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Hold that thought!
2007-03-20 00:00:00
Just as I thought the end was near and I started to look ahead, I'm temporarily called back to the present. There's a lot wrong with my final paper. Yes, I've met my supervisor. Before I give off the wrong impression: he was fair. Everything he said had actually already crossed ...
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Did someone call my name?
2007-03-05 17:39:03
I just spent the past ten minutes trying to come up with a way to neatly avoid the upcoming cliché but then I realised I am the cliché here and I decided to just come out and provide you with the crappy excuse that my lack of interesting posts of ...
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The vault
2007-03-01 05:36:01
It's a chain blog! Thank you Martin. I believe I'm supposed to list five things about myself from my personal life that nobody (or very few) people know about. Since just five isn't an awful lot and I might not be able to stop once I open this ancient vault, ...
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Ten and a half hours
2007-02-25 17:33:02
Hurricane Kyrill definitely made landfall just as I was witnessing the violence from the pier at The Hague's beach resort. Earlier I'd had fun running with the wind and quite possibly breaking the speed record for all of human kind but as the skies darkened it dawned on me I ...
More About: Hour , Half , Hours

Democracy incognito: democracy needs a new face
2007-02-25 17:33:02
Throughout the 20th century, the United States of America was the world's undisputed example of a successful democracy. It inspired people to push for freedom because, so everybody believed, it would consequently lead to wealth and prosperity. During the Cold War, the concept of the West partially adopted that role ...
More About: Democracy , Face , Need , Demo , Incognito

Blogroll
2007-02-25 17:33:02
There's a lot of politics involved in updating your blogroll isn't there? Links to blogs you stopped reading or links to blogs written by people you've lost all contact with... Do you delete them or not? Can you delete a blog if they still link to you? Or is that ...
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Au Revoir
2007-02-25 17:33:02
Four and a half months ago I started my work placement only because it's a mandatory part in finishing my education. It turned out to be much more than that. Like my six months in Italy, it became a highlight of my studies, something that had an impact on me. ...

The Paco standard for language proficiency
2007-02-25 17:33:02
Move over TOEFL, here's the real deal. Thank you Martin for coming up with the idea (you should probably read his post about it before you continue here), let's take the internet by storm. Paco: Because everybody loves to boast about how many languages they speak. Tell your friends. Paco 1 - did ...
More About: Standard , Language , Prof , Anda , Stand

Bus Momentum
2007-02-25 17:33:02
"Holy cow... I had no idea there were this many people in all of Zealand" "There are at 7:45 in the morning" The bus driver seems genuinely bewildered, which makes me smile. It's the third bus out of... six I think that I saw but I wasn't paying much attention to other ...
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If your mind is naive enough to support such a sentiment in the first place
2007-02-25 17:33:02
I parked the brown '84 Chevy Impala just beyond the sign welcoming me in Imlay, Nevada, home to 223 inhabitants as of presumably this morning since the paint on the sign struck me as wet. I opened the car door and welcomed the now familiar dry and heavy air as ...
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Quality versus quantity
2007-02-25 17:33:02
The hardest thing about writing long stories, for me, is maintaining the thrill. I'm prone to filling page after page with meaningless gibberish that will make even the most fanatic reader toss the book out the window. And yes I have written an actual book before. Short stories, then, are the ...
More About: Versus , Anti , Quality , Ality

References
2007-02-25 17:33:02
My boss just wrote me a letter of reference I'll be able to use when looking for a job once I'm done studying (presumably this summer) and it's quite positive. In fact, it uses words such as "extraordinary" and "intelligent" as well as some more marketing-related terms along the lines of ...
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A round of statistics
2007-02-25 17:33:02
So far this month, 216 unique visitors have paid 1017 visits to my site, 94% of them using a direct address or bookmarks which I suppose might explain why feedburner keeps giving me a different number every single day, claiming I had 15 readers via RSS on Friday, and just ...
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