Thanks to Tonie and Joost Blokzijl I discovered the joy of TerraDesk, a tool that contains satellite images of the whole Netherlands!

It might look like I'm not working at all these day, but I am. Reading on the SHAM today. But still, I couldn't help noticing this picture (found on Slashdot) of a war-simulation game... Way, way cool.

Came back from Amsterdam. Had a Whopper in McDonalds...

Various digital archives are being created on what happened September 11th. This particular one stores e-mails and Instant Messaging logs from ordinary people. It's a heavy read -- chicken skin. Tens of thousands e-mails like this one have been sent.

Okay, something for in the lunch-break: Zusje, the daily comic in the Dutch newspaper Trouw. Last week they had a particular nice one:

Picture: www.trouw.nl/zusje

Let's see, the last thing we need is a broom. -- Don't we go to Blokker for that daddy? -- I won't go there anymore. It's a creepy shop with a nasty mentality. -- Oh come on, is this really necessary for in a comic? -- Well, that's how they do it, right?!

(Background information: Blokker's annual report -which was written in comics- stated that "Immigrants and the 'entire asylum and illegal immigrants industry' are responsible for the large number of armed robberies in the Netherlands". See here for an English article on it).

It's now official, the website of our university (the VU) is the worst of all university websites in the Netherlands.

Just came back from an evening in the pub with Sasha and Irena... we went to Café Fidèl, a new pub that opened two months ago. It's a Cuban style place (yes -- with the sigars), the Haarlems Dagblad has a nice article in Dutch about the place.

picture: Haarlems Dagblad

We brought David and Milena, our German friends, back to the trainstation. Then we had a drink and dinner... a cosy Sunday evening.

We went to the draaiorgel museum in Haarlem -- quite interesting. It's a museum in an old factory (in pretty bad shape) that has 10 organs (draaiorgels), with one playing. Today they had a special 'gues', the Johannes Vermeer from Rotterdam. It's definately a nice thing to visit (they're only open on Sunday's). It's quite small; we were done in 30 minutes.