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Preparations for Hiking the 100km Dutch Mountain Trail in Limburg
During the covid-19 pandemic we went for family walks much like everyone else. During that time I became aware of the existence of a hiking route in the south of The Netherlands called the Dutch Mountain Trail. It is approximately 100km long starting in Eygelshoven and ending in Maastricht. If you have ever been in…
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Understanding URL Encoding: W3Schools Guide
Every now and then I copy a hyperlink and it gives me back these encoded strings. I then have to go looking for what they mean every time. So I wanted to copy a hyperlink to this table I found on W3Schools but for some weird reason I couldn’t copy the hyperlink (kept linking to…
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New Books Added to My Reading Pile
Some new arrivals, bought based on references or tips. isbn Title Author Genre 9780801472893 Whole World on Fire. Organizations, Knowledge, & Nuclear Weapons Devastation Lynn Eden History, Political Science 9781475767599 The Little Book of Stars James B. Kaler General Science, Astronomy
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Introducing Satyrical: Humor in Leadership Critique
If you were thinking there is a typo in the title of this post then of course you were right. But it is intentional. I invented a new word referring to both satire and satyr. I needed a new category for posts that make fun of the current state of affairs in the world (satire),…
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Building Resilience in the Workplace
Long ago, at the beginning of my career I got some good advice about how to be successful in the professional workspace. Basically 3 things were required: a round back, a thick skin and short toes. It was said half as a joke but I have found this to be good advice for life in…
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Ballerina
After the final John Wick Chapter 4 movie some thought we had seen the last of John Wick. But then came Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas as Eve Maccaro, another assassin of the Ruska Roma who wants to avenge her father’s death. The character first appeared in chapter 3 and that scene comes back and…
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MagSafe Compatible Quadlock Case
Recently my phone case broke and I needed to get something new. I was stalling a bit because the phone colour does look nicer without a case. At the same time I was looking for a way to attach my phone on my speed pedelec handlebar. I have used Quadlock mounts on some of my…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press)
I read this book in 2003 when the web was still young. I used it to teach myself html (and a little css) so that I could create my own first personal web page. I like to read so it had short summaries of books I had read, plus pictures to share with the family…
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John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 continues where chapter 3 ended. That film ends with John Wick being betrayed by Winston who shoots him. John falls off the roof of the Continental and is rescued by the Bowery King. Based on this you know what to expect. John Wick is looking for revenge and he kills the…
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Emojis in WordPress on Mac to creating keyboard key images in CSS
In a recent post I wanted to add a smiley to a blog post and thought I could simply type 🙂 but this didn’t work. According to a search on the internet this should work in some cases but not for me as you can see. Searching a bit more I found other suggestions. One…
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