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Cary’s Apple Muffins

These apple cakes (muffins) are low fat and low cholesterol. Instead of butter they contain a little vegetable oil. Read more…

Bad interaction between Tiga theme and Gengo plugin

Suddenly Gengo doesn’t work anymore with the Tiga theme. When I deactivate Gengo it works. With Gengo and another theme it works. But with the Tiga theme and Gengo activated it doesn’t work: the pages are empty. Apparently somewhere php crashes then.

For the time being I decided to switch off Gengo.

Sending non-ASCII text in emails with Emacs and VM

I use Emacs to do a lot of work, not only editing files. For example all my email reading and writing I do with Emacs, as well as reading Usenet newsgroups. For email I use VM (viewmail) rather than the standard RMAIL.

One problem that popped up when we got the Euro as a currency was that VM couldn’t deal properly with non-ASCII characters when sending email. When a mixture of different character sets was present in a message a Japanese coding was chosen that most email reader don’t understand. Because I wanted to send emails with the €-sign I cooked up some code to make this work. The code was inspired by similar code in Gnus, the Emacs Usenet reader. (Some people also use gnus for their email but I prefer VM for that.) Read more…

Hello World, Hello 2008

I decided to give my private website a new look and a new function. The original look was nothing to boast about (see the original page) and its only function was to show some photos during our travels. So I decided to start a new look and a new contents, actually a new website but still on the same location. Read more…