Archive for September, 2007

WISSec 2007

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

WISSec 2007 was a resounding succes! I spent some time organising this workshop, but all in all it went of very nicely. We had over 40 participants, many nice talks, perfect weather, food was good, company better, all in all: perfect!

Thursday we started off relatively late. Some people came from far-off Netherlands, and thus were a bit late. Lunch was in a local Italian restaurant (we tried booking the University, but they were too busy). Talks were okay, and in the evening, before dinner, there were nice tours — the organised one by Deike and the personal one by me, where I got to chat with some friends who visited. Woohoo!

Dinner was nice, and after dinner I said goodbye for the night and enjoyed a final cup of tea with Jing in “Hotel Hugo” — her hotel reservation didn’t happen, but there was a communication problem so Jing didn’t know about it.

Friday was even more fun, just a bit of apprehension about my talk and about leaving quickly after the things to get to Zurich that day. Well, managed all of it, with style but not much more than that. It was a very nice workshop, it was good to meet all the people and I am looking forward to next year’s meeting!

Weeking work

Friday, September 7th, 2007

So, what’s been happening here:

  • I reconfirmed my status as “The Hooded Man” (shot twice again all in yellow)
    Sasa hit all yellow once, thus bringing me only a short 3 lots away from the elusive prize!!Hooded Man wins tiger
  • The WISSec workshop is gaining momentum and seems to be going swell
  • The absurd style of Tim Burton strengthens the absurd story of Roald Dahl (yes, I watched Charly and the Chocolate Factory once again)
  • I’ve been using the blender to make soups. All the kitchen stuff the Hoopje people got me for my 28th birthday is finally being used — and thanks again! It’s all excellent equipment (I love the knives! They hate me, but I love them despite their semi-lethal attempts at injuring me)
    And you can easily vary endlessly with soups :) Tomato soup works brilliantly with ginger, but also with red wine (caution: not both at the same time! :)
  • Running twice a week might actually work out. So far so good at least.
  • Got a paper (provisionally) accepted, so that seems nice.

Greetz from ‘Bourg!

We have… a winner!!!

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Last night, Rogier and me went to the funfair in Luxembourg. It was unbelievable. Rogier won every game he tried. He won with throwing rings (mp3 player), with a horse race (the champagne) and he even shot a line in a shooting stand (the digital video camera — yes, you read that right, he won a digital video camera). We / he won the champagne last, and we used it to celebrate the rest :)

Ow, and (with a bit of leeway from the guy) I managed to hit my 3rd “all in yellow” at the archery stand. But Rogier is definitely the sharpshooter of the two of us, given that he shot down the camera with the last bullet.

Hugo ‘Hood’ signing off :)
ps: check out Rogier’s first movie with the cam!