Archives for December, 2008
City-Pier-City 2009
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
I have enlisted myself to participate in the City-Pier-City run on March 14th 2009! I’ve only been out running twice, and then only for 16 minutes of running/walking combinations each time, but now I have set myself a goal that I think is challenging and realistic: a 10 km run with 11 weeks of preparation. [...]
New running shoes
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
I’ve decided to take up running again. It used to be one of my favourite sporting activities, but I have not had a good run in 15 years–basically since I left home. 15 years ago I swapped sporting for drinking beer and even though I do not drink as much anymore since I graduated, I [...]
A Sunday in Den Haag
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Yesterday I saw The Day The Earth Stood Still in Den Haag, with Carlijn. We had an enjoyable dinner in a Greek restaurant before the movie (although I will never grow to like ouzo), and saw the 19.30 show. We were slightly surprised to be outside the theater again at 21.30, as we both agreed [...]
New photoblog
Saturday, December 20th, 2008
I have created a new photoblog as a sub of this one. It is located at http://www.makoho.nl/Pixelposts. A separate blog for my photos means there is more room to show them, and a better navigation to view them.
Animations and icons
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
I have found a cool web-site that creates waiting animated GIFs for you, in the colours and style of your choosing.
Also, check out this site with lots of small icons (GIF format) available in 39 categories: http://icons.primail.ch/. There is also a huge collection of small icons (PNG format) available at famfamfam, including the Silk [...]
Zwarte Piet
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Last Friday I played zwarte piet again for Toverlei, with Joop as Sinterklaas and Lorien as another zwarte piet. We visited 6 addresses and entertained a lot of children. It is such fun to see how different children can be: shy and timid and quiet, or excited and nervous, or glad to perform a little [...]
The last of Midsummer
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Last weekend we had our last two performances of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both were sold out (yay!) and we had a big party on Saturday as this was also our last performance in this theatre. Toverlei’s move to a new location is scheduled to take place in December, so we had to say goodbye to [...]
Changing database password for a Wordpress blog
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I wanted to make an online todo-list application using the MySql database on my domain, where my Wordpress blog also resides. For irrelevant reasons I decided to change the database password so that I could access it through a Windows application–but in doing so I buggered up my Wordpress blog because it still used the [...]
Katwijk aan Zee II
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Aleksandra and me visited Katwijk on Monday last week. I put some pictures in my previous post but forgot about this one: tracks in the sand. This picture has led me to find Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 again .
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