Ellen and Wim had ordered their language with ”de Kaarsengieterij” on the internet. The web site isn’t the most modern, but it works, is well structured and offers a lot of choice. That’s what’s counts of course. In the end, we found out that de kaarsengieterij is located in Bruges. (next to Sint-Salvator church in a side road of the Steenstraat).

This weekend, I happened to be in Bruges, while Joke was going to fetch her wedding dress in Oostburg. As I wasn’t allowed to see the dress (tradition!) I chose to do something useful as well, and I visited “de kaarsengieterij”, where I was expertly led through the entire process from idea to candle.

I’m quite happy with the entire process so far, and Joke liked the choices I made. My parents should be able to fetch the finished candle a few days before the wedding, so I’m eagerly awaiting to see the final result.

Non-mobile visitors should see no difference. We wouldn’t dream of forcing you to buy a smartphone just to see the site

Dat viel eigenlijk tegen.

Op batibouw stonden bijna geen installateurs, en aannemers voor afbraak werken waren nog verder te zoeken. Als je een sleutel op de deur woning zocht, gebouwd op grond in the middle of nowhere.

Toch hebben we dan na wat navraag te doen, enkele trappen bouwers gevonden die ook de afbraak van ons vorige gedrocht konden regelen.

De trap is besteld, voor de afbraak moet nog iemand langskomen. Geplande levertijd 8 weken.

Ik ben benieuwd.

Op de één of andere manier had ik zoiets verwacht bij Boels. Is hun slogan niet “verhuurt bijna alles”?

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2907/Magazine/article/detail/1251951/2011/04/17/Liechtenstein-te-huur-voor-45-000-euro-per-nacht.dhtml

Likewise, never ask for a ‘Pain Français’ (what we call a baguette in Belgium) in France. You’ll get the spiffy response ‘but all our breads are French”.

International humour…

De Morgen: Home – Bestel geen bolognese in Bologna.

Big news : Google had released the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus One. The mobile operating system that bore the name ‘Froyo’ (Frozen Yoghurt) for its 2.2 incarnation, would bring dozens of upgrades, but two in particular were interesting to me

• Faster, less processor usage, which translates in a longer lasting battery
• Adobe Flash 10.1

One big problem: my Nexus One is a European model. The US version is sold with system software version EPF27, the European one is known as EPF30. The Update by Google was only for Nexus One models with EPF27 installed. No luck for me as a European.

Vodafone (the operator that has a distribution arrangement for the Nexus One for most of Europe) was apparently doing some extra validations and tests before sending the update to their “clients”. Well, I’m not a direct client of theirs, but still I had to wait (grumble).

I was slowly considering to force a manual update, like mentioned on  Blog in Black, but I wanted to be prudent. When you force the update (using a process called ‘rooting’), you void your warranty. In my view, the Nexus One is quite an expensive gadget, so I hesitated a few days longer.

Fortunately we had a dinner planned out of the house yesterday evening, which delayed my tinkering until today. During my research this morning for all the info for the manual update, I stumbled upon the androidworld forums. After I read that one of the users with a EPF30 model had received his update, I decided to check one last time via the official upgrade way.

No luck.

On that androidworld forum, someone posted a little trick to force your phone to check the latest status on the Google servers. You just enter the following code like you do with a phone number you want to call:

*#*#2432546#*#*

Bingo! I immediately received the message that I had a system update waiting. Some 5 minutes after accepting the download via my WiFi at home, I had a Nexus lying besides me with a brand new Android 2.2 Froyo release to play with. I’m quite curious to try it out.

The updates are reported to be starting also in the Netherlands and Germany.