Guus Bosman

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Webcam

Sun, 10/26/2003 - 4:49pm

MSN screenshot.Since a little while I am the happy owner of a webcam. I bought the cheapest one I could find; I just wanted to use it for some experiments. I found one for only 15 euro, and it works great!

It's very easy to set up, and gives a pretty good picture. I often use it with MSN Messenger, and it's a wonderful addition to chatting over the keyboard. Bianca pointed me out to the fun of a webcam, and she was definitely right.

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dailylife

Birthday Oma Bosman

Sun, 10/26/2003 - 3:07pm

I went to Oma Bosman, my grandmother, who celebrated her birthday today. It was busy! There were a lot of family members, some of which I haven't seen in a while. It was nice to see everybody.

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dailylife

Lasagne

Sat, 10/25/2003 - 2:17pm

No appointments today; this was nice for a change. There were a lot of small things that I didn't have time for since I came back from Washington.

I made lasagne, using a recipe Richard told me. Almost without any herbs, but with a little wine added with the sauce. It was delicious.

I've been doing some 'house-keeping' on the server as well, which is a nice thing to do for somebody like me :) For the experts: I'm trying to see if I can install Java on the webserver (OpenBSD).

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dailylife

Computable

Sat, 10/25/2003 - 5:24am

Computable.

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guusbosmannl

New server

Fri, 10/24/2003 - 4:15pm

Two weeks ago, when I was in Washington, I noticed that a harddisk of the server was slowly stopping. This Tuesday it broke down completely, taking down the whole server.

Repairing turned out to be harder than I had thought. The harddisk was completely broken and some other parts weren't looking too good either.

Sponsored by my parents I bought some new hardware for the server. Currently the site is back up, and it's running on a 1,6Ghz processor with 512MB memory.

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Haarlem

Haarlem news

Fri, 10/24/2003 - 5:33am

Every now and then I read the website of the Haarlems Dagblad (the local newspaper).

Today I saw some good news: the cacoa-factory will close in September 2004. They are moving to Amsterdam. The factory sometimes causes a nasty smell in the whole city; it's especially bad in the summer.

Also, the Draaiorgelmuseum seems to have found a new location, in the Waarderpolder.

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dailylife

Manuel's birthday

Wed, 10/22/2003 - 3:14am

Manuel's birthday.Yesterday I went to the birthday of Manuel, a collegue. He didn't know there would be a party as his girlfriend organized it for him without his knowledge -- he liked the surprise!

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politicsnews

Verhagen back online

Tue, 10/21/2003 - 5:44pm

Mr. Verhagen is back from his stay abroad.

He has updated his diary, with a discussion on the Democratic caucuses in Iowa. He writes very well... I missed his comments ;)

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dailylife

Tibor and Janneke

Tue, 10/21/2003 - 3:17am

I visited Tibor and Janneke in their new house yesterday. They bought a house at IJburg, a new part of Amsterdam.

Had a good time there and a delicious dinner. Janneke is pregnant. She's in her 28th week now and has a big belly.

It's a nice house they live in -- there's still some work to be done but the important things are ready. Everything in the house is new; even the neighborhood.

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dailylife

Party Joris

Sun, 10/19/2003 - 7:15am

Yesterday night Joris gave a party to celebrate his PhD.

The location he choose was the club-house of a rowing club in Amsterdam,
near the Amstel. It was quite a party with a lot of people. There was a
DJ but I didn't really dance. Talked instead spoke with a number of
people, which was very nice.

Max brought us back to Haarlem by car (thanks!), I was home around 2:00 o'clock.

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