Author Archive: fracpete
Another swimming lesson
Bella is slowly shedding her fear of water. Playing in the water where she can stand works already. At the moment, we’re trying to teach her to swim. She’s a natural, but isn’t yet totally comfortable. During those swimming lessons,…
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Big and juicy
Yesterday, we harvested our first mandarin. The only upside of the cold weather is that citrus fruits start ripening. Up here in Hamilton, we’ve been lucky. Neither snow like on the South Island (60cm in one day in some places),…
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A Day at the Beach
Thanks to the Queen and her birthday, we decided to try our luck and take Bella to the beach for the first time. Very well knowing that we’ll have to deal with some stomach upheavals on the way. Well, two…
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Plugin for spreadsheets
Currently fiddling a lot with CSV files on Linux servers (read: working on MOOC using Google’s course-builder software) and it can be a bit painful editing the cells. I had a quick look around regarding command-line based spreadsheet editors. Man,…
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Bathroom finished
After a long, long process of deciding what to do with our bathroom (updating or extending) and what should go in, the renovation is finally over. No more showers at work at night time! Proper bathtub, shower, vanity, actual (!)…
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Cookie time
Yes, it’s this time of year again. Retail shops are killing you with cheesy Xmas songs playing in the background, everybody is getting stressed out about relaxing over the holidays and work is squeezing in extra just because it can….
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Strawberries galore!
This has been a crazy strawberry season! Not only did it start already early in October, no, we also had so many of them that we collected them and gave them away at work. Oh, and did I tell you…
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Open source site revamped
Last night, I revamped my website where I cover the open-source projects that I’m involved in. Not very interesting for non-geeks, I guess. 😉 http://open.fracpete.de/