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).

Just like Guus Bosman.nl the VARA has put some pictures of last Friday's VOC Kolonisten tournament online.


Click here to go to the VARA-site.

Beautiful picture yesterday in a free newspaper (Spits). Wouter found it online here.

Picture by Reuters.

I'm looking for books and articles on Co-Design in the library of the CWI now.

I tried the library of the VU as well but that gave a rather depressing result:

The official results of the tournaments in the VOC ship just came in. Everybody agreed that it was a a very nice evening, definately worth repeating.

There were 191 participants, divided in two tournaments. The results:

WK tournament:

• 1. Casper Hoyng
• 2. Frans de Bode
• 3. Finco Steffelaar
• 4. Wouter Granade
• 5. Kim de Bode
• 6. Hans Baert
• 7. Erwin Lubbes
• 8. Mathijs v.d. L
• 9. Michael Thorn
• 10. Kees Schouten
• 11. Gert Jan Wouters
• 12. Patric v.d Kruk
• 13. Rebekka Lindenaar
• 14. Petrus Lenes
• 15. Rene Belderbos
• 16. Remco Thijssen
• 17. Jennifer Lenes
• 18. Jeanette Boele
• 19. Angelique Heus
• 20. Wim Feijen
• 21. Kay Eeftink
• 22. Piet van Everdingen
• 23. Remi Hennink
• 24. Gerco v.d. Velde
• 25. John Hulsman
• 26. Erica v.d. Bos
• 27. Niels Kamphuis
• 28. Yuri v.d. Geest
• 29. Gaston Veron
• 30. Danny Kip
• 31. Jaap Oostrik
• 32. Jeroen ten Brammeler
• 33. Fabian Verheij
• 34. Andre Hanemaaijer
• 35. Henk Rolleman
• 36. Ron Staal
• 37. Merel Fouman
• 38. Theis de Kwant
• 39. Maggie v.d. Berk
• 40. Jaqueline Belderbos
• 41. Sylvia van Welie
• 42. Akko Breebaart
• 43. Paul Emons
• 44. Peter Kortekaas
• 45. Pave Luza
• 46. Alexander Eimers
• 47. Ronald Rietveld
• 48. Steven Dijk
• 49. Mark Kelders
• 50. Albert de Haan
• 51. Erik Cribbers
• 52. H. Sikkenga
• 53. Peter Maaskant
• 54. Klaas Langeveld
• 55. Maijk Senden
• 56. Roy v.d. Oever
• 57. Mieke Bosman
• 58. Martijn Senden
• 59. Ellen Vrieling
• 60. Ellen v.d. Kaay
• 61. Renilde Barczuk
• 62. Marian v.d. Wal
• 63. Wim Buijze
• 64. Jan Nieuwenhuis

By the way, there are a few pictures of this tournament online.
The winner of the WK qualification rounds, Casper Hoyng, will go to the World Cup in Essen (2003) together with Herman Mentink, the Dutch national champion (see pictures of that tournament's final).

Just-for-fun players:

• 1. Paul Heesen
• 2. August van Mosel
• 3. Michel Buurman
• 4. Marleen Zantingh
• 5. Thijs Ekelschot
• 6. Simone Kalkoene
• 7. Wil Harms
• 8. Arno Jonker
• 9. Tommy Wilbrink
• 10. Jacco Haverhals
• 11. Marco Dijkstra
• 12. Bert Winters
• 13. Har Kroon
• 14. Peter Geven
• 15. Ellen Wognum
• 16. Harry Rood
• 17. Mieke Nijenbrinks
• 18. Zhantal Kool
• 19. Davy Morée
• 20. Judith Nijenbrinks
• 21. Martijn Arts
• 22. Bart Achterberg
• 23. Jacco de Haas
• 24. Jeroen Weertman
• 25. Germ Janmaat
• 26. Koen Biemans
• 27. Thom van de Velpen
• 28. Nanet van Herk
• 29. Mariska Steenvoorden
• 30. Sandra Donk
• 31. Max Beukelman
• 32. Daniël Sepers
• 33. Karsten Lehmann
• 34. Marian Hanol
• 35. Rolf Post
• 36. Samuel Matahelumual
• 37. Hanneke Kranenborg
• 38. Marina Sneijders
• 39. Ilse Heemskerk
• 40. Govert Snelder
• 41. Nina Dijkstra
• 42. Mischa Barthel
• 43. Rolf Paullisse
• 44. Eelke Heidinga
• 45. Bart Christiaens
• 46. Carin Donk
• 47. Frans-Jan Liefrink
• 48. Martijn Goedhart
• 49. Giel Scharff
• 50. Danny Ship
• 51. Pepita Defoer
• 52. John Tromp
• 53. Stef Boerdijk
• 54. Olof Snijder
• 55. Bardine Versluijs
• 56. Chester van Unen
• 57. Lennert Brinkman
• 58. Karina Erkelens
• 59. Hans Wilbrink
• 60. Matthijs Frissen
• 61. Anna Lissa Cruz
• 62. Petra Kulderij
• 63. Bas Beukers
• 64. Hester Koerts
• 65. Bert Harskamp
• 66. Bianca de Visser
• 67. Gina Scharff
• 68. Mandy Ros
• 69. Johan Bruins
• 70. Erwin Wilschut
• 71. Miranda Olinga
• 72. Brenda de Jong
• 73. Yvo Gortemaker
• 74. Hans Hoenders
• 75. Hanneke Joling
• 76. Maaike Büchner
• 77. Roland van Looshoek
• 78. Jorg Tanis
• 79. Karin Wit
• 80. Franka Hendriks
• 81. Jeroen Klein
• 82. Martijn van de Kamer
• 83. Malkita Sandelowsky
• 84. Rutger Jacobs
• 85. Kitty Büchner
• 86. Lucien Kleikers
• 87. Sander Goedhart
• 88. Plony van Brakel
• 89. Loes de Graaf
• 90. Eric Heerschop
• 91. Janneke ten Bokum
• 92. Peter Granade
• 93. Freek Berson
• 94. Rudi Cilibrasi
• 95. Sabine te Spenke
• 96. Jesse van Rooijen
• 97. Sander Kool
• 98. Tjeerd Kleikers
• 99. Bram Wolf
• 100. John Frissen
• 101. Gaya Bosmeier
• 102. Joost Bloemsaat
• 103. Sabine van Pesch
• 104. Astrid Hoving
• 105. Willem de Vries
• 106. Jemie de Ruijter
• 107. Jelger de Haas
• 108. Stijn Bollen
• 109. Ed-Wim van Zeland
• 110. Artur da Silva
• 111. Tonny Wilbrink
• 112. Mark Pijnenburg
• 113. Lenie Bosmeier
• 114. Laura Toet
• 115. Melle de Vries
• 116. Ruli Guit
• 117. Peter Knook
• 118. Bea Smeede
• 119. Monique Schipper
• 120. Sandra van Dun
• 121. Karoline Vermaak
• 122. Esther Nijenbrinks
• 123. Leon Bosmeier
• 124. Lieke Heerschop
• 125. Trudy Kort
• 126. Carolien Porsius
• 127. Kirsten Sepers

There is a couple of pictures online of the tournaments at the VOC ship.

Yesterday and today I've been reading a lot of papers for my internship. My first result: there seems to be a lot of confusion in the literature about whether to write "co-design" or "codesign".

At the end of this week I hope to have at least 2 methods that I can use for my internship.


Tomorrow I'll go to the library of the CWI to find some books about Co-Design.