Het is zover. We zijn aangekomen in ons nieuwe huis.

Op 4 juli kregen we de sleutel. De kinderen bleven bij opa en oma logeren (ze moesten immers nog naar school) en wij vertrokken met twee auto's vol met spullen naar Rijssen.

De oplevering ging goed, er waren weinig punten die nog hersteld moeten worden. Raoul en ik bleven achter in ons nieuwe, nu toch echt ons huis en gingen uitladen, bed opblazen, tuinstoelen neerzetten, boodschappen doen en vervolgens een week lang verven en behangen.

Ondertussen kwamen op maandag de mannen voor het spachtelputzen van de muren op de begane grond en de hal op de eerste verdieping. Ook kwamen ze de afzuigkap nog ophangen in de keuken, er werden nog klimop planten gepoot langs het hekwerk in de tuin, de douchedeur arriveerde op dinsdag en werd geplaatst, op woensdag werd Kevin's laminaat en de rest van de bovenetages voorzien van vloerbedekking, en op donderdag werd de keuken nog betegeld. Donderdag middag waren ze ook klaar met het spachtelputz en kon ik eindelijk beginnen met schoonmaken.

Raoul was woensdagavond terug gegaan naar de Linge, want daar werd donderdagochtend de inboedel ingeladen in verhuiswagens.

Vrijdagochtend 11 juli vroeg op, de laatste afplakking van de vloer beneden verwijderd en gauw nog gedweild en toen stonden de verhuizers op de stoep.
Spullen uitladen.... en dan staat alles binnen!

En wij vertrekken weer naar "het westen" voor de laatste week school....

Since I am moving to another house, I am packing all of our stuff in boxes. How happy I was when I came across an old piece of paper, with a little poem about a Dutch guy (or girl) trying to learn the English language.

My uncle Arnold from the States gave that to me back in 1986 and I thought it was fantastic. I knew I had it somewhere, but with many things, I just didn't know where.

The piece of paper is quite damaged, and of course I wanted to share this, so here we go, I'll type it out for you. Of course, to fully understand, you'll probably have to know a bit of Dutch and a bit of English :-)

FROM SWEAT AND TEARS by John Lieuwen

Dat English is een funny taal
So mighty hard to leeren
I went to school de other day
'k wou het toch proberen

En voor een while it wasn't bad
I got along O.K.
But words with O, U, G and H
I simply could not say

T, H, R, O, U, G and H
De teacher said, was "throo"
Now pronounce R, O, U, G, H
And i of course said, "roo"

En dan she said "Oh no, dats wrong
Because we call dat "ruf"
I argued for a little while
But she said she knew her stuff.

"P, L, O, U, G and H"
she said, "wat is dat now?"
I thought een while en answered, "pluf"
"You're wrong", she said, "that's plow"

Dat made me mad, I said "Verrot
I think I give it op."
De teacher laughed to beat de band
en simply could not stop.

She said, "D, O, U, G, H
Dat's one you ought to know."
"Ja sure," I said, "dat is dan dow"
but she told me it was "doh"

She spelled C, O, U, G, H
I figured it was "coh"
't was wrong again, she said, "it's "cof"
en one dat you should know.

En when we quit, she said to me
"Now you must learn them better
Sit down there yonder by dat desk
en write to me een letter."

"O.K," I said, "I surely will
En you can do some guessing,
de words that we have talked about
will teach you too a lesson."

I wrote, "I lough yough teacher dear
but I want yough tough knough
Dat I am through, sough don't feel blough
because i told yough sough

Yough are supposed tough knough your stough
en may be dat yough dough
one day of English is enough
en many thanks tough yough!"

Kevin heeft vandaag afgezwommen voor zijn C-diploma en dat ook gehaald! Het was een feestelijk gebeuren in het polderbad.

Vandaag zijn we naar Rijssen geweest en hebben gekeken hoe het huis eruit ziet! Ze zijn al aardig aan het opschieten en het wordt prachtig!


We zijn ook op bezoek geweest op Camping de Blekkenhorst, waar ome Jan en Tante Miep stonden. Dat was mooi te combineren met een bezoek aan Rijssen en aan Enter, alwaar we iemand hebben gevonden om de muren te spachtelputzen.

Heb een pagina op mijn Reddie website toegevoegd met wat links naar Joomla documentatie zowel op internet, als door mijzelf voor klanten gemaakte documentatie.

Ook is hier al een eerste kort instructie filmpje terug te vinden. Er zullen er in de toekomst nog meer volgen.

Ons huis wordt 4 juli as. opgeleverd!!!

I was switching between my Firefox and IE on my Mac (using parallel desktop) when suddenly my Mac started talking to me.... now that was scary!!!

Apparently, with command-F5 you can turn the voice-ovr option on and off, and, while trying to get a hard-refresh in IE (which needs ctrl-F5, but as a Mac user, I tend to hit the command-key instead) I accidently turned the voice over thing on and it started explaining every window I touched.

luckily, found the solution quickly enough and shut it off

For a couple of customers I have installed the Joomla Works mambot Simple Image Gallery Pro.

It makes adding images to a small gallery very easy, as you just need to upload them to a subfolder within the image/stories directory and it creates thumbs and uses a lightbox popup functionality, so it is really nice.

Tonight, a customer called, he wanted captions underneath the images. Did some searching and that's possible with this mambot, although it's a bit tricky. You need to create a txt-file, and place the following in there:

nameoffirstpicture.jpg|first caption text
nameofsecondpicture.jpg|second caption
and so on...
(jpg can also be gif or png)

You name this file: labels.txt and upload it into your folder within the mediamanager.

what's tricky is that this feature is not only case-sensitive, but it also doesn't like spaces or dashes and probably other special characters in your filenames. So that's something to consider BEFORE naming your pictures and placing them within the albums!

I already posted a wile ago that I use a program called PocketMac to synch my blackberry with my mac.

That way I managed to get my Blackberry calender (which I use mostly) on my Mac in iCal, and I managed to get my addressbook from my Mac on my Blackberry, which is kinda neat, 'cause now I have all our private addresses in my address book on my Blackberry as well.

What was going wrong during the synch was the birthdays. I have a list of birthdays in my addressbook on the Mac, and they are shown in iCal (if you activate that option). They are, however, in a different calender than the rest of the appointments, which are all in one calender Pocketmac.

While synching again and again, I got every birthday three times on my Blackberry! And finally in iCal as well, one in the birthday calender and three times in the PocketMac calender.

Finally it occured to me that I am also automatically synching with my .mac account and that that's where it all went wrong.

So first, I deleted EVERYTHING from iCal, except the birthday calender. Then started a refreshed synch on .mac, overwriting .mac with the iCal calender, containing ONLY birthdays from my addressbook.

Next, I told PocketmacSynch manager, NOT to synch the birthday calender and synched the blackberry with my mac. In iCal, I had the triple birthdays from the blackberry, plus all my regular appointments. Deleted all the redundant birthdays from iCal (which is much quicker than having to delete them from the Blackberry) and synched again. And yes, now they were gone from the Blackberry.
Next, run a synch between my mac and my .mac account.

Last but not least, I told pocketsynch to synch the birthday calender too, and tried synching twice. It worked. I was expecting the birthdays to show up in both calenders like they did before, but now they didn't.

So I am guessing it is working now. Tada. The joy of synching can be troublesome at the best of times.

But when it works.... :-)

You can see Apture in action on my own company's site Reddie.

Look for the little items you can click on in the main text, I've embedded some wiki's, a link to my own multimedia sprout and some links to other websites.

Cool!

Now if only I could use this tool on this blog. Sadly enough, LiveJournal is not ready to use Apture yet.
Blogger and WordPress are, but I really don't want to switch, so I hope this feature will become available on LiveJournal soon!