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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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vu

Internet Programming 5

Wed, 05/28/2003 - 9:47am

Oh, what a beautiful weather! It's quiet here at Chess; many people left already. I feel a lot better now than a week ago; my cold is almost over.

More good news: the deadline for the 5th assignment of Internet Programming has been extended with a week.

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dailylife

Hammie

Tue, 05/27/2003 - 1:31pm

Ettie just called; her hamster Hammie died.

Too bad, it was a very nice animal. It stayed in our apartment last year, when Ettie wasn't home for a couple of days. It was quite noisy during the night, with its running-wheel.

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guusbosmannl

New layout

Mon, 05/26/2003 - 12:30pm

There are many reasons why I have this website. It allows me to stay in touch with people who I don't see everyday, and it's cool to be able to look back now and then, and see what I did almost a year ago.

Another reason is that I like "playing" with a website -- a hobby indeed. This weekend I've been reading a book on website design, called "Don't make me think". I knew that my website is not the most user-friendly ever, and that not everybody appreciates the yellow background. The last days I've been trying to incorporate some of the books' ideas in the layout of this website. It's not completely ready yet, some small things here-and-there, but I hope you'll like it.

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dailylife

Eurovision Songcontest 2003

Sat, 05/24/2003 - 6:32pm

European SongcontestWe were watching the European Songcontest at the BBC. The voice-over was by Terry Wogan -- he was absolutely hilarious.

The songs were a lot worse than I had imagined they would be. It was the first time I saw it.

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dailylife

Computer desk

Sat, 05/24/2003 - 12:13pm

Sasha got a very good job for the summer this week. She'll be assisting a professor in a very interesting research-project.

This is one of the reasons we went to look for a second computer desk. Today we found a nice one: not expensive and just the right size. Turns out to be sold out and a new delivery won't be made before June 10th or so. I guess we'll just wait for that, we're not extremely in a hurry but it was a bit of a disappointment.

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dailylife

Disappointment

Fri, 05/23/2003 - 11:02am

"The course 'how to deal with disappointments' has unfortunately been cancelled".

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internet

GM animals

Fri, 05/23/2003 - 6:01am

Ratelband ratThis Friday there's an interesting theme of the photo-manipulating contest at Retecool.com: genetically engineered animals.

As always, Mr. Ratelband is a popular target; just like Mr. Balkenende and Mr. Bos.


The ideas of "Poolifant" and "Jamai de Bij" are nice too, have a look.

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dailylife

Weather

Tue, 05/20/2003 - 10:26am

What a depressing weather! It's raining cats and dogs, and it's almost June. I got a bit of a cold which doesn't really make me feel better.



But here at Chess it's warm and the programming is nice. Tonight we'll probably go to the library, that's something I like. It makes me feel rich to see so many books, all of which I can just take home and read.

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guusbosmannl

OpenBSD 3.3

Mon, 05/19/2003 - 3:09am

It took me longer than I thought, but yesterday late I finished the installation of OpenBSD 3.3. In the process I removed my whole /usr directory, because it contained a lot of old stuff. This required me to re-install (the binaries of) Apache and MySQL, which I did this morning. That went very smooth, in 20 minutes the installation was ready. The webserver is running since 9.10 o'clock again.

There is still some configuration to be done, but at least the websites work again (not only this one, but also Jaap Bosman.com and 2otherwise.nl).

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