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Rain!

Wed, 06/04/2003 - 11:39am

A few minutes ago a huge rainstorm came above Haarlem. A big difference compared with last Friday.

At Chess I work on the highest floor so it's very noisy now because of the rain.

Rain on the Grote Markt

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dailylife

New monitor

Wed, 06/04/2003 - 4:48am

MonitorSasha just told me that a new monitor arrived! Our old computer monitor has been broken quite a long time. We had a 3 years garanty that would expire this August.

It took some effort to get into contact with the shop where I originally bought it in Middenmeer; Mieke assistance there was quite useful. The shop was member of a national organisation, and it turned out that we had an 'on-site' garanty. This morning they came and replaced our old monitor immediately with a new one.

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internet

Backups

Tue, 06/03/2003 - 2:47am

Today a good friend called. His laptop behaved weird and a lot of files on the 2nd hard disk were mangled and unreadable.

Luckily enough he made a backup 2 months ago, so the damage was manageable. But it reminded me of something –- how long ago has it been since my last backup? And how long ago has it been for you, dear reader, since your last backup? What would happen if your hard disk would stop functioning all of a sudden?

My website itself is reasonably well covered; a few weeks ago I restored the whole system from the backup, which is always a good indication of the backup’s quality. But I know there are things on the desktop computer at home that are quite valuable to me, but my last backup is a couple of years old. Something to work on.

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dailylife

Monday

Mon, 06/02/2003 - 1:35pm

Today I've worked from 9:00, and I went home around 19:00 o'clock.

Yesterday evening Jaap and Mieke were here; we played Steden & Ridders. We did only 1 game, but it took 2,5 hours; quite long. Mieke was the winner.

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vu

Mathematicians

Sat, 05/31/2003 - 3:33pm

I've been reading an interesting book, "The Collapse of Chaos", last week. It deals with chaos and complexity, and how some mathematical complications fundamentely affect other sciences like biology, physics and economics.

Related to this I read a nice joke on Slashdot:

"Biologists like to think they are chemists. Chemists like to think they are physicists. Physicists like to think they are mathematicians. And mathematicians like to think they are god."

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vu

At the window

Sat, 05/31/2003 - 10:45am

I'm working on the last assignment of Internet Programming. The weather is very nice again today, so I'm sitting at the large table, at the window. This morning I bought a longer cable, so now I have internet next at the window as well.

It's very busy on the river. A few minutes ago there were 3 water scooters passing, the ones you'll sometimes see at the sea-side.

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chess

Weekend!

Fri, 05/30/2003 - 10:50am

Grote MarktI'm going home. It's simply too great weather to spend inside!

We had lunch outside too, at the Grote Markt.

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chess

Quiet

Fri, 05/30/2003 - 3:47am

I'm a Chess now. Obviously it's very quiet here, many people took today off to enjoy a long weekend. I think in the whole building there are maybe 5 or 6 people.

Moved my stuff to the 2nd floor for today, there's another collegue working there.

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dailylife

Rob & Kirsten

Thu, 05/29/2003 - 6:15pm

The weather is just great; I'm really happy about it.

Today I was working on the laptop next to the open window, for a refreshing breeze. And then I heard: "Hi Guus!". Rob & Kirsten were there downstairs, they came by bike from the beach.

It was a nice surprise, and we went to the Grote Markt. We had a few drinks there, enjoying the sun.

Today Ettie, Karen and Jaap were on a boat-trip in Friesland; they couldn't have picked a better day! On the Spaarne there were many small boats as well.

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Haarlem

Fire Waarderpolder

Wed, 05/28/2003 - 12:59pm

Picture made by Websnacks.nlWhen I started smelling smoke, my first thought was to look at my monitor. I had a computer monitor on fire once, many years ago.

The smoke came from outside, there's was a huge black cloud coming from the Waarderpolder. I didn't have a lot to do, so I went to take a look. There's a building on fire on the Waarderweg, near the Vomar but at the other side of the river. The smoke smells a bit like that from the steam-trains in Opperdoes. Only there is a lot more of it, of course.

It's seems like quite a large fire, let's hope nobody gets hurt.

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