After one year of designing, negotiating, planning and programming we have entered the testing phase at work. My preliminary conclusion for this week is: not good ( Read more... )

...before I move back to Zaancity of course ( Read more... )

The longer I am without my weekly dose of gaming  the more I miss it. Can't wait 'till mid June when I am back and am able to pick up the Sunday afternoon again only to be confronted with riddles, mysteries and lots and lots of laughter

I had a friend over again last weekend. This time Emiel was here....this was his third visit, I'd almost start thinking he misses me.

We visited the Palace of Versailles on Saturday and finally (after having been here for almost a year) I went into the palace itself to see all of its grandeur. And grand it is. I think it is one of the most lavishly ( Read more... )

The training courses that I can follow here in France are truly fantastic. The teachers are great (Christian Tissier, Patrick Benezi, Bruno Gonzalez, Pascal Guillemin and Fabrice Croizer) but also the ambiance in which you train is fantastic. This evening we had some visitors, three people from Sweden. On top of that a new student started that ( Read more... )

The somewhat longer version: Last weekend I had Dennis and Mouls over for a weekend of wining, dining and touring through a cold and crisp Paris.

In the four days they were here we managed to visit amongst others the Parcs des Buttes Chaumont, the Centre Pompidou, the Notre Dame and the Petit Palais. 
During the weekend we met up with Silvia and het ( Read more... )

I am seldomly ill, but when it happens I have the feeling my body reacts to it quite violently, intent on killing any form of bacteria that might have entered my body by cooking it out....result: I can act as a central heating system for a room ( Read more... )

As I am sitting in the train rushing back to the Netherlands I have the time to reflect on my first eight months in Paris ( Read more... )

In the past few weeks I've been mostly wrapped up in work related affairs. With the project I'm part of reaching the development and testing stage more and more of my time is consumed by writing test plans and executing them subsequently. In between a reasonable amount of my colleagues at CESR has left or is leaving soon....luckily I've managed to ( Read more... )

I love Wikipedia for coming up with this one. Random trivia always please me :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions