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Sinterklaas!

Thu, 12/05/2002 - 10:05am

St. Nicolaas.Tonight we'll be celebrating Sinterklaas with Ettie, Gerben and my parents in Middenmeer. We've prepared a number of poems, decorated presents and nice things for it. The preparations are of course part of the fun.

Sinterklaas is a Dutch traditional festivity. If you like to know more about it read for example this excellent introduction to Sinterklaas and the traditions around it. There is also a lot of information on the website of the Dutch Ministery of Foreign Affairs.


It's nice to see that so many people celebrate Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. Here's a story about children on a Dutch school in the UK celebrating Sinterklaas (in Dutch). It's from the newspaper Trouw, that has another interesting article on the history of Sinterklaas.

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internet

Star Wars Asciimation

Thu, 12/05/2002 - 4:39am

C3PO.There are many computer people addicted to the Star Wars movies. And although I'm not one of them I like this link Mats send me.


It's a small Star Wars movie, but made using only ASCII characters. The guy making this has been working on it since 1997...


The homepage of the creator is here.

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internet

Orphan Nigerian Prince

Wed, 12/04/2002 - 11:08am

Everybody knows about the famous e-mails coming from Nigeria of 'troubled business men' who are in a 'temporary difficult position' but with loads of money on a foreign bank account, if only...


Here's a guy who actually wrote back to one of this e-mails, this time from a 'poor young African orphan Nigerian Prince'. Funny read. (through Tonie).

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footworks

Two years at Chess & Net.Footworks

Wed, 12/04/2002 - 10:06am

Today it's 2 years ago since I started working at Net.Footworks.


Tibor started working there a few months earlier and he recommended it when I told him I was looking for a part-time job. The first time I saw everybody was at an extremely dull XML-course. However, everybody agreed that it was a boring course and the work they described sounded promising. After some talking I started working December 4th, 2000 for two days a week.

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internet

Droste, droste, droste...

Tue, 12/03/2002 - 12:10pm

Something less theoretical now than my internship -- be sure to sit stable while you look at this movie...

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chess

New version thesis online

Tue, 12/03/2002 - 11:55am

A new draft version of my thesis is online. The sources I used too.


I won't announce newer version of this thesis all the time anymore since it's changing every day. However, you can always read it through my internship page.

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chess

Useful article

Tue, 12/03/2002 - 4:49am

I just found a really cool article. In my internship I want to find out how to design hardware and software simultanously (preferably using a single language).


My goal is to investigate 3 different methods (languages) to do so and the paper I found is a detailed description how to do so using a specific language (which is called SDL). It's a paper from 2002, which is very nice as well.

Spoke with some collegues about the hardware part of my assignment. I've never really worked with embedded hardware (chips) but they told me there is a lot of hardware (FPGA's, programmable chips) that I can experiment with.

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chess

Picture Co-Design

Mon, 12/02/2002 - 8:29am

For all of you who asked for pictures on Co-Design: I found one in the Bibliography of Hardware/Software Codesign.

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fun

Balkenende 2

Mon, 12/02/2002 - 3:55am

In the daily spam: Balkenende 2.


Balkenende 2.



Click on 'Read more...' for a bigger version.

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dailylife

Sinterklaas preparations

Sun, 12/01/2002 - 12:26pm

Sinterklaas' mijter.Today we're preparing things for Sinterklaas.
Really convenient that the shops were open today.



Poems, presents... working till late tonight.

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