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BMW E61 Trunk Leak – Sunroof Drain Failure – 2004-2010 5 Series Wagon

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/21

Use this guide only as a last resort: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 Trunk Leak – Sunroof Drain Failure – 2004-2010 5 Series Wagon.

Try first to remove any debris from the drains from the panoramic sunroof/moonroof side or remove the valve with grommet at the lowest end. Some YouTube video’s explain how to do that.

It looks like a sunroof often has front drain holes clogged and a panoramaroof often the back drain holes; where it leaks depends how your car is tilted while parked.

You might want to move the electronics that are in the well under the spare wheel to the left hand side of the trunk.

Furthermore, the electric cabling on the E61 that runs underneath the hinges of the trunk and trunk window mechanisms tend to break over time causing all kinds of electrical issues.

A list related to those first:

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Moet het raam dicht?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14

Weet voor je naar bed gaat of je vliegtuiggeluid kunt verwachten.

Ben jij iemand die elke avond wakker ligt als er weer een vliegtuig voorbij komt? Of houd je je ramen ‘s nachts uit voorzorg potdicht om het geluid buiten te houden?

Deze site stuurt je voor je naar bed gaat een mail als er verwacht wordt dat vliegtuigen die nacht je slaap kunnen verstoren. Tijdens nachten waarop je geen mailtje krijgt kun je dus gewoon je raam open houden!

Van [Wayback/Archive] Moet het raam dicht?

Ze maken gebruik van deze bronnen (de laatste is inmiddels verhuisd):

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Direct deep links to Amazon help pages

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28

For me, it is always difficult to navigate to the Amazon help pages where you can reach their chat.

These are some of the links; follow the pattern to figure out which domain part you need to replace to get to your local ones:

--jeroen

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(Digital) photography, F-stops and polarisers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/24

My filter removal tool broke, so while I had new ones on order, I had to figure out how many F-stops I would need to compensate for especially because I would be shooting during the evening.

Here are some links that gave me an impression:

Don’t you love the accessibility (a11y) awareness of people that put tables as images on their web-pages? The last link above did (see the image on the right below), I don’t: I love plain HTML with plain old rules and left-alignment content when it makes things more readable, so I converted it into a plain HTML table (: Read the rest of this entry »

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Wat zou de status zijn nadat ICTU 2,5 jaar terug een slechte Mijn PGB Portaal en migratie opleverde?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/21

Ergens zomer 2022 werd het nieuwe Mijn PGB Portaal verplicht. Voorheen verliepen declaraties en dergelijke via een portaal van het SVB. Die was niet snel, had soms nukken, maar voldeed aan meer NORA richtlijnen dan het nieuwe portaal.

ICTU is een speler die exclusief op de overheidsmarkt functioneert, dus daarvan zou je verwachten dat die snappen wat NORA inhoudt en een goed product neer zetten.

Het tegendeel is waar: ik schreef in september 2022 een Twitter draad met veel screenshots over mijn eerste ervaring met het nieuwe portaal en de migratie van de onderliggende data waaruit het tegendeel bleek.

Ik ben benieuwd hoe de status nu is.

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Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …” (research paper by Berend van der Kolk and Wesley Kaufmann)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”

This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.

Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control

Abstract

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And do it has begun: Go European — Discover European products and services

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

[Wayback/Archive] Go European — Discover European products and services

A community-driven directory bringing you recommendations and insights from across Europe

It seems to have started as [Wayback/Archive] Buy European Made which I think is more appropriate in the current stiation:

Switch to EU-Made. Support the European Values

A directory of EU-made alternatives. From software and electronics to everyday products – all made in Europe

That’s why I put the old poster on the right.

Related/from:

--jeroen

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On my list of things to try: xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

[Wayback/Archive] xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Things to watch for are syncing actions the browsers perform themselves (like Google Browser Sync integrated into Chrome and Firefox Sync).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – xbrowsersync/api: Server-side REST API that serves requests from xBrowserSync client apps.

Other freemium solutions also exist, like [Wayback/Archive] Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager which has [Wayback/Archive] Pricing — Raindrop.io.

Via :

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U-prevent

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

Interesting:

Get more insights by calculating individual cardiovascular risk and the effect of preventive treatment.

[Wayback/Archive] U-prevent.

--jeroen

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Kenteken Font | dafont.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

This is cool when one needs a temporary 1-day Dutch license plate (for instance when importing a car): [Wayback/Archive] Kenteken Font | dafont.com

Download:

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