Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10
It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.
The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.
At year’s end, I will know for sure.
Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02
This is definitely on our list to visit, despite it being permanently closed: [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (de) / [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (en).
Wikipedia pages:
Last year, it was open during the [Wayback/Archive] Day of the Open Monument | visitBerlin.de (the German term is Tag des offenen Denkmals “seit 1993 am zweiten Sonntag im September”).
Just like the celebration of the Mauerfall gained popularity¹, the ICC Berlin has regained popularitly, hopefully later this year, a decision will be made if/how it will be repurposed, as well as the status of the asbestos. There seems to be enough potential:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02
Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….
There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results
an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.
Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01
[Wayback/Archive] Maartje: “Remember in Brussels to start …” – BLÅHAJ Social
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Remember in Brussels to start a conversation you have to do the Language 3-way handshake. Here is a scenario:
SYN: Goeiedag/Bonjour!
SYN-ACK: Goeiedag!
ACK: Hoe kan ik i helpen?
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Do keep in mind that this 3-way handshake is ILLEGAL outside of the borders of brussels. Here is a map.
Yes people have been sued.
Indeed: sued – [Wayback/Archive] Train Conductor language outrage in Belgium « Euro Weekly News
TL;DR
- If you say “Bonjour” in the Dutch part, you can get sued
- If you say “Goeiedag” in the French part, you can get sued
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01
For a while now, after initially displaying archived Google Search results, it changes the Wayback Machine archival URL after displaying.
Examples:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+last+delimiterhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMThttps://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT
I want to write a Bookmarklet that fixes these.
There is not much in the results of
[Wayback/Archive] “GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION” “Wayback” – Google Search, but I think this happens when there is a high frequency Google Search archivals from the Wayback Machine.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/31
Forgot to schedule this one when I saw it two weeks ago: [Wayback/Archive] Sweep the Strait.
Apart from demonstrating that Trump never had a plan, does not and will not have a plan, it is cool to see Minesweeper developed in JavaScript, HTML and CSS mapped with some geodata onto a real map of the Strait of Hormuz.
Cool idea!
It has a function Windows 3.x UI with functional menu (Game -> New Game; Help -> How to Play)
At first, I thought the original developer is this:
However, in fact the developer is:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30
Het was me al een tijdje opgevallen dat ik nauwelijks meer fysieke post van Movir kreeg.
Ik dacht aan een probleem bij de post, maar het bleek erger:
Toen ik een tijd terug een on-line profiel aangemaakt had ik een PDF van mijn profiel gemaakt zodat ik wist wat er was geregisteerd.
Daarin stond “Communicatievoorkeur Per post”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30
I could not find a way to add many accounts at once to a Twitter list using the normal App or Web UI, so I did a [Wayback/Archive] twitter mass add accounts to list – Google Search
The only way to do this seems to be to use Google Chrome and install [Wayback/Archive] Better TweetDeck – Chrome Web Store combined with the old TweetDeck UI (or use and install it on any of the other supported browsers).
Note that it is basically a project shelved early 2023, so it will likely have stopped functioning before you read this.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/27
Posted in About, LifeHacker, Music, Personal, Power User | Tagged: bassdrum, foley, Music, percussion, shorts, sound, soundeffects | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/27
| Below is a dump of links about FidoNet links with a few remarks so I won’t forget as it was 25+ years ago that I stopped hosting the FidoNet node that had been on-line for almost 10 years (I was a FidoNet point for a few years before that).
See also my other FidoNet posts. |
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(c) John Madill
FidoNet logo by John Madill
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 