Time to update this site with a new picture. It is from our holiday in Spain. Maybe the makers of The Elder Scrolls - Oblivion where also inspired by the city of Girona? At least the atmosphere there reminded me of the game.

Update: Probably fixed my rss feed.

I am back from a perfect holiday in Canada. Photos can be found here.

Back from beautiful country Vietnam and of course updated the photo section of this site.

There is only one week between this picture and the one below.... The trick is of course the invention of the aeroplane, which enabled me to make a trip to Egypt, a wonderful country. See more soon in my photo section of this site.

Anyway, good 2008 to everyone!

From a snowy Leiden I wish you pleasant holidays and a good 2008!

Back from a nice holiday. Photos are updated.

Linux and 64 bit computers are a good combination. The first linux 64 bit support dates from 1995. To be able to compile everything from source really helps supporting a platform. Windows mostly runs 32 bit programs at this moment, because proprietary software vendors (which account for most windows software) are not really fast in releasing new versions. Not all is well for linux though. Macromedia Flash is such a proprietary program of which no 64 bit player exists. Now, I do not really like flash (see also a previous entry about this, but for some reason flash is used to display movies on the web. If you think that that is weird, I agree. What has a vector renderer to do with a movie codec? The masters from youtube.com can perhaps tell you; we just have to comply.

I like to watch movies, so now I have a problem... Or not? Fortunately the flash way of bringing movies is just an container trick around a normal mpeg movie, and my favorite audio/movieplayer mplayer can play them just fine.

So if you are on debian, add contrib to /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get install iceweasel iceweasel-greasemonkey mozilla-mplayer (the mplayer plugin is broken for firefox in etch at this moment). Now you only need a way to let mozilla know how to feed the movies. This can be done with a simple script like Michael Sheldons's.

So finally I can be an ultrahip blagotuber and and bring you movies ;-)

Happy Christmas Everyone!

During some longer than normal train travelling I had time to rework some site bits. Permalink code is rewritten, pages are now integrated into my journal and the archive navigation is date based. Tag support is added to site and feeds

Also I added photos from an autumn week in Morocco. This trip is really recommended in october.

Back from my holiday in Belgium and Luxembourg. I had a good time, turned 30; now I am trying to get back to business.

Back from a long week Andalusia. It took me a while to get used to the weather (dropping from 27 C to -2 C!) and updating this page. The atmosphere (and the trip) were great. Nature was beautiful (where can I donate for bringing mountains to Holland ;-) and the (medieval) buildings special (especially the mix between christian and moorish architecture). The romans also had discovered the good weather and fertile ground early and left lots of trails (some villages still have a roman ground-map and small white 3-level 'concrete flats').

Just before I left, I bought a new Canon 350D. One of the most mainstream (SLR) camera's. I had some positive experience with the analog version and reviews of the digital thing were ok. I am very happy with it. It works fine with gphoto2. (Sorry for the analog camera lovers).

These two items combined gives some new photo albums on this site. Enjoy.

Back from two weeks Italy, added photo's and yes, misused the lovely wide-angle lens too much. Sorry, it is too much fun and I am still learning ;-).

Turned 29 at what the hack. I really enjoyed this event, hopefully I have some code to release soon. You can see at these pictures what the atmosphere was like.

In a few days, I will be on holiday in Tignes. So no e-mail will be answered, phone probably neither. If I recover quickly ;-), I will come back to you after February 6th.

In the past weeks I have been working on a cleanup of the NJBG site. Some people volunteered to maintain the site. Since we are talking about a youth association, this is probably a good thing.

One of the lasts hacks I did was a mailing list. Actually multiple mailing lists with a web frontend. Although it is not really solid yet, it basically works. With PHP, programming is actually too easy these days. I needed only one procmail line (to redirect the incoming mail to PHP) and about twenty lines of PHP code. That is it. After working with python for some projects, it struck me again how good the PHP documentation is. Associative arrays (called dictionaries) in python still are a small mystery for me. Where PHP has a lot of nice array_ functions, python provides me with .keys(), .items() etc. methods, which make live hard. I really prefer handling with the keys and values in the same abstraction depth. Perhaps this is the reason mailman is such a monstrous beast...

I am connected to the internet again (after a month leave), so expect more later.

I am back from my holiday trip to Tanzania; pictures will later be present at this location. In the peaceful presence of mother Anna, I also became 28 winters (or is it summers?, damn southern hemisphere) young.

First of all, I updated the site. The layout is fixed once again (don't ask for the reasons, they can fill the whole page). More important is that the backend is rewritten. Because I host a lot of pages for various organizations, groups and people I needed a better, more dynamic framework. Also I will start to use rss aggregrators, so the sonicbliss people can share a bit more.

Things are not all done yet. When I have time again I will change the various photo galleries I run and consolidate them. Then I can make some photo's public (nothing embarrassing of course ;-). Also the user framework will change, allowing one single login system ('to rule them all').

On a personal level: I will leave for a holiday real soon, so hopefully everything will continue to run smooth.

Off to Paris for a few days, so be gentle with the server please.. (is this something like telling the burglar you'll be away for a week and you leave the house empty?).

Happy 2004 anyone!

Vorm.net was down for a week. My apologies.. I was on a holiday in Leiden, and left my server with a missing configuration file.

Nevertheless I had a nice week with lots of sun, a good excavation and kind young people who are hopefully now better archeologists. Pictures of this week can be found in the NJBG photoalbum.

I will be in Solden for ten days, for a winter holiday. Hopefully I will come back healthy again, to continue working on my graduation and answer your e-mails.