Jeroen Sangers

As I continue defining the information shown on the main page, I find the list of archives by date way too long.

I have been thinking about how to solve this problem. The nicest way would be to group all dates by year and make a dynamical menu showing the months when clicking on the year. This would requiere some advanced JavaScript, and visitors without JavaScript would still see the whole list.

I went to look for other solutions, and came across Brad Choate: Year Archives in MT. Brad describes a way of creating a page showing a year calendar. I guess I’m going to implement this the coming days…

This weekend we had wonderful weather, so we headed to the beach to get a tan and relax a little bit. Since I didn’t have a lot of opportunities to see the sun until now, I am walking around with a sun-burned nose.

I just added a lot of old news.

Using the Internet Archive I was able to see my old site again. I copied all the news I had written on this site, and imported them into my new site.

In case you are curious to read them, they are dated from November 9, 1997 until March 4, 2001. Most of these messages are written in Dutch.

Whenever I am talking to somebody in Holland, one of the first questions asked to me is: “How is the weather?”.

The truth is, the weather here is not so interesting as it is in Holland. Over there you never know what to expect, it my rain, it might be sunny, it might be cloudy… everyday something else. Over here it usually is warmer than in Holland, and usually we have a sunny or partially cloudy day. Nothing special.

If you’re still interested in the situation here, please read the weather report on Internet. It appears that there are two amateur radio stations in Lleida publishing weather reports, so you will always be able to have updated data.

Lleida is a good place to live. People who regularly follow my messages on this site already know that, but now an independent source has confirmed this.

The Spanish magazine Actualidad Económica has done a research for the quality of life in the 52 capitals of the Spanish provinces, and Lleida ended on the 2^nd place!!!

The have looked at the price of living, mobility, services, educational possibilities, the character of the inhabitants and the political situation. All those factors seem to be alright here in Lleida.

The most remarkable conclusion from this research is the top position of the Catalan cities, with Girona and Lleida on the first two places and Barcelona on the fifth place.

Yes, it’s definitely great to live here!

Q: How long does it take me to put my signature on a paper? A: Over 5 hours!!!

To get my new passport, I had to fill in a lot of papers. I did all I could at home and send the whole bunch (request form, photo’s, police report,…) to the consulate.

Last week they phoned me and told that they had sent the whole packet to Holland, but that I still had to come to Barcelona to put my signature on a paper. And this could not be done by post, but had to be done in person at their office.

So this morning I left home at 8 o’clock to enjoy the traffic jams of Barcelona. After three hours I parked my car, I went into the office, put my signature and within 10 minutes I was standing on the street again. Two hours more in the car, and the morning was finished and I was home again.

Still I am very lucky, because since I live so far away from Barcelona, they are going to send my new passport to me by mail. People living in Barcelona are also ‘obliged’ to come and get their passport at the consulate, but for me they are willing to do this favour. The girl at the desk even told me that I don’t have the pay the cost of sending it!!!!!

This must be my lucky day…

Until some months ago, this web site had the possibility to subscribe to the news published on this page. Each time I wrote something new, the subscribers would receive the text by e-mail. Unfortunately, my hosting provider does not allow me anymore to send e-mail.

Today I have added a new solution, hosted by Bloglet. By filling in your e-mail address on the form on the main page, you will receive a daily message with all news of that day (usually not a lot…).

This website is now available for trading on the BlogShares fantasy blog shares market.

At this moment, 4000 stocks are available at $0,20 each.

I am convinced that this is a very good investment, since the site is still under development, so quality (and thus incoming links) will surely increase.

Now that I have a wonderful new CMS able to produce RSS feeds, I have been looking for a way to use it. My idea is to create a page showing the latest headlines from some news sources (see the list in the side bar), so that I don’t have to visit each site.

I have found some applications (so called news aggregators) which do this, but until now I haven’t found a good web service offering the same service.

I don’t want to install an application, since I want to access this information both from home as from my work as well as when I am on holiday. My idea is that I don’t have the same bookmarks on all those locations, and by offering a web page the information is always available.

NewsApp is the closest to my ideal I could find, but it lacks configurability and has the layout of an early alpha release.

Today is Sant Jordi, the day that all Catalan boys give a rose to their girlfriend and receive a book in return.

Already this morning I could see some people selling roses at the traffic lights, so for sure I won’t have any problems getting a rose.

Maria José does not know this yet, but I also bought a book for her. To me it is not so fair that the boys are ready for €4, while the girls have to spend at least four times that amount.

I read on the Gencat site that Sant Jordi has been celebrated since the year 1456!