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Smack the pingu

Fri, 01/23/2004 - 5:58am

Smack the Pingu.A nice game for the Friday afternoon: Smack the Pingu.

My highest score so far is 492.2; rumor has it that higher scores are possible.

This game is not recommended for penguin-fans.

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guusbosmannl

P3P compliant

Fri, 01/23/2004 - 5:11am

We are now officially P3P compliant:


> Thank you for making your site P3P-compatible.
> I added your site to the list.

P3P compliant.

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dailylife

Paperwork

Thu, 01/22/2004 - 3:06pm

Daniël and I agreed last night that it's really inconvenient that the shops in the Netherlands close so early. In the States, Hungary, Bulgaria... everywhere the shops are open till after 18:00 o'clock, so people who work during the week are also able to go shopping.

Alas... not in Holland. The only exception is Thursday evening (in Haarlem) when many shops stay open till 21:00 o'clock. So it's always more lively in the city and I like Thursday evenings. Tonight I had to do the things I didn't have time for during the week. Somehow there's a lot of paperwork to arrange this week and I went to the municipality to get some official paper. That went pretty quick; the people at the civil service there are very friendly.

On of the things I have to arrange is my own fault. When I came back from Washington in October I forgot to turn in my "I94-W" form, a small sheet that had been stapled in my passport when I entered the States. Now I have to send it to an office in the States, along with proofs that I did return to the Netherlands. So I'll send my boarding pass from the return flight, a copy of my passport with the stamps that prove I was in Bulgaria, and some papers of my work.

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chess

My project in the news

Thu, 01/22/2004 - 10:10am

Parking machines in our office.I have been working for a long time on a project for Vialis. Vialis produces and sells parking machines in the Netherlands, and Chess has been developing a new type of parking machine with them (smarter, quicker, more payment methods).

About a week ago five parking machines of their new type have been placed in Nijmegen, and are currently being used.

Personally I've been involved in the back-end part of the system: the computer that registers and detects what's going on with the parking machines.

There has been quite some publicity about the new system; today we saw that there was an article in the Intermediar, a Dutch technology magazine.

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guusbosmannl

Privacy Statement

Wed, 01/21/2004 - 12:10pm

For my work I came across a new Internet standard: the Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P. This allows a website to inform its customers of its privacy policy: how does the website deal with the personal data of its users.

An important aspect of the standard is that the format is both human- and machine-readable. Internet Explorer 6.0 knows how to read this information for example (see the screenshot below). You can tell Internet Explorer what your preferences are, for example that you never want to give your e-mail address to sites that sell e-mail addresses to third parties. Your browser will then warn you if you enter such a website.

I've created a policy for Guus Bosman.nl, to see how it works. My privacy policy is pretty simple: I don't sell, share or give away information on my visitors to other people. However, the website uses "cookies", to keep track of logged in users and to remember your username. <

All this you can read in my Privacy Statement.

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boardgames

Diplomacy

Sun, 01/18/2004 - 3:36pm

I liked the game Diplomacy that we played today a lot. I'm a big fan of this type of games: the emphasis is on negotiations, and there is (hardly) any luck involved.

We had a great day, which is of course the most important, but I'm also quite satisfied with the end result. I share a third position with Evert (out of seven players). The results:

Great Power Player End score
Turkey Gerlof 9
England Daniël 7
Austria/Hungary Evert 6
Germany Guus 6
Russia Jerry 3
France Albert 3
Italy Arnoud 0
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dailylife

Early Sunday morning

Sun, 01/18/2004 - 1:42am

Quite a difference with yesterday, when I woke up nice and late: today the alarm went at 7:00 o'clock.

Today I'm going to Jerry's, where we'll play "Diplomacy", a game. I've never played it before, it's supposed to be really good.

When I came into our livingroom it smelly really nice of the hyacinth my mam gave me a week ago.

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guusbosmannl

Performance tests Guus Bosman.nl

Sat, 01/17/2004 - 12:03pm

Yesterday at the end of the afternoon Mark and I did an experiment with my website.

We were looking at a program that can be used to measure the performance of a website: how many visitors per minute can it reasonably handle? We need such tools for our work, and we did a quick experiment with a new program that Mark found.

I don't know exactly how many visitors my website usually has. I should really find that out once! A very rough estimate (for last Tuesday) indicates that every two minutes a page of our combined websites gets visited.

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dailylife

Fire alarm

Thu, 01/15/2004 - 1:33pm

I managed to activate our fire alarm when I was cooking. I was cooking a hamburger on the small grill and it caused a lot of smoke. In that sense it's quite fortunate that we don't have an automatic sprinkler installation.

Mark, a colleague, borrowed me a very interesting book: "The PhotoShop Book for Digital Photographers"; I'm reading it now.

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dailylife

Dinner Jerry and Marjolein

Thu, 01/15/2004 - 6:56am

Yesterday Marjolein and Jerry came for dinner. They brought home-made Guacamole, so we had beer with chips, Guacamole and Bulgarian lukanka (dried sausage).

We had a really fun evening, with a lot of talking, food and drinks. For the first time since a long time I cooked Bulgarian: mlechna salad and gyuveche. I think next time I'll use a different yoghurt for the mlecha; I didn't like the taste of this one too much. The gyuveche was pretty good, if I may say so.

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