Homework

I just assisted my daughter with her French homework.My knowledge of the French language is a bit rusty.This must result in a good result otherwise I will be deeply disappointed :)

Update : 29-10-2006:

Interculture offers a free E-cursus French on the occasion of their 10th anniversary. An archive of the lessons so far can be found here

Database cloning

Quick Cloning Technique By George Callaway and Keith DiNicola This cloning technique lets you re-create an entire Oracle7or Oracle8 production database in less than an hour.
http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/00-Mar/index.html?o20dba.html

Theo van Gogh

This Dutch director and writer is again in the news. Now there is an affair about an assumed pay-off for former LPF politican Mat Herben
http://www.theovangogh.nl/indexc.html

Screen scraping

9/22/2002 09:36:04
Interesting page about webscraping

VVAA News RSS feed

9/22/2002 09:04:02
After having a discussion with my colleague Danny I decided to implement a RSS feed with newsitems from the VVAA site http://www.vvaa.nl/
I used a perl script to "scrape" the data of the homepage.

New phenomenon!

Man, the internet is a wacky place. The strangest ideas sometimes catch fire and spread. Fast. Audioblogging appears to be one one of them.

Lotus Notes webform generator

Researching the webform generator I got a tip to look at LiSA.
LiSA is an IBM thing. I'm investigating the specifications. It looks like a IT Factory clone.I think I can compare it with Oracle Headstart but then for Lotus Notes. We will see. For futher details http://www.lotus.com/services/lisa.nsf/homepage/Homepage?OpenDocument

Bridging the gap between Perl and Lotus Notes.

Using existing webforms (created by CGI.pm or equivalent) and then migrate these to Lotus Notes.Can this be done ?. I hope so.
What I am trying to do :
1. Take a plain HTML page with a form definition in it.2. Import this with the Lotus Domino Import Service (can be downloaded on Lotus site http://www.lotus.com/rw/dldfc.nsf/Download?OpenForm )3. Refine in the Lotus Designer.
If this works I will try to take this a step further by making the form definition in Excel and then generate the HTML and import it.I want to build a datadictionary and generate from this.This process can no doubt be done by the Lotus API. Who has experience with this ?

How simple things can be.

I wanted Personal File Editor to start with a filename automatically generated from the system date. I found a utlity that sets up a environment variable with the system date.Then I call PFE like C:\pfe\PFE32.EXE %datevar%.txt
End of problem but I think thre must be an easy way?

Upgrade Windows XP Home Edition

Last week I upgraded to Windows XP. At first I was pleased with the result.Now after a couple of days I experience a numer of problems.One of them is the changed behaviour of Network shares.
I come back to this.

Pim Fortuyn is dead !

Today Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is murdered, just a couple of days before the elections. Whether you are a fan or not is not important. This is a shame for Dutch democracy. I think I will always remember this day.
Some day people will ask "Where were you on the day Pim Fortuyn was murdered ?"
http://www.pimfortuyn.com