A few days ago I was working at my computer at home when it suddenly with a strange sound died. Restarting didn’t help as it got stuck somewhere in the booting process. At that time, it was late in the evening, I couldn’t not find out quickly what was wrong. The next day I discovered…
Author: Rob
Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
Sweet Scented Geranium
A few days ago I was at Patricia’s house. While we had a very good conversation, I noticed this very beautiful big and healthy Sweet Scented Geranium again standing in her living room. A strong and full grown plant, a pleasure to look at. The Sweet Scent Geranium is also known as the Rose Geranium….
And more cookbooks…
Of course, everyone wants to win a big prize in a lottery. I think for many that is the main reason to play a lottery. If the money that people pay to be part of a lottery is used for charity, culture or use it where people are in need of help, it already another…
New reading material: Dan Brown’s “Origin”
Today a book that I ordered arrived, “Origin” written by Dan Brown. The Dutch title is “Oorsprong”. Dan Brown belongs to the select group of writers that I really love to read. As many others his book “The Da Vince Code” was my first contact with his work. “The Da Vince Code”, the fourth book…
Utrecht… and a surprise
Marion suggested some weeks ago to go sometime to the city of Utrecht again. Utrecht is a beautiful city to have a good walk, visit some shops and enjoy some good food. I found this a very good idea and so we planned already a few weeks ago to go there today. As we do…
And so our weblog became a little more safe!
There was something that I planned already for a long time to do, move the weblog from http to HTTPS/SSL. HyperText Transfer Protocol, that is where HTTP stand for and it is the protocol that is used by a browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer/Edge) to communicate with a web server. So basically this makes it…
My grandmother’s christmas cactus
The Christmas Cactus (or “Lidcactus” as it is called in Dutch) is a very popular plant for indoors. They belong to the genus Schlumbergera (part of the Cactaceae family). Its origin are the coastal mountains of Brazil. Cultivars of the this plant can have white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple flowers. It is an…
The Holiday Cup of Starbucks
Yesterday I was at the Central Station of Utrecht. There we decided to get some coffee at one of the Starbucks there. Every year Stabucks has a specially designed cup for the Holidays Season. So they have this year, a colourful and bright design I would say. I really like it, but again is not…