Saturday, 20 June 2009

funny. In case of fire: http://ping.fm/8lddq

Pavement and bike path are almost done..

Back in amsterdam west...

Added a new post to Tedster's Video-blog. Decided to remain in wmv for now afteral. other things give issues to the grandparents...
Trying to figure out what the best rendering method is for my video's to shove them online on my own server. wmv seems suboptimal
Trying to figure out what the best rendering method is for my video's to shove them online on my own server. wmv seems very suboptimal

Friday, 19 June 2009

Now here's an interesting idea to make a few bucks: http://ping.fm/jSLbJ

James Bach on testing

Very nice, James Bach on testing. The guy rules! Basically telling what I have been trying to say within most of the companies I have worked in thus far.

the same very funny vizzavi UK commercial

very funny Vizzavi UK commercial http://ping.fm/HucnA
had a very tasty asperge dinner. Tedster now just doesn't want to give us a calm evening by not wanting to go to sleep properly
off to have weekend! it is nice and sunny again outside so the ride home will be nice as well!
Great little movie: Little man (EN Subtitles). http://ping.fm/QqUdJ
pumping data from one machine to another. very inspiring work!
PC is mostly irrepareble so received a new one. now on a Dell 830
BSOD on booting generally is not considered a good thing say IT guys frfrom
Rebooting my pc thus far has taken 20 minutes and I'm not done yet!
Interesting to see that just two applications remain working on my PC, the rest is completely dead due to explorer hanging.

Tedster playing around

Tedster playing on the floor

In the office parkinglot!

Off to the shower, then breakfast and take Tedster to the daycare!

Thursday, 18 June 2009

my tweets are again not arriving at fb really annoying. Wine was great, nice calm evening reading Max Frei. gets more interesting by the min
Drinking a very tasty Alazani Valley, Saperavi grape red wine from Eastern Georgia, Kakheti. Extremely enjoyable!
not able to find the rain cover for the maxi cosi we are going to sell tonight... disappointed!
grmbl, some idiot police guy standing by the side of the road with radar and camera along A1. hope I slowed down enough to not be caught.
heading off for the car to dial in to something. not clear what yet though
Chili Con Carne with extra meatballs... hmmmm nice lunch in Emmeloord!
Outside in windy emmeloord to grab some lunch from the butcher.
In sunny Emmeloord, having coffee and trying to understand why you need to poll for updates on a page when the data is semi static

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

interesting reading material for anyone impared by a corporate lan that resticts stuff: http://ping.fm/FD9do
awaiting to do something useful for a change. MP is gonna do something with DNS. See if it works this time :)
finished the brainbench questionnaire, dear lord what a nonsense that is! I have no clue how they can claim that this shows anything useful
RT @Emerce Drie miljoen downloads eBay voor iPhone http://ping.fm/eBRPU
mentally preparing already for the ride to Emmeloord tomorrow morning. both Demis and Tania are joining me. gonna be a full ride!
outside in the sun. putting PC aside and going back to the wonderful world of Max Frei...
always thought that making the garden wet in the sun is bad for plants. yet since 14:00 our rain installation is running on the garden.
nice flicker/Google maps mashup site: http://ping.fm/QuJBJ
Lunch in the sun on the balcony. Ted asleep, double espresso to go with lunch. Life is good!

Doing groceries is very tiring!

Question now is, does brainbench survive if you have to break off a session mid-question due to child-care issues?
Schrodinger cat of testing http://ping.fm/TIQJe
schrodinger cat applied to testing [8:38:42 AM] Wouter Hermeling: ff off topic, ik kwam nog een leuke blog tegen over de zin van testen (iets dat bij QA ook hoog in het vaandel staat):

"Untested features exist in a quantum state where each of the possible states of implementation are simultaneously true until the point at which a test is written (or a user tries to use the feature) and the matter is decided."

Voor meer info over de correlatie van quantum mechanica en unit testing, zie: http://ping.fm/FIR8e
Speurders lanceert "Zoek turbo" http://ping.fm/cm0EV

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Outside on the balcony with a wine. Almost feels like a holiday!
Mentally preparing for my papa day tomorrow. Praying to all ancient Gods for nice weather
white pages are no fun when you don't expect them yet see them
Lunch was nice, not as nice as yesterday's sushi though...
RT @jellebc Mijzelf naar binnen bluffen bij Sheraton http://bit.ly/vDFbC Vooral de comments van de fatsoenridders zijn mooi!
getting ready for the fist meeting of the day. One of many...
augmented reality game on a hand held device?? Cool! http://ping.fm/nFi67 (sponsored by skittle though?)
the weather is looking nice and wet again today! Really makes me want to jump on the bike, NOT!

Monday, 15 June 2009

Heading off to bed, busy day tomorrow again in the office. Hope to see less rain than today. Guess also less tennis than today though...

TNT Post Helpdesk email conversation

I recentely started an email conversation with TNT Post trying to figure out what exactly the reason is that when a package cannot be delivered to our house or to our concierge we need to go pick it up
  • at a relatively remote and illogical place
  • which is further than the closest post office
  • further than the closest post-agent
  • not opened in the evening hours at all
  • closed for TNT Post business on Saturdays
Below the (translated by Google translate) conversation I have had thus far.


* You asked the question: *
It is not so much for delivering the package, because that made daytime if we both work. That is a problem that TNT still no logical solution to see (looks me simple, ga after 18:00 on the streets with packages and delivery once SERVICE). We had to pick up a package today at a "post office" there TNT in all its wisdom has decided not normal to have post offices. The package should not be our normal location, to the Middle Way in Amsterdam to be obtained, but for some unclear reason, we were by the unfriendly note to Helmholzstraat 37 in Amsterdam gedirigeert. As mentioned earlier, we both work full days 5 days a week. In short, on Saturday, there is time for packets to get (evening openings apparently never come up to you, that would provide services and PTT Post and TNT are or how you call the civil service also not known for). In short, we are delighted on Saturday in good spirits towards the Helmholzstraat 37 to a package to get. There, there is a nice sign on the desk of TNT in the cigar shop: Saturday closed. Coming back after the weekend. Now I ask you, how do I come back after the weekend? We work on average one hour of 9 am, it must still travel to our work, so at 8 o'clock in the morning the door and not 19:00 hours back at home, by which time the post office (ie cigars farmer, as a non smoker I do not wish to) have already closed many hours. I still do not understand why there is still no foreign party is up to the Dutch market to take over, I believe that if U.S. Postal to the Netherlands with 50% of the service they deliver in the U.S., they TNT Post within 6 months have bankrupt. Can you please tell me how I VREDESNAAM IN MY PACKAGE TO GO TO WIN? In addition, I am happy that we suddenly random to another location should be a package to get. 9 months we get very regular and healthy reluctance packets on the Middenweg, suddenly, that in an obscure postagentschapje the Helmholzstraat done. I look forward to with great interest your response.
*

The answer to your question: *

Dear Mr de Vrieze,
Thank you for your response. I would like to respond. The general delivery times of TNT Post Parcel of 9.00 hours and 21.30 hours. Actual delivery times depend on the route and logistics services of the driver. It is not possible for the delivery times to suit the personal needs of the recipient.
I trust you enough information to have.
Best regards,
B van der Z
TNT Post Customer Service




Dear, it's very sweet of you to indicate that the delivery times are not adapted to my personal needs. That is not my complaint. My complaint is that I time my work should have to take a package to get to a highly dubious cigar thing since on Saturday by someone of TNT work. The logical location where I was in the past my packages on Saturday could get to the Middle Way in Amsterdam, which is even closer to my house too. I want to know what you propose to me to make my packages to get to a location that WEL is open during normal and a very normal day as Saturday. The post office at the Insulindeweg is actually open on Saturday. In short, you gave me this did not sufficiently informed. I would like to know a random factor which ensures that my package one time on the Middenweg can be obtained, which actually worked on Saturdays and other times in a small stinking cigars boertje I geschoffeerd on Saturday and get to hear that TNT is no employee on Saturday and Monday afternoon for me 17:00 PM come back. I look forward to the brilliant answer that now is going to follow. I hope that this is a relevant answer will be. Increasingly deteriorating friendly greetings, M. de Vrieze



* The answer to your question: *

Dear Mr de Vrieze,
You have a comment about removing packages. I like to inform you. We have the services of our comprehensive service. From mid-June 2006, it is possible all types of packages to meet both the post and in our service. Packages are not hearing issued on the establishment in our logistics process is linked to your postcode.
TNT Post will seek to ensure that the establishment where the customer must pick up your package, the nearest office. In some exceptional cases, a zip code for logistical reasons, however, just in a different supply. I am sorry that your postcode is the case and that you leave your packages to collect.

I trust you enough information to have.

Best regards,

E K
TNT Post Customer Service



* You asked the question: *

This is still not answered my question. Can you please a clear and logical answer to the question which I propose below in CAPITAL LETTERS? The other text in small letters is slects to clarify and NOT part of the question. Interpretative reading is clearly not the strongest part of the employees what the answer mails.

Until recently I took my packages on-site medium. Suddenly I must pick up packets at a different location WHICH IS CLOSED ON SATURDAY.

HOW SHOULD I MY COLLECTION PACKAGES ON SATURDAY AS I ONLY HAVE TIME FOR THIS TO WIN AND THE LOCATION OF MY PLANS TO WIN ON SATURDAY IS CLOSED? Koopavond IS NOT EVEN ON THE SITE SO THAT IS NOT AN OPTION!

I look with great concern to the next meaningless answer that I will receive you.

In the meantime unfriendly, impatient and weary regards,

Martijn

And even more action at Ordina Open in Rosmalen





Some action shots at the Ordina Open





More Ordina Open in Rosmalen





Windows is once again baffling me; it is incapable of switching the file explorer from the Corp lan to my home network. It crashes instead.

Ordina Open Lawn Tennis Tournament, Rosmalen





It's a lot sunnier in ams than rosmalen

David Ferrer serving

Huta Galung hits double fault

We have players...

We see the grass. 20 mins till tennis.

More umbrella's and on tennis yet...

Inside the stadium...

Sushi is good!

More rain at rosmalen

Rain seems to be slowly getting worse. So no tennis going on at all.
On the way to P5 at Autotron for the Ordina Open In The Rain
Keeping myself entertained by trying to get a usefull answer from TNT on how I am supposed to pick up parcels at a closed "service point".
uh oohhh for UA: @bbcnews "Ukraine struggles with Euro 2012 ultimatum" http://ping.fm/ekdXD
Monday morning early in the office, mentally preparing for a busy morning and relaxing afternoon. In dire need of coffee though.
Ted slept a very good full night tonight, giving Nadia and myself a lot of extra rest! Great preparation for a new week!

Sunday, 14 June 2009

my new domain is finally fully active after changing the DNS away from networksolutions. Forwarded to blogger, where all tweets end up.
gained access to my Wordpress site again via the corp VPN! You gotta love weird setups within eBay!
just got kicked out of my own WordPress installation due to an automatic upgrade.
we just had a drawing and painting session with Ted. He still has a tendency to eat paint rather than paint with it. But we had great fun!

Ted's portrait is finally hanging!

The one thing that annoys me when done rendering video is that the upload to the server takes ages. Definitely need a bigger uplink.
The guys from Plogo Interieur just came by to fix one of the lamps on our bookcase. They were very pleased to see the bookcase all full.

Ted playing cute...

Curious to see what the bookcase @ Alfred & Laura's will look like by the end of day.
Rendering video's of about a month ago till the ones I shot this morning. Got to do that more often so Ted's Vid-blog doesn't run behind.
Ted decided to let me sleep till 6:45 today! He had already rebuilt everything in his bed since 6 though :)