Archive for March, 2008
Upgrades & improvements
For whoever is blogging with WordPress, the last few days must have been filled with newsposts, updates and announcements about the all new WordPress 2.5
I too have upgraded (since about 20 minutes ago) and everything seems to run fine. If you do find some peculiar behavior anywhere on this site, please feel free to notify me, by emailing me. I’m reachable at: <my given name>@<my given name><my surname>.nl
Oh well, you would have probably figured that one out by yourself I guess. 
Ceiling cat get’s its paper equivalent
Normally, I don’t post remnants of ‘old’ internethypes, yet today is different.
Lolcats, who does not know them. They’ve got their own sites, goodies and even a programming language. An internet-hype pur sang. One of the most hilarious is ceiling cat, who now has got his paper equivalent.
I found it here, and all props go to the author.
/me is done!
Whoa, that feels nice!
I’m (finally) done waiting for the approval for my graduation! I’ve set up an appointment to deal with all the bureaucratic hassle that has to be dealt with at the university, but I’m not going to change a single letter of my thesis anymore.
Done! yay!
*celebrates*
Update (2008-04-07): I’ve had to reschedule the appointment to Thursday April 10th. I hope this will be the final appointment!
Sitting, waiting, wishing
This kind of sums up the last week. I asked my supervisors at the university to accept the semi-final version to be the final version, for me to hand the thesis in officially and to finally graduate.
It now is over a week since I received any communication from my first supervisor, so I’m getting anxious. Trust me, I’ve tried to contact him.
The second is the constructive or constructive assessment of our to-be-home. The appointment has been postponed once, and delayed the second day. The tester has confirmed the report was to be delivered Tuesday (third day of Easter) or at least before the end of Wednesday. We are a mere 2 hours away from that, and I haven’t heard of the report ever since. That sums up the days so far. Blegh.
Our nation ground to a halt
What a little bit of snow can do to mobility.
888 kilometres of queue on our highways, no trains going in or out of Rotterdam and to make matters worse: the snow did not even stay long. It melted almost directly after it touched the ground.
No fun ánd all the hassle.
Whoever thought the issues concerning mobiility and specifically the daily tragedy that is our road network, can go home. There is no solution. We will quite possibly stay stuck in traffic for years on end, or until we all move to a location 5 minutes walking distance from our work.
The latter will definately not happen, so the estimations look grim.
My personal rant in this: I left my house at 06:25 only to find the bus was stuck in the local traffic and I got into it around 06:50. No issue there, but we crept to the next bus-stops along the way. Arriving at the subway about 40 minutes late, I was lucky to get on the right subwaytrain instantly. When nearing the trainstation, I saw a whole buch of people cluttered on one single platform. The speaker medestly told us no trains were heading to Rotterdam, and from Rotterdam due to the ‘extreme weather’. I waited for about 20 minutes to come to the conclusion trying to push for Rotterdam Central station, and than further on to Utrecht was probably waisted effort so I returned home.
After three full hours in public transportation, I was back where I started.
This morning I heard from a fellow-traveller he had made it to Utrecht on the same trajectory as me, only to arrive around 10:15 and via Rotterdam Central, The Hague and Gouda whilst leaving home around 06:20. Four hours, twice the normal duration. I was lucky to return home early.
To make matters worse: ProRail has announced the heaters in the railroad switches had failed (leading to the switches being frozen) due to the fact "the wrong type of snow" fell. Say what? It’s white, cold and comes from the sky. How can it be the wrong type?
This will probably be continued…