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As you may have known, read, heard or guessed, Irene and I have got married on May 20.
It was a beautiful day.
There were so many people, the weather was really great, and everything was just perfect (a big “thank you” to our best man and woman!)… and we got lots of presents! 
The photo shoot in the morning was a great deal of fun. And yesterday evening, only 3 weeks later, we got the photo album from the photographer. He did a great job! Another big “thank you” to Fotostudio Aster Oostkapelle.
The wedding ceremony was in Veere, Zeeland. A picturesque little town, with a beautiful old city hall. The old windmill and the harbour and lake side were very nice for the photo shoot.
The reception, dinner and party were in Rotterdam in the Zuiderparkrestaurant Meerzicht. A very good restaurant at a great location. Again a big “thank you” to them!
All in all it was just a perfect day! We are so happy that so many people came to celebrate our wedding together with us, and that so many of them spent enormous amounts of time to make this day to what it was.
Self-referential aptitude test
I have already seen (and solved) this puzzle quite some time ago, but yesterday I came across it once more. So I decided I would share it with you, dear reader.
It’s an interesting puzzle, which requires some logic reasoning, but it can be solved. I challenge you to solve it. Please let me know if you succeed, and how long it took. Don’t forget to check all answers after finishing, because changing one question can have consequences for some of the other questions.
Good luck!
Self-referential aptitude test (link updated)
LTUAE
I finished the third part of the Hitchhiker’s Guide: Life, the Universe and Everything.
I haven’t got the book with me though, so you will have to wait for my collection of quotes.
In the mean time, you can check this site for some. (Check out the links on the left side.)
(Update: the link appears to be no longer working.)
OK, here’s one I remember:
(…) and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.
Microsoft security
Sheesh!
It is of course a well-known fact that Microsoft cares a great deal about security. I mean, there are so very few bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows is renowned for its stability, Microsoft always realeses security updates and patches (for the few bugs that might perhaps sometimes occur) very quickly. It’s just… perfect!
But just as the “solution” to an earlier problem, I wrote about, they have again come up with a great idea: they will give the standard user in Longhorn more rights, in the hope that people will less often log in as Administrator.
Oookay… so you give the users more rights, so that they will have less rights… But at least, even normal users will now have enough rights to f*ck up the system!
Oh well, as if Microsoft ever really got an idea about user rights and permissions.
I mean, “registry” — need I say more? OK, how about “Windows\System” directory?
source: WebWereld (in Dutch)
TATATATA
No, this is NOT the 3rd part of the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
This is the name of the theater show we went to yesterday: TATATATA by Hans Liberg. A great entertainer. Music and comedy. He seamlessly combines classical music with old folk and modern pop songs. Liberg really is a marvel at the piano.
The name of the show refers to the opening piece. TA TA TA TA, Beethoven’s 5th, · · · —. You know what I mean – everybody knows it.
TRATEOTU
Yes, I finished reading part two: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Another book full of nonsense! In this book we learn about the end of the universe and that people come visit Milliways – the restaurant at the end of the universe – to watch the whole show.
In this restaurant, you can meet the Dish of the Day: May I interest you in parts of my body? Something off the shoulder perhaps?
After ordering, the animal walks back into the kitchen: Very good, I’ll just nip off and shoot myself.
On the Heart of Gold space ship, however, the Cybernetics Corporation Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer still cannot produce tea.
“Share and Enjoy” is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent profit in recent years.
gmail turns one
Darn!
Just yesterday, I was pleased to see that I had finally reached 50% usage of my Gmail storage space.
But today, Gmail turns one, and to celebrate that, they’re increasing the storage space for every user!
To celebrate our one-year birthday, we’re giving everyone one more gigabyte. (…) Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able.
So, unfortunately, I am already down to 45% by now… No, 44%… and dropping.
HHGTTG
After reading Charl’s blog entry about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie, I borrowed The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide from him.
I’d heard about the book, of course, but I’d never read it. I had no idea what it was about. But reading it had been on my todo-list for quite some time. So after bugging Charl about it for a week or two, he finally lent it to me the other day.
I finished the first part yesterday evening. And it’s great! It’s hilarious!
It’s a fascinating story. Catchy, too. But absurd. With a lot of dry, absurd humour.
Two years ago…
It is exactly two years ago today, that my 14-year-old niece died of cancer.
Please visit “her” website.
Bork, bork, bork!
This morning I picked up a couple of DVDs of The Muppet Show, I ordered earlier this week from the Free Record Shop.
Oh, I’m already looking forward to 7 hours of ROTFLMAO.
I ordered two boxes, the first one containing three dvds and the second one another two dvds. And all that for only 25 euros!
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