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Zeven maanden.. Ruim zeven maanden woon ik nu in Newcastle. En vandaag viel het eerste aan mij geadresseerde stuk junkmail door de brievenbus... Hoera......
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Lange dag... Zaterdag was een lange dag... We stonden naast het bed om 4:20 in de ochtend..Na een uur lange vlucht (en alle bijkomstigheden) waren we om een uur of 9 in London om ons in te checken voor...
View ArticleUntraditional Hutspot
This dish has a history that goes back to 1574 when the Spanish left an old version of it behind when they gave up besieging the city of Leiden. Potatoes and possibly carrots weren't known in Europe as...
View ArticleWitte Rijst met Krenten
This recipe may well make you believe that Dutch cuisine deserves the reputation that British cuisine has, but if you, like me, love rice and, like me, love currants, and, like me, have a sweet tooth,...
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Sinds een jaar of zes werk ik nu met Engelsen. Vanaf het moment dat de werkrelatie persoonlijk genoeg werd om dit soort dingen te vragen, vroegen ze mij in welke taal ik dacht. Uiteraard was dit altijd...
View ArticleUseless Ruby StringBuilder
A little while ago, I wrote a StringBuilder class in Ruby in my lunch break, roughly based on the one in the .NET Framework, but simpler. I have known for a while that using StringBuilder is a much...
View ArticlePuter!
My wife and daughter are currently visiting Granny and Grandad. Apparently when asked where Grandad was, our 19-month old said "puter"...I'm so proud! My little girl knows about computers! I think I'm...
View ArticleHow to move your email to GMail using free tools
I've been using GMail for quite some time now, and have recently decided to import a lot of archived mail from my old mail accounts. Currently I have this mail stored in various formats, most notable...
View ArticleTelly
Yesterday, our daughter wanted to watch a bit of telly, or "teddy" as she calls it, and more particularly she wanted to watch Nijntje (Miffy). We thought we'd let her and popped in the DVD.Somehow this...
View ArticleFokke en Sukke filteren het nieuws
Mijn kijk op Nederlands nieuws is, sinds ik in Engeland woon, voornamelijk beperkt tot de cartoons van Fokke en Sukke. Er zijn genoeg andere sites via welke ik ook nieuws ontvang en ik zou makkelijk...
View ArticleEen fijne dag zonder nederlandse collega's!
Een van de vreemde ervaringen van het wonen in het buitenland is dat de dagen die je in je oude land als nationale feestdagen had in je nieuwe land niet altijd feestdagen zijn.Kerst en nieuwjaar is...
View ArticleStar struck
John reminded me just now about the first time I saw a hummingbird in real life. Where I come from you only get them in nature programmes on the telly, not outside hovering near flowers. I don't think...
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Stupid design
Recently at my workplace the water coolers and the water boilers have been replaced by a machine which does both. It's very simple. It has a green light to indicate it is on. If you press the big...
View ArticleIs disabled disabled?
In HTML boolean attributes can be set on elements without a value. For instance, an option of a select could be selected using <option value='1' selected>, a checkbox could be checked using...
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The Big Agile Practices Survey
Last week Jurgen Appelo asked if anyone could help him create an online interactive table for the results from his Big Agile Practices Survey. Having just gone freelance I figured I could use the...
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Motion Detecting Bird Feeder Cam
It has been snowing quite a bit recently so despite never having had much success with the birds, I decided to put our bird feeder out. It is hanging from a washing line, well away from any structures...
View ArticleDeveloping on Windows, using Git, Dropbox and Ubuntu (and XAMPP)
I generally do my development work on Windows, mainly because a lot of it is .NET based. Occasionally I do non-.NET work (ruby/php), but since my main development pc is a Windows pc, I still usually...
View ArticleCreating a Moodle course selector
Moodle has a user selector base class that is used in a few places to select users using a select box, for instance with two side-by-side user selectors to assign users to a role - one with users...
View ArticleShortened URL Expansion
Twitter provides me with a lot of value through the plenty of interesting and/or useful links that get tweeted by the selection of people that I follow.Usually when I notice an interesting looking URL,...
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Cheat's Trifle
For the last four years I have made a trifle for our Christmas dinner. You know you've been accepted when your family let's the foreigner make the trifle.When I was looking for trifle recipes my wife...
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Mincemeat Turnovers
Every New Year's Eve I crave oliebollen, but since these require deep frying and hence too much faff, I make appelflappen. Apple turnovers are the only traditional Dutch New Year's Eve food that isn't...
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3D Printed Ice Structure
If you're local to me, you will have noticed it rained a lot earlier in the week. And that it was very cold last night. Well. It appears somebody didn't cover up the sandpit. While amusing, this is not...
View ArticleBritse Lagerhuisverkiezingen 2015
Sinds ik in Engeland woon heb ik de politiek matig gevolgd. Zowel de politiek in Nederland als die in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Aangezien ik van de Nederlandse politiek weinig mee krijg en het stemmen...
View ArticleRode kool met appeltjes en rozijnen
Today I made this vegetable side dish for some guests who asked for the recipe, and therefor you get to enjoy it too. The recipe that is. 1 red cabbage 2 apples pinch of salt pinch of powdered cloves 1...
View ArticleLow-knead bread
Before the COVID-19 lockdown of early 2020 it had been a while since I had made bread. As I was suddenly home it seemed like a good time to get back to regularly making bread. Panic buying had depleted...
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