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Last Easter weekend we went to the petting zoo in the castle gardens of Geldrop. Here are a few photo's.

My apalogies for the bad quality, my phone has it's limitations...

[image:520 align=right]We all returned safely from our family holiday in Guyana. I haven't put the photo's online yet, but we made family photo's in a studio in Georgetown. Click on the thumbnail to see the photo of the three of us.

We celibrated Hannah's fourth birthday there too, see here for the photos.

Moving house is an excellent opportunity to sift through your belongings and get rid of junk. I considered some things to be a bit more than just junk so I decided to put them on an auction site (http://www.marktplaats.nl (Dutch site, recently bought by Ebay)). To my surprise most items sold very quickly. One of the more exotic items was my Burroughs mechanical adding machine. From a mechanical engineers point of view a wonderful piece of equipment. Too bad it spent its last four years in the storage space in our attic ...

The ageing hardware of my trusty FreeBSD server might collapse any day now. So after some market research I found a shared hosting service to run koorneef.net on. Site5 is situated in the USA, but still is quite responsive in Europe. Site5 uses Linux together with Apache, Mysql and PHP. Not too many changes needed for the switch.

I upgraded Drupal to 4.7.2 (latest release). It went pretty smooth ! I haven't installed all the modules of the previous install yet. The captcha module made it possible to switch on anonymous comment posting and the contact forms again. Visitors will have to type in a few letters from an image to post their comment.

This year is the first time Hannah got involved in the dutch version of carnaval. The Carribean version is much nicer to our taste, but anyway. Click on this image to see all the photo's:

One of the best known Shakespeare citation, I like it a lot. One of the few things I remember clearly of my English classes at school.

Found it on the www somewhere:

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." --From Macbeth (V, v, 19)

Update 4: 2006-05-05:
There is some more info on the website of Peter R. de Vries:
http://www.peterrdevries.nl/tekst/extrahugototaal_tot.htm
Including a photo of the father of Deborah Williams putting flowers on the new grave.

Update 3: 2006-01-03:
We received some photo's of the finished grave monument:

Thanks to all who supported this effort !

Update 2: 2005-12-12:
Great news: enough money is donated for a decent grave monument. There's even some left for the parents. So I removed the bank account number of Jennifer (see below). We thank Jennifer for all her efforts !

Peter Hoekstra told me today that this site (http://www.koorneef.net) was higher in the referrals list for http://www.redteamracing.org ! What a surprise ! See also this slide of a presentation by Evan Tahler: