A Dutch bearded geek living in the UK.
Dabbling with Linux System administration and Devops Engineering. AWS enthusiast. Avid gamer.
One of the favourite humans of Hearing Dog Neve 🐕🦺
Pétanque player, purveyor of unknown quantities of coffee & single malt whisky.
Occasional archer (Bare-Bow & English Longbow), Catholic, and many other interests too many to count.
I just realised why there are all of a sudden weird bugs and errors creeping up in AWS Cloudformation deployments, after nearly running a year without problems:
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The Moon is Full.
Enough said I think
The medieval cathedral, bridge, and River Wye at Hereford. Colour palette and patination inspired by Hereford’s famous Mappa mundi.
#MappaMundi #Medieval #History #Art #DoubleExposure #Photography. #Cathedral #Bridge #River #Autumn #Herefordshire
I thought I’d check to see if it’s worth updating my old paper driving licence…
Ha! Catch 22!
I bet it’s the same routine if I want to apply for a new passport, too.
I, genuinely and properly, hate this country now.
Can-collecting Dorridge boy on £20k mission for food banks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-66573416
#Aluminium #Recycling #Fundraising #Foodbank #Solihull #WestMidlands #GoodNews
- Bare departure hall in harwhich, to a much better/friendlier design in NL (if nothing else, having a restaurant)
- By and large smoothly passing through customs/checking on both sides with it being slightly more strict on the UK side.
- By car it is mostly visual checks. By foot your luggage gets x-rayed and metal-detectors. None of this on the Dutch side of the border.
- More walking obviously (though better infrastructure in the Netherlands with bidirectional moving walkways).
The last week I have been travelling by ferry as a foot passenger for once back and forth to the Netherlands from the UK. It was an interesting experience as normally we tend to travel by car.
These are some of the (or rather my) comparisons of the differences between the ports and their facilities:
nixCraft 🐧
JV 
Richard Jones
Eugen Rochko
Heather Kavanagh
Jonathan Wright