On with my journey through the northern provinces... I'll go to Leeuwarden to visit Ettie & Gerben.

The presentation went well -- shared some interesting ideas. To learn the pro's and contra's of a technology it is very helpful to talk with others and compare with other systems and implementations. After me their was a second presentation of an ex-employee of Evermind, who told us about his current job, coaching of people. Interesting.

Wow, quite a journey. I took the train at 8:40 o'clock, and arrived here at 12:15. The train had a bit of a delay. I like it a lot -- it wasn't very busy in the train and it was perfect for studying. I took a big Java book, and prepared for Friday's test.

At 14:00 o'clock I'll give a presentation of the project I've been working on in Haarlem, and the technology we've used there.

I'm packing my bag. Tomorrow I'll go to Evermind in Groningen and afterwards to Leeuwarden. Evermind is a firm of the Chess group. Some collegues travel from Haarlem to Groningen and vice versa a few times per week, but for me it feels quite far. In the evening I'll visit Ettie.

My supervisors agreed on the mark for my thesis (an 8), and submitted it to the graduation committee: I'm officially done now!

Yesterday afternoon I went to a house-warming party in Haarlem. Two friends moved to the "Tuinlaantje", a cute little street near the Bavo cathedral.

Back to work now. The summer is definitely over I suppose, it's raining a lot and it's not very warm.

An easy Saturday today. In the morning I was studying this Java-thing, later I went for lunch with Jelly and Olga. When I left home it was raining, but after a while it got much nicer and we sat outside.

Made lasagne in the evening; read a bit.

Now I'm as good as done with my internship. In the beginning of next week I'll hear my mark, and there is nothing else left for my graduation.

However, there are always new things to study: I would like to get two "Java certifications". I'll start with a very simple one: Java Certified Programmer. There is not really a lot of new stuff to study for this as I've been working with Java for many years now. But, I like to have a certificate, and to be forced to study the small details once more. To get this certificate I only have to do 1 test, which I have scheduled for this Friday.

I gave a demonstration today of the software I've been working on. A potential customer was interested in the technology we've used, so a group of people came to Chess.

It's a foreign company, so we tried to translate the frontpage of the website into their own language. We had used various translation websites for this, because none of us knew the language. They smiled when they saw it -- they appreciated the effort but the translation was pretty bad they told us ;)

We went to Amsterdam this evening; there was a drink of the Economisch Sociaal Instituut of the VU.

It was in "Café Kale de Grote", a bar at the Marie Heinekenplein in Amsterdam. Very nice.

I've been e-mailing with the VU about an extra course. Not that I have to do another one but they've awarded me with 2 points for a course I never did.

Obviously something went wrong: the course is called "Keuzevak 2", it's of the Faculty of Medicin. I suppose somebody made a mistake when entering data in the computer. The course will be erased from my list; I just hope that this doesn't mean somebody else didn't get the deserved points.

The mark for my paper is almost ready -- I'll probably hear it next week.