Welcome to the reboot of this site. Here you’ll find my personal ramblings, photos I take, prints I create
and other ideas that can be shown on the web. At the moment it’s like twenty years ago, finding out how the things work,
try to bend it to my needs or accept how it goes.
There is no plan, I’ll post and publish when I feel like it.
snot zombie
We had planned the first week of January back in December. Stay in France till Wednesday the 7th, drive home to Rotterdam and go to the office. That was until it all fell down. First there was this thing called the weather. The winter had finally arrived for the first time in 5 years and it made traveling home on Wednesday at least ‘adventurous’. We did not take the gamble and drove home one day early, Tuesday night. That proved a wise decision, we had some hinder from mist and floating snow (really it didn’t fall down), but as soon as we hit the tarmac of the highway everything was almost normal. Only the absence of say 50% of the usual traffic. After a 3 and a half hour drive we were home, only 10 minutes slower than usual. Not bad for a winters night. That of course would not have been possible were it not for the gritters and people manning those machines to keep the roads usable. They did a splendid job from France through Belgium and The Netherlands.
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Rotterdam by night
Rotterdam by night as seen from the Euromast
Hugo
I decided I should have a website again where I can publish my ramblings, discoveries or things I like to share. I also decided that I would not spin up some blog engine and start typing. No Wordpress or any other CMS. Just some Markdown files and a site generator.
Like most I ended up with Hugo, which I knew from name, but never worked with. My Markdown editor was decided way before that, I wrote my XBRL Quickguide already in Obsidian and was quite fond of it.
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Call it blogging
In more than one way I’m fond of traditions. So to complete this attempt to reinvigorate this website, there has to be a section called ‘blog’.
Lake Pukaki (NZ)
lake pukaki
Almost 2 decades ago we visited New Zealand, rented a car a drove. It was an impressive experience with breath taking views everywhere you looked. One of those views was Lake Pukaki which can be viewed from the New Zealand State Highway number 8. Like so many others we had to stop and take in the view under this strange light.
De Hef
Linocut print of an old railway bridge
reboot
A couple of years ago I decided to not move my weblog to the new server. I had been dragging it around from 2001, it had served it’s purpose. The wayback machine has a couple of snapshots what began on a dot-com domain. We individuals could not buy a dot-nl name in those days. I ended it and never looked back.
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Koi
Two colour linocut print of two koi carp in a pond
