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The weather has been pants for a few days now: I've had thunderstorms and vertical rain. I don't really mind because I don't have to go anywhere and have been extremely busy sorting out chores that ha...
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I have had a really bad habit for years, basically because I'm not a morning person at all. I tend to be a night owl just like my dad was, my system starts to wake up at 19.00 in the evening instead o...
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Blog is back, up and running... Security issue since isp server upgrade Sunday night. All is solved hopefully, sorry about the bleak appearance earlier: I knew you'd like my design much better *hehe*
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I wonder at times if I'm the only person on this planet who gets annoyed by people who have no clue what Netiquette means. Yes I write that with a capital N on purpose... To answer my own statement, I...
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Today is Blog Action Day I ran into this website by accident about a week ago and I've decided to participate and write an environmental post...
Last year October I went to MacExpo here in London ...
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This week has been hectic so far and I will be happy when it's Friday night and I will be asleep. Just too much going on at the moment. I promised Paul to test his project for him last Monday and Tues...
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Just when you think you're right on schedule and perhaps even ahead of things something ugly happens... I had a first today and hopefully a last too. My LaCie Porsche drive started to act up again and...
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I have finally finished the new design for this blog, it took me longer than I expected because I ran into some serious problems while moving from one domain to the other. The issue is still there bu...
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Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be ...
Continue reading: I just finished installing Movable Type 4.0! here...
I have bought a new domain and have been trying to install Movable Type for days... I didn't succeed at first and thought it was a bug but found out that it actually was some server setting with my IS...
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I can be a stats [to those who aren't familiar with this word, it is short for statistics] freak at times... Just out of curiosity, because I'd like to see where my visitors come from. Lately from all...
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Living abroad means having to adapt to customs of the host country, which could lead to either total frustration or bliss. I think each expat out there has got some silly story to tell about their hos...
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Just when I'm getting ready to jump into the pool of job wonders, I -all of a sudden- get assignments in. One after the other. Today I have been busy designing an html email [which is a true pain in t...
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Things have been hectic last week when I started the Flash 8 Actionscripting course. It was quite an experience and I've met some really nice people. I thought I wouldn't be able to follow but I reali...
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Things have been good for a few days now. I seem to be able to accomplish a lot more once I set my mind on it, which leaves me feeling good about myself. I try to set a goal each day and instead of no...
Continue reading: Culture Shock here...
Things are still a bit weird although he is there for me when things do get rocky and I am there for him when he has a bad day like yesterday... [Yes, he has really really bad days too, it takes two t...
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I seem to be having problems with my database connection at times. I noticed it a while ago and had it sorted out by my ISP. It happened again last week when Elle tried to leave me a comment and I'm h...
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I'm so tired today, I guess it's because I stayed up all night to sort out some Flash problems. I'm supposed to meet up tonight with C. and go to a pub somewhere near Bethnal Green to watch a colleagu...
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How to fit your life into 21[+] categories? Well manually, one by one... It took me about three days to assign each post [638 by now] to a category. There is no other way to do this with Movable Type,...
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I'm bored and in a camp mood, so I felt like putting up some wallpaper. It's not that I'm bored because I have nothing to do, I have plenty of things to do but I just feel like faffing today so I've t...
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I just called Tjalling in Amsterdam, he told me Carla is off the machines *finally* and moved to a different section of the hospital. The surgery went well last Friday, they were able to narrow a bloo...
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I've found this online and think it's hilarious although if it was up to me I'd prefer a scenery of Quake I with some Zombies throwing their own bits at ya, a lovely flying Scrag or a nice giant Sha...
Continue reading: Pacman vs Shambler here...
Looking for bugs, creepy crawlers and other software issues......
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Isn't that fun...
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Hiya, don't be scared off, although it seems like a mess on here [it is actually *grin*]... I'm only upgrading Movable Type from 3.2 to 3.34 which is a right pain in the 'A'. It might take a few days ...
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I spontaneously arranged this weekend to stay in Bath and explore the city in two days. I looked up all sorts of interesting things online and have a whole list of fun-things-to-do. I sent a list of t...
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I've been working and had not much time to post on here, sorry about that. I'm addicted [again] and spent two days in a row sorting out my Flash website [business] and had about 3 hours of sleep each ...
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Lately I've received annoying spam especially on my business email account. By the end of November last year I would receive about 20 to 30 a day... So I've set up a spam filter on my mail server not ...
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Almost forgot: it's National Delurking Week... and tomorrow will be your last day of delurking. So come out of the closet and expose yourself: leave me a comment! Won't do you no harm, if you think it...
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I just got my Dolce&Gabbana cellie... but I'm such a gadget gal, I need this... Why? Because I can!
Roarrrrrrrrrrrrr [click image to view specs]:
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I've been up all night installing a PHP guestbook with database and redesigning it. I reckon I'm totally twisted doing stuff like that. I'm not sure what is driving me to be honest but I can't seem to...
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I'm so getting into using Illustrator again. I'm totally twisted and chaotic, I realise that. But I have been working with this app and I forgot what it was like because I was totally into Photoshop f...
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I have been working on a business card for a few days. A project I need to finish for a beauty therapist. Her name is Aje which is Nigerian and means surrounded by wealth. I designed a logo for her co...
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Sometimes things really don't turn out the way you've planned them... I need some time to think and get my act together and so does my significant other.
A break would be very welcome now after all ...
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I have been busy wrapping xMas presents and received three parcels today, two were for me, one for A.. No I didn't touch it to see what was in there
I'm happy that my parcels came in today since one...
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Yesterday we had a power failure, storms, thunder and sleet. Funny thing was, all A.'s machines rebooted themselves but my Macs were up and running when the lights went off, no problem at all... It's ...
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The exhibition yesterday was slightly disappointing to be honest. I reckon I was expecting more pictures of the Northern Lights, the two pictures I posted earlier pretty much cover the whole series 'H...
Continue reading: Greenwich and Docklands here...
Just a quickie before I shoot off to bed. The rowing machine was out of stock unfortunately and I'm eager to get it in, so is A.. Hopefully it will be delivered somewhere this week. I've been working ...
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I miss them you know... Internet is flacky out here and I hate it. The moment storm or rain, or both, mixed with a bit of thunder shows up, it will stop the internet hub from working and will send out...
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Jeez, I have been faffing half the day because I screwed up some stupid script. Basically I was just too blind to see the mistake that I made and to be honest I still don't know how a little bit of 'g...
Continue reading: Leprechauns here...
I promised a sketch version of my website, so below you will find the link. It's still a sketch and not a fully functional website. The only link that works so far is comb number five... If you count ...
Continue reading: I Need You! here...
I need to sleep but I'm busy transferring files from one LaCie to another... My old Porsche gave up on me today, giving me errors and although I am busy sorting out my website it's best not to wait un...
Continue reading: New Porsche Swap here...
Been working most of the day on a template for Inci. I got all of it working but had to install some plugins to make sure that she didn't have to change certain areas of her Movable Type blog in the n...
Continue reading: Admire Me!!! here...
I checked the trains earlier online to get to Olympia where MacExpo would take place but the tickets were way too expensive and it would take us about an hour and a half to get there. So we decided to...
Continue reading: MacExpo 2006 here...
Didn't do much last couple of days. Have been checking out Photoshop filters and bought a few as well, I'm addicted to those... very expensive hobby but so much fun to use! I've been building somethin...
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I received an email today telling me that I am about to exceed my bandwidth which caused me some stressful hours of sorting out my domain and settings. I had to remove a previous post because I found ...
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I've found him again... We lost contact for some time and the other day when I was downloading stuff from a Hotline server, we ran into each other and had a Hotline chat for a while. It was totally co...
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Due to bandwidth problems probably caused by this setup, I had to remove this page... sorry
I'm going to setup a cam with a view from my window or perhaps from the garden or from myself, depending on...
Continue reading: Watch It [Beta version] here...
Email is working fine because I've changed everything overnight [October 5/6]. My website has been offline on October 6 for a couple of hours during the morning. I've uploaded all the stuff so it's wo...
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This might affect you too some day! So spread the word!!! I have seriously strong negative feelings about: chain letters, spam, people who don't use BCC in mail and other forced-on-me-without-asking i...
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I'm supposed to be offline today but I ain't... I changed DNS already so things shouldn't show up. Isn't that weird?
I hope they take me offline asap because I want to be able to upload stuff to the...
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I've ordered my hosting package with the Irish Lads for my business domain. In three days the Dutch twats will no longer be hosting my website, thank God. I will have two domains running for half of t...
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For those of you who might think I have been faffing all week... I didn't! I have been working very hard on my Movable Type Galleries. It wasn't that easy at all to install it, but I got it to work an...
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Well, I haven't been faffing really. I finally unpacked my G5 because I couldn't sync my new cellphone with my PowerBook and I was desperate to see if it would work on the G5 and OSX 10.4.7 First it d...
Continue reading: Running With The Devil here...
My cellular phone [I love! that word: 'cellular'...] came in this morning, nicely wrapped in a big Royal Mail bag addressed to A. because he ordered it for me [sweetheart ain't he?]. So I called him t...
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We ended up changing all the furniture arrangements last night. I already changed the lounge and the computer room yesterday before A. came home. It's all more convenient and more spacious. We have al...
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I noticed popup windows when I checked my blog. Would you please be so kind to tell me if you have the same experience when you browse my blog. If so I will have to remove some links to websites. So P...
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I'm back! I had problems with my blog due to permission settings that seemed to have changed when the Irish lads immigrated my stuff from one server to the other. So my blog had disappeared for a few ...
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Well, I guess this will be my last entry for now. Things have been hectic and I will be happy if it's all over. Tomorrow evening I will hang out at the Irish pub with some of my friends and ex colleag...
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I love him to bits you know, but sometimes he can be a bit demanding my silly guy. He now wants me to take pictures of the Red Monster and design a brochure. Like I haven't anything else to do, more i...
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I allowed myself to use the internet for half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening. Just to relax a bit and write something on here or surf the net. I need my daily dosage of interne...
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So many things are going on at the moment. I don't have time to write... We'll go sailing in Croatia after the second week of August but before we go we'll have to move country... I have a major to-do...
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It all works... Perfect, one more adjustment and then I can upload my other entries. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep well! ...
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Well there seems to be some archiving bug in my system. I have been updating this blog and adjusting some templates and add-ons but now the archivng doesn't seem to be working. I wonder what is wrong....
Continue reading: Saturday Update here...
This post is taken from my other blog on Blogger:
I'm trying not to write on this blog [Blogger] anymore and update the other one instead although the other one [Movable Type] still needs some adjust...
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yup it works *grin*...
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We went down town to pick up my machine today. The box is much bigger and heavier than I thought it would be. I mean I've lifted these machines at work so I wasn't expecting it to be bigger and heavie...
Continue reading: Windscreen Cracks here...
Last Wednesday at work; I wanted to try out this webcam, the iSight. I forgot that I installed a dodgy driver about a year ago and when I tried to set the preferences of the firewire webcam it complet...
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This is a test posting from QuickPost to see if it works... so we're slowly getting there. I've installed the calendar yesterday but I still have a few problems that I need to solve. No big deal real...
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I still don't feel well. I still have a bad cough and I stayed home for almost two weeks. I didn't feel like going out of the house because it was either cold or wet. So also this weekend we stayed in...
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I did it...
I bought a new computer tonight. I had to anyway because of this discount arrangement that would run out on the first of March. So we went over to the Mac store and I ordered the G5. A. g...
Continue reading: Precious II: My New G5 here...
Let's test a new plug in; smilies, I have them in all sorts and shapes, these are cute!
Let's see if this works and I'll be a happy woman!...
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I would like to try to upload a picture...
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Monday... another day gone by. I have worked over the weekend and had one day off which was yesterday. I have been faffing a bit. Cut A.'s hair so he won't ask me again [just for a couple of months], ...
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This is my first post on the new system that I've installed. I'm still sorting out how to use this since it seems to have changed a lot... If I have one post ready then I can start importing all my ot...
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I have been ill for two day, a serious stomach bug which is causing severe pain. I can't sleep because whenever I turn around the pain seems to be everywhere. I asked my colleague today what it could ...
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I'm having my birthday and I'm busy taking care of laundries and household stuff... Not exactly what I expected to be doing today. Anyway, thank you out there for the cards and txt messages!
ps my...
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if you were wondering whether I'm still alive or not, here I am, after a long period of silence. Lots of things happened in the meantime. First of all for those who didn't get my personal new year's f...
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Aren't they cool? I need to sort this out and look into this because I might swap these for my LaCie external HD... Since I've decided to buy a G5 and wait for the new PowerBooks G5 to be released...
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I met up with Tilly tonight at Dina's sun bed studio which is near by the academy. She didn't have much time so we decided to meet up at a place that would be easy for her to get to by public transpor...
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I'm annoyed by progress bars. I have a love/hate relationship with progress bars depending on the situation but most of the time I swap from love to hate and back in just seconds. If it tells me it ta...
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We've been building sushi last night and A. is now an official sushi construction builder... Here are some pix to prove that:
My first sushi roll
reliving a former life
swam in wasabi
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It has been a bit quiet post-wise on here that's because I have been building my other Blog on my other url. I'm adjusting templates in Movable Type, I've fixed quite a few things and added the right ...
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I've gotten the same stupid reply from the domain hosting people as when I called them about the problem a couple of days ago. I reckon it's time to swap to another hosting service company.
I've foun...
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I have been really pissed off with the domain hosting people lately since they've decided to change their DNS without telling me. Last Wednesday I found out that my website had been offline for quite ...
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I can't connect to my server somehow because I'm getting errors if I publish thru the website. I'm using another application now to see if this works. In the meantime I'm working on my MT blog which i...
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It's been on the Apple website for weeks; the IBC 2005 annual media trade exhibition. I went there today with my colleague Christiaan. We were in and out in an hour though. Only the Apple demonstratio...
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I didn't sleep very well last night, more as in: just a few hours due to circumstances. So I was really tired when I woke up this morning causing a disagreement. No point mentioning details on here be...
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Been busy all day setting up a new web log on my own domain. I used Movable Type to install on my server. It's quite a nifty application, fast and easy to use. The installation was a pain in the ass t...
Continue reading: New Blog here...