It might have been noticed that since around the beginning of this year nothing was published here on our weblog. There is sadly a reason for this. After a short, but aggressive, sickbed a very close and dear friend passed away, leaving behind his beloved wife and two children. It has been a very…
Author: Rob
Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
Spam through the contact form
Marissa, Marion, Jennifer and Richard informed me that they started to receive spam through the contact form here on the weblog. I will investigate en solve the issue (add protection to the contact form or find a better solution). For now I will disabled the contact form as spam is something we really don’t want!
Zapekanka
Begin this week a colleague was so kind to bring a dish from her homeland (and surrounding countries if I have understood correctly). This dish is called Zapekanka and she made it herself. Looking around on the internet it shows that Zapekanka originates to the Ukraine and Russia (and most likely some more countries…
Christmas Cactus
I think that the Christmas Cactus is one of most common houseplant around. In Dutch we call this plant “Lidcactus” or “Kerstcactus”. The scientific name for this plant is Schlumbergera truncata. So you may wonder why an article about a plant that is so common. Well, I have one Christmas Cactus that is very special…
WordPress 5.0
I just upgraded our weblog to WordPress 5.0 and the upgrade went well without any issues, just as I am used to with WordPress. The most important change of this new version is that there is a complete new editor for writing the articles added.This new “Gutenberg Editor” is block orientated and is more or…
“Wish you were here” – Pink Floyd
Yesterday evening we had a very nice get together with some of my direct colleagues. I had with my colleague Tridip a very nice talk about music. What kind of music we like, concerts we have been to. Turns out he has a very good taste of music! There was a request for a…
As every year, new tea!
Autumn is here again and for me that means it is time to buy fresh tea again. I always try to get a nice mixture of white tea, green tea and black tea. Of course some teas that aren’t really teas (real tea is made of the leaves of the tea-plant, Camellia sinensis). For me…
Issue with WP Google Maps
Yesterday Marissa called me to tell me that she had problems with adding new locations to the map we have have for “Cafés & Dinners”. I just had a look at it and she is right. It is not possible at the moment to add new locations. The problem is caused by changes Google did…
Sea Bass for dinner
In Plomari, a city on the isle of Lesvos, there is a sea food restaurant called “The Seven Seas”. During our stay at Plomari we visited that restaurant 3 times. Yes, 3 times! The fish was just wonderful there. Twice I had a wonderful grilled sea bass there. So once back in The Netherlands I…
Astronomy: When on Lesvos…
I have a very healthy interest in astronomy. I love to read about the planets, the stars, the galaxies, super nova’s, black holes and the universe. It feeds my imagination and triggers my will to learn new things. And the more I learn about this the more I realize we know nothing yet. But when…