13:05




13:35 -- slightly better

14:05 -- ready

I've spent the whole morning trying to find out how a specific feature works in a program we're using. It wasn't extremely well documented, so I wasn't even sure if I was trying it the right way...


I tried pretty much everything I could think of, but without result. Really annoying! Then it turns out that there's a bug in this program -- so it wasn't my fault. Installed a new version, and now it works.

Today new memory was installed in my laptop, now it has 512 MB.


Quite a difference.

Introduction to my first project.

It has been a while but I've put a new version of my paper online. I changed the layout!

After various comments on the double line-spacing I hope to satisfy the readers now :) An unfortunately side-effect is of course that the paper has less pages again... 41.

I'll finally start working fulltime, after nearly 2,5 years of having a parttime job and an internship.

This morning we agreed on the employment conditions and I'll start per March 1st at Chess.

I'm at the CWI Library; I had to bring back some books. It's a strange idea -- I was here the end of November 2002 also to find literature for my internship.

I basically had no idea where to look or what to look for. Now I hope to be ready with my internship in two or three weeks.

I'm writing my thesis in Latex, a type-setting system with a lot of useful features. One of the things I'm using now is a tool to convert the list of references I have to HTML.

See this page for an example. The nice thing is that is links to the original version of the papers I've used too.

For the fans: latest version of my paper.

The latest version of my internship paper has 5 (!) pictures and 42 pages.

Tomorrow I'll meet my supervisors again in Haarlem, I'll give a short presentation of the results I found untill now.

Yesterday I went to the other branch of Chess. It's in Best, a small place near Eindhoven -- a journey of 2,5 hours.

We planned to go long ago, to discuss my internship with a collegue there. We had a very interesting discussion. They are planning to do an investigation in the same area as mine. Their focus is on creating a workable (commercial) solution in a few years. My research is more academic, and --in a sense-- less useful :) We could share a lot of ideas; it was very interesting.

When I came home Ettie was there too so we watched yesterday's interviews the three of us with tea and cookies.

It had been a long time since I spent a whole day without internet... I was curious who had won the elections to be our parliament's Speaker. It would have been nice when De Graaf had won but I like Weisglas too.

Somehow I had got the days all mixed up so I was really surprised there was so little attention to Powell's speech for the Security Council on internet, teletext and the news. Then this morning I realized his speech would be today.