Dawn
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Goodbye 2012, hello 2013
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What a year 2012 was. It was the year both me and my wife turned 30; a thing that's both just a number and a sign of us maturing and entering a next phase in our lives. It was the year in which we drove thousands of kilometers in our …
Just some photo's from the backyard
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Doing nice things with your SSH config file
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If you are running a unix-like machine, like a Linux workstation, or BSD or Apple Mac, you might be acquainted with the ~/.ssh directory. SSH stores known hosts in their, as well as your public and private SSH keys and more important stuff.
The contents of a ~/.ssh/config look …
Trying out SpiderOak instead of Dropbox
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Have you looked at SpiderOak? It's a Dropbox competitor and way more secure. Use this link with referral to get more space if you sign up (it's free etc). If you do use that link, also use the promo code "WORLDBACKUPDAY" in addition to going there via the special link …
One
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This morning one year ago I was eating breakfast at my parents' place, anticipating seeing my bride for the first time in her beautiful dress. The day that followed was a whirlwind of really great moments and happenings, leading us to be married at a beautiful castle, then celebrating it …
dammIT exists for 7.5 years now!
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This weblog has been in existence for 7.5 years today, all the while serving me as a focus point of ranting on various aspects of my personal and professional life. These rants (longer and short) are generally musings on things that annoy me, technical subjects of interest to me …
When Wordpress 404's aren't
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Today I helped a colleague troubleshooting a form in one of our Wordpress websites that returned a "404 Page not found"-error when it was submitted to itself. Of course, this was rather puzzling as the address was exactly the same as the page where you just filled the form …
Books!
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I've been reading a lot more since starting my new job and being able to relax in public transports with a book instead of sleeping behind the wheel. I even got myself an e-reader (a black Sony PRS-650, really great piece of machinery! Yes, Sony may be evil, but they …
Applying Thunderbird's column settings to all your folders
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I grew increasingly tired changing the column settings of the folders of my IMAP account in Thunderbird; I don't need the 'Read', 'Junk' and 'Thread icon' columns for example, but would like to have the 'Size' listed. However, I needed to change that for all of my dozens of mail …