Guus Bosman

Today I started writing my internship assigment (stage opdracht). Friday I spoke to one of my collegues who is involved in the SHAM project and he gave me suggestions for what my actual internship could be. Perhaps tomorrow I'll put the document online.

No doubt quicker than all other game websites like Spelmagazijn or Kolonisten.nl, I have the results of today world championship qualifications online!

1. Hans Baert
2. Antje Klaassen
3. Jeanette Boele
4. Jelle Oosterveen
5. Sylvia van Welie
6. Hans den Dulk
7. Ronald Rietveld
8. Erik Hendriks

They'll all compete September the 28th in Weesp to find out who will represent the Netherlands on the world cup Kolonisten van Catan.

My parents were 14th and 18th, next time better! But anyway, they told me they really liked it; which is obviously the most important.

Life from Leeuwarden, there is a couple of internet computers here. We're in an interesting place, it called Wolweze, and it's a student organisation's bar/disco. The name means 'Being Well', in Frisian. It's Leeuwarden after all.

The tournament is going quite well, there are 20 people playing and we're ahead of schedule. We started Steden & Ridders, the last game, at 13:15 so we should be done early. I'm here with Martijn, it's cosy. Because we have done this kind of tournament so often everything goes smooth and the people are very friendly. Interesting enough there are many people from other provinces, I expected a lot of Frisians but there are people from The Hague, Rotterdam, all over!

My parents are also playing, but unfortunately the first game results were not very good, they're 15th and 16th after 2 rounds. Let's just hope they'll perform better in the last one...

In a few weeks (September 29th) there'll be a tournament in Haarlem also. Next to being an obvious improvement considering traveling time it's also a very nice idea to know that it will be very busy: there are about 50 applications already. For more information or applying -be quick- look at 999 Games' website.

At this moment the new website is life for 12 hours. Yesterday evening I went to see Tibor, as Guus Bosman.nl runs on his server.

When I came there it turned that out that one of the harddisks of the webserver had crashed, for the 2nd time. There wasn't very important data on these disks, but we still tried to recover some of the information during the evening. I the mean time (while Tibor was downloading software) I installed PHP, MySQL and PhpNuke on the webserver, this went pretty smooth. Around 23:15 the installation was complete but there was something technical wrong, that I couldn't find a solution for. I went home, and this morning I found the answer, and I put the website life!

People told me that it looked nice but that the website is too slow to be able to tell. I looked into software caching for PHP, but frankly I don't think that that would really do the trick. It's a low-traffic site, and the performance lag is related to the server: it's an old 486 with 24 MB memory. That's just not strong enough ;)

So if anybody has an old computer with >= 32 MB memory in it, and wants to get rid of it, please let us know, I would be very happy with it.

For now: I hope you'll still enjoy Guus Bosman.NL. For those users with a slow connection or no time to wait I'll put a HTML copy of my logbook online as often as I can. This will be reachable through www.guusbosman.nl/blogger.html.