I started writing my paper months ago. In the beginning I just wrote down some small thoughts, sentences and idea's I had, without taking readability in mind. Now is the time to start making it a coherent paper, so I've been restructuring it the last days.

All three my supervisors gave their comments this week, and I've tried to incorporate their ideas. It's important for a paper like this that the first chapter, the introduction, is well-written. This keeps the reader interested, and allows him to better understand what the whole paper will be about.

Another important thing that could increase readability a lot is the use of (more) examples and illustrations. This is something I'll do next week.

Latest version of my paper.

Of course we never watch Idols.



After two episodes (that we didn't see of course) I'm getting a bit annoyed by one of the candidates.

It's a 15-year old boy that looks very cute, but can't sing at all.

It was nice to find out that I'm not the only one.

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My choice would be a girl called Hind.

Library, shopping, had lunch at the top of the V&D building.

It has been snowing all day; it makes the world beautiful.

In the halway it's darker than usual . The window in the roof is covered with snow. The plants in our house still think that it's spring, it's nice and warm inside.

Try this quiz...


How usual are you?

Again a very interesting link through Bieslog, I'm absolutely in love with this one.

It's called Imagination at Work and allows for some really nice painting, such as this one.

To make one yourself go to Imagination at Work.

Not only in Haarlem there has been a lot of snow, but in Belgium too: 20 centimers!

Found this for Internet Explorer users.


Don't panic.

The window near my desk is getting full with snow.

The view from the backside of the Chess building; looking to the right.

Haarlem in the winter.

The view from the backside of the Chess building; looking to the left.

The Grote Markt as seen by the Haarlem webcam.

I was planning to get up very early and be at Amsterdam Amstel at 7:30 o'clock this morning, to say goodbye to Daniël and have some coffee together.

Daniël called me yesterday, and told me that he was at a concert (Sinnead O'Connor). His surprise: he was not going to travel by bus today. Turns out that Jerry offered him to bring him to Hungary by car!

So they're on their way now - Jerry, Marjolein and Daniël. They plan on traveling to Hungary non-stop -- well, with small breaks of course but without spending the night somewhere. Jerry asked what my plans for today and the weekend were. I must say I was tempted but there is a lot of work to do; another time.

According to Geostar the distance between Amsterdam and Tiszaföldvár is 1535 km. It takes around 14-15 hours by car.

I wondered if I could find yesterdays waking up on the internet. After all, even Middenmeer has their firebrigade online.

And yes, there is a website of the Haarlem firebrigade too. Yesterday's event is not online yet, but they are many pictures of other fires they worked on. They coolest feature of the site, one that Middenmeer's doesn't have, is the life audio stream of their scanner.