Mail troubles

Merry -X-mas and a happy New Year to everybody reading this.

It is halfway between the two party's and we still have snow here in Enschede. The original plan included some skiing in nearby Sauerland, but

The evil empire

So I switched to google. Most of the transition went fine. With two notable exceptions.

F%?$ Exchange, welcome in the other evil empire

New Fedora 14 is out and of course I had to install it asap.

Summer is over

Long time no see

Summer is over and a few things have happened. We've been to Austria for nearly 3 weeks. Unfortunately it rained a lot. In the end we escaped from the weather and had few nice days in Bodensee am Osiachersee.

Weekend trip

Our vacation is coming closer and closer. On Friday last week our new tent arrived. We took the opportunity and decided to test it on Saturday. So we packed our stuff and headed north west towards Hindeloopen on the Ijseelmeer.

Summer

It seems that summer has arrived in the Netherlands. The last weeks have been exceptionally nice. Beautiful weather no rain lots of sun. Tina, Sophie and Emily have only one or two more school days and then their summer break starts. We will go to Austria for about 3 weeks. However, it is still not clear where we are going :-( Kommt Zeit, kommt Rat :-)

Picasa and Fedora 12

I know this is already the second post for the day. However, setting everything up for the previous one took me a while. I encountered several issues with unison, and picasa.

Hopton on Sea

The family is still recovering from a nice trip to Hopton on Sea. 

We left Enschede on Thursday last week and drove to Hoek van Holland to catch the ferry to Harwich.

Greece

I really try to understand whats going on in Greece. I am not troubled by what happened in Athens yesterday. To me such things are not really surprising. What I am currently wondering is how private profit oriented companies can judge the financial power of a country.

LaTeX Beamer page numbering

Thanks to this guy I finally found a solution for a very annoying problem. If you use LaTeX and Beamer to make your presentations. Slides in the appendix will be counted for the total page number, and you end up having 25 slides for your 10 minute presentation according to the currentpage/totalpage display.

Spring has arrived

Hi!

Spring has arrived in the Netherlands. It is surprisingly  warm outside, and the evenings are really long already. Our idyllic evenings on the balcony have been suspended as some bees made use of some holes on the wall and in the table as their new home. For now scotch tape solved the issue.

BBQ season opening

Hurray! First BBQ this year. While Tina sent me shopping for today's lunch I got an update for the shopping. So instead of just fish I also bought some meat (including the for some reason typical dutch Sate shashlik) and beer. Sophie and Emily shared their new table and we all enjoyed a beautiful evening in the sun on our balcony.

Vacation planning

We are still trying to plan our vacation. However, until now we couldn't decide on the direction. Either head north and go camping in Sweden (my favorite) or south and escape from it all into an isolated mountain hut on a nice Alm in Austria. We will see what comes up maybe somebody wants to join for on of the activities -- or we come up with something completely new.

And now for something completely different.

Long time no see

One last try to post more regular. Lets see if this replaces FB one day although I doubt it.

Emily had the chickenpocks and since yesterday it is Sophies turn. Not too many other things have happened recently. A few skiing trips to Austria. A trip to Regensburg to visit the DPG (for those who care ;-) and a short visit to Leoben to celebrate 76 semesters together with Erik and Miro.

lets hope the next post will appear soon :-)