If you were in Washington, D.C. last week, you had a chance to be one of the lucky recipients of a parody newspaper spoofing the Washington Post and crowing about the “Unpresidented” flight of Donald Trump from the Oval Office as he abandoned the presidency. The spoof, created by activist Read more…
I’m starting my studies at the Open University, trying to get the “Bachelor Informatica”, which is a course about software development. This is going to be a study of a couple of years (about 5 or so), so it’s going to be quite a challenge. There’s a bit of strategy Read more…
Tomorrow the KNMI (the Dutch national weather service) issued a “code orange” which basically means: “Be prepared” Winds up to 120 kph, lots of rain and probably a lot of traffic congestion because of this. Fun….
A.s. weekend is de A6 tussen knp. Gooimeer en knp Almere dicht, als je er langs wilt is er nog een mooie ‘sluiproute’ ipv omrijden via Hilversum: Neem bij Gooimeer de hogering en rijd die helemaal uit, dan kom je weer op de A6 richting Lelystad (of vice versa). Afrit 3-5 Read more…
I’ve been bombarded with new license agreements this week. First Sonos, later Blizzard Entertainment… about 2-3 times, Microsoft, and a few others. All products that you use, you pay a lot of money for and when they decide to change something, you basically have 2 choices: Or you agree with Read more…
Database servers which are idle will be removed by Microsoft because they are taking up resources which can be better spent. This is something obvious but also has some consequences if you are deploying test environments and need to reconfigure your connection strings in your software… Guess what I’m doing Read more…
The summer has arrived in Valdivia, with EXTREME UV RADIATION 😀 Temperatures are going up and above 30C in my office, once it reaches more than 32C I’m taking the day off. (At 35C I’m shutting down my servers as well.) Last year this happened about 10 times, this year (from Read more…
We’re using diesel for our heating, and guess what… it costs now more than a euro a liter in Chile. We’re at 1.0175 a liter… Esso is coming to our place to fill up the tank. 500-700 liters… pain in the wallet.
We had an earthquake last night, not a really heavy one but look how close to Santiago… You can see all the details about this quake overhere.