Yesterday evening I finished the pictures of the Spellenspektakel. Because I was quite busy this morning with some internship things I didn't put them online yet. But here they are!


I separated the pictures in a few sections: building up, Kolonisten, Behind the Scenes, pictures of the stands, Friday evening and Saturday evening. Click here for an overview of all of them. The pictures are big, the bandwidth of my server is limited so viewing them might take a while.


For some reviews of the Spellenspektakel 2002 by other websites (Dutch): Roll the Dice.nl or Spellenstapel.nl. At Spelmagazijn are more pictures (and a review) online. And last but not least Michel of 999 Games made a lot of pictures too and put them online at Spellenspektakel.nl

After the installation of OpenBSD early this morning I've put some extra memory in the webserver. Edo gave me some extra hardware last Wednesday, and the server is now at 100MB.

The difference wouldn't be so huge as the previous time but it's still an improvement again.

I'm at the VU now. I've just spoken with my study counsellor, and he referred me to somebody to discuss my internship so I'll go and see if I can find him.

As you might have noticed this morning the website was off-line. I've installed a new version of the operating system; OpenBSD. There are no pictures online at this moment. I'll re-install them tonight.

Still no pictures online, it's a lot of work and it will take a while. But the wait will be worth it :)

Daniel is here now, he came back from Eindhoven today. We were talking about the Spellenspektakel all evening. Next year we'll be there again!

We came back from the Spellenspektakel 2002 at around 21:00 o'clock.

Finally an update from the Spellenspektakel! I'm in our hotelroom now, after the traditional borrel ('Trinken' auf Deutsch) in the café downstairs. We're staying in the Holiday Inn hotel which is really close to the building the fair is in.

Today was of course the openingday of the Spellenspektakel, and it went really smooth. Yesterday evening we went home at 22:30 o'clock (a lot better than last year!). We were rather tired and didn't go for a drink.

As always the breakfast in the Holiday Inn was delicous. We were in the Beursgebouw around 9:00 o'clock to finish the last parts. When the fair opened one of the first things I did was signing in my mother for the Vara/999 Kolonisten tournament at the VOC ship in Amsterdam. I called her and she was really happy with it. Sunday's bordspellen-tournament doesn't have a lot of participants, and the latest rumour I heard is that it will be cancelled in favour of a... Steden & Ridders tournament! It's not official though, so if you want to apply check with the tournament people first.

So, now we're in the hotel and the people downstairs are playing games (I'll join them soon!). Sasha, Jerry and Marjolein are playing a new game.\

I took a lot of pictures yesterday and tonight, but the internet here is very expensive, so I'll put them online next week.

Even though there is a lot of work we're having a lot of fun here with a nice group of people.

There is even an internet connection at the Beursgebouw itself; really nice.

The construction goes really smooth, most of the things will be ready at 18:00 o'clock (that is a lot better than last year). After that mainly the decoration of the 999 Games' booths is left.

We have new clothing; it's purple with yellow. It's really easy to find us now :)

Took some pictures, I'll put them online tonight from the hotel.

Well, perhaps not the most early departure ever (that must have been to Leeuwarden), but still... early.

We'll take the train at 07:40. It's nice that there is a direct connection between Haarlem and Eindhoven, but there's a big risk there will be delays today.

We went out for dinner with almost everybody of Net.Footworks yesterday.

It was really nice again.

We were in a small restaurant at the Nieuwmarkt, we had kaas-fondue (cheese-dipping).

Yesterday evening Sasha and I went to pick up Daniël from the station.

Jean-Paul was there also, he made some pictures but they're not online yet.