The Russians are coming! Tomorrow a Russian Antonov airplane will fly over the Netherlands and take pictures of militairy objects. It's part of the Open Skies treaty, which should increase mutual trust between Russia and other countries. Here's the original article, in Dutch.
Reading about the SHAM; as Chess-made chip that simulates satellite hardware so software can be tested without having the actual hardware (yet) available. Very interesting. It would be very cool if I could find a project around this thing; the technological aspects are very interesting and of course it would be cool to work on a space-project!
Just came back from the airport. Unfortunately, all nice things have an end -- Sasha's parents went back to Bulgaria. Ìíîãî, ìíîãî ïîçäðàâè îò âñè÷êè òóê!
Nice -- weekend. After my first full-time week at my internship it's nice to sleep in a morning. Had a very quiet day, reading a bit, coffee... the likes. In the mean time I'm recording some songs for Íàäÿ, from internet.
Hah, Jonathan arrived safely -- his trip took a lot longer than it should have; but at least he arrived. A luggage-truck crashed into his aircraft while it was loaded with the luggage! "we have good news, and we have bad news: the bad news is that we have a hole in the aircraft and won't be able to fly - the good news is that there'll be another plane in a few hours..."
Jonathan will arrive today! But we heard yesterday that his plane was cancelled, so he had to take another one. It's not for sure what time he'll arrive.
"Je studeert niet omdat je geld wilt verdienen, maar om je de rest van je leven niet te hoeven vervelen.' -- You don't study to become rich, but not to be bored the rest of your life. A quote of Edsger W. Dijkstra, a pioneer of Dutch computer science. He died on August 6th. Respect.
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