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Debt-free (!!!)

Sunday, January 1, 2012

The last payment on my student loan has gone to the IRD. Time to buy a house.

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A new brother-in-law

Monday, August 8, 2011

My sister got married! The wedding was in Mongolia, where her bloke Nasa is from (and where she’s working at the moment). I wasn’t there, sadly, but she’s put up some fabulous pictures. They found an absolutely magical spot to have the ceremony: Here is Nasa and his father. I am terribly envious of those [...]

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Upcoming: great Balkan music

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Ok, short notice: tomorrow night at Pakhuis Wilhelmina there’s a fantastic lineup: Amsterdam’s Caspian Hat Dance at 9 then Kočani Orkestar at 10 (and Serbian dj Cigan at 11:30, apparently). That’s gonna be a party. It’s part of a three-day festival (there are films showing at Kriterion and De Brakke Grond too, and more more music, [...]

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One step closer

Thursday, October 8, 2009

The committee have approved my dissertation.1 So I can go ahead with printing, once I’ve proofread and designed a cover. Which I should have done a month ago.2 This means the defence date is pretty much fixed: December 15th, a double defence with Michael Franke. In related news, Olga will defend her MSc thesis tomorrow [...]

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Prologophile

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I’m going to teach Prolog next semester! To Dutch students starting out in Artificial Intelligence! It’s going to be great fun, shaping their innocent beginning-programmer minds. The course is about half Prolog and half AI-as-search; and I’m completely In Charge. (There will be assistents for the lab sessions, we expect about 30-40 students so it’s [...]

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