The newest (but also oldest!) addition to my ever-expanding bookshelf: ‘Het Nederlants Schoutoneel’ (The Dutch Warscene), by Hendrick Jacobsz. Soeteboom. This work chronicles the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), which was a war fought by France, Sweden, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, the Archbishopric of Cologne and England against the Dutch Republic, which was later joined by the […]
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A little while ago I came across this gem from the past: A book titled ‘The mighty micro: the impact of the computer revolution’, by Christopher Evans. In the US it was published as ‘the Micro Millennium’. This book contains predictions about the (then) upcoming microcomputer revolution, which includes predictions for the future up to
A while ago I decided to switch to Google’s Gmail as my primary email account. Since most of my emails arrive on another account/server, I was hoping to use the Mail Fetcher functionality of Gmail to collect these emails from that old account automatically into my Gmail account. Well, it’s not that simple… I went
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After being in Norway for 16+ years, I finally have a permanent residence permit (or varig oppholdsbevis as it’s called in proper Norwegian)!Now I can stay as long as I want, without having to renew my permit every 5 years. 😎 (If you’re also an EU resident, and have been in Norway for 5+ years,
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I just came across an interesting feature in the Posten Sporing app of Posten Norge AS.This app does the following (translated from the product description on Google Play): Record tracking makes it easy to monitor packages on their way to you with the Post Office.When you register with your mobile number and email we find
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Azure wasn’t having one of its best days yesterday. The mess started around 07:30 local time, and lasted until almost 16:00. In other words, our sites were down for the full duration of the business day! The following table contains the ‘explanations’ Microsoft shared with the public during the downtime: No mention of the cause.
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