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.

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

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

A picture from 1912:

The second house from the left is Huis Barnaart, the 5th one is the Chess building.

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.

This is a very cool one: the Flash Mind Reader...

It looks a bit like the mind-reader from two weeks ago but it's very sophisticated: try it a couple of times and you'll be amazed!

Spincity is cool.

Truly a brilliant move of France, Germany and Belgium to veto preparations for preparing defense for Turkey in case of a war.

I mean -- that's what the Alliance is for, isn't it? If there's a potential war at the other side of Europe, who cares that Turkey wants some defense?

Hmm -- sorry if I see this a bit too negative. But I think it's one thing not to agree on attacking Saddam Hussein, quite another matter to danger to relationships in Nato in such a way. Lord Robertson seems to be a little bit optimistic:

"It is serious that after three weeks, we have not got an agreement. But a lot of people are working very hard to make sure an agreement takes place, and I’m confident that if people look at the serious implications of not getting a decision than that will, I hope, give an impetus to providing a solution and getting a consensus."

Found a trick at Willy Dobbe.

A mirror for Guus Bosman.nl!


won siht daer uoy naC?

I'm writing my thesis in Latex, a type-setting system with a lot of useful features. One of the things I'm using now is a tool to convert the list of references I have to HTML.

See this page for an example. The nice thing is that is links to the original version of the papers I've used too.

For the fans: latest version of my paper.

"Excuse me, can I ask you something?"


"No."


"Do you think street-interviews should be forbidden?"

(Vrij Nederland)

Sometimes you read stuff that you should have learned long ago. The meaning of washing-symbols.