Coping with public and private transport since 2001
And here I am, comfortably sitting inside, sipping my coffee and looking out to see nothing but rainy and stormy weather. I have to admit: I am privileged enough to appreciate these circumstances. I could do worse. Gathering research data goes rather well, currently I’m gathering and comparing definitions of what a portal is, and summing up similarities. These will
Continue readingArrr, perhaps tis’ not the best known celebratory day in the world, but e’ery September 19th, pirates take o’er the internet, and e’en the offline world. Gar, Where can I find a bottle o’rum? Arrr, today Me will be known as Mad Harry Flint, my pirate-name accordin’ t’ these guys. Aye. Yes, me mateys: it is time! International Talk Like
Continue readingWhen you are busy creating your thesis, it is vital to have at least one "offline" backup, and preferable more on different locations. I’m already putting in several extra methods of making sure my data will be available, no matter what. The first line of defense would be having a SVN-repository enabling me to have a versioning-system for all documents.
Continue readingTriple-yay! After my first proposal for a thesis was rejected by the university as the quality of the proposed thesis didn’t quite match the (high) university-standards, I sat down to rethink what Ordina was asking from me, and what I wanted myself. I met with the supervisors from both Ordina and the university to discuss the matter and came up
Continue readingThis morning, my former boss in Hoogvliet tried to call me but could’t reach me, so he left an urgent message for me to call him back. As he refused to say to my parents what it was about, they feared the worst: something really bad had happened to someone I knew. I got back a short while later to
Continue readingToday Guy is going to China for six months, or a little longer if all goes well. Right now, he is on his plane somewhere over the Gobi Desert trying to attack his boredom by placing blogposts on his website. What he is going to do there is still not quite clear to me, but I’m sure it will involve
Continue readingAs many of you know, I’m currently doing an internship at Ordina since the last week of July. To my great surprise, I found a note yesterday stating I could collect a bouquet delivered for a mr. Tijhof. Curious as I was, I went to our neighbours to retrieve the flowers only to find out they were sent for me!
Continue readingRight, after a very refreshing two-week stay at some tiny town in Austria, I’ve learned quite a few things about the place, and the very first would be: Internet is not something the Austrians would consider a necessity. During my twitching and eye-twisting my girlfriend tried to distract my attention from the lack of internet-access to more relaxing things like
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