http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com Web, life. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:39:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick write-up on the current affairs: after five months of idle time I'm on a new assignment for a large dutch travel organisation. Since I've spent my entire professional IT career in banking and on mainframe platforms, a different business (travel) and platform (Unix) make for a nice, ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=46 It had been quite a while since I last posted something here; most times I even bother to log in it's for deleting spam comments filtered out by Akismet. Spammers seem to be the only visitors not te be deterred in any way, shape or form by the complete and ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=45 Phew! I finally got around to a much needed upgrade of my WordPress installation; since my hosting provider upgraded to PHP5 a while ago things looked a bit off in this neighbourhood. Primarily, post order turned from descending to ascending, placing the oldest post on top. Baroo? So, it was due time for ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=44 Up 'til now, the complete lack of posts must have been obvious; the main reason for this is my shift in interests and the general lack of time to focus my attention on anything but work and staying alive (you know, breathing, eating...). Among the victims has been the world of ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=42 Yesterday, to my joy I found the latest addition to my book collection in the mail: "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design" by Jason Beaird, published by Sitepoint. Since I'm not a designer, and likely never will be, it's books like these that at least give me some basic knowledge ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=41 A while back (a long while back...) I wrote about my thoughts on building a small light railway/tramway layout. After some research though, suitable rolling stock and track seems not to easy to come by. Also, the possible themes looked like they lacked a bit too much challenge; I mean, ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=40 2006 has been the year of unusual weather in Holland. Did the year start with a relatively cold, wet and late spring, juli offered two consecutive heat waves with record breaking highs for several weeks. August, normally the "real" summer month around here, was wet and too cold; oktober and ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=39 It's been quite a while since my last writeup; I'm afraid I haven't been very loyal to whatever visitors I still have which, judging by the number of reponses, is precious little. Anyway: the assignment at my former employer for over eleven years finally came to a close at the end ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=38 Well, finally after working at the same company for more than 12 years, the end date has been set this time: 30 september 2006 will be my last day at the bank (actually, 29 september, since I have no intention to go in on a saturday!). Over a year ago (1 september ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=37 As a little service to those that visit my site (all three of them...) I've added a contact form. Use this if you wish to send me an email and tell me about your life, hobbies, suggestions, how much my site sucks--no, don't tell me about that; rather, suggest how I ... http://www.ronaldvanderwijden.com/?p=36