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Network oddness

Posted by Rob (#1) on January 29, 2008 22:02 CET

Most of my friends and probably most people I have worked with would call me an Internet expert. That doesn't necessarily mean I know everything about it, but usually I do have a clue what's going on.

Well, not this week. I'm currently in Austria for a skiing trip. The wireless network in the hotel works fine (hence this post), however there are some hosts I cannot access. There seems to be some correlation with the network location: US hosted sites have most problems, including.. Capsi. Argh! (I could easily forego checking my own site and e-mail for a week if I didn't have the opportunity, but when I do have a network connection and I still can't, that's just annoying.)

So far so good, though. I don't like it much but there are some reasonable explanations for the situation, such as a broken proxy server at the hotel or its provider. But I just set up dad's wireless connection - and he has no problems whatsoever connecting to the sites I have problems with. This I do not get.

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Tags: Austria, skiing, Internet, wireless, network, hotel
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Network oddness

Software

Posted by Rob (#1) on January 29, 2008 22:01 CET

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I'm not dead!

Personal

Posted by Rob (#1) on November 14, 2007 09:10 CET

It's been three weeks since the last post - eight since the one before that. But I'm not dead, in fact.. I think I'll go for a walk. (Reference will most likely be missed by 80% of the five readers I have left.)

No, it is simply so that life has kept me busy.

There have been ups (concerts, Halloween, K3 Kusjesparade, booking my skiing trip) and there have been downs (mostly work related, but I've also been ill and away).

Capsi continues to get better every week and yet I am still not convinced it is everything I want it to be. And it probably won't be in a few weeks either because I'm taking a small detour for another new project. Fortunately just a blog and therefore much smaller in scale when it comes to programming. "Should be up in no-time!" (TM)

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Tags: skiing, blog, Halloween, concerts, Capsi, K3
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Not-so-quick update

Personal

Posted by Rob (#1) on January 25, 2007 02:14 CET

As announced, it's been a while. Hello!

I just got back from London. Work sent me there for a quick business trip lasting two days (originally one) and despite the delayed flight and exhausting security queue at Gatwick airport, I had a good time. The exhibition was mostly useful even though some gaps in our exploration for leads remain.

Highlight of the trip however would be my lunch date with Laura. Rumours exist that if all goes well and beyond work will open a R&D shop in London in a year or two, she's one good reason to relocate there if that happens. I hate to rain down on any parades but on the other hand, despite radio silence, Inge remains a reason not to. There's no chance nor plausibility to get back with her but I still do miss her.

Anyway, the weekend of the 13th I was in Tel Aviv for another business trip and even though most of my trips go to England and Scandinavia I have to concede one thing. There's a big fun factor in drinking coffee at the beach in a t-shirt in January while doing some brainstorming, and then calling it work. Also, nice Ed Hardy store over there so I expanded my wardrobe and shoe collection a bit. Jerusalem was fun as well. It kind of confirmed my suspicion that religion is for the dim-witted, but regardless it was an experience unlike any other.

Having covered the present and past, a small update on the future now. I'll work tomorrow (read: later today) and then will be off to Austria for a week of skiing. There's a chance I'll have to take a day off from my holiday to do some business with a bookmaker in Graz or Zell am See, but it should still be fun to have a classic and traditional week in the mountains with dad.

So yeah.. life's still busy here. I'm glad it is! :-)

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Tags: skiing, London, work, dad, Inge, Laura, Tel Aviv, Don Ed Hardy
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No Dropkick for Rob

Gigs

Posted by Rob (#1) on November 6, 2006 15:37 CET

I love skiing. What I don't like about it though, is how I end up missing the best gigs. Two years ago it was the Heideroosjes jubilee, and this year I'll have to forego Dropkick. Damn Kaprun!