This morning I received my first birthday present!

I got two "Danish", which is a little joke about my heritage ("Bring out the windmill!").

We had the Danish with everybody right after our team meeting. Thanks guys!

The Dutch TV news showed a 'robot pharmacy' the other day.

It's machine that fully automatically takes the wholesale supplies, stores them in an archive and on-demand prepares medications for patients.

The pharmacy robot is designed and manufactured by the company Gerben works for, and he has played an important part in the technical implementation. When I was in Holland he showed me video footage of the robot -- it's cool to see how fast and smoothly it operates.

See the TV coverage online (in Dutch).

J. sent me a link to a website of Hema, a Dutch department store:

http://producten.hema.nl

This weekend we hang an image with an artistic view of Amsterdam in the 16th century in the living room, opposite the map of Haarlem.

There is some interesting lens distortion in this picture. I tried to adjust it with barrel correction but not all lines on the picture are vertical and horizontal (and yes, our apartment has straight walls and yes, the map is level also).