High book: 2005

16 October 2005

Aunty Rachel,

09 October 2005

Solar eclipse on Monday, 3 October.

After having nearly blinded myself, here's the proof of having seen the solar eclipse (Monday, 3 October) from Odijk. (Thank goodness there were clouds, otherwise I would have been blinded ...).

And for some more proof (yes, you need convincing), here's the sun projected through a binocular on a carefully arranged image-receiving-device (or cushion, in normal English).

09 June 2005

Interesting article about desktop search tools

Hi Dad,

Thanks for the lovely BBQ last night; with a rather bloated feeling I cycled home (arrival at 22:15).

As is my habit here at work, I scan various sites for interesting news within the range of sites that we're allowed to access (mostly financial). I came across this article about desktop searching and the security problems involved with it (as more and more free tools become available):
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,102159,00.html>

It kind of follows on to our Outlook [.pst] file format discussion as most of these tools can access Outlook to search them. As they cache their information, they thereby transform it into another format ...

Gegroet. Paul.

07 June 2005

RE: BBC E-mail: Caught in the Windows to Mac rift

Hah !

What a small world. Toevallig, I read the same article this morning. And toevallig, with all the rain over the weekend, I had spent some time behind the laptop looking for a solution to the .pst problem.

I had downloaded a program which could download all my emails on the Yahoo mail account into Outlook: so I cleaned up the Yahoo mail account but was left with an even larger .pst file.

Afterwards I wondered why I had done this: as Yahoo offers 1Gb of free space for emails, which I am nowhere near in reaching.

Having said that I meticulously keep all my emails as I consider them to be a kind of diary of my life ... yes, you have a weird son.

Up to now, I've saved several old .pst files to CD. This weekend however, I wondered whether there were any tools which could convert all this information into something more generic ... which is more or less the same problem described by the Bill Thompson's article; how will I be able to access this info in the future ?

The term digital life has been dropped by the guru's, but the big problem isn't storage space but the file formats: which formats will survive the ticking of the clock ?

Gegroet. Paul.

PS: as a test: I'm blogging this (see: http://boekhoch.blogspot.com).

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: webmasters@bbc.co.uk [mailto:webmasters@bbc.co.uk]Namens Dad
Verzonden: dinsdag 7 juni 2005 10:11
Aan: Richardson, P (Paul)
Onderwerp: BBC E-mail: Caught in the Windows to Mac rift

Dad saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
should see it.

** Message **
Morning Paul, this is an interesting article and one which gives pause for thought seeing as it is written by a (socalled) expert. It also confirms what I find myself, that extracting e-mails from the *.pst fortmat never seems to work. I used to say "it must be me doing something wrong" now I think differently. Ciao 4 now, Dad

** Caught in the Windows to Mac rift **
Moving e-mail programs from one machine to another holds a message for the industry, says Bill Thompson.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4613331.stm >

03 June 2005

Just to show you how it works; here's the rascals locked up (as they should be at times).

01 June 2005

Management madness ...

Wonderlijk taalgebruik:
Iedere manager approoft zelf iedere maandag de uren van zijn medewerkers
^^^^^^^^
Tool incompetence:
Iedere medewerker stuurt maandelijks het XXX overzicht via de mail naar zijn manager: en dat terwijl de manager zelf deze overzichten kan draaien .. maar dus niet weet hoe.

Gegroet. Paul.