Mike van Riel

Life Moments

Step into the story of my life, where I share the moments that shape me, the experiences that inspire me, and the reflections that keep me grounded. ‘Life Moments’ is a collection of personal narratives, thoughts, and insights that offer a glimpse into my journey. Whether it’s a small victory, a lesson learned, or simply a day in the life, these posts are a window into the real me—authentic, relatable, and ever-evolving.

  • Updated the design of this blog

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    After less than 2 years I have finished my new WordPress template for this blog. The previous theme was clunky and lacked many of the features that WordPress has to offer. I hope to address these issues and enhance this site even more. To be honest: the graphic design was finished about a year ago…

  • The year of change

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    Photo is copyright of David Reece I usually do not make new year’s resolutions, but this year is going to be different. This year will be the year of change! In the past year I have done and experienced a lot of wonderful things but some things were left undone or have been given a…

  • A new design!

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    It was long overdue but I have finally managed to finish the new design for the Naenius.com website. My intention is to use this design in all subparts of this website, as well as the new parts I am concocting in my brain. With the implementation I did notice a few artifacts. For one, I…

  • My current affairs

    My current affairs

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    I have neglected some of my contacts and social places. Although I would like to blaim my busy life for it, it is also a matter of just not making time for it. So to entertain myself and others, I can share that one of the things I am working on is a redesign of…

  • Moving to a new host

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    What I want is not what I can get at my old host. Thus in order to do get what I want I have decided to move my domains to a new webhost. I have requested the move to be done monday the 22nd of december at 22.00 hours. I still need to get confirmation…

  • Spam has left the building … finally

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    I have done it, on the 29th of November I finally activated Akismet and begun cleaning up spam which was still remaining on my blog. Today, I took the time and the liberty to remove the last spam comments AND write a new (perhaps for some quite uninteresting) blog post. When I started my blog…

  • Spam part II

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    For some reason I seem to have become popular with the spam bots. Not quite the crowd I was hoping for 🙂 It is not possible for me to keep deleting all spam until I have time to implement anti-spam measures. It is on my to-do list but other (more pressing) matters have priority. Should…

  • The first spam battle, I lost..

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    I have had a spam run in the last couple of days and was forced to delete a couple of hundred spam messages. Despite the fact that I was reviewing every message if it was a valid comment or not (I unfortunately do not get many at the moment) it seems that I have overlooked…

  • Sometimes I temporarily get a life

    Sometimes I temporarily get a life

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    There are times when I do not touch a computer, it happens. I like to tabletop roleplay for example and I ‘own’ a dog called Fenna who loves to be active. At these sort of times one might be tempted to say that I temporarily get a life. My wife suggested today to visit a…

  • My first talk

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    I knew it when the hype begun.. I tried to postpone what I knew would be inevitable.. Alas, I could not resist or stay behind anymore.. I needed.. a blog From the moment blogging became popular, I thought that what I had to say was not important enough. At least not in my opinion. Time…