Leonard Cohen died in November of 2016, a mere few weeks after the release of his last record, You Want it Darker. The homonymous song of that record greatly surprised me, and revealed to me a Leonard Cohen that I was previously unaware of.

I created a new page with a list of all movies that I have watched.

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping, and this can have severe consequences the following day, especially if it is a workday.

For a long time I had been thinking that techniques must have been devised for helping people fall asleep, especially in high-stakes settings such as professional sports, key value driving professions, the military, etc. This meant that it was probably a matter of only a brief research on the internet to find such a technique. However, this idea would always occur to me while lying in bed, trying to fall sleep, which was never the right time to get up and start doing internet research.

Around the turn of the millennium me and my girlfriend at the time, Angelica, decided to spend an Easter vacation in Aegina, a beautiful and serene little island just south of Athens. During that period of time Angelica was volunteering for the Greek Center for the Protection of Wild Animals (Ελληνικό Κέντρο Περίθαλψης Αγρίων Ζώων / ΕΚΠΑΖ / EKPAZ) in Athens, and we had both been volunteers at Greenpeace Greece for several years already. As such, we were in a sense insiders of the relatively small environmental movement of Greece. So, we were told that while we were in Aegina we could go visit the new facilities of EKPAZ on the island; they would be closed to the public due to Easter, but the personnel would be there, and they would be happy to receive us and show us around.

I went to see a talk by Simon Brown organized by the Amsterdam Java Users Group (JUG) in the (quite awesome, to be honest) facilities of Miro in Amsterdam. (Facilities tour on YouTube)

The previous post in this series is here: Buienradar vs. Buienalarm: 1-0

Below are two screenshots of the two websites as they looked in the morning.

Buienradar was predicting dry weather, Buienalarm was predicting light rain.

Then below them is a photo of the great outdoors, taken from my apartment, in the afternoon.