June 2002 Archives
The last month I have been working in ICG's international department. We are a software company, mainly focussed on Spain, but we also sell in Portugal, Mexico, Uruguay, Holland, Sweden, Austalia, Canada and the U.K. One of the things I have been involved with, is to make sure that all product information will be available on our web site in English. And as of today the English web site is available. I have to admit that it�s not finished yet, but there is plenty of information at the moment. So I would like to invite all of my readers to have a look at www.icg.es/eng/.
Once again I had problems with my e-mail account. It appeared that a lot of messages I have sent the last month(s) have not actually been sent! Or better: they never arrived. When sending they were accepted by the SMTP-server, but there they have been deleted.
The problem is that I am using some forwarded e-mail addresses like mail@jeroensangers.com and jeroen.sangers@fimcap.org. Mail send to these addresses are being forwarded to another mailbox, to which I connect with my mail program.
So far no problem, but I also want to send e-mail using the above adresses. Therefore I change the 'from' field in my mail application. But now, a lot of providers don't allow this, to prevent spam. Usually, the SMTP server will reject your message, so your not able to send it. My latest provider however, accepted the messages, but didn't sent it further (yes, to /dev/null!).
At the moment I am looking for a new provider. Until that, I will not be able to send my messages using jeroensangers.com or fimcap.org.
(Sorry for this quite tecnical message, but I know that at least half of my readers DOES understand it. If you don't: just forget it...)
Sant Joan is an important saint over here. At least important enough to have a free day on June 24th. Combine this with the general strike last thursday, and the result is that half of the country moves for five days to the beach.
Instead of the beach, MJ and I decided to move with our tent to a camping in the pre-pyrenees, next to a lake near Tremp.
As a result, this weekend we have done abosolutely NOTHING. Every day we wake up quite early due to the heat in our tent, we ate some magdalenas with a coffee for breakfast, we took a bath in the lake, read a little bit in the sun, took another bath, etc...
After two days of sun it became clear again why they used to call me "zwarte" (black).
The summer has yet to start, and the temerature has risen up to 37 degrees. I'm so happy that last weekend the temperature was a lot more comfortable. Last weekend my parents visited me for the first time since I left Holland, and of course I wanted to show them around in Lleida.
We had a wonderfull time together. We showed them the city, the place I work, the house we're going to live in, the place we're living right now. They also got to meet the parents of MJ and despite of the language problems they got along really well.
The biggest pieces of old furniture are now removed from our future house, the kitchen and the bathroom have been choosen, the measures have been taken...
This week it's really going to start. First all windows will be replaced and when that's finished the workers start removing a wall, making a new ceiling and changing the position of some doors. From then on we can start building our own little house, and with a little bit of luck we can live there after summer. There's a lot to do, but we're looking forward to do it!
