This is quite an interesting weblog about personal development. I got linked to one of its subpages by StumbleUpon! and read the ‘How to become an early riser.’ article.
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” - Aristotle
Pretty interesting! In a pretty long article he advises […]

My god… I’m soooooooooo happy! I haven’t felt like this in a looooooooong time.
First of all, my exam went pretty well, I think I should have a 6.5/10, so I’m giving myself an 80% shot of having passed the exam, which means that until the grades are available I’m assuming that I passed :).
But what […]

While I was browsing the net this morning, I found a fun IQ test. I thought it was a good way to warm up my brain a bit for the next few hours of studying and then the exam this afternoon… ;)
It’s a pretty tough test with 35 questions taking about 45 minutes (the longer […]

I got an email from my teacher this afternoon mentioning that he gave me a 9.5/10 for the paper I wrote for my research project :D. I had secretely been hoping on a 9, but a 9.5 was quite unexpected :P. It took me a hell of a lot of work, but in the end […]

I just watched a documentary on Belgian television about the young age at which teenagers have sex in the Netherlands and about the influence of all kinds of media and group behaviour on young teenagers.
About 50 group rapes are reported to the police in the Netherlands every year. And that’s just the top of the […]

Good news :)… I passed my exam ;). Got a 7/10 for it. He said my ’spot’ knowledge was much better now, but my ‘broad’ insight wasn’t as it should be yet. But combined he apparently considered it well enough for a 7 :).
So… One exam to go on Thursday and if I pass that […]

Well guys… Keep your fingers crossed… In three hours, I’m doing my oral exam about Stars. A week ago I was confident I could pass it, and part of me is still confident that I can pass it, but the fact that I haven’t passed any oral exams yet in the Netherlands just keeps crossing […]

Okay… A small piece of advice for all the other morons like me in the world… Either don’t sharpen your knives as much as I do -or- don’t walk around swinging with it near your television… It’s probably best to avoid both… **rolls eyes**
I had cut a slice from a sausage a few minutes ago, […]

My dear Americans… I need some comforting… Is it true that it’s impolite in the US to eat with your fork in you left hand? I heard that you guys cut your food with your knife in your right hand, then put down your knife and go on eating with your fork in your right […]

For those that are using or have used Messenger Plus! in the past and for those that would like to defend the rights of free harmless programs, please read and sign the petition started by Patchou, the creator of Messenger Plus!, a very good MSN Messenger add-on used on almost 7 million computers worldwide.
Microsoft recently […]

Heh… Guess what I dreamed of tonight… Jack Bauer from the famous TV series ‘24′ wanted me and Susanne to find an asteroid. Some bad guys wanted to prevent this, so we had to hurry…
I guess I’ve been watching ‘24′ a little too much in my study breaks, I’m a little excited about seeing Susanne […]

Again with the ‘Stumble!’ extension for Firefox, I found a 3-hour mini-series called ‘The Elegant Universe’ from NOVA about the quest for a Theory Of Everything (TOE), about finding an elegant theory for an elegant universe. It’s about Maxwell and Einstein finding general theories for Electromagnetism and Gravity, and about Einstein’s dream for a theory […]

Yes, yes! Susanne’s going to visit me next September :). Somewhere early September, I’ll be taking the TGV (Train à Grand Vitesse / High Speed Train) to Paris where I’ll meet Susanne and visit the Louvre with her (among other things). She’s in France right now for a festival in Bordeaux, in which she participated […]

This is funny… An ASCII movie showing a scene from the Matrix. Now that’s one situation in which it’s handy to be myopic :P. I can make the characters go fuzzy without having to stand back too much :).
I found this using the ‘Stumble!’ extension for Firefox. It’s an extension that adds a toolbar to […]

What the hell??? I just noticed that somebody stole the U-lock of my bicycle… I hadn’t locked my bicycle with the U-lock as I have another lock which is fixed on my bicycle and which I use when it’s just to park my bicycle in front of the house. I only use the U-lock if […]

CNN.com - $68 million stolen in Brazil’s biggest bank heist - Aug 8, 2005
Lol… An unknown number of thiefs broke into a Brazilian bank by digging a tunnel underneath two city blocks. It was dug right underneath the vault. When the bank opened the day after the theft, 52 million euros seemed to be gone… […]

Did you ever think about it, that every second 700 trillion neutrinos fly right through your body? That’s about equal to the number of sand grains carried by roughly 30 trucks. It also happens to be about equal to at least 7 times the number of cells that you have in your body… Every second, […]

Well well… I might be on TV tomorrow :|. I participated in a speed-dating with 400 other singles here in Leiden today. There’s a TV show called ‘Tegen de Klok’ (Against the Clock) here in which a city or village is challenged to fulfill five assignments. One of these assignments was to bring together 500 […]

Two days ago (well, more like yesterday) the race started for my next two exams :). I’m going to redo Stars and Quantum Mechanics 2 this month. Stars probably around August 15th, Quantum Mechanics 2 on August 25th.
So I have the Cracottes (see picture) and the Ice-Tea ready, my room is cleaned up and I […]

I don’t get it… Organizing international help from all over the world with all kinds of fancy stuff costing millions to save 7 people? I remember the Kursk five years ago, but that one had almost twenty times as many people on board… I wonder what they’d do if it were 7 people in Africa […]

Yep… I confess… I have an irresistable and unstoppable hate towards Dutch cinemas.
Here’s a scenario of me going to a Dutch cinema:
0 min: I enter the building.
5 min: I have my ticket.
7 min: I pass by the drinks and food stuff… 3 euro for a normal coke? yuck. And 3 euro for a bag of […]

Yep… I confess… I have an irresistable and unstoppable hate towards Belgian videostores.
Here’s a scenario of me going to a Belgian videostore:
0 min: I enter the store with a list of 5 top movies from my famous **cough** moviedatabase.
1 min: I’m downstairs in the basement of the videostore. I take a look at the first […]