tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124043122011-04-22T04:12:57.090+02:00Notes, stories, interesting links, or just as the title suggests ramblings, collected and put up here by a weird Dutchie. Just your average blog I suppose.Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1171639352979324222007-02-16T16:17:00.000+01:002007-02-16T16:22:32.990+01:00

In the short news category: I still have some problems believing it ... I've had some job interviews over the last couple of weeks, but only one of them felt like it went really well. Apparently it did, since within one week I've done both a first and second interview at a Delft-based company that specialises in service management software... and been asked to start this Monday :D

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After having worked at a small local company for a couple of months, I decided to quit it and find something else. Apart from being a bit too boring the job itself was not bad, but there was very little I could do without having to consult a colleague (or rather, the one who was doing my job earlier). So now, partially with thanks to a very active job agency, I've had a couple of interviews (two

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Volunteers are useful. They do lots of work out of their own free will, without being paid or in return for something small. Some organisations, such as the NFB, are completely run by volunteers. Board, working groups, tournament organisers, everyone.All very well, and I too enjoy doing work "just because I like it" - but you will have to show your appreciation for your volunteers. Sometimes by

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Not really nervous, but quite curious about how it would turn out, I started my DnD campaign last Friday with a proven method to get a party together. Since all characters have their own background and have already done a couple of years of travelling, I got them to end up in the same town before starting, but still had to find a way for them to meet each other. And that is where a troll attack

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Hurray for spare time, since it makes it possible for me to do stuff! Which often means, preparing things for other spare time occasions ;)As said before, the start of my DnD campaign is this Friday. I can hardly wait till the party, five in total, comes to play out their meeting up and face some of the first problems I will lay before them ... this all of course not without a good meal and lots

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Winter holidays are over, and it is time to get on with the new year and with new things in sight. A short overview of what has been going through my mind lately...My own DnD campaign is starting to get a little flesh. During the LAN party we held last week, and during this week when not at work, I've been spending quite some time to help the others creating their characters. The results:

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As expected, I haven't been able to write much in the last two weeks of the year. There have been some noteworthy things, but until I put myself to do all that stuff that still needs to be done, this will have to wait. I'm forcing myself to do less at a time currently.Wish you all a healthy and pleasant new year!

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Although the weather doesn't make it feel so (8 degrees Celsius at day and only one night below zero halfway December?), it is only a week till Christmas and two weeks till we're living in 2007. And even though I'm not a large-festivities-during-holiday person, I'll be rather busy this year for a change.The NFB members administration has finally been migrated to a new program and it is now time

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And so I'm home again from my short trip to Stockholm.A bit disoriented due to the much shorter days (not being used to sunset before 4), but it's a nice town even when dark - and good company to talk with while strolling through town definitely helps, especially if that company knows the town a bit :)My feet are quite tired though due to the large amounts of sloped streets with cobblestones, and

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Friends over... meetings... weekend-off preparations... all things that are fun to do, but tiresome when in large quantities. The weather doesn't help either, it's wet and stormy.I still haven't managed to catch up with KDE stuff (and I really want to, there's so much to be done!), but I should have time for that after this week. Until then, not much news. Nor the energy to write much.One happy

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After a completely wrecking weekend (it's horrible to see people completely broken up at the loss of someone), I'm slowly getting back into normal shape. Still not completely rested, but well enough to do daily things without much trouble.Work tomorrow, family visit Friday, meeting on Sunday, and then living towards my trip to Stockholm (leaving next Thursday, coming back that Sunday) ... it's

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Which is not only what Statler and Waldorf asked each other about a Mahnamahna, but also what I was wondering when starting my previous attempts to a blog entry late last and earlier this week. I just couldn't find anything interesting. But I realised that there are some things worth scribbling down here, so here goes...Our parliament elections yesterday. The socialist party got an incredible

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Not long after I started living in Delft I also started playing Magic. I was quite charmed by the quite complex game and every once in a while a flatmate and I invited some friends to play a couple of games.As soon as I had some experience with it, I bought some old cards to create a few decks myself.This happened a few more times over the last years and when I moved out to my current apartment,

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So now it is back to normal life: a bit of rest today, finishing other minutes, and trying to finally weed out the four months of ancient mail in my inbox that are crying to be moved to their proper places in the archives.And then, more KOffice work that I want to be done this week. I would really like to make a start with setting up the new documentation framework, while taking a look at the

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I'm back home from Boudewijn's and a summary of the notes I took has already found its way to the commit digest. As I said in my previous post, the meeting has been quite intense. Seven handwritten pages of text which, apart from a somewhat broader transcript of Thomas Zander's Flake overview, only include the most important points and the decisions made, not the in-depth discussions that were

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Waiting for the spaghetti to be ready, having written 6 pages of shorthand notes today, it's mentally exhaustive over here.The meeting so far is, to use Boudewijn's phrase, very high bandwidth: we're going over lots of Flake and shape issues in a short amount of time and it's sometimes hard to keep up with the deeply thought-of ideas that are thrown back and forth at the table.This all at a nice

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Time's fun if you're having flies, or something like that.I have been busy trying to find my way at work. After some start-up problems I've managed to get a working build of the application I should be maintaining -- its setup is a bit complicated -- and I'll be looking into my first patch next week :)I've also been quite active filling my next weekends: a members' meeting this Sunday, some

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Gone are the days of sitting at home for weeks: I started my job yesterday. First things first: I plugged in an extra harddrive and made my PC dualboot. The original system is still there should I need to look something up on it, but I refuse to do long-term development under Windows ... Kubuntu to the rescue :)While it's not immensely exciting from the start (not too surprising), I'm quite glad

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...is a warm puppy, but for those who don't like dogs (and that includes me): fill in what you want.I took a tour through town to try out my camera today, and must say that I'm pretty impressed. The image stabilising function is quite good, I can even hold the camera in one hand and make sharp photos. The preset scenery modes are nice, especially the "foliage" one, which makes for very nice

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My camera, a Nikon F55, died somewhere before aKademy. It was way too young to die, but since I really enjoy taking photographs, not buying a new one simply was not an option. When it was still alive, I had the idea of saving some money, and then in a few years or so, replacing it by a digital SLR camera. Well, so far for that plan: digital SLRs are still a bit too pricy, and since digital

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I found a letter in my mailbox today: my Bachelor's degree application has been accepted. So no more administrativa, no more waiting for confirmation: the examination "awards" will be next Friday. Hurray :)And, I have successfully done some informal interviews at a small local software company. My new job (for now as a software maintainer, but that could change) will start soon. Hurray #2 :)

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I can't resist adding more buzz :)What was intended only as a feature release for Kexi and Krita, turns out to be one of the most important releases in the history of KOffice. Indeed, Krita and Kexi have added lots of functionality. But there are big improvements elsewhere as well: KFormula now natively uses OpenDocument, Kross brings scripting within our office suite to a new level, and lots and

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And the cookies go to... drumroll... "The Camel" for his (very fast) suggestion of renovate.The originality prize is awarded to Jakob Petsovits for wanting to eliminate our documentation.

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The good thing about having a 1-room apartment is that everything is only a few steps away. The kitchen, the book shelves, the couch, you name it. I never need to walk far to fetch something, and having both a desk and a table where I can leave stuff on to continue working with it later, is quite handy at times. But "elk voordeel heb ze nadeel": every pro has its con, quoting the famous oracle

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Create, update, translate... all sorts of things that one can do with the KDE documentation. It needs to be written and maintained, localised, and fixed. (Contest: the one who brings the best synonym for "fix" that ends in -ate, gets cookies!)But there's more. For example, "migrate". It's almost 1.6 release time, and the preparations for my part of the KOffice world domination (making the best

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For those not acquainted with roleplaying terminology: IC means "in character" or in-play, OC "out of character" or real-life.Within our roleplaying group (last weekend was great btw) we have a couple of gnomes that act as healers. They're not very useful in combat situations since they run away from danger, but when you bring the wounded to them, they do quite a good job. And since my flu is not

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...makes me a dull boy. Work - or rather paid work - is necessary if you want to keep your own place and buy your own stuff. Hence, I've been applying at a local software company and so far it looks like I'll get a job maintaining and expanding one of their major products. Since everything in the company is quite loose, though, we're still to talk about the facts :) Anyway, a 3 or 4 days' job

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As promised, a followup to my post about usability from last week. Having gotten even more vague thoughts, I will cover more than usability alone - although, one can consider everything that has to do with user interaction, to be part of usability.First an anecdote that I didn't write down earlier. The coffee at aKademy was served as hot water and small sticks of instant coffee (image). To help

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A late goodbye to Dublin and all those magnificent people I've met during the last week-and-a-half... I'm back home. Time to sort out the stack of snail mail that is lying on my desk and time to continue normal life. For a moment, two 1280x1024 screens is luxurious again :)

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With the documentation work for KOffice 1.6 done, it is time for me to look a bit into the future and start coordinating what is affectionately called 'trunk': version 2.0. I've already started documenting the current status, it's very concise for now but I will be add details to it when I feel like reading through the handbooks and summarising them ;)A second thing I'm working on is an overview

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I haven't done much real work today, but still I'm fairly happy about my results. After throwing some thoughts at KOffice and KDE docs team people, I've started doing some actual doc coordination for KOffice. One of the first things I wanted to do is getting clarity about the status of the various handbooks. Within one hour after sending out an email, I already got nice and very clear replies

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One of the two large specialised tracks at aKademy this year is the OpenDocument Day - the other one, HCI day, will be tomorrow. We started off today with the keynote by Barbara Held who talked about open formats and standards, and what the European Union can and cannot do with them. One of the largest problems turns out to be that what we call an OASIS standard is not a proper standard according

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Well, writing the previous post turned out to take too long to write an entry about the second day of the conference as well. Guess I'll have to do that now.I started the day with the rest of the Community track. Eric Laffoon shared his thoughts about sponsored development, pointing out that money should not be the incentive but merely the enabling factor. Another interesting point of his was,

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When I grabbed my writing pad to jot down some notes during one of the talks yesterday, I came across notes from an elective course on sustainability I followed last October, which featured a talk on industrial ecology and complex systems by Igor Nikolic. Having heard Aaron's keynote on the KDE community being a dynamic movement, this sparked some thought I'd like to share. Be warned, it is quite

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Day one of the conference is almost over. I am writing this while listening to Inge Wallin's talk about marketing and promotion, "How to make your program popular", which I helped reviewing earlier this morning. His talk basically boils down to: take one quality of your product, emphasise on it in your promotion material, and use all your promotion channels whenever available.But back to the

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Shall I, or shouldn't I? The amount of posts in the "aKademy, here I come" department is quite high already. But why not, since I'm really looking forward to it. A week packed with talks, meetings and hacking, all to improve our favourite desktop environment...Since it's only a 1.5 hours flight from Amsterdam to Dublin, I'll do the packing tomorrow morning and take the 12:30 train. If all goes

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As Cyrille already posted, Krita will have new icons for the 1.6 release. Great thanks to Ronan, who did an excellent job recreating and modifying them over the last few days. I will be updating the screenshots in the documentation tomorrow - luckily that can be done without breaking text freeze. Another step to a good-looking painters' application! Let's see what good ideas aKademy brings :)

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Back from Germany, back from a weekend of ultimate. The Darmstadt-based Ars Ludendi people did once again organise their Poolimate tournament - a great success. Everything was located nearby (the campsite was next to the fields, as were the showers and the party location) and this was accompanied by nice sunny weather.The open division consisted of 11 teams, so to make the schedule fit in nicely

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So, there we are... Documentation freeze for KOffice 1.6. I've sneaked in a couple of last-minute additions, but they should not be the difference between a translated and an untranslated manual :) Talking of which, it's time for me to do pick up translating...That is, between the meetings tomorrow and Friday, the ultimate tournament in Darmstadt this weekend, my searching for a job, and aKademy

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After an easy week, only disturbed by some PHP/SQL nuisances, it started with an NFB board meeting Friday evening in Amsterdam. Although we were only three, we could work out things quite easily and the meeting was overall quite productive.I had Saturday morning off, but took the train later that day again to go to the Open Source BBQ, my first and hopefully not last. Throw 30 to 40 nerds in a

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With the documentation freeze near, it's time to finish off the manual for 1.6. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to add real explanatory chapters, so most changes are in the interface description. I'm planning to do the more general how-to-use chapters after the freeze, so that the next version (1.6.1? 1.7? 2.0?) will have some easier readable text as well.And for all of you with spare time

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Well, there we are... having not blogged for about half a year, I thought it was time I'd pick up the old art of rambling again. I wonder how long it takes this time before it slips away into the wide fields of lost bits.So to continue where we left... I've had a quite relaxed summer, doing some hiking in Austria, participating in my first LARP (live action role playing) event, and starting a

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It's been two weeks already since I blogged. Time for an update on the various parts of my highly interesting life. You've all been waiting for this! ;)Most importantly, and hence the title of this post, my involvement in the new assembler project for first year's students that is going to start next Monday. The introductory practical went very well, even though there was only limited time to

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It's been a while since my last post. Partially because of time constraints, and partially because there was not really much to write about. And still, only a few short things are worth mentioning...- already 2 students managed to finish the 16-hours assembler practical before and in the first 2 hours session- the Dutch national ladies frisbee team will have a beach practice to prepare for Rimini

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The indoor ultimate season has finished and we are therefore busy preparing the outdoor season. This year in condensed form, with only 4 playing days, since there will be a co-ed league afer the summer break. Not only is that a major difference (less days to play, but a more dynamic system), but I've also got a personal point of pride: the outdoor season is going to see the new Dutch ultimate

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A weekend is over before you know. Especially at FOSDEM.Friday early afternoon, Thomas (the friend with whom I went on holiday to Austria) and me departed from Delft to arrive in Brussels at about half past two. A little search for the hotel, where I deposited part of my luggage (the non-electronics half), and we left to see the town centre and visit some churches. After all, we're still

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My ADSL provider, Demon Internet, has changed the connection speeds they offer. Until the end of March, everyone is allowed to change to one of the new speed offers without paying switching costs. My current connection is a 2 Mbit line for 34.50 euro per month, and the three normal ADSL options now available are 1.5 Mbit for 21.95, 3 Mbit for 31.00, or 6 Mbit for 36.50. As I don't really need an

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After a day of teleworking-outside-home (colleagues with well-equipped study rooms are nice to have), I'm looking forward to this Sunday: the final matches of our indoor ultimate league. Home games this time, so we should be able to get some moral support to get us going...

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If, like me, you're commander of an online army, and like to play music, your music choice will no doubt be influenced by your online doings... For example:- when you're kicking shit out of a couple of European armies: Europe - The Final Countdown- when you're on the plains or steppes and do some strikes: Jonah Lewie - Stop The Cavalry- when you're either English or French, and fight on Belgian

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1139131450650963442006-02-05T10:09:00.000+01:002006-02-05T10:56:24.376+01:00

I've started playing The Last Knights again. There have been massive changes since I last played, and I don't consider all of them to be improvements, but overall the game is getting better. It's just fun to be an army commander, train your soldiers, and do real-life communication in order to defend other countries. Especially if you're in a country together with people you know, the lines of

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A while ago I had decided to drop two courses and take two other ones instead. A third switch is now on the list. One of my electives has been rescheduled to a time where I already have another lecture, so I've decided to drop that course and follow one that does fit into the schedule instead. Luckily I noticed the rescheduling just in time... since the start of the third quarter is this Monday.

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Okay... so it's cold. Partially in reality (we don't get too far above 0 degrees this week), partially because there are various 'freezes'. Most directly hitting me: the KOffice documentation, which includes that of Krita, my own pet project, cannot be committed to anymore for this release [2006-02-02 13:00: the freeze is postponed until Sunday]. Furthermore, there's a deadline for the talks

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Having done three exams lately, I'm glad that I have one free week ahead. Although I don't really dislike exams, they do take away quite some time, and in my case, that translates to a room that urgently needs to be tidied. So that's one thing I'm going to do.Krita's documentation is hugely benefiting from my spare time :) - the basics are complete now. I still want to expand some sections, and

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My first renewed blog entry (no, I'm not going to copy all the two-and-a-half recoverable messages from my own site) is about Krita. What else...There has been a lot of coding going on over the past few weeks and I'm quite proud of the lot that can together be described as Krita developers. If you have read Planet KDE, you will have noticed Boudewijn and especially Cyrille pointing out nice

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Bleh. Note to self: never try to reinvent the wheel again. Especially not if you know all you're going to end op with is a bunch of pebbles glued together.So, my blogging will continue here again. Welcome back.

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This is my last entry on Blogger. From today, my blog is hosted on my own site (yay!), Macedon Systems. For those who have been following the RSS feed, please update to the new RSS feed, available from the blog.Apologies in advance if the feed -- or anything else -- is not working correctly. Please drop me a note in that case!

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Starting January 2006, a new healthcare system will be active in the Netherlands. The difference between public and private healthcare is going to be abolished, and everyone is obliged to have a basic health insurance which is the same for everyone. Those who want additional care can take a more expensive insurance. That sounds good, in principle. But in my opinion, this new system is total and

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Ahh... Almost done with this semester. Apart from the exams, of course.Finally some real spare time to do a major house cleaning, update my news articles collection, play games with friends, write documentation, maybe even do some translating or update other documentation, ...... and have some rest ;)

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It took me some time thinking about it, but I made the choice to fill in a request form to change my course list for my MSc studies. The 3D Computer Graphics course I'm currently taking is fun, but it's very unlikely I'll be able to finish it. It's not a compulsory course, not even a specialisation course for the graduation direction I'm aiming at, so it should not be that much of a problem.

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I've never been fond of Hotmail, but when I got one of those addresses to maintain, I didn't really feel like setting up a new address in place, so I tried to customise it to my preferences. I gave up very fast when I realised how awkward Hotmail's quoting is, and that all line breaks are stripped from the painfully constructed signature as soon as it is appended to your message.So I quickly

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Yes, I'm still alive :)My workload however has increased somewhat more, so there's not much time to post blog entries - although I've come across interesting stuff the past days. My time is currently being spent on getting my own courses done and on preparing the new x86 assembly project for first year's students.Oh, and that one's getting more fun each day. My plans are to have them create a

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1133026369657068332005-11-26T18:26:00.000+01:002005-11-27T07:50:32.950+01:00

... and as I've been playing enough, I'm not dull ;)Last Sunday was the first league day of the 05/06 Dutch indoor ultimate season. Even though our team has been promoted to 2nd division, we won 2 out of 4 games and we could have won one more. My throws are getting better and I'm even starting to favour overhead and knife throws over normal ones (I used to be very bad at those).Tomorrow is the

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At last... 6/10 for my Differential Equations exam :DOnly 1 more credit point to go for my Bachelors degree, which means that, if I pass my Masters courses this year (which should be possible, it's going well so far), I can start working on my graduation project in September. That would be one year "behind schedule" and given the amount of other stuff I've been doing over the last years, I

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There used to lie a pile of paper on my table... The current description is that a table is standing under the pile of paper. Luckily for me, I'll be hosting the Force Elektro members' meeting tomorrow, which is reason enough to clean. So, after this short interruption of my most interesting evening, time for bed and more news later, after the house has been tidied up.

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The second NWERC I've competed in (the previous was in 2002 in Delft) and again I've been part of the best-ranked team from Delft. We solved one problem each within the first two hours and had another three in the pocket, but were unable to submit these in time. Nevertheless many thanks go to my team mates as it was a fabulous contest.Add to this the excellent organisation and the nice weather in

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"...in other words, happiness slavers, happiness whines, happiness sheds. Happiness plays with a rubber bone."That's not my real opinion, though. Ivo de Wijs, a Dutch comedian and text writer, once put it this way. I had to think of this quote when I realised that things are going quite well after my dip last year.For example, I'm quite confident that I finally passed Differential Equations this

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Yesterday... "Hey, we're searching a team member. Would you like to go to the NWERC?" Erm... Yes, I'd like to. Oops, that means I'll have to get a new identity card real soon now. The old one is quite sloppy, the front side is already partially separated from the back side, and I don't want to get into any troubles at the airport. So although it should be valid for a couple more months, I decided

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1130622521125658102005-10-29T23:48:00.000+02:002005-10-29T23:48:42.493+02:00

Either it's the brand or me, or some stupid coincidence, but after the dead harddisk in my server two months ago, the /home partition on my desktop now has the exact same problem. A DriveSeekError, lost sectors, and loads of unconnected inodes. And of course the shop won't be open until Monday afternoon. I'm hoping that I'll still be able to copy all my personal files off it (going to try that

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1130245114049308422005-10-25T14:48:00.000+02:002005-10-25T14:58:34.056+02:00

Okay, so the boat week was exhausting, last week was just packed. Preparing Saturday's BAPC took more time than we had expected (and we did expect that...), but the event was great. Although the 40-odd teams managed to crash the judging system during the test session, the real contest saw no problems worth mentioning and we only had to give two textual clarifications.Only one team did not manage

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1129312580426880392005-10-14T19:46:00.000+02:002005-10-14T19:56:20.443+02:00

I've just come home from the Colloquium on Sustainable Development, also called the "boat week" for the (obvious) reasons that most of the sessions took place at the boat which was at our disposal, and that it was spread over Mondaf through Friday.Not often in my life have I been so mentally exhausted. One full week with streamloads of information, thinking, discussing, forming and breaking

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Those were two action-packed weeks ... in the good sense of the word, luckily.The Delft Programming Championships, our local qualifiers for the BAPC, got a good deal of teams and we're happy that most teams did manage to solve one or more problems - it seems that the problem set was a little too difficult. Nevertheless we got good hope for "the real thing" on October 22nd, by pure coincidence my

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With the BAPC 2005 in sight, last week was quite busy. As head of judges, I had to double-check all problems to ensure as much as possible that everything was in order, and that we won't have to send out clarifications to the organisers of the other qualifiying rounds. Luckily I was not without the help of my colleague judges who were extremely helpful. So I think that the qualifiers will form a

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1126876225507468542005-09-16T15:09:00.000+02:002005-09-16T15:10:25.506+02:00

Yesterday was a great day in Krita history - at least for me. The first part of the new, flashy, revised Krita documentation is now in svn. Rejoice :)Now to add more content...

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That was actually a to-do I thought of this week. My involvement with all kinds of projects is only growing and sometimes it's quite hard to remember which to-dos I still had to finish. That's what a to-do list is for, you might say. True, but I'm not surprised any longer when I'm reminded of a to-do that still needs te be added to the list in order to remind me of it...Luckily I made the

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1126410433633788262005-09-11T05:41:00.000+02:002005-09-11T05:47:13.646+02:00

I should really be sleeping at this time, especially since I've got two frisbee matches tomorrow^Wlater today - but I still hadn't fallen asleep after three hours with all kinds of thoughts going through my mind, so I decided to get up and do some stuff until I'd get tired again. I've already sorted out new additions to my stamps collection and scanned some hundred photographs from my trip

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125939012258637282005-09-05T18:36:00.000+02:002005-09-05T18:50:12.276+02:00

Yesterday was filled with traveling, we left for the airport at 12:30 and I was home at 01:00, about an hour later than expected due to the trains between Venlo and Eindhoven not running. Took me a detour over Utrecht. Before I went to bed I couldn't resist taking a look at my server. The harddisk seems near-dead with lots of inodes doing weird things :("(Yawn)... What time is it.. 08:10... *JUMP

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It's all going fairly well over here. The screenshot script is still being improved, the Krita documentation is slowly starting to have some real content, and my cold is actually diminishing.I played some ultimate yesterday evening with Philip, Inge and some other guys, which was quite exhaustive due to the burning sun, but it really felt well to have some exercise in a week of otherwise just

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There's been a script called makeScreenshots floating around for quite some time, but it has never really been used. When talking to Lauri yesterday evening over dinner, she told me that nobody actually had used it, either because they were not willing to use it (it seemed to be quite unstable at the time), or because it simply didn't work (like on FreeBSD).Basically the script is a frontend for

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125590596330759552005-09-01T17:53:00.000+02:002005-09-01T22:27:09.943+02:00

Today we had a touristic tour through some major sightseeing spots of Malaga. Quite interesting, although the guide could have put a little more variety in his talk. Afterwards, Sebas, Bram and me went for a sandwich and some postcards, and then went back to the residence by cab. Taxis are really cheap here, for just one or two euros you save a half-hour walk, if you share the ride with some

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It's good to meet so many people from different countries, especially when they bring local booze to share. I can't remember all from yesterday evening, but it was almost 2 AM when we went to sleep, having skipped dinner (but with enough "liquid bread" in our bodies not to notice).And there's a Carrefour hypermarket near the residence, which I visited this morning to get some snacks and bread for

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125497666384663372005-08-31T16:04:00.000+02:002005-08-31T16:14:26.410+02:00

When trying to read my mail yesterday, I got a not so pleasant surprise. At first I couldn't figure out why mutt didn't want to open any message, and that I had no new e-mails since that morning, but with the help of some people and my own stubbornness I managed to find out that there is something wrong with the harddisk of my server (philippos), causing the stuff to be mounted read-only.Luckily

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125399574582894302005-08-30T12:41:00.000+02:002005-08-30T12:59:34.590+02:00

After Boudewijn's talk about Krita I have been more and more looking into it and gained a lot of interest in his sometimes amazing app. I already had some plans to contribute more to the documentation project and Krita needs documentation - Boudewijn can't manage to keep it up-to-date while also fully maintaining the app and having other work as well. So, yesterday evening I came upon the idea to

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Yesterday saw more tapas. We found a tapateria where the locals were having dinner as well, and feasted upon fish, wine, potatoes, wine, bread, wine, and wine, for about four hours. The total costs were about 90 euros for the six of us. Ridiculously low when compared to Dutch standards. The wine didn't really help getting up early, but we knew that in advance and we had already planned to skip

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125218512909553992005-08-28T10:14:00.000+02:002005-08-28T10:41:52.916+02:00

The contiiinuing stoooory...More interesting talks indeed. And food and drinks, of course, very important. We decided to let ourselves be surprised and order random yet good tapas. Worked out to lay a good foundation for the party with free drinks that Novell offered us in a club in the city center.We got back at the residence at about 0130h and went to sleep, only to wake up at 8 again to be on

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125147584604399422005-08-27T14:53:00.000+02:002005-08-27T14:59:44.610+02:00

After our nicely on-time arrival in Malaga yesterday, the first few things I noticed here were the temperature (more than 30 degrees C doesn't really fit me), and the language (English isn't really accepted, although the region is supposed to be touristic - waving hands and making grimaces helps, though). Food is good, and it seems like the servings are quite large on average, something to keep

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1125035493077543622005-08-26T07:45:00.000+02:002005-08-26T07:51:33.083+02:00

11 hours and 15 minutes before estimated arrival in Malaga... I'll be leaving in an hour or so, first taking the train to Duesseldorf, which is 3.5 hours from here. Bram and me will arrive there generously on time to catch our 1600h plane, arriving in Malaga at seven.So, almost everything packed, I only need to clean up the last stuff, pack my personal care thingies, and move! move! move! to a

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1124955486289859252005-08-25T09:30:00.000+02:002005-08-25T09:38:06.316+02:00

Apparently there's some flu going around which has been kicking family members, friends, and myself out of business for a few days. I've spent 24 hours doing nothing but coughing and feeling miserable, but things were getting better yesterday afternoon (at least, good enough to convert my server's GUI from IceWM to the better looking KDE 3.3 - it may be using more resources, but I find it nicer

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1124741479271722972005-08-22T22:09:00.000+02:002005-08-22T22:11:27.466+02:00

And there's my good ol' lappy, purring, and running a SuSE with upgraded KDE, happy as never before... I needed some assistance when KDE crashed and afterwards refused to show a desktop or to run KControl, but Ruurd helped me out - a big thanks, it's running great.I tend to give each system I work at a slightly different look and feel - mostly similar though, but little different styles - and my

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Alas, it's no more KDE 3.4 for the moment. A dist-upgrade on my workstation, on which I ran Debian unstable with the experimental KDE 3.4 packages, created a mess in the dependency hell it already was: due to my wanting to run KDE 3.4 on a distro that doesn't officially offer it, I had some mutually exclusive packages which had already made upgrading a head scratch puzzle. The last upgrade had

Sander Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07646650643205567387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12404312.post-1124527551236429382005-08-20T10:39:00.000+02:002005-08-20T10:45:51.280+02:00

Now that my housewarming party is over (still have to do the dishes, urgh) I can officially say that it's mine, according to some standards. Just a few friends came and visited me, but it wasn't less entertaining because of that. We had good laughs, my self-made apple-raisin bread and the rice-with-stuff were appreciated, and everyone got home safely in the end.

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One of the major advantages of having more space, is that you can spread more stuff around before having to move it out of the way. And so my table is full with stamps and albums - the first time in a couple of years that I really have room to reorganise and sort my collection and what I gained since the last real rework. With thanks to Bart (and his mother) I now have "somewhat more" Australian

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I still cannot really imagine how fast and smooth everything went. But the fact that I'm sitting here and that I see my own room around me, the way I want it, is a dead giveaway.Next things to do: get back to preparing the 2005 BAPC (Benelux Algorithm Programming Championships), make the KDE Dutch documentation reasonably up-to-date again, prepare for aKademy, ...You get the point. I'm off to

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That was a week of working hard... I don't object against work, especially if the result is nice... but it's tiresome :)But to say the least, most of the work is done now. Walls are painted, floors are covered, all stuff is from the floor, most stuff actually on the place I want it, and I have almost everything I need. The door needs a repaint and I'll have to buy some more things, but that is

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It's starting to look really nice. Almost all stuff is off the floor, albeit not on its right place, but that's something for the next days. I have decided upon where I want everything to stand/sit/lay down/(finish the story yourself) and the only thing that withholds me from locating stuff is that I haven't bought it yet ;)With respect to the IT: both server and desktop are almost completely

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*sigh*I can hardly imagine how well things are going at the moment... A month ago I really hadn't hoped on moving this year ("of course, it would be nice if, but let's not count on it"). And now I'm sitting here in my own apartment with a mug of fresh coffee at my side, and the Virgin Classic Rock stream over my laptop speakers :)Well, as said, today the rest of the stuff will be moved in, and

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Life is sweet... I'm already starting to feel myself quite at home, although the most important things still have to be moved in. With a laptop and a chair I can at least surf around a little, but it would be nice to have the rest of my stuff here as well. Luckily phone and internet connection are working and I have a supermarket at 20 meters, so a basic living is definitely possible.Tomorrow (

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Brilliant vacation... from eternal snow to > 30 degrees C in Innsbruck, and from meditational solitude to streets crowded with tourists. Now back to moving...

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Lah-di-dah... Time to start packing.I'll be going to Austria by train early tomorrow morning, arriving there in the afternoon. After a few days of practice and acclimatisation we'll then head for the real hiking, 6 day walks between huts, before we'll come down and travel back home on the 29th.But before I leave, I'm first going to check my new apartment a last time (sort out mail and stuff) and

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Not only a new computer, but also holidays and a new apartment!I'll be pretty much offline for the next couple of weeks... Behave!

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...their toys get more expensive. I've spent the last few days sorting out and creating backups - I bought myself a new pc and I'm going to reorganise stuff. Nice, finding all sorts of files you've put away "for later".Luckily, holidays have really kicked in (with a 6/10 for Statistics, whee!) so I can afford a few days of doing very little. Next blog entry will very probably be from my new

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