See here for all the photos. We had a good time, Fran put many hours of preparation in the food. The apricot trifle with mascerpone was delicious. The weather was great, just a bit overcast but still more than good enough to stay outside.

Because Ravi and Sade were present Hannah was a bit confused at times. It's a bit of the famous: "Two is a company, three a crowd." But anyway I think everybody enjoyed themselves.

See here for the photos of our last holiday ! Nothing spectacular, but we had a good time, although it was only a mid-week. The park (Landal, Rabbit Hill) is very child friendly and we had a good time.

Microscope overviewMenno Stoffer sent me a large number of photos of the Bleeker microscope he rescued.
See all the photo's here. For more background info, see this node.

It's a wonderful instrument. If you have more information, please leave a comment or contact me.

A quick browse on Wikipedia showed a better name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_microscope

Better late than never. The upgrade went smooth. A few modules are not upgraded (filestore2 and fscache) but that's not too big a problem. I just need to convert the nodes generated by this module to generic nodes with attachments.

The ageing hardware of my trusty FreeBSD server might collapse any day now. So after some market research I found a shared hosting service to run koorneef.net on. Site5 is situated in the USA, but still is quite responsive in Europe. Site5 uses Linux together with Apache, Mysql and PHP. Not too many changes needed for the switch.

I upgraded Drupal to 4.7.2 (latest release). It went pretty smooth ! I haven't installed all the modules of the previous install yet. The captcha module made it possible to switch on anonymous comment posting and the contact forms again. Visitors will have to type in a few letters from an image to post their comment.

Peter Hoekstra told me today that this site (http://www.koorneef.net) was higher in the referrals list for http://www.redteamracing.org ! What a surprise ! See also this slide of a presentation by Evan Tahler:

I wasn't aware that many people found the Red Team website by visiting this website. The bar graph on the slide displays the referrals for May 2005 (H1ghlander and Sandstorms site visits took place in May). Even more surprising is that the mighty Google search engine supplied less referrals than this puny website !

Anyway, glad to be of service.

I salvaged a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation, bought by Compaq now HP) VT320 terminal from the garbage crate at work. Always wanted to have one. A real hardware terminal ! After some problems (never do something stupid with your /etc/ttys file ...) I got it hooked up to my FreeBSD machine with a 3 wire serial cable. Really nice to see it working, it's a bit slow because of the crappy 3 wire 9600 baud connection but that just needs a bit of time and solder.

Update: I've soldered a full null-modem cable (from 25 pins to 9 pins, a bit tricky) and set the speed to 19200 baud. It's really fast now ! cool ! As a matter of fact, I'm typing this right now on this oldie goldie terminal. Only finding the ESC key is a bit of a problem .... :-(
After some googling I found this as a 'solution' to the missing ESC key: "Ctrl-[". Maybe I can use the keymapping feature of the VT320 to assign this code to a function key.

See this page for some more info and links to the photos. The "Nederlandsche Optiek- en Instrumentenfabriek, Dr. C.E. Bleeker" is quite an interesting company.