Last night we had a BBQ party from my work ilse media, which was also a good bye party for Bert Wiggers, the former Director of startpagina.nl. Bert is now New Media Director for Sanoma International and is going to work in eastern Europe. We had the means and the motive to make this goodbye a memorable one. And so we did.
Month: August 2007
Once more unto the breach, dear friends…
After a while of prodding Gravatar on performance I’ve concluded that it should be stable enough to yet again enable them on my weblog. If anything goes awry I will kick them off again. let us see how long it lasts. 😉
Of back-ups and screw-ups… (and how to recover)
My dear sister had asked me to please reinstall everything on her laptop as it was heavily polluted with all kinds of residual software from the era my dad used to use it. I am always more than happy to help out my little sister with that kind of stuff.
She is gone with my parents to South Africa (chasing Lions n’ stuff) so this was the perfect opportunity for me to make things right for her. I picked her laptop up the evening before the left and the CDs to reinstall it all.
Little did I suspect the calamity that was on my path.
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Fun with epitaphs
Some may recall that on my old blog at web-log.nl I had a post about making your own epitaphs. Due to recent events I was reminded of the existance of the epitaph generator which I found through humor.about.com. As a result I’ve made a few to kill the dull moments at office.