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Inglourious Basterds

Sun, 09/06/2009 - 10:21am

Inglourious Basterds.We saw Inglourious Basterds yesterday, the new movie by Tarantino. A great film!

Very violent, as most his movies are, but very well made and a terrific story line. The acting by Christoph Waltz was phenomenal. Going into the theater I had no idea what the film was about, and that was a great way to see it.

If you liked his previous films, you'll love this one.

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dailylife

Maria Beatriz Fasolo

Sun, 09/06/2009 - 9:57am

Maria Beatriz FasoloMaria Beatriz Fasolo was born this morning!

Bia is the daughter of our friends Chris and Angelo and was born at 1.39 am in Durham, NC. Mother and daughter are doing fine.

Congratulations!

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guusbosmannl

Upgraded to Drupal 6

Sat, 09/05/2009 - 5:28pm

Today I upgraded the website to Drupal 6.

The upgrade went smooth and most parts of the website have been converted. The only thing remaining is the address book. This requires some extra work and hopefully I'll get to that Sunday or Monday, which is a day off, Labor Day.

The visible changes between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 are pretty small, but things have improved behind the scenes. If you see anything that doesn't work right, or something is missing, please let me know.

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dutchusa

Dutch pronunciation

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 7:31am

Breuckelen."'Ve-le-is-sing-nen.' (Or so it sounded to us.) That was definitely a V sound in the beginning, but then it got lost in a slosh of vowels and S’s."

The New York Times has an interview with Ms. Jones-Bos, the Dutch ambassador to the United States to talk about the Dutch pronunciation of names in NYC.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/dutch-pronounciations/?hp

Another quote:

"'Bowery? In the original Dutch, it was was “bouwerij,” which had an intimidating ending for an English speaker."

The interviews also links to this funny article: Breuckelen Express (Breuckelen is the original name for Brooklyn).

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internet

Invoking a single Ruby test

Thu, 09/03/2009 - 7:52pm

I usually run my unit tests in Eclipse on my development system, or from the command-line on the target environment in bulk.

Sometimes though it's useful to run a single unit test from the command line. There are two equivalent ways of doing that:

rake test=test\integration\firmware_upgrade_test.rb

ruby test\integration\firmware_upgrade_test.rb
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foodanddrinks

Dutch dessert with hagelslag

Thu, 09/03/2009 - 7:30am

Dutch dessert.Here's an example of the use of hagelslag.

The dessert "gele vla" is a one of my favorites and it is served with chocolate sprinkles, lots of them.

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dutchusa

Indonesian Hagelslag

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 10:37pm

Indonesian Hagelslag. Here's a nice example of a cross-over food: Dutch style hagelslag, produced in Indonesia and imported into the United States.

The packaging has an image of a girl on a bike, and it says "smulpaapjes" on the side -- clear pointers to a Dutch heritage.

Hagelslag is a very popular sandwich topping in the Netherlands. In the US it is referred to as 'jimmies' or 'chocolate sprinkles' but is not typically used for sandwiches but more for cake decorating.

I saw this hagelslag last week in Grand Asia Market in Cary, NC; it's also available online. I brought a package from the Netherlands and that will last us a long time, so I won't try the Indonesian product anytime soon.

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internet

Presentation on 3D virtual worlds

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 9:39pm

Tonight I attended a presentation on the use of Second Live and other 3D worlds in education. It wasn't earth-shattering but it was an informative presentation. Bill Krebs, the presenter, clearly enjoys using these tools and it was fun to hear more about the community in Second Life and some of the pro's and con's of using such tools for business purposes.

It's always nice to go out and meet other engineers. I spoke with someone who started a company to provide data for tools like Layar, the augmented reality browser, and other interesting folks. I won a book in a raffle, and I choose Beginning Scala by David Pollack.

The evening was organized by the Agile RTP group and hosted by Allscripts in North Raleigh.

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