By Guus , 29 January 2003

Yesterday evening we had dinner at Zoltan's place. Daniel cooked, but rather unusual it wasn't spicey at all.


Michel and André where there too. Did some promotion for... Guus Bosman.nl.

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By Guus , 28 January 2003

View from the window this morning.There was a man on the news yesterday who is always making pictures from his window. He lives at the river Amstel in Amsterdam, and now there was an exposition of some of his best photos. He made pictures of many events such as the Gayparade and the marriage of Willem-Alexander and Maxima.

He is a really good photographer and made very nice pictures, so that's not comparable to my 'work'. But I recognized that you can see much about the world from your own window.<

In the past we saw the flag on the Adriaan on the day of the funeral of HRH Prince Claus, Sinterklaas arriving in Haarlem or the prison that was being cleaned.

In the morning when I just woke up this was the view from our window:

The view in the morning.

The fire brigade went into the number 8, two houses further. Luckily enough nobody seemed to be hurt, and there wasn't a big fire.

In the Haarlems Dagblad today:

"De bewoners van een appartementencomplex aan de Hooimarkt moesten dinsdagochtend hun woningen verlaten bij een korte binnenbrand in het pand. De Haarlemmers werden door de brandweer geëvacueerd. Niemand raakte gewond. Hoe de brand is ontstaan, is nog onduidelijk."

("The tenants of an apartmentcomplex at the Hooimarkt had to leave their house because of a small fire in the building. They were evacuated by the fire brigade. Nobody got hurt. How the fire started is not clear yet.")

Of course this reminds of the situation 23 years ago when a big part of our house burned down.

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By Guus , 27 January 2003

Co-Design for Chess-iT.A new version of my paper is online. Finally crossed the psychologically important 30-page limit, and I've been reorganizing the structure quite a lot today.

It even has a picture for those who are interested in pictures. Tomorrow morning I'll see Ralf to discuss the paper.

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By Guus , 26 January 2003

Because I don't like winter I'm always optimistic about the coming of the spring.

Our plants seem to share this optimism.








This is (a part of) the plant from Florijn.

The end of March it will be 6 years ago since I moved into Florijn and found it there.

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By Guus , 25 January 2003

Very interesting article at the BBC about Putin and Dobby:

"Dobby the house-elf could be taken to court because some people think he looks like the Russian president.


They are angry because they think the filmmakers deliberately modelled Dobby on the face of Russia's boss, Vladimir Putin. "

Our beloved prime-minister Balkenende is also mentioned. (Found it through Loglynx).

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By Guus , 24 January 2003

A survey of non-voters, by the Sociaal Cultureel Planburo. It describes backgrounds, motivations not to go voting, etc.