• Archive for December, 2002

    A picture worth a thousand words

    by  • 30 December, 2002 • Tech • 1 Comment

    Don’t worry, I’m not trying to sell you these tires. I just happen to have a picture of them on my desktop, and it as good as any other picture to test this feature in MovableType. After all you do want to see pictures once I’m started on my trip, don’t you? For now,...

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    It’s all in the box

    by  • 30 December, 2002 • Travel • 0 Comments

    Today was spent running around the house and measuring things up. The point came up because Yvonne and I realized that sooner or later we had to arrange for transport of our possessions to Iraklio. When moving stuff across two seas, one had better plan these things a bit more carefully. Fortunately we never...

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    The problem with standards…

    by  • 28 December, 2002 • Tech • 1 Comment

    … is that there are so many. Take for example HTML. Boy, I’ve been strugling with getting my blog page (Cretan Chronicles) present itself nicely in the same way as my main entry page, but unsuccessfully so far. The problem is that the graphics in the main page still rely heavily on tables for...

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    Hi again!

    by  • 25 December, 2002 • Tech • 2 Comments

    If you’ve come here, you probably read my last entry in Radio Userland’s blog. From now on this will be the place were we will chronicle our adventures in Crete. I still have some work to do to bring the layout of this section in line with the main layout, but I’ll figure that...

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    So this is Christmas…

    by  • 24 December, 2002 • Tech • 0 Comments

    Eleven days no postings?! That’s not a good start, Luc. I plead guilty on all accounts. I have no excuses. But I have a great explanation! You see, when all of you were preparing for this Grande Bouffe event that is coming up, I have been chasing down webhosting companies for 7 days. The...

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    Friday 13th…

    by  • 13 December, 2002 • Travel • 0 Comments

    Friday the thirteenth! And nothing bad has happened to me all day yet! Okay, I’m a little bit short of news to tell you, but it doesn’t feel right not to post anything at all. So here goes, the new schedule: I will leave on Saturday, 4th of January 2003. If all goes well...

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    And the weather is…

    by  • 10 December, 2002 • Tech • 0 Comments

    I succesfully added a live weather badge for Iraklio, just below the calendar. From the looks of it, the weather in Crete isn’t so bad. Nothing more to report.

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    Winter hits all of Greece

    by  • 9 December, 2002 • General • 0 Comments

    Heavy snowfall, torrential rain and powerful winds caused havoc across Greece on Saturday and yesterday, disrupting road, rail and sea transportation, flooding homes, destroying roads and wiping out crops. The central regions of Pieria and Larissa were hit hardest, with the government declaring them in a state of emergency, as floodwaters covered their fertile...

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    I’m (almost) home, honey

    by  • 9 December, 2002 • General, Tech • 0 Comments

    With a lot of help from the friendly experts at the Radio Userland discussion forum, I got this thing to look more or less like I want it to. I will not need to re-install the software after all, which is great. For the moment I’m still using one of the predefined templates which...

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    Don’t worry, be happy…

    by  • 9 December, 2002 • Travel • 0 Comments

    I missed my self-imposed deadline for my departure to Crete. About one year ago, Yvonne and I agreed that we would celebrate my 50th birthday in our new home. In september this year we adjusted that plan to what I already described as the new plan (see Friday). It still meant that I should...

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