The last few days my internship has been getting started. I'm working on the final version of my assignment and project plan, Friday I'll sent it to the Examencommissie.


My internship supervisor is dr. ing. Ralf Lämmel, an Assistant Professor here at the VU. My external supervisors are Bert Bos and Petra Eu ssen of Chess-iT.

The internship is about development methods that combine the design of hardware and software.

We played a new game with Marjolein, Daniël and Jerry yet again. It's called Puerto Rico and it's really nice. Not only because I won of course.

Daniël showed us Boonanza and we played it once. It's a nice game and seems to be suitable for more than 3 players very well too. Another update for the Games List.

I've found some really cool pictures of our house on the website of the Haarlem Picture Archive (Archiefdienst Kennemerland).

As I wrote a few weeks ago our landlord told us that he and his brother bought the building after it was severely damaged by a fire. On this site there are many pictures of the fire of June 25th, 1980. There is a number of pictures of the inside of the building after the fire, even of our apartment!

I've put a selection of these pictures online.

Funny short movie.

Today is my 24th birthday and together with Mieke I celebrated it in Middenmeer.

It was nice there were so many guests!

There's an interview with my uncle in a newspaper, the Reformatorisch Dagblad.

I just received my birthday present! A wonderful bouquet flowers was delivered this morning. One of the neighbours (thanks!) put it in our halway, just in front of our door so it made a really nice surprise.


The flowers are from Stichting Dagcentra IJmond, a company I've worked for it the past and where I still sometimes give support. Thank you very much!

Funny when you're bored. Have a look here for the everyday happenings of Weeble (and sometimes Weebls friend Bob).

Flash, make sure to have your sound on.

Of course it's Mieke's birthday today... congratulations from both of us!