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About Schmidt

Sat, 02/08/2003 - 2:59pm

About Schmidt.The other day we went to see "About Schmidt", a movie with Jack Nicholson.

A fantastic movie! Nicholson is just the perfect actor for this type of character-movies.

The movie swung between sadness, melancholy and absolute hilarious moments (the waterbed-scene is just terrific). It had been a long time since I laughed so hard at a movie.

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dailylife

Closed shops

Sat, 02/08/2003 - 11:43am

The Vleeshal closed 10 minutes too early... too bad and then Dekamarkt closed at 17:00 instead of 20:00 because they're renovating it...

To the Vomar instead now.

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chess

Latest version

Thu, 02/06/2003 - 10:48am

The latest version of my internship paper has 5 (!) pictures and 42 pages.

Tomorrow I'll meet my supervisors again in Haarlem, I'll give a short presentation of the results I found untill now.

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politicsnews

Collin Powell's speech

Wed, 02/05/2003 - 8:52am

Collin Powell.America's secretary of state Collin Powell will today give a much anticipated speech to the Security Council.

It will start at 16:30 and it's supposed to be a 'multi-media presentation'.

I'm happy to see that the NOS will have a life-stream of the speech online. It's an important event, that's why I was so surprised yesterday.

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chess

To Chess Best

Wed, 02/05/2003 - 4:34am

Yesterday I went to the other branch of Chess. It's in Best, a small place near Eindhoven -- a journey of 2,5 hours.

We planned to go long ago, to discuss my internship with a collegue there. We had a very interesting discussion. They are planning to do an investigation in the same area as mine. Their focus is on creating a workable (commercial) solution in a few years. My research is more academic, and --in a sense-- less useful :) We could share a lot of ideas; it was very interesting.

When I came home Ettie was there too so we watched yesterday's interviews the three of us with tea and cookies.

It had been a long time since I spent a whole day without internet... I was curious who had won the elections to be our parliament's Speaker. It would have been nice when De Graaf had won but I like Weisglas too.

Somehow I had got the days all mixed up so I was really surprised there was so little attention to Powell's speech for the Security Council on internet, teletext and the news. Then this morning I realized his speech would be today.

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dailylife

Two interviews

Tue, 02/04/2003 - 4:30pm

Mafkees.Another mafkees.There were two interviews on TV tonight; one with Saddam Hussein and one with Michael Jackson.

The one with Hussein was so boring that we changed the channel after 10 minutes.

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dailylife

Lazy River

Sun, 02/02/2003 - 6:09pm

We went for a drink in Café Triple. Every Sunday evening there's life music.

It was a jam-session, with a lot of different artists. One of the songs they played was Up a Lazy River.

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fun

Another game

Sun, 02/02/2003 - 11:27am

Collapse.I had a lot of enthousiastic reactions on the link to Tetris 3D, although not every webbrowser seemed to able to deal with its heavy use of Flash.

I hope this game will work for everybody; it's very nice.

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dailylife

Twice a wedding

Sun, 02/02/2003 - 10:54am

Wedding flowers.Two friends announced today (officially) that they'll get married.

Today 13:37:

"Wij hebben nu alles geregeld en gaan dus trouwen. Uitnodiging volgt nog maar zet 29 maart maar vast in je agenda :-)"

Today 13:58:

"Wir freuen uns, Euch mitteilen zu dürfen: wir heiraten! Und zwar am 13.09.03- Agenda schon gezückt? Nähere Informationen folgen später." (Joeri Mulder.com).

What to say with such happy notifications? Pozdravlialioo perhaps, or Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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chess

Introduction chapter

Sun, 02/02/2003 - 5:33am

I started writing my paper months ago. In the beginning I just wrote down some small thoughts, sentences and idea's I had, without taking readability in mind. Now is the time to start making it a coherent paper, so I've been restructuring it the last days.

All three my supervisors gave their comments this week, and I've tried to incorporate their ideas. It's important for a paper like this that the first chapter, the introduction, is well-written. This keeps the reader interested, and allows him to better understand what the whole paper will be about.

Another important thing that could increase readability a lot is the use of (more) examples and illustrations. This is something I'll do next week.

Latest version of my paper.

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