Found the homepage of my nephew Thierry Koorneef

I found the homepage of Thierry Koorneef (using the http://www.dogpile.com search engine)
http://home.versatel.nl/t.koorneef/

He has a lot of photos of his models of WW2 vehicles:

The models are meticulously put together. The level of detail is stunning. When we were growing up he was always busy with models. Nice to see his work.

We will have glass fibre high speed internet soon !

I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I read the first announcement: free (for the 1st year) high speed internet (10Mb) through a fibre glass cable till in our home !

YES !

FOSDEM 2005, Drupal Conference

Last Saturday I went to FOSDEM at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) to attend the first Drupal Conference.

I've uploaded a few photo's in a gallery. Before you go there, the photo's are of a poor quality. The flash on my camera is not sufficient for these kind of photo's. My apologies. Luckily other people (notably Dries himself) made much better pictures with professional camera's. Links to these will appear on Drupal for sure.

It was very nice to see all the Drupal developers. I did't really interact with any of them directly because I don't actively contribute to the project (yet). The presentations were interesting albeit sometimes difficult to follow. Especially the lack of any microphone amplification in the large college room made things tough for a hard hearing guy like me. I must say that the university buildings looked quite run down. I hope the state of the buildings of other universities in Belgium are a bit better.

I'm going to join the Red Team

Philips Applied Technologies (the place I work at) sends me and another colleague to join the Red Team for two months. The Red Team is participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). From the website:

"The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge will be held on October 8, 2005 in the desert Southwest. The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million. The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The exact route will not be revealed until two hours before the event begins."

This means we (Fran and Hannah too of course !) will spend two months in Pittsburgh (PA) at the Carnegie and Mellon (http://www.cmu.edu) university. I'll be working on the control of the 'gimbal'. A platform for sensors that is stabilized by a 3 axis servo system. We hope to leave for the US around the end of March.

I really look forward to get involved in this !

More details will follow, we are now busy with passports / visa's etc.

UNProfor, 1995

Dutchbat stickerI served a 5 month period in Bosnia with UNProfor (United Nations protection force) in 1995. My contingent: 1 (NL/BE) VN Logistics and Transport battalion. My rotation: L8. There is now (January 2012) a dedicated website: https://1nlbeunlogtbat.n for this battalion.

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koorneef.net server upgraded

In exchange for a dinner our neighbour Bastiaan gave me his old pc. He just bought a new one and his 'old' one still means a factor 4 performance increase wrt to my good ol' 333MHz Celeron ...

Aqua Viva heeft een eigen domein naam

Vanaf vandaag heeft de stichting Aqua Viva een eigen domein naam !
Kijk op: www.aqua-viva.org

www.koorneef.net is finally a bit interactive

I've just installed drupal version 4.3.1. And it works !
At least, good enough.

Please feel free to join in ! send in your comments etc.
If you don't have an account yet, just click on register and after filling in the form a username / password will be emailed to you. It's as simple as that.

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