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Maurice 2008

Published on October 21st, 2008Comments (7)

Sans plus attendre, quelques photos de Maurice.

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Posted in Etienne, Precious, Travels |

Retrouvailles!

Published on October 6th, 2008Comments (0)

Que du bonheur.

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Posted in Precious |

SAP Batch Determination made easy

Published on September 5th, 2008Comments (1)

Recently a colleague encountered the following problem:
His customer tracks perishable products that are bought / inventory managed / sold using the SAP functionality Batch Management (LO-BM). The products have a shelf life and therefore a “Use by/Expiration” date. His problem was that he was able to correctly update the characteristic “Expiration date” of the [...]

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Posted in SAP |

Etienne en video

Published on June 9th, 2008Comments (6)

Deux petites video recentes d’Etienne.

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Posted in Of mention |

Weekend a Brisy

Published on June 2nd, 2008Comments (4)

Apres 4 mois “off-line” mon blog revient avec quelques photos de notre weekend a Brisbane. Weekend passe en tres bonne compagnie puisque nous avions ete gentiment invites chez Stephanie et Young (ou est-ce qu’on s’est invite? - je me souviens plus). Ce fut aussi l’occasion de rencontrer leur petit tresor Ai Vy ainsi que de [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

BB a la pistoche

Published on February 2nd, 2008Comments (0)

Premiere seance a la piscine pour notre bebe nageur. Comme d’habitude, il a ete remarquable!

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Posted in Etienne |

3 mois deja!

Published on January 18th, 2008Comments (0)

Que le temps passe vite - Etienne a hier souffle les bougies de son troisieme mois.

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Posted in Precious |

Australian Open 2008

Published on January 13th, 2008Comments (1)

Demain, comme chaque annee debutera le Australian Open de tennis edition 2008. La France est le pays qui, avec 29 joueurs, presente le contingent le plus important - esperons que cette equipe brillera par ses performances.
Quelques photos des matchs de qualification:

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Posted in Of mention |

Rencontre avec Milie

Published on January 10th, 2008Comments (5)

Grace a internet il arrive parfois que l’on ait la chance de faire la connaissance ‘virtuelle’ de personnes bien sympathiques…c’est encore mieux lorsqu’on les rencontre! Et bien voila, c’est chose faite avec Milie.
Milie de France To Australia a profite d’un sejour avec son autre moitie a Melbourne pour venir nous rendre visite. Pour etre [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Etienne - week 4

Published on November 29th, 2007Comments (3)

Il n’y a pas un jour qui passe sans que je suis emerveille devant mon fils.

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Posted in Etienne |

And then there were three

Published on October 22nd, 2007Comments (2)

Le petit est a present a la maison. Pour le moment tout se passe bien. Pourvu que ca dure.
Encore une petite video avec comme musique de fond “le premier jour” de Etienne Daho.

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Posted in Etienne |

BB est la!

Published on October 18th, 2007Comments (6)


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Posted in Of mention |

AFL footy final @ Steve’s

Published on September 30th, 2007Comments (0)

Thanks to Steve for organising.

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Posted in Of mention |

Another message in a bottle

Published on July 30th, 2007Comments (8)

Cliquez pour agrandir - Click for larger picture.
J’ai encore retrouve une autre photo du Lycee (6eme je crois). Si vous vous y reconnaissez (ou si vous reconnaissez quelqu’un), merci de laisser un commentaire ici, avec mon autre bouteille (afin de centraliser tous les commentaires). Merci. Si vous etes timides et n’osez pas laisser un [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Les immigrants sont mieux eduques

Published on July 29th, 2007Comments (2)

Les immigrants qui choisissent l’Australie (et qui sont acceptes) comme terre d’accueil sont mieux eduques. Telles sont les conclusions d’une etude de 18 mois menee par l’universite de New England (UNE). L’etude en question indique aussi que les immigrants sont plus respectueux des lois, generalement en meilleure sante et moins dependants des services sociaux que [...]

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Posted in Asanaside |

Bastille Day weekend

Published on July 16th, 2007Comments (3)

Friday the 13th - that’s a bad start…Friday night, in very good company we went to French Corner, a French restaurant in Highett. Although the age gave it a good review, I can’t stop thinking that the reviewer and I did not go to the same restaurant. We had the “Bastille Day” menu. At 95$ [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Dites moi que cette video ne vous donne pas des frissons

Published on July 11th, 2007Comments (1)

Une petite gamine arrive a faire fondre l’iceberg Simon Cowell…cela dit, moi aussi.

Edit:
De fil en aiguille je suis tombe sur ce clip issu de la meme competition (Britain’s got talent). J’ai d’abord ete attire par le titre, Nessun Dorma (tire du sublime opera Turandot de Puccini) que j’adore. Pour ceux qui connaissent, il faut du [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Un vrai Australien

Published on July 10th, 2007Comments (3)

Bah oui, le ridicule ne tue pas. Apres presque 3 ans ici, je me fond doucement dans le paysage - barbe de trois jours et une sheila tatouee sur le bras.
Maman je te rassure, le tatouage est un faux!

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Posted in Asanaside |

Pixar - 20 years of animation at the ACMI

Published on July 7th, 2007Comments (0)

The ACMI here in Melbourne is currently hosting an exhibition titled pixar: 20 years of animation. It’s an exhibition that gives you an insight into the creative process used by pixar to bring characters to life (pixar is the company that brought you animated movies like Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Cars, Finding Nemo…and the much [...]

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Posted in oz life |

To buy or not to buy a Honda! That is la question.

Published on July 5th, 2007Comments (5)

Acheter une Honda, ou pas, telle est la question que nous nous posons. Avec l’arrivee du petit prevue pour octobre, il est temps de songer a changer notre charette. Nous allons devoir nous separer de notre petit RAV4 2 portes et prendre quelque chose de plus grand. Nous avons donc aujourd’hui ete faire un tour [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Nouveau Photoblog sur renet@web

Published on July 5th, 2007Comments (0)

Bah oui, en ce moment je suis pas mal sur le “bench” alors je m’occupe comme je peux. Donc voila, j’ouvre mon photoblog. Ce dernier ne change en rien les photos que je telecharge sur mon flux flickr. Le photoblog me servira uniquement a telecharger une photo de temps en temps parce que (a mon [...]

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Posted in Wordpress |

Featured on schmap!

Published on June 29th, 2007Comments (2)

Do you often go abroad? Do you like to plan the sights you want see? Do you always buy a guide from a reputable publisher prior to your departure?
If the answer to these questions is yes, then I suggest you also take a look at the Schmap worldwide travel guides. For starters it’s free [...]

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Posted in Travels |

DELLvil m’a enfin livre

Published on June 29th, 2007Comments (4)

Tout est dans le titre DELLvil (DELL + Devil - le diable) m’a enfin livre. Apres plus d’un mois d’attente, il etait temps!
Commentaires audio (clique sur la fleche grise):

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Posted in Of mention |

Chez oim!

Published on June 25th, 2007Comments (0)

Depuis le temps…Voila, c’est notre nouveau chez nous.

Commentaires audio (clique sur la fleche grise):

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Posted in oz life |

Petite perle trouvee sur YouTube

Published on June 23rd, 2007Comments (0)

Petit extrait du film “Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask.” de Woody Allen - hilarant. Attention, ce clip necessite une certaine dose d’humour - pour public averti uniquement.

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Posted in Asanaside |

renet@web sur iPhone

Published on June 23rd, 2007Comments (1)

Iphoney. Pour tester vos applications sur iPhone (pour Mac uniquement).
Iphoney. To test you iPhone apps (for Mac only).

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Posted in Apple |

Tirer un maximum de Gmail

Published on June 22nd, 2007Comments (1)

Tout le monde connait Gmail et peu sont ceux qui n’ont pas encore (au moins) un compte de messagerie Gmail. Les points forts de Gmail qui me viennent a l’esprit sont la gratuite, l’espace de stockage disponible (2Gb+), l’accessibilte (il suffit d’un acces internet) ainsi que ce compte soit independant de mon fournisseur d’acces internet [...]

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Posted in Asanaside |

dell HELL

Published on June 20th, 2007Comments (5)

Il suffit de faire une requete ou encore une autre sur google pour se rendre compte que suite a un achat de materiel DELL beaucoup de gens pensent que DELL rime avec HELL (l’enfer). Je viens a mon tour de rejoindre ce club.
Voici mon histoire. Vers le 20 du mois dernier je passe commande d’un [...]

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Posted in Asanaside |

Prête-moi ta main (I do)

Published on June 19th, 2007Comments (0)

En ce moment on se fait une veritable cure de films francais. Dernier en date, Prête-moi ta main (”I do” en english) avec Alain Chabat et Charlotte Gainsbourg. Une bonne surprise. Pour planter le decors, Luis, 43 ans, est celibataire et heureux de l’etre. Sa mere et ses soeurs le sont nettement mois. Elles decident [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Faites comme Pollock!

Published on June 18th, 2007Comments (0)

Pour les Jackson Pollock en herbe ou ecore ses adorateurs. Amusant si vous avez 5 minutes a perdre. Pour prendre le pinceau du maitre, c’est par ici.

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Posted in Asanaside |

Premier (et dernier) match de footy

Published on June 15th, 2007Comments (1)

Apres plus de deux ans au pays des kangourous, Isa et moi avons enfin ete voir un match de AFL footy, non pas a la tele, mais en ‘live’ au mythique Telstra Dome de Melbourne (a ne pas confondre avec le MCG la mecque du footy). Attention, ici dans l’etat du Victoria, on ne badine [...]

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Posted in oz life |

Integration du processus Achat d’immobilisations et creation d’equipements

Published on June 13th, 2007Comments (2)

Je suis toujours surpris de voir que bien des clients ne savent pas qu’il est dans SAP, possible d’optimiser le processus d’achats d’equipements qui doivent par la suite etre immobilises. En general ce processus releve de la responsabilite de plusieurs services au sein d’un societe. Dans sa forme la plus complexe on peut imaginer le [...]

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Posted in SAP |

How to widgetise Grid Focus wordpress theme

Published on June 5th, 2007Comments (89)

It seems that after much debate and a multitude of emails, Derek Punsalan decided to release his Grid Focus Wordpress theme to the general public. I, for one am grateful for this as the Grid Focus theme has now become the base theme for my new site design. It’s work in progress and I still [...]

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Posted in Wordpress |

Ce sera un p’tit mec!

Published on June 3rd, 2007Comments (7)

Dieu existe! Apres de longues semaines d’attente nous connaissons enfin le sexe du petit - ce sera un petit mec. Nous avons ce matin ete faire l’echographie des 20 semaines - un grand moment de joie et de bonheur - a priori tout se passe bien, le petit est en bonne sante. Le plus difficile [...]

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Posted in Precious |

Entendu en Australie

Published on June 1st, 2007Comments (0)

Sophia Loren est en ce moment de passage a Sydney pour le lancement du festival du film Italien et a participe a un entretien avec la presse locale. Un journaliste Australien lui a serieusement pose la question: en tant que grande star du cinema, vous arrive t’il de peter? Tres classe, non!
MAJ:
Un lien vers le [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Wilsons Promontory

Published on April 30th, 2007Comments (6)

La semaine derniere l’Australie fetait ANZAC day. Etant donne que ce jour tombait un mercredi, nous avions decide de jouer les prolongations et faire un viaduc pour en fait prendre 5 jours de conges. Au debut nous avions prevu de partir avec Dung et Stephanie dans les Whitsundays. Malheureusement, suite a quelques depenses importantes passees [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Ainsi va la vie

Published on March 17th, 2007Comments (9)


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Posted in Of mention |

La vraie Segolene

Published on February 5th, 2007Comments (0)

La vraie Ségolène
C’est pas gagné!

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Posted in Of mention |

Federer - Australian Open 2007

Published on January 24th, 2007Comments (1)

Federer/Courrier - Australian Open 2007, originally uploaded by renet@web.

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Posted in Of mention |

Love thy neighbour…not

Published on January 20th, 2007Comments (6)

Christmas came early for me this year. On the 18th Dec. I was just on my way out to work when I noticed a piece of paper had been slipped under my door - what’s this I thought? Well as it turns out it wasn’t a nice neighbourly Christmas card but a letter of complaint. [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Australian open 2007

Published on January 14th, 2007Comments (2)

Hantuchova - Australian open 2007, originally uploaded by renet@web.

Now that the qualifying rounds are over, the thick of the action will once again begin tomorrow at 10am. The Australian Open 2007 will run for the next two weeks right here in Melbourne.

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Posted in Of mention |

Pictures from San Francisco

Published on September 11th, 2006Comments (4)

I’ve posted some pictures from San Francisco here. I’ve been walking (and cycling) all day long and I’m bushed.

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Posted in Travels |

Made it in one piece!

Published on September 10th, 2006Comments (3)

Well, I finally made it to San Francisco in one piece. I’m bushed so I’ll try to get some sleep, but I’ll try to post some pictures later on.
Photo by Michael Dawson.

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Posted in Travels |

First parking ticket

Published on September 4th, 2006Comments (2)

After almost two years in Oz, I got my first parking ticket today - I almost got a heart attack when I saw the amount of the fine - $107 !!(approx. 65 Euros - even organised crime is not that greedy). The moron that gave me the ticket must have been hiding waiting for [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Are you anal?

Published on September 2nd, 2006Comments (1)

Are you anal? Now, when I say anal, I’m not referring to the bodily orifice - so if you came here looking for a sex related post, apologies (though my stats package will forever love you). No, when I say anal I mean ‘being anal’ the behaviour - being detail oriented borderline with [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Semaine difficile !

Published on August 27th, 2006Comments (2)

Une semaine difficile vient de passer. Pour la premiere fois depuis bien longtemps j’ai ete occupe toute la semaine - 5 jours de travail, 3 clients et la semaine prochaine sera identique. Dure la vie de consultant!

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Posted in Of mention |

The new Canon EOS 400D

Published on August 26th, 2006Comments (0)

Canon will shortly be releasing (in Australia) a replacement for the popular EOS350D - I think I’m going to get one of those babies!
The main features of the new EOS 400D are:
10.1 effective Megapixels
APS-C size 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS image sensor
Focal length of 1.6x
Dust removal system
3 frames per second [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Get your web 2.0 logo

Published on August 18th, 2006Comments (2)

Completely useless but funny. Get yours here.

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Posted in Of mention |

Me me me and me!

Published on August 16th, 2006Comments (4)

No wonder I get the work done so quickly!
Just messing around with Photoshop. It’s real easy to do - just take several pictures of you (or your model). Put every picture in a different layer, cut out the overlapping content, merge the layers and voilà! I’ve also made a couple of attempts in my bathroom!  

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Posted in Of mention |

San Francisco things to do and see

Published on August 15th, 2006Comments (3)

In view of my forthcoming trip to San Francisco, I’m building up a list of things to see an do. If you have any suggestions, please make them.

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Posted in Travels |

Serions-nous des glandeurs?

Published on August 11th, 2006Comments (3)

Bon, une fois n’est pas coutume,  ce post je vais le faire en Français  afin d’éviter de donner des munitions a mes collègues pour me charrier.
Vous avez sans doute tous déjà entendu la blague « que veulent dire les acronymes RATP ou encore PTT » (à cela les réponses sont : Reste Assis T’es Peinard, [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Marathon Man

Published on July 31st, 2006Comments (5)

About a year ago I started jogging (after more than 10 years where the only sport I did consisted of lifting my elbow or using my thumb to switch between channels - it was hard!). My beginnings were laborious to say the least (could not even run one kilometre and was quickly out of breath). [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Picasso at the NGV

Published on July 30th, 2006Comments (1)

The main exhibit at the moment at the NGV is titled Picasso Love & War 1935 - 1945. As the title suggests, the works of Picasso from that decade are on display, but not only those. Indeed, some of the works of his lover and muse of the time, Dora Maar are also exhibited. [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Canon digital IXUS i Zoom

Published on July 22nd, 2006Comments (3)

After almost 5 good an trouble free years of service, I felt it was time to retire my trusted Canon Powershot A40. It wasn’t really on the agenda but a couple of days ago whilst perusing the DSE (Dick Smith Electronics) store in Victoria Gardens shopping centre I cam across the Canon Digital Ixus i [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

Bastille day celebration

Published on July 16th, 2006Comments (0)

July 14th was Bastille Day, a French national holiday. We went to the Bal Musette organised by the Alliance Francaise of Melbourne. I’ve updated the picture gallery with some pictures of that night.

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Posted in Asanaside |

Going to San Francisco

Published on July 12th, 2006Comments (6)

I should be going to San Francisco - map - (Oakland to be more precise) in September and December. Unfortunately it’ll be for work and not play, although I plan to mix the two when I can! It’s more than 5 years since I was there for the last time - it’ll be [...]

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Posted in Travels |

No more pizzas and pasta … for a while only!

Published on July 10th, 2006Comments (2)

Italian food will be banned in this household for a while.
Zidane should have head butted the referee as well!

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Posted in Asanaside |

La victoire est en nous*

Published on July 7th, 2006Comments (1)

Fameux slogan porte bonheur de l’équipe de France lors de la coupe du monde en 1998 (si mes souvenirs sont bons ce slogan était aussi associé au sponsor Adidas). Peut la France reproduire cet exploit? Au delà du fait que ce serait l’occasion pour moi d’en parler (lire narguer) à mes collègues Italiens pendant [...]

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Posted in Asanaside |

Arriba Francia !

Published on June 28th, 2006Comments (6)

Considering France’s debut in this world cup, I never thought they’d go beyond the first round. Yet, the “squad of oldies” are still there. They thrashed Spain 3-1 last night. Cheer up Spain…it’s not that hard to put the cork back in that Champagne bottle! Next up is the match against Brasil - maybe [...]

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Posted in Asanaside |

Weekend in Dinner Plain

Published on June 26th, 2006Comments (2)

Contrary to popular beliefs, it does snow in Australia. This weekend we were able to experience this first hand. Rob and Deniz invited us to celebrate with them and a bunch of friends Rob’s birthday. The celebration took place in the ski resort of Dinner Plain in the state of Victoria. It is geographically [...]

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Long weekend in Sydney

Published on June 13th, 2006Comments (2)

This past weekend was a long one here down in Oz. Isabelle and I used the Queen’s Birthday weekend (although her Birthday was in April - go figure!!) to go up to Sydney. The first two days were pretty appalling (weather wise) but our last day was graced by a glorious sunshine, That day [...]

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Posted in Travels |

Switch to new picture gallery

Published on June 13th, 2006Comments (0)

I’ve finally done it. I’ve switched the picture gallery to zenphoto. I just wanted to finish the random picture rotating script (the one that outputs 5 random pictures on the front page) before I could complete the switch.

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Posted in Of mention |

We sleep in the bed we make

Published on May 29th, 2006Comments (3)

This is the trailer of Al Gore’s movie, titled an Incovenient Truth. The only trouble I see with releasing such an important subject as a cinema movie is that some people might actually come out of there thinking that it is fiction.

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Posted in Of mention |

My boys and me

Published on May 24th, 2006Comments (7)


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Re-writing SAP with PHP (part 1.5)

Published on May 22nd, 2006Comments (4)

If things always went to plan, I guess I would now be writing part 2 and not 1.5! The truth is, I’ve had so many ideas lately that I just had to test them out and so this is how 1.5 came to be. In this post I’m going to show you how I used [...]

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Posted in SAP |

Welcome change of scenery

Published on May 21st, 2006Comments (1)

Quiet week. Went to Sydney for a couple of days on business which was welcome change.

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Posted in Travels |

Re-writing SAP with PHP (part 1)

Published on May 13th, 2006Comments (10)

Don’t let the title fool you, I’m not quite there yet. I’ve already written a few posts that dealt with integrating SAP and PHP (which you can find here and here to get you started), but I thought it was time to take it to another level. So what I’ve done here is to try [...]

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Posted in SAP |

Customize your excerpts

Published on May 8th, 2006Comments (5)

In Wordpress (at least as far as I know - please correct me if I’m wrong) there are two functions that allow you to output your post content.
These functions are:

the_content (to which certain parameters can be passed). This function will output images, links…basically everything as you typed it in your post.
the_excerpt (to which no [...]

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Posted in Wordpress |

Into the blue yonder

Published on May 5th, 2006Comments (4)

The wild blue yonder…not in the aquatic sense here. I was just trying to find a catchy title for this post and into the blue sky didn’t come across too well. I say blue (sky) because it seems that, that is where these pictures are taking you.
About these pictures…I’ve received some nice comments and [...]

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Posted in Of mention |

T-24

Published on April 30th, 2006Comments (3)

In a little over 24 hours cssreboot will be all systems go.
Although more than 1000 rebooters (last time I looked the count was 1442) have taken part in this spring reboot, it seems that some are waiting till the last minute to upload a picture of their new design (if the lack of an ‘after’ [...]

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Posted in Wordpress |

Update to SAPRfc - MATERIAL_GETLIST

Published on April 28th, 2006Comments (3)

This is just a quick update to my previous post in which I dealt with using the BAPI (Business Programming Application Interface) BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST. This update does not change - greatly - the code that makes the rfc (remote function call) call itself. It now gives you the possibility to fill in a form where you [...]

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Posted in SAP |

Wooohoo! Featured on cssremix

Published on April 25th, 2006Comments (3)

Holy Schmoly - renet@web has been featured on cssremix. Welcome to all visitors - feel free to leave a comment.

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Posted in Wordpress |

Reboot 99.9% finished

Published on April 21st, 2006Comments (1)

It’s almost there! I say 99.9% because a) I’m still getting errors when I try to validate the page and b) I’m sure that there will always be something that needs to be changed, tweaked or improved upon.

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Posted in Wordpress |