2020 is bijna voorbij, het was een vervelend jaar voor ons allen. De economie draaide slecht, mensen waren ziek van de Covid, lockdowns, een president die niet wilt aftreden en een dictator in Europa die echte verkiezingsfraude pleegde. De afsluiting van dit jaar wordt eveneens niet wat we gewend zijn. Read more…
I’ve been working a lot lately, not taking much time to get out of the door, or even do the chores at home. Time for a change, the Covid-quarantine is making me slowly into a hermit. So for me, this means I’m going back to work at my office, try Read more…
I haven’t blogged much this year, simply because it has been busy… VERY busy. I’ve started a new company, I’m working on a new software product, we have the Covid-19 crisis and I’m doing my best to keep my head above the water. All together it amounts to lots of Read more…
First of all, happy 2020! It has been a while since I posted on this blog, but I’m still alive and working hard on a very interesting project that is going to be announced soon. Today was the first working day for NedCV, a new company from Bert and me. Read more…
Today we have an hour less, because at 2AM the clock moved to 3AM. It is the permanent jet-lag again. I hate it with a passion. We are all forced to get up one hour earlier, and it is totally unnecessary. The idea is that we have an hour longer Read more…
I’ve setup a logging system on my place to capture various log files from various sources. One of the sources of particular interest is of course my firewall, it is by far the most log-heavy machine in here and getting a clear picture on who is trying to hack what Read more…
It was a nice weekend! Saturday a biking trip, Sunday to Friesland 🙂
Due to ‘Black Friday’ they are ‘late’ with delivery of orders… right… OK… I ordered Friday the 23rd of November, I told them to deliver Monday the 26th…. guess when I’m getting my coffee? You guessed it, today. A week later than planned. I’m having severe caffeine withdraw symptoms. The Read more…
Sometimes issues between family members or friends can escalate rather quickly, especially when there are poor communication media involved. This is why I hate using chat, email or any other type of written communication. It is impersonal, small things are quickly taken out of context and can have quite big Read more…
During a skating run I fell backwards and broke my wrist on the ice. I got a nasty fracture with my wrist and this will need cirgury to get it straightened out. The ice skating facilities had evening perfectly arranged, they took me to the traumatologist by ambulance, there they straightened Read more…