Archives for May, 2009
ORA 12154: TNS: service name could not be resolved
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
While trying to debug an ASP.Net webapplication (utilizing an Oracle database) in Visual Studio 2005, every attempt at running it hit the Oracle errormessage "ORA 12154: TNS: service name could not be resolved." when trying to connect to the database. A search through the file-system for a compromised tnsnames.ora file was the first thing we [...]
Thunder’s rolling dark power
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Leiden, 25-05-2009, 21.52
Purple and yellow
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
“Looking at purple and yellow as they must appear to bees, one might suggest that they are shades of pink.”
Als Gekken
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Last Wednesday I saw what is to be my last show this season at the LAK theater. And a great show to end this good season with! Laura van Oldron’s experiment was loosely based on Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots. She sat on stage as the director and gave the actors assignments, while talking about [...]
Parmesan Cheese
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Freshly flaked Parmesan cheese
Went with Ricotta
And Spinach and leaves
of Sage
Enso. Thank you.
Monday, May 18th, 2009
I’d like to introduce you to a Windows program I found, that has made my life behind a screen and keyboard lots better. I install it on every pc or laptop I have the privilege of working on, and the program has never disappointed me in either the ease of installation or the ease of [...]
Leiden marathon
Monday, May 18th, 2009
After two months of training, yesterday finally brought the long anticipated 10k at the Leiden Marathon. At the start of the run I realized I had only ever run this distance once at the 3 Molen Loop in April. I finished that one in 53:43 and I wanted to set a new PR on this [...]
Tuin van de buren
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Tuin van de buren, originally uploaded by makoho.
Een eenzame en door hekken geïsoleerde telefooncentrale
10k in 53:20
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle – when [...]
Vegetarian week
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
My first vegetarian week is done. It’s not a milestone because to me it doesn’t signify anything special, but it’s already worth looking back to see if there has been any changes. I think there are. Since I stopped eating meat I have more energy available to me. Then again, I also started my new [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.