Coping with public and private transport since 2001
This time of year, it should be Winter, although the temperatures outdoors do not exactly lead you to believe so. It’s about 8 degrees Celsius right now, and I thought it would be a nice idea to put some new wintery headers in place. So here they are, 9 new additions. See them all, including the old ones on my
Continue readingI would really like to wish everyone I know, and everyone who knows me a wonderful next couple of festive days and the very best for the upcoming year! Greetings from a wintery, because cold, location in the south of Zuid-Holland. Too obvious and cheesy, but hey: you know me 🙂
Continue readingBelow an assortment of pictures taken, some with my phone, some with a real camera, of wintery scenes. Enjoy! Edit: pictures are moved to full-view only. Click below to see them. 😉
Continue readingSince a couple of days I’ve been noticing an increase in spam-comments. Historically ranging from the infamous penis enlargements to comments telling my how to buy cheap medication, spams have been pretty straightforward. Usually, a spam comment exists of several links, very little text and all sorts of different spellings and synonyms of the words medication, penis and bigger. This
Continue readingSince it already is the 18th of December, I’m telling you, my precious readers, the thesis is nearing completion. There still are major loads of work to do, and since my thesis coordinator at the university (again) is away for some time next week it’ll be a mad dash to the end. Wish me luck here, at least I’ve rested
Continue readingPeople living in the randstad in the Netherlands, tend to underestimate the rest of the country, as it just is not the Randstad. Anything beyond the large urban conglomerate spanning from Amsterdam to Utrecht and Rotterdam is not up to speed, and less developed. I’m not in favor of this snobbish attitude towards (17-7)/17*100 = 59% of the Netherlands, but
Continue readingToday can be considered to be the very first day of the Winter of 2007. I woke up this morning, and directly froze off a limb when I exited my nice warm bed. The view here in Nieuwegein can only be described as foggy & cold, luckily the temperature has not dropped below zero degrees Celcius, it probably will soon
Continue readingWe’ve got a new Vista-based computer at home, to do the all-important financials and some random surfing. As our house is also equipped with a pc dedicated to be the media-server, and it runs on XP. (I know, I’m too lazy to set up a Linux-based, Samba enabled box 😉 ) It is running quite steadily for quite some time
Continue readingThere are some advantages with living near to our coast. After you take away the hard wind, the warm winters and cold summers, the near complete absence of snow & ice, the large quantities of German’s taking over entire villages, the big amounts of Polish, Romanian & Bulgarian workers wreaking havoc in supermarkets and electronics shops and the fact that
Continue readingIf you are Dutch, you most certainly know them: SGP. The abbreviation stands for "Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij", a very strict party of reformed Christians. Recently they made all the headlines as the state-funding of the party was cut off, due to the fact women cannot be a participating member of the party, nor will they ever be as party-regulations clearly
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