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Bulls game with Ettie and Gerben

Mon, 07/28/2008 - 7:31am

Durham Bulls.Yesterday we spent another great day with Ettie and Gerben. In the late afternoon we went to see a ball game of the Durham Bulls. The weather was good, and it was an entertaining event. I still find the sport somewhat slow but with all the different side shows in the breaks it was fun to watch. The Bulls won with 2-0 over the Louisville Bats.

We had dinner at Tyler's. This morning Ettie and Gerben are leaving to Savannah, Georgia, and they'll be back in Durham in a couple of days.

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dailylife

Guests

Sat, 07/26/2008 - 5:49pm

The week with all our guests has been great. Yesterday we had a nice dinner in our home with the 6 of us, and we had a lot of fun. Ettie and Gerben showed us a video of their new house.

Today is an easy day. After lunch Jaap and Mieke left for the airport. They are flying back over Detroit, and will arrive in Amsterdam tomorrow morning. We're taking it easy today -- it's been a tiring week, both at home and at work with a 1.0 release coming up.

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dailylife

Ettie and Gerben in Durham

Thu, 07/24/2008 - 8:05am

Jaap, Mieke, Guus, Sasha, Ettie and Gerben.Ettie and Gerben, my sister and her husband, arrived in Durham!

They were at home when we arrived home yesterday, and it was great to see them again. It's been so long since we've all been together! So that asked for a picture to be taken.

In the evening went together to the Cheesecake Factory in Southpoint Mall, and the guests were duly impressed by the huge portions. A very nice evening.

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Jaap and Mieke in Durham

Sat, 07/19/2008 - 10:43pm

Jaap, Mieke, Sasha and Guus.Jaap and Mieke arrived in Durham today!

We spend a great day together around Duke and in the Sarah Duke Gardens.

Ettie and Gerben arrived in the U.S. yesterday, and they'll join us next week.

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dailylife

The Biltmore

Sun, 07/13/2008 - 11:42pm

A panorama on the Biltmore Estate.We came home from a great weekend in Asheville. We visited the Biltmore Estate for the first time, and it was gorgeous.

Saturday afternoon we spent in the winery, the farm and various trails. Today we visited the gardens and the main house.

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dailylife

Storm damage

Sun, 07/06/2008 - 11:06pm

Storm damage.Friday we made it just in time to our car when a huge lightning storm hit Durham, including the trail around the Duke golf course where we were walking. The storm stayed above Durham for at least 1,5 hours that night.

Today my run brought me on the trail again, and since I now have a phone with a camera built-in I took a few pictures of the storm damage.

This weekend we did a lot of preparations for our coming guests. Ettie & Gerben and Jaap & Mieke will be in the USA soon! We're looking forward to it, and now the house is getting ready also.

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plants

Growing herbs (3)

Sat, 07/05/2008 - 9:34am

Growing herbs.My first experiment in growing herbs was not entirely successful. Of all the seedlings I planted, only one grew out to a full and healthy plant, the others didn't make it. I'll try it again.

I'm not sure of what type the surviving plant is, we'll find out over time.

We didn't go to the official fireworks in the Bull's stadium last night since the weather was really bad. We went for a walk around the Duke golf course, and about half way we heard a thunderstorm coming our way -- we made it out just in time before the rain began. There was a lot of lightning, at least one per minute.

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internet

Cisco VPN client fix

Fri, 07/04/2008 - 1:50pm

Today is Independence Day, so a day off. In the evening we'll go and see fireworks, but during the day I did some Ruby programming. I really enjoy this language!

To connect to our corporate network I use a Cisco VPN client and I ran into a small but annoying issue. The window of the VPN client wouldn't "Restore" anymore, I could only have it open Maximized or Minimized.

I did a scan on the registry but ultimately I found the settings that I needed in vpnclient.ini. The offending items:

WindowWidth=655
WindowHeight=96
WindowX=4294935296
WindowY=4294935296
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Work NC

JavaScript

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 9:05am

JavaScript.What's wrong with the following piece of JavaScript?

pbar.wait({
  interval:200,
  increment:15,
});

document.myform.myaction.click();

Well, nothing according to FireFox.

Internet Explorer doesn't like it though: "expected identifier, string or number". It turns out that the extra comma after "increment:" throws IE off. Debugging JavaScript used to be a total nightmare 5 years ago, but tools like FireBug and www.jslint.org made development a lot more productive.

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