June 2003

I'm working on the homework assignment for Formal Methods. I'll validate a network protocol, to verify it does what it should do. It is a relatively easy protocol ("sliding window") but the validation is rather complex. Make's it interesting.

There is no radio in the bedroom (where I'm working), but I discovered ShoutCast, which has a lot of online radio stations. The nice thing about it is that the quality is very good.

After this assignment there's a test on Monday, after which I'm done with all my courses. Then I'll have another few weeks to finish my internship paper.

It is not a surprise that Ettie is having a good day: today she completed her internship at Oranjewoud.

She had two really good marks, both from the company and the school: an 8.5 and a 9 respectively. Congratulations!

"Het is groen, en het zit op een hek".

Verf.

Yesterday we spent the day in Center Parcs. My parents celebrated their 30th anniversary, and the six of us went to 'de Eemhof'. There's a huge swimming pool there, and we were swimming all day.

It was a very nice day; the weather was great and we had a really good time together. Later we had dinner in an Italian restaurant in Nijkerk. The pizza there was the best I had in years.

Yesterday evening the light was getting dim for a moment. I thought that it was perhaps time to replace the lightbulb. The TV didn't work anymore either, there was no signal.

This morning I arrived early at Chess. There was a small note: "Due to the powerglitch yesterday evening, the network is not available yet; we're working on it". Obviously, when you read this message the network works again. I'm happy that I don't need the network to work on our project, otherwise I would have gotten here early for nothing. The only thing I really missed is music; usually I listen to the radio through internet.

I know, I know. It's an old one, but I like it a lot:

Look at the center of this moving picture for 2 minutes, and then take a look at your right-hand...

I've submitted the official application for my graduation. There are some formalities I still have to do; one of these days I'll go to the VU for that. As soon as the date has been confirmed I'll let you know.

Yesterday morning I woke up with a cold. Nothing serious, but now I'm walking around with napkins all day.

Daniel and Erika arrived yesterday in Amsterdam. They must be a bit disappointed by the weather... compared with Hungary it must be cold here.

Yesterday we've been 'upgrading' our bedroom a bit. We went to get the desk that was sold out 2 weeks ago. I guess they don't have a huge storage-place in the shop, because the desk that we took was the last one again. It's a small one, but just the right size to work on.

We also put a world-map on the wall, a really big one. It's very nice to have something so colorful there.

I'm working on a presentation I'll give tomorrow. It's about Struts, a framework that I'm using in our project at work.

Once every month there's a lunch-presentation about a technical subject, and tomorrow it's my turn. It's nice to do: I like this Struts a lot, and I'd be happy if I can make my collegues enthousiastic as well.

Do you like people watching?

Enjoy.