David Baakman

Ok, for a few years I’m irritated by the following:

See.

When you have multiple ovens in your kitchen, it is impossible to set them to the exact same time. So, once in a while (every minute ;)), there is a period where there is discrepancy. And that irritates me.

First of all you can question whether it is useful to have two clocks above each other, but that is a different story. But how hard could it be to synchronize them somehow? That shouldn’t be extremely hard, and considering that the combined cost of two mid-tier ovens is around 2000 euro, the few cents / euro to get this done shouldn’t be an issue.

After a few years, my box of sugar cubes started to become a bit empty. So, it was time to buy a new box. And this obviously means some research. It didn’t take long (hey, there are not that many options…) till I stumbled upon this claim:

The smallest sugar cubes in The Netherlands (500/160 = 3.1 grams per cube). That is certainly a claim.

Especially when on the same page, you can find this:

At Jibes I was in the fortunate situation that I was provided with a top-of-the-line laptop with full rights that I could also use privately. And at Quinity I still used a regular PC at home. So, until recently, I never had to buy a private laptop (I did bought some private laptops in the past, but those were always as an ’extra’).

So, this time, I needed to buy a primary laptop for private use.

Some time ago, we needed some new containers to store food leftovers. And we we’re at Ikea to buy - I don’t know anymore, but I’m sure it was something else :)

Anyway, we bought some Ikea 365 containers. In the shop we also saw an interesting way to hang them under a kitchen shelf. Didn’t really gave to much attention, but at home, we thought: he, that might be something for us, on the shelf where we store those containers, we don’t use all the space.

After using the same hosting provider for the weblog for 16 years, I finally switched to a new one. 16 years ago I registered the domain and got a hosting package at freerider.nl. After a few renamed and takeovers, the company is now called oxilion.nl.

In the beginning everything the things they provided was exactly what I was looking for:

• Cheap :)
• Webhosting
• PHP + MySQL support
• Email
• A few Megabytes of storage, and 1-2 Gigabytes of traffic
• FTP access

But, nowadays, my needs are a bit different:

So, that migration to Medium didn’t really worked out in the end. Never got the custom domain working, and I really didn’t like the password-less-login (every time you login, you have to request a mail…)

So, next attempt ;): migrating to Hugo, a static site generator.

For this, I enabled Wordpress again, to install a plugin, to export all content to Markdown files that can be used with Hugo. After that, it was finding a good theme, changing a few things, fixing some encoding problems. And removing all fixed url’s, so I could use (the same) permalinks.

After a 5-year hiatus, I ‘rebooted’ my blog… so, welcome back ;)

Back in 2011, I suddenly received an invoice from my webhoster for excess data usage. Looking at the statistics, it was clear that my domain/weblog-URL was included in a list used by botnet to mass-spam. So, I received thousands and thousands of visitors (bots) that would download a complete page and try to comment on that page. This generated more than a gigabyte of traffic per day… So, quickly made the decision to take down the complete blog.

Toen Hanny en ik zaterdag boodschappen deden, stond op ons lijstje muisjes. Het pakje thuis was bijna op, dus tsja, dan wordt het tijd voor een nieuw doosje, nietwaar? Niet zo’n moeilijke opgave zou je zeggen, maar al snel bleek dat het allemaal toch wat ingewikkelder lag.

Bij de muisjes aangekomen (zelfs zonder gebruik te maken van de Appie-app…) werden we voor een groot raadsel gesteld:

Waarom zijn blauwe muisjes goedkoper dan roze muisjes?

Na iets meer dan 4 jaar in m’n Honda Civic Hybrid gereden te hebben heb ik sinds kort een BMW 1-serie als voorloopauto.

Na zo’n tijd met een auto gereden te hebben ga je bepaalde dingen als normaal beschouwen, en met het oog op het bestellen van een nieuwe auto (daarover binnenkort meer…) is het eigenlijk wel interessant om de auto’s eens met elkaar te vergelijken. Ik had eigenlijk niet verwacht dat de verschillen zo duidelijk zouden zijn, en het helpt me (ook op onverwachte manieren) om te bepalen wat ik nou handig / belangrijk vind. Het is natuurlijk geen eerlijke vergelijking, de Honda heb ik ruim vier jaar gereden, en ken ik door-en-door. De BMW (die eigenlijk van van een collega is die een epileptische aanval heeft gehad, en de komende tijd dus niet mag rijden) heb ik een paar weken, en is dus nog heel erg wennen.

Het kan nog sneller dan op de tweede dag: namelijk de dag voordat je begint!