Something less theoretical now than my internship -- be sure to sit stable while you look at this movie...

A new draft version of my thesis is online. The sources I used too.


I won't announce newer version of this thesis all the time anymore since it's changing every day. However, you can always read it through my internship page.

I just found a really cool article. In my internship I want to find out how to design hardware and software simultanously (preferably using a single language).


My goal is to investigate 3 different methods (languages) to do so and the paper I found is a detailed description how to do so using a specific language (which is called SDL). It's a paper from 2002, which is very nice as well.

Spoke with some collegues about the hardware part of my assignment. I've never really worked with embedded hardware (chips) but they told me there is a lot of hardware (FPGA's, programmable chips) that I can experiment with.

For all of you who asked for pictures on Co-Design: I found one in the Bibliography of Hardware/Software Codesign.

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The picture is a three-dimensional Codesign cube that rotates in space. To view it use a sheet of paper (A4) and hold up to the screen. Make sure that the left eye sees only the left cube and the right eye only the right cube.

First try to match the pictures so you see only one rotating cube. Then focus on the yellow text in the picture. Last follow an upper corner of the cube. It's fun!!

(Design of the Cube by Christian Veith, Rendering by Stefan Micko, Stereo by Klaus Buchenrieder).

In the daily spam: Balkenende 2.






Click on 'Read more...' for a bigger version.

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For the non-Dutch viewers: this is related to the fact that a feel-good-guru presented himself last week as a candidate for leadership of one of the (smaller) political parties.

See also Balkenende 1.

Today we're preparing things for Sinterklaas.
Really convenient that the shops were open today.



Poems, presents... working till late tonight.

My father has been to the States recently for a business trip.

There was a conference on Electronic Teaching in Long Beach, close to Los Angeles. He took some pictures.

While I was working on my last homework assignment I saw a small boat with two Zwarte Pieten in the Spaarne. Some pictures!

They told a kid that they were looking for Sinterklaas' boat (it is lost as you can read here).

About 10 minutes later there were a lot of people gathering, so I went to take a look. The children here are singing and I heard that Sinterklaas would arrive. However... would the boat be back already?

Nope. The real boat is still missing, so Sinterklaas came in a policeboat.

Sinterklaas arrives.

The children went inside the police station as Sinterklaas would give a show there.

Two weeks ago Sinterklaas arrived for the first time in Haarlem. Unfortunately I couldn't go and make pictures then. We took a few through the window but the distance was big. This one is reasonable and gives a good impression:

Tonie pointed out that de Groene Amsterdammer -a Dutch weekly- has put a big part of it's archive online.


You can search all the articles between 1877 and 1940 for free.


Of course I searched on 'Hooimarkt' and I found this nice commercial from 1917:

Yesterday I've installed Latex, a professional typesetting system. I'll use it to write my thesis. After some experimenting the first version (.PDF) is ready.

It contains only a little bit real content but there are some nice features working already. For example the automatic Table of Content and the automatic Bibliography (which is generated using this file).