour, sugar, eggs, butter, a sprinkle of salt, milk and yeast. What a coincidence: over at MetaFilter there was a discussion … Continue reading →

Watched ‘House Of Sand and Fog’ (distributed by Dreamworks) today and thought it was a bit over top. Still good but I wonder why it is rated higher than, well, for example ‘City Of Ghosts’, which I thought was more … Continue reading →

Greece surprised another time: it beat the Czech Republic in the last semi-final by 1-0. The goal was scored at the end of the first extra time period, invoking the ‘silver goal’ rule. That’s going to be a party in … Continue reading →

Earlier I was awarded another invite by Google Mail, which I delivered to the blogger known as GenX40. In an exchange he wondered what was amazing about this Google Mail. The 1000 MB, I answered. Plus some other things. For … Continue reading →

Upon on arriving home I found out the Dutch team was beaten by the host, which is a bit of disappointment. I haven’t watched the game yet, but managed to follow some of the action over at the BBC. I … Continue reading →

It’s quiz time readers! Click the thumbnail above/or on the right and look at it, closely. What’s wrong here (and I’m not talking about the part that has been clipped away)? As a programmer and being around computers half of … Continue reading →

The Dutch national soccer/football team made it to the semi-finals, playing against host Portugal next Wednesday. I didn’t have time to really sit down and watch the game, since I was in charge of cooking, but thought it was a … Continue reading →

For months I’ve been struggling to get Windows Search for XP to work as it used to work: no matter what I tried, searching for text in particular sourcefiles never worked. And guess what, looking for simple Find File utilities … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I watched the game between The Netherlands and Latvia, after learning the results of the Czech Rep. vs. Germany game. A couple of things that sprang in mind: It was a boring game. What an ugly stadium. They should … Continue reading →

I was able to watch the Holland vs. Czech Republic soccer/football game thanks to Alfons who, after I found out that TSN didn’t cover the game live, streamed the Dutch broadcast right back to me. The Dutch team unfortunately lost … Continue reading →