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Crimes in Florijn

Sat, 02/15/2003 - 11:07am

Before we moved to Amstelveen we lived a long time in Florijn, a flat in Amsterdam.

The other day Sasha saw on the news that three people got killed in a nasty family-homicide in Florijn. It happened on the same floor that we lived on. On the picture with the police guys in the article you can see housenumber 502.

One of the people living in the flat said: "This is a rather criminal flat. Last year somebody got robbed of his laptop in the elevator".

Hmm... guess who. I'm happy that we don't live there anymore (although except for this very unfortunate incident we had a very good time there).

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Whiskey in Haarlem

Fri, 02/14/2003 - 12:00pm

In Den Uiver. Yesterday evening Jerry and I went out in Haarlem. First we went to Den Uiver; there was live-music there. We tried 'Highland Park' and 'Laghar Culin'. The second one was especially very nice.

The second pub we visited was Proeflokaal. We were quite surprised to see the same face there as we saw in Den Uiver. Turns out the two pubs have the same owner. Tried Dalwhinnie there.

We closed the evening in Studio, a bigger pub that we should visit more often.

Overview tournaments 2003

Fri, 02/14/2003 - 7:51am

Martijn just sent the tournament agenda for the 999 Games tournaments in 2003.

The tournaments will be bigger than before, there'll be a maximum of 128 players. There have been some changes in the registration procedure too, for this please see 999 Games' website.

Let's hope the tournaments will be as much fun as last year!

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Website down

Fri, 02/14/2003 - 7:50am

Guus Bosman.nl has been unreachable from 15:30 yesterday till 12:00 o'clock today.

Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from Martijn with the tournament schedule for this year and I wanted to be the first website to have them online. And just when I was ready with the article: crash; the internet connection failed.

Because I went out yesterday evening there was no time to have a good look at it. I was afraid it was going to take a lot time. This morning I had a closer look... and it was just a loose UTP cable that made everything fail.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused and I hope you didn't miss the website too much.

I has been a while since the website has been down this long. And by the way: I am still the first to put the tournament schedule online, even 999 Games doesn't have it yet. Hah.

Nieuwe Gracht 7

Thu, 02/13/2003 - 6:11am

The Hendrick de Keyser Foundation bought the building 'Huis Barnaart'.

That's very close to Chess, I walk by it everyday.

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Tea before sleeping

Thu, 02/13/2003 - 3:04am

Tea in Chinesee: cha3 This week I've been working at home a lot. Writing goes a bit easier here sometimes than at Chess.

It made me restore an old habit: drinking tea while studying. The point is that I'm often reading in the evenings and then I don't want to drink coffee. However I forgot an old lesson, that some types of tea contain a lot of caffeine too...

Slept pretty bad; it took me an hour to fall asleep. In the style of drinking to get rid of a hang-over there's one thing giving me hope... the sound of the coffee machine.