dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

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Happy 13th birthday, dear diary

Er, weblog. Lots happened this year, lots of good and some less good things. We enjoyed our little girl growing from baby to toddler. We less enjoyed the continuing broken nights. The world is a weird, scary, but also a wonderful place. Let’s make 2017 great.

Nienke says “Hello World”

In the night of Sunday to Monday, at 4:17, Nienke rushed into this world. Where Daan took his time being delivered, I was barely awake (Ineke woke me at 4:01) when Nienke saw her first lamplight. Needless to say, she was born at home, in the tub where …
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dammIT: 12 years of rants

Today it’s 12 years ago I officially started this weblog and I finally have taken some steps to get the next generation of the codebase working on my server. It’s getting there, looking forward to continue dammIT in its Django incarnation :) This year has been fascinating; junior went …


Public service announcement on this Mother’s Day

Before the end of the year I won’t be a fulltime geek anymore. I will be a fulltime example for a new member of our society and parttime geek. Though I see possibilities to combine the two without doing too many concessions ;) Our close family and nearest friends have …
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Goodbye 2012, hello 2013

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 …

One

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 …

Living in interesting times

Today this weblog, dammIT turned seven years old. Combined with it being nearly the end of 2010, you might say it’s a good moment for some reflections of the past year. 2010 was a year which brought changes, brought endings, brought new beginnings. We managed to get married before …

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I was very pleasantly surprised this morning by my girlfriend with a breakfast-on-bed service :) She got me the Zen TV DVD - Video Retrospective with a bunch of video clips of great music and even a video mash-up! I’m currently browsing it on my laptop [libdvdcss sure comes handy]. Really …