Category Archives: Truro NS

With Halloween around the corner, businesses have been focussing on pumpkins and other harvest and Fall related items and products. There’s a local restaurant that still serves home-made1 (seasonal) cheesecake: in this case pumpkin cheesecake pies, which apparently are of … Continue reading →

The other day I was watching at our backyard and noticed that the Poison Ivy has started the Fall process, as its leaves have started colouring in that distinctive reddish colour. Amazing pretty for a poisonous plant. It’s also the … Continue reading →

While I can’t stand telemarketeers, the worst kind of telemarketing types are the ‘automated ones’: you know the one that starts with telling you ‘how sorry they are calling at this inconvenient time’ and then tell you to ‘press 1 … Continue reading →

A week ago, I made ‘boerenkool’. I discussed Boerenkool a long while ago too, when a prepared the same meal for our guest from Holland. My wife actually wanted me to make it since it was that long ago, so … Continue reading →

Tasting Seroendeng today (after too many years, so many that I at first had no idea what it was supposed to be), I concluded that Indonesian food is solidly founded in spices like cumin, coriander and ‘santen’. Grated coconut. Hallelujah. … Continue reading →

For the first time in 6 or 7 years, I had a taste of Atjar Tjampoer (‘pickled salad’). Funny thing is that I never even thought of scooping some bits when I was in Holland, 2 years ago. A couple … Continue reading →

Reformatting and reinstalling XP on a Toshiba (“Titan”) A40 was actually easier than expected: Back-up data. Reset computer to boot from CD-drive first (Reminder: the default is set to ‘HDD’). On your Toshiba laptop, just start the ConfigFree application and … Continue reading →

Earlier today, tropical storm ‘Beryl’ brought some relief (or rather, a lot of rain) to our part of the world: the last couple of days (week probably) it was muggy and hot with temperatures around the 25 and higher. Probably … Continue reading →

Earlier, I uploaded a newer Fandro version, a version that finally fixes the ‘CaseInsensitiveSensitive’ problems. I actually had to dive back in the code and at the end I needed to make a couple of changes to the program’s internal … Continue reading →

Surreal. Objects really look closer in mirror, particularly if they drive fast, zoom past to come at a standstill after hitting a pole. Add to that in front of the place you live in. On a serious note, I’ve been … Continue reading →

A couple of unrelated remarks: We saw Terry Gilliams‘The Grimm Brothers’ this weekend, which I summarized and described to my egaa as ‘remarkably painful to watch’. The premise (‘Let Brothers Grimm experience their tales themselves’) is good and brilliant: the … Continue reading →

My harddrive is ‘leaking’1. Earlier, I noticed that I had only 100 MB left, after which I decided to clear off some of the not so important files like a movie that happened to end on my PC after I … Continue reading →