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Big Decision
We had to make a big decision today. Eloïse was set to move after the summer from Het Speelhol to a new peuterspeelzaal, namely that belonging to the Amsterdamse Montessori School, about a kilometre from here. The reason for the … Continue reading
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Hitting The Road Again
Summer’s here and it’s time for us to head out onto the road again for our first holiday since the birth of Lucas. Yes, this time we will be travelling as a family of four. This trip has been planned … Continue reading
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Ruby/AWS 0.3.3 Released
It’s only been a week since the release of Ruby/AWS 0.3.2, but 0.3.3 is here already. Actually, there are almost no visible changes for the user. The only development of note is that the library is now available as a … Continue reading
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E90 and untrusted certificates pt. II
I wrote last year how the Nokia Communicator E90 telephone had no ability to permanently accept an untrusted (e.g. self-signed) certificate when picking up e-mail over SSL. This omission required the user to go through the rigmarole of setting up … Continue reading
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Eloïse Still Mending
I hadn’t got around to an update on Eloïse’s chicken pox until now, and I wanted to finish the saga. She had a couple of really difficult days with the itching and fever and then it broke. Who knows how … Continue reading
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