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The Ongoing Odyssey Of The Pox

Eloïse has quite a bad case of chicken pox. Whereas a lot of children get away with a handful of pocks on their face and chest, Eloïse is covered in the bloody things. They’re all over her face, chest, arms, … Continue reading

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Big Boy

We took Lucas to the consultatiebureau last Friday. It turns out that he now weighs 5830 g, is 60 cm long and has a cranial circumference of 40.4 cm. That’s quite a leap from his birth weight of 3500 g, so he’s now above … Continue reading

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Return Of The Pox

Add the usual incubation period of chicken pox to the date Lucas and I first started showing symptoms of the disease and, lo and behold, you arrive at Friday last. That’s the day that Elo&ium;se started sprouting pocks. Thankfully, she … Continue reading

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ReadyNAS NV+

My LaCie Ethernet Big Disk gave up the ghost last Monday after just one year of service. This device functioned as a basic NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit on our network and accommodated, amongst other things, all of our Ogg … Continue reading

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Ruby/AWS Mailing-List

Ruby/AWS now has its own mailing-list, where the development and use of this library can be discussed.

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