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Catalogue your books online

Saturday, September 17, 2005

This is just too damn cool. LibraryThing is an online cataloguing system that lets you publish the contents of your library. And it comes just in time: my books here only fill four pineapple boxes (those low-sided ones — no volume but easy on the back for moving), but now that I’m here for another [...]

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Party. Zaandam.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

My old flatmates in Zaandam are holding a BBQ Wednesday night, which I’m hijacking as a celebration of my graduation. (It’s also probably the last gasp of summer…) Anyone who knows the address is invited. Anyone who doesn’t know the address but thinks I might be convinced to tell them, give me a shout. (I [...]

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Just call me Master Tikitu

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The defence is over, I passed, I’m officially Tikitu de Jager, MSc. The Dutch equivalent, which I am also entitled to, is ‘Doctorandus’: Drs. Tikitu de Jager. (The possibilities for confusion with this one in New Zealand are evilly tempting…) Better still, I graduated ‘cum laude,’ which I find slightly surprising and wholly delightful. Geek [...]

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MSc defence

Thursday, August 25, 2005

At very short notice, my thesis defence will be this coming Monday (August 29th), at 17.30. Floris Roelofsen is also defending, at 16.00 in the same room. The location is the Euclides building on Plantage Muidergracht, room P0.17. (Please contact me if you need directions.)

The topics of the two defences are “Logical Perspectives on Distributed [...]

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Ik ben verhuisd

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Finally, I’m into the new place. There have been a few hitches along the way, mainly involving keys (first the bloke who was supposed to give them to me left for Spain, then a new set was duplicated and sent through the post… and are presumably still somewhere in the post…). But I’m in now, [...]

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