I thought that this weekend our niece & nephew would come to stay with us, as we had planned weeks ago. Turns out Erwin had been lying to me about this all along! When I walked down the stairs on Saturday morning I fully expected to find my nephew hiding in the living room somewhere, […]
Even though we already announced the URL of this blog to many people, it still needed to be moved from its temporary place at Quanza to a more permanent place. It is now running in a Xen virtual machine on a fast Ubuntu Linux server, kindly provided by our friends Ivo and Arjen. Thanks so […]
This weekend we picked up our tiny, featherweight notebook, a Toshiba Portege R500j. It looks a bit cheap (lots of plastic) but it is very, very small and very, very light – the ideal around the world notebook! In addition, we gave my father a webcam & headset for his birthday and installed MSN on […]
It is so nice to quit your job, especially when your colleagues tell you that they’ll miss you… today I announced my resignation per 31/12, with my last work day scheduled for 30/11. Another milestone in our trip around the world! Reason enough to open a bottle of very nice champagne this evening – not […]
