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2008-08-27
Passport and drivers license
Yay, I've got it fixed! Today I could finally go to the city hall to collect my new passport and drivers license.
It is now about ten years ago I took the decision I had to stop hiding my feminine feelings. I knew I had to do something and I set out for the long and tedious process of a sex change.
So now we know how long this process takes: Ten years!
It is now about ten years ago I took the decision I had to stop hiding my feminine feelings. I knew I had to do something and I set out for the long and tedious process of a sex change.
So now we know how long this process takes: Ten years!
Labels: transition
2008-08-02
Listen to Gniffels
This weekend Julia and I were very busy with the first CD by the Gniffels. They had worked on it for almost a year and finally we were able to hear the result. And.... OK, maybe I am prejudiced, but I love it!
And now I could do my part: I put some MP3-files on the website as samples of what can be found on the CD and I made a webform to order the CD at a reduced price until the official introduction on September 27th.
Building websites is always a lot of work and even though the Gniffels-site has been built with Joomla! (which, according to Joomla!-fans would make everything a lot faster and easier), I don't see a lot of advantage from that yet. Probably DDS is not the best hosting provider to choose when you want to use Joomla! : All PHP-scripts at DDS run in so-called "safe mode", which breaks a lot of the functionality.
DDS does that in an attempt to prevent hackers from gaining access to the databases and they do have a point: Abusing PHP and SQL will make a web site leak like a basket and that may endanger ALL DDS customers, not just that singlewebmaster who has learned a few words of PHP yesterday and hacked together a site today...
My question is whether "safe mode" is the right way to prevent those problems, but I won't digress on this further. We will have to learn to lie with it, or find another provider.
Anyway, Julia and I also had to be on duty at the cash register at the T&T-evening this month, when the work on the website was not done yet, so Julia went ahead to the community center, while I kept working on the registratiion form for the website.
So I arrived one hour late. Julia was already busy collecting the entry fees and selling coins. Our friend Hans said I was clearly the "cheif casher" today, "because you were the last to arrive". Indeed, that is a way to look at it.
Our DJ, Silvia, had a new car, a Twingo, just like Julia and I have. Unfortunately it is too small to bring the large disco-bar she always used. Of course she played the first track of Julia's new CD tonight and people loved it; three people ordered a CD at once.
There was some bad news tonight: Our host Yvon, who has been the driving force behind T&T-Eindhoven for more than 20 years, is severely ill. She will soon be hospitalised for a heavy operation and she will get chemo therapy. Yes, that makes you think: Transgendered people somtimes think they have problems, but such an illness is something of a quite different magnitude.
We all wish Yvon strength and hope for her recovery!
Previous T&T evenings: July 2008, May 2008, March 2008, February 2008, December 2007, October 2007, October 2006, September 2006, August 2006, July 2006, June 2006, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, September, July 2005, June 2005, May 2005, April 2005, March 2005, February 2005, January 2005, December 2004, November 2004, October 2004, September 2004, August 2004, July 2004, June 2004, May 2004 and April 2004.
And now I could do my part: I put some MP3-files on the website as samples of what can be found on the CD and I made a webform to order the CD at a reduced price until the official introduction on September 27th.
Building websites is always a lot of work and even though the Gniffels-site has been built with Joomla! (which, according to Joomla!-fans would make everything a lot faster and easier), I don't see a lot of advantage from that yet. Probably DDS is not the best hosting provider to choose when you want to use Joomla! : All PHP-scripts at DDS run in so-called "safe mode", which breaks a lot of the functionality.
DDS does that in an attempt to prevent hackers from gaining access to the databases and they do have a point: Abusing PHP and SQL will make a web site leak like a basket and that may endanger ALL DDS customers, not just that singlewebmaster who has learned a few words of PHP yesterday and hacked together a site today...
My question is whether "safe mode" is the right way to prevent those problems, but I won't digress on this further. We will have to learn to lie with it, or find another provider.
Anyway, Julia and I also had to be on duty at the cash register at the T&T-evening this month, when the work on the website was not done yet, so Julia went ahead to the community center, while I kept working on the registratiion form for the website.
So I arrived one hour late. Julia was already busy collecting the entry fees and selling coins. Our friend Hans said I was clearly the "cheif casher" today, "because you were the last to arrive". Indeed, that is a way to look at it.
Our DJ, Silvia, had a new car, a Twingo, just like Julia and I have. Unfortunately it is too small to bring the large disco-bar she always used. Of course she played the first track of Julia's new CD tonight and people loved it; three people ordered a CD at once.
There was some bad news tonight: Our host Yvon, who has been the driving force behind T&T-Eindhoven for more than 20 years, is severely ill. She will soon be hospitalised for a heavy operation and she will get chemo therapy. Yes, that makes you think: Transgendered people somtimes think they have problems, but such an illness is something of a quite different magnitude.
We all wish Yvon strength and hope for her recovery!
Previous T&T evenings: July 2008, May 2008, March 2008, February 2008, December 2007, October 2007, October 2006, September 2006, August 2006, July 2006, June 2006, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, September, July 2005, June 2005, May 2005, April 2005, March 2005, February 2005, January 2005, December 2004, November 2004, October 2004, September 2004, August 2004, July 2004, June 2004, May 2004 and April 2004.
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