All safe home except

All safe home except the cabrito, but he was already cooked before the trip. ;-)

Has decided to do so

Has decided to do something civil. Tomorow I am filing a complaint with TNT post concerning my postman not leaving delivery notices. I know it is futile, I know the system will try to discourage me in every possible way. But I will fight until the end. Side note the more I complain the more jobs they should have at TNT. Its all for the cause!!!

Is thinking about go

Is thinking about going postal on the postman.

Discovering Wolfmoth

Discovering Wolfmother as the Christmas pay increments the variable and the landscape outside my window is white with stillness. ;-)

Will Coffee with Tha

Will Coffee with Thai-Ginseng be enough to take me through this afternoon of related work?

denkt dat de "macho

denkt dat de "macho man" prijsvraag op het Van Heekplein in Enschede moet worden gehouden: men moet dan met (maar liefst) twee fietsen fietsen én een krat bier vervoeren.

Is ready for the 1st

Is ready for the 1st Christmas coffee of EEMCS after cycling in a stationsfiets under the snow all the way to work.

Being explained what

Being explained what URIs, name spaces and XML are. ARRRRGHH

Stop designing, star

Stop designing, start observing #juanism

Aachen in a few hour

Aachen in a few hour Yay...

Has realised that al

Has realised that all that he shall need for the next 4 years is emacs and LaTeX. Bye bye OpenOffice, Office was long long gone.

Fonera 2.0 set up wi

Fonera 2.0 set up with fontena Punto Pasta should now have wifi ;)

Third floor internet

Third floor internet, jay.

5 a.m. start and the

5 a.m. start and then a morning about RDF, I think I am aiming for sainthood.

The Stoics where the

The Stoics where the ones that invented Murphy's law. Only back then it was called "premeditatio mallorum" I knew Murphy could have not been so clever.

Overheard on a cramm

Overheard on a crammed stoptrein. "This is such a cool experience" and "where do we get off?" Aaaaaargh. #fail #americansInEurope

The sound track for

The sound track for this afternoon.

Can't complain about

Can't complain about the Citizen M life. Free Wifi gadgets everywhere. Perfect to write related work.

Got inspired and had

Got inspired and had to write another blog post. http://htxt.it/02Rw

To change something

To change something in the minds of people - That is the role of the intellectual. -- Michel Foucault. #juanism

It's all so still in

It's all so still in the night... can't sleep any more. Going to bed at 9 seemed like a good idea...

Leaving Toronto. Hav

Leaving Toronto. Have to put Halloween on the calendar of crazy parties to attend.

Won best paper award

Won best paper award at #pikm 2010.

Failte! #cikm2011 in

Failte! #cikm2011 in Glasgow #cikm2010

Big I told you so mo

Big I told you so moment. http://htxt.it/ISkR #cikm2010

Paul, Paco or Pepe.

Paul, Paco or Pepe. The only good octopus is the Galician one. http://htxt.it/G9Qc

2+1=3 is a simple ye

2+1=3 is a simple yet useful statement to illustrate a complex ideas.

New status: 2+1=3 is

New status: 2+1=3 is a simple yet useful statement to illustrate a complex idea. Contribution.

Blame Canada... http

Blame Canada... http://htxt.it/2omU

First business cards

First business cards ever. Youhouuuu.

Closing the night sh

Closing the night shift. 4h and up again. In 8 hours course starts in Utrecht.

Did not understand w

Did not understand why I liked that song. Now I do: http://htxt.it/evQD #donotcover

Just had a pot noodl

Just had a pot noodle epiphany. Mental damage impending.

Focus, Daniel-san, F

Focus, Daniel-san, Focus! #juanism

And my train darts i

And my train darts in to the late twente night. Haven't been up at this time in centuries.

First article accept

First article accepted. Camera ready on the way!!!

Round and round goes

Round and round goes the whirligig.

WFH

WFH

Ecstatic at the fact

Ecstatic at the fact that emacs has got a built in subversion client.

After 6 days 23 hrs

After 6 days 23 hrs 41 min 0 sec I finally found the caffeine replacement. Race your girlfriend in the morning rat race of Enschede. Helps with it being cold in the morning too ;) (She drives I cycle)

Being greeted by a r

Being greeted by a read-only file system does not help a Monday morning without caffeine

My N95 is dead, it boots, it re-boots, it {(re-)

n}boots. {:(}^n too. What to do now? {snif}^n

Nothing like a Kerne

Nothing like a Kernel update that breaks the Nvidia driver to replace the morning coffee. Going cold turkey, Day 1.

Its 18C/6C for today

Its 18C/6C for today, cloudy. Server room outside my window has got the Diesel emergency cooling on. What will it be like in July? Worrying.

Gotan Project, Here

Gotan Project, Here we go!!! Tomorrow will hurt. Such is life. :)

Punks, although the

Punks, although the English term may hint towards the opposite, are good people.

Relaxing week-end, d

Relaxing week-end, did not even make it to the Bata. Sleep good, Sleep good

In the right country

In the right country, the right region, the right town. Not quite home yet. Looking at the recent past, its a lot.

The skies are open,

The skies are open, flying back on Friday morning.

Boominizer 2 is out.

Boominizer 2 is out. Read all about it. http://htxt.it/D8ae

Plane Tickets: print

Plane Tickets: printed; Concert Tickets: printed; All that is left is to bottle the beer, and pack the suitcase.

Disgrace.... uuuum 1

Disgrace.... uuuum 123 and not even the second price.

Does my new bike com

Does my new bike come with built in buienradar? It must I just escaped a nasty one by a few minutes.

First commute on the

First commute on the new bike, rides like an angel.

Long day to start al

Long day to start along week. UToBusiness, Landnavin, and an article in the works. Did I say I loved doing a PhD?

Got my Fonera and Fo

Got my Fonera and Fontenna today. ;)

Do we really need te

Do we really need technology? Do we really need rule?

Done for the week. O

Done for the week. Or sort off :)

Sunday afternoon wea

Sunday afternoon weather perfect for article writing

In inlaw heaven, eve

In inlaw heaven, even the dog is chipping in to warm up my feet

Airport in-law deliv

Airport in-law delivery, inminent.

Depeche Mode, and th

Depeche Mode, and the sun shining, what a way to start the day,

To everyone annoyed

To everyone annoyed by my atomated buzzing arrangenments. Easy solution. Set up a filter ;)

Mision acomplished,

Mision acomplished, in-laws collected ;)

Starting the day wit

Starting the day with style. Even had to hack the coffee machine. Price to pay for having an ÜberCool mug.

I appolise to all th

I appolise to all the people I have failed to touch in the last 5 years of my life. I will try harder from now on.

Playing around with

Playing around with Buzz.

Air concert tonight.

Air concert tonight. In style.

First week is over.

First week is over. Challenges ahead. Game on.

WLAN: check, VPN: ch

WLAN: check, VPN: check, Microphone: check. Did I say thanks to all the ubuntu users. I'm Open Source Bliss. Read on my brov read on.

Bootstrapping a brain

As most of you my have noticed so far, this being an extremely pompous statement, I have recently changed occupation and gone back to university to do a PhD. For that move there are many motivations. I will not delve into those, but I do dare in this post ask a question which I would appreciate if any one cared to provide an answer to.

How do you kick start a brain back into its original shape? I remember a time in which after reading an academic article it would stick for centuries. Now that sort of quick recording mechanism is not there. Any tips on how to build that up again?

Now for memory it holds there, but there has to an deep understanding of it. I was never one to pass exams through memorizing, but that was more out of laziness than anything else. Now on the other side the last 5 years in Industry have taken the laziness away. Mostly through kicks in the but.

So now the challenge is, how to find working and learning strategies that will enable me to get to the level required. The last part of the statement is not without issues. Obviously as Tom Waits would say success in ones own terms is a hard thing to define. Well in this case you have peer review but I am still not sure if that is not equally fuzzy.

Anyhow I am at least enjoying the new intellectual challenges that are showing up on the horizon, but I am still figuring out what strategies I should use to surmount them.

Any ideas out there? Any pointers welcome.

Thanks for reading and I will try and blog some more in the next few years. 4 at least.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. Back where things feel like they belong.

First day as a PhD s

First day as a PhD student was relaxing. Good... that's the way it was meant to be.

@vincentbir: iPad...

@vincentbir: iPad... would wait to see until iPhoneOS 4.0 is out, then the feature set may make the device be worth it. Just a few months I guess.

Enjoying a nice cup

Enjoying a nice cup of cofee in the sun. Brilliant day today.

Perfect sequence thi

Perfect sequence this morning. The bus was there as I walked to it.

The walk in fridge d

The walk in fridge did another one of its good dids

Beeeeeeeeee said the

Beeeeeeeeee said the little lamb sitting at his desk at 9:00. The wolf made no sound.

Switching back to ja

Switching back to java after a while of objective-C and I feel like my fingers are jamming. Does each programming language have its own set of fingernemes?

What a way to start

What a way to start the day....

Slowest time ever to

Slowest time ever to cycle... 30 minutes. I could blame the snow but I'll blame my lack of practice. Feet thawing.

The christmas swirl

Out of all the pictures that came out of the roll in the Lomo from this Christmas this is the one that portrays in a better way the whole ordeal. Flew a day late and much poorer to Porto. Then the Porto Madrid flight which made for an earlier post. Then flew back  2 days late due to illness. Honestly next Christmas I think I'll let the snow trap me at home.

Its not snowing any

Its not snowing any more, the streets are still white. Glad I can stay warm at home. Cheesy film included.

Snowed in or out

The week-end has been lazy for everyone here but for Zorba. He has enjoyed the patio, or rather the snow that has accumulated in it over the last few weeks.

There is something about cats and snow...

The walk-in fridge

Most of you will remember this add from nearly a year ago.

Well thanks to the last spell of cold weather I have had the change to have my own walk in Fridge, now, this is the Grolsch version obviously ;)

bodschap doen op de

bodschap doen op de sneu leuk!!!

Tilburg in the snow

08/01/2010, originally uploaded by Prozak is gone.

As part of changing airport since our flight never landed at Eindhoven we got re-routed to Rotterdam via Tilburg. There we waited for another train so that we could proceed on to Rotterdam. The landscapes of snow where wonderful. One of the pics of that adventure is this one. Most of you may have followed this through status changes.

What a christmas it was.