After a few years of looking, and purchase that I pulled out of due to probate not clearing in time, I’ve managed to find a house I like (and that K likes). I don’t like the price too much, but
Back on the property ladder
Watching thousands of Euro go up in smoke
The locals in Germany seem very fond of fireworks. As 2019 was rung in, fireworks were going off across Höchst all through the hours leading up to midnight. From ~2345 until ~0045, I felt sorry for any dogs, or people
Indexing my books – part two
VBA is a horrible thing to work with; mostly because the development environment (if you can call it that) built in to Office 2013 stinks. You get lovely errors like “Access denied” when using the HTTP request component, or “-91”.
Indexing my books
I’m currently packing books into boxes, in preparation for January, when I expect to be moving out of this apartment and in to a house a little way up the road. It occurred to me that it’d be nice to
Banks and security requirements
I’m in the middle of opening a bank account with KBC, and I’m both sadly amused and annoyed with them. Let us start with their security verification questions when creating an account. What is your mother’s maiden name? What is
Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part drei
So, DISA, direct inward system access. Plenty of documentation, sort of, on the ‘net about how to get FreeSWITCH to do it via editing XML. However, if you’re using FusionPBX, then you’re actually writing to a Postgres database, which is