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So, it's been a while since my last post and certain interesting things have happened. I'm currently having a week off of school so we can prepare for the exams next week. I've to make exams for "Operating Systems and Networks" and "Computer Graphics and Lineair Algebra". The latter one basically involves a lot of matrix calculations... Not really something I like doing but the results (the graphics in this case) are pretty cool which makes up for it.

Further I've been looking for an apartment in Amsterdam the last couple of weeks and had a look at some. There are currently 2 favorites which we'll probably look at again, but this time with my Dad. A friend from university wants to stay in the apartment as well so it's going to be pretty nice. I save about 3 hours a day travelling, so I guess it's worth it.

And if this wasn't enough, I'm also involved in a pretty nice web application project. Essentially it's an online learning environment. It's already written by another company but they didn't deliver what they promised. I'm not going to give away any details, but trust me, the code (php) looks horrible. This is one of those applications which makes PHP look like a language for amateurs, while in fact it depends on the programmer. Anyway, I'm very satisfied with the work I did so far. One part in particular was making the database consistent again. I can assure you, that sucks... But after some scripting it was quite straight forward, just checking for non-existing foreign keys. Those references now have been made explicit by converting the tables to InnoDB which makes things a little easier to manage. There's still a lot to do though, which is good!