Things have improved a bit lately. I now live in central Amsterdam, have an internet connection, cvs accounts at GNOME and Mandrake and do lots of fun things around the week. I sing in a pop choir and volunteer at the P60 venue in Amstelveen.

On the downside, my student-assitant job and other activities get in the way of my study, which I should really be finishing right now.

Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community has been released. I didn't manage to get all the translations in before the deadline. Fortunately I did get help from a few people. The status for the upcoming GNOME 2.6 release is a lot better though. Let's pray that someone finds a good way to handle online help translations too. I've had to retract my translation of the Epiphany manual because it took too much time to update well - and I'd better show Dutch users an English help page than no help at all.

I took the gamble and paid for a subscription at match.com. That resulted in a few interesting email conversations but nothing more yet...