Today I drove my daughter and son to Oma’s as she was to babysit for us today. Once we got there I was busy unloading first my daughter, then my son in his Maxi-Cozy, then the bags of stuff needed for a day at Oma’s, the buggy, and finally moving the child seat for my daughter over to Oma’s car for the trip home this evening.
While wrestling the child’s seat into the Ford K (no easy feat to get this thing into the back seat with me being 191cm) I hear my daughter calling my name. I finish installing the seat and head inside to say goodbye before driving on to work. My daughter is standing there holding something up for me to take. She had run inside and gotten her new gift from Easter, a small basket with four little fuzzy baby chicks in it and was holding it out to me… my heart jumps, I am getting the Daddy Prize again.
I solemnly take it from her as she says I need to take this to work with me, “It’s for you Daddy.” I promise to return it to her that evening and she nods her head real serious like. I give her a kiss goodbye and she runs off to the front of the house to wave goodbye out the window with a big smile on her face.
The chicks are here on my desk next to me and I am smiling. :-)
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Applying for Dutch citizenship today!
Today I start on the path to obtaining a second passport (dual citizenship). I have done some research and consulted some immigration law specialists (thanks Tessa!) and it is now possible for me due to being married to a Dutch citizen.
I have always kind of seen this as not really being necessary but lately a few things have been nagging at me to get me to make the move:
* I will not lose my US citizenship
* My children have been born here (have both American and Dutch citizenship), so I would like to have the same rights as they do
* I can not vote here until I obtain Dutch citizenship
* Much easier to move about in the EU
I will keep posing to this item via the comments as I proceed down the road to citizenship. I am sure there will be enough interesting events in this process to post about. Wish me luck! :-)
I have always kind of seen this as not really being necessary but lately a few things have been nagging at me to get me to make the move:
* I will not lose my US citizenship
* My children have been born here (have both American and Dutch citizenship), so I would like to have the same rights as they do
* I can not vote here until I obtain Dutch citizenship
* Much easier to move about in the EU
I will keep posing to this item via the comments as I proceed down the road to citizenship. I am sure there will be enough interesting events in this process to post about. Wish me luck! :-)
Monday, April 2, 2007
The Baby Game packaged and released for general usage!
I have finally packaged and posted my web-based game for guessing the birthdate of a coming baby, it is known as The Baby Game. More details are available on my Software page.
This game has been running for two different births and was such a success that it is being released GPL on popular demand.
This game has been running for two different births and was such a success that it is being released GPL on popular demand.
Windy ride yesterday!
As we were to visit some friends in a new housing development here in Den Bosch, I decided to cycle over there and then continue onwards from there after the visit.
It was very windy and gusting pretty bad, I had to fight the whole way there over 12 km’s with speeds not getting very much past 30 km/hr at most. But when I left our friends house I had the wind at my back and was chasing behind our car (wife driving home) at 50 km/hr over a distance a bit longer than 1 km! Was a rush to be cruising at such speeds, as these are not normal for me unless I am going downhill. 
Ended up riding around Den Bosch and enjoying the sunny day, total ride was 36 km’s.
Austin Mini vs Chevy Tahoe
My neighbor picked up a 1999 Chevy Tahoe, the same my sister has so we thought it might be fun to take some pictures with my 1987 Austin Mini next to it for some comparison:
Austin Mini vs Chevy Tahoe
My neighbor picked up a 1999 Chevy Tahoe, the same my sister has so we thought it might be fun to take some pictures with my 1987 Austin Mini next to it for some comparison:
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Fix for WordPress blank screen on submit of new post!
This problem has been reported in diverse blogs in one form or another but without a fix that I could apply, such as this WordPress Support Forums entry. I hope this clarifies at least a fix that will get you past the blank screen effect when posting! ;-)
Here is a display of the diff you need to apply:
+++ post.php 2007-03-22 14:57:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -168,6 +168,50 @@ break; default: + // 22 March 2007 - Eric D. SchabellFor those that do not understand how to apply such a patch, you can edit your wp-admin/post.php file and add all the lines you see above with a plus (+) in front of them. They need to go at the front of the 'default' section of the 'switch' statement, starting at line 171 in my post.php file.+ // + // fix for blank screen posting of content, after submit now + // checking if coming from a new-post screen, if so then we + // just submit the post. + // + $sendback = wp_get_referer(); + if (strstr($sendback, 'post-new.php')) + { + $parent_file = 'post-new.php'; + $submenu_file = 'post-new.php'; + check_admin_referer('add-post'); + + $post_ID = 'post' == $action ? write_post() : edit_post(); + + // Redirect. + if (!empty($_POST['mode'])) + { + switch($_POST['mode']) { + case 'bookmarklet': + $location = $_POST['referredby']; + break; + case 'sidebar': + $location = 'sidebar.php?a=b'; + break; + default: + $location = 'post-new.php'; + break; + } + } + else + { + $location = "post-new.php?posted=$post_ID"; + } + + if ( isset($_POST['save']) ) + { + $location = "post.php?action=edit&post=$post_ID"; + } + + wp_redirect($location); + } + // end fix. + wp_redirect('edit.php'); exit(); break;
PS. Since upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 and thereby having to upgrade all my plugins, this problem vanished for me. You might want to consider upgrading your plugins to solve this for your installation, that is most likey the problem.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Dolly Parton in the Nethlands!
This weekend I was away with my wife for a few days of quite (kids off at Oma/Opa’s) and relaxation. The high point was the visit of Dolly Parton (61 years young and still kickin’ it on world tours) on her World Tour 2007 Europe!
She stopped into only two countries on the European mainland (Norway and Holland), treating us to a two hour show in the Ijsselhalle in Zwolle. She sounds great live with a voice that has not lost a bit of clarity, strength or beauty over the years. She entertained everyone with songs from older albums and newer ones too. Songs like 9 to 5, Jolene, Little Swallow, Puppy Love and I Will Always Love You. She even did a duet with Elvis (live on stage, who says Elivis is dead?)!
Real photographers were in the hall at the beginning and they have better pictures than I do, for example the weblog zwolle.
Pre-game show!
Pre-show stage!
Look close, there's Dolly!
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