Archives for June, 2009
My new sofa!
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Pieter helped me get it upstairs, as it was a lot heavier than I thought. I could barely get it out of the car by myself, never mind up 5 flights of stairs. It also did not fit in my car, so I had to get each piece separately (there’s two pieces to this sofa). [...]
Saying goodbye…
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I’m welcoming a new sofa into my rooms next week. I picked one from Leen Bakker on Saturday, after spending considerable time trying to find a decent second-hand sofa. I changed my mind about what model I want and decided to try my luck at the Rijneke boulevard with its many furniture stores.
It’s funny [...]
8100030d: Unable to connect
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
For the last couple of days my MSN Messenger has given me an error whenever I try to log on using one of my hotmail addresses. The error is confined to a single hotmail address; I can log on using a different one. I haven’t changed anything obvious over the last few days, so to [...]
How HTML email looks in web-based clients
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
If you’re a developper and you need to send HTML emails, while not knowing which email clients are used to view those emails, it can be a real pain to design HTML that looks good in all email clients. Well, never mind good, how about just usable and readable.
Without having a battery of email clients at [...]
Tickets to Rammstein :D
Friday, June 12th, 2009
It took me 45 minutes and many attempts (some of which ended only in the final confirmation from either my credit card company or the iDeal link to my bank), but I managed to get two tickets to Rammstein at the GelreDome on December 6th! They’re tickets for standing places so I hope to get [...]
Getting the day of the week in VB.Net in localized language
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
There’s a straighforward way to take advantage of the built-in date and globalization classes of the .Net framework when you want a string representing the day of the week in your language, derived from a date. I used to build a select-case statement going through the enumeration values of the .DayOfWeek property of a date, [...]
Post-premiere pictures
Monday, June 8th, 2009
I saw the Premiere of “Nu Even Niet/Nu Even Wel” at Toverlei last Saturday. Maria Goos’ double piece is directed by Marjet Moorman, and has some of Toverlei’s finest actors and acresses. If you haven’t seen this double piece yet or if you want to see Toverlei’s realization of it, go to www.toverlei.nl to make a [...]
1 month!
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Today I celebrate my first month as a vegetarian!
May 4th (such a wonderfully arbitrary date to make a change in my life) was the first day of my vegetarian life, after I was inspired to make a change by a small documentary called “Meet your meat”. I already knew what goes on in the bio-industry [...]
Disable a textbox, but enable scrolling
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I’ve had to modify our .Net code to implement one of our user’s requests: to be able to scroll a textbox when there is more text than can be shown. Obviously this would seem like an easy task, but if you’ve already got the multiline textbox, what’s up with the not-being-able-to-scroll? The specifics are that [...]
Night photography in Leiden
Monday, June 1st, 2009
I’ve had another opportunity to explore some of Leiden’s nicest places in the dark. There were a few places I’ve been waiting to visit at night: Leiden Centraal (train station), Gorlaeus, and Leiden Lammeschans (a smaller train station). I visited all of them last night. The best pictures I took were at the second site, [...]
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.