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        <title><![CDATA[Claire's stories]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[where do I live?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:39:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Long time I didn't write... but being a teacher somehow got rid of my lazy postdoc freedom... Indeed this message will be short again, just as a memo of this day. Guess where I live... rain on 10 July 2009 ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[410]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I didn't see the movie "300" but I read somewhere it is about a war involving 300 soldiers. Well, I had 410. Not soldiers, but students. 410 students fought against the examination I created for them, and I really thought it would be easy (for them).... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[specialist talks]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was at a workshop some time ago, in the middle of Holland, with 20-30 people from all the same background. This gave rise to pleasant discussions, a nice atmosphere and relaxed exchanges between the participants. Out of context, it might be a bit hard... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[writting a proposal]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, rainy For weeks now I have been busy writting a proposal. Big proposal. Loads of money (well, at least, in my eyes, but I am half dutch so any amount impresses me :-)). I didn't thought it to be so borring and difficult (I never wrote proposals... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[last dash of blue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[According to the newspapers the orange lion bank is confident that the clients of the blue lion bank will have no reasons to change banks after the fusion is completed. Let's see. - Do you still have questions?- No, I don't. You? ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ice and fun]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/12/12059430.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:05:41 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Even though those two words never go together in my brain, I learnt since a week to appreciate the atmosphere surrounding this once-in-15-years event: Dutch can skate on "natural" ice again! My colleagues have twinklings in their eyes and are happy to... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fenland]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/10/12042824.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The word for Finland in Finnish is "Suomi". Both "suo" and "fin" seem to be derived from the root "fen" (in Dutch still "veen") = wetland, which sounds quite appropriate for the country of the 1000 lakes...This year my New Year's eve has been quite memorable... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[the war of the lions]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/12/20/11810600.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In England they had a war between a red and a white rose and they battled until one disapeared. In Holland, there is no war, there is the "polder" model which means consensus. This is how "my" lion became "the" lion. In other words: the Postbank merged... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;à nous de vous faire préférer le train&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/12/12/11643825.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[You want to get pissed-off and grumpy a whole day? Try www. sncf . fr, the french railway website. In ALL other countries I know, when you type www. <compagny acronym> . <country code> you get what you want: the timetables and prices for the trains. In... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[shopping]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/11/25/11515729.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:53:17 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, stopped snowing, mildly cold I was shopping at Albert Heijn, coming back from work, when I heard in my back "Good day, Madam". It was one of my students. I was standing there, with my chicken filet and a pack of toilet paper. The student couldn't... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[ze class]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Did you know that the conservation of momentum is derived from the 2nd law of Newton?? And that the law of conservation of kinetic energy follows from this same 2nd law... amazing. Why do I not remember this from my school years?? Being a teacher is quite... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[first class]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, foggy, not too cold timetable: 10:45-12:30 : first lesson of the course dynamics, 200 first-years (actually about 100 showed-up), and I was doing the show. Cool. Everything went fine. It just looked a bit stupid when the cord of my microphone got... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[blue screen (on the tune of &quot;blue moon&quot;)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/10/24/11077923.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My offfice, this morning, 11:00. Computer guy: oooOOOooooh, you have a blue screen. That's not good.He looks at me and looks concerned at the same time. Computer guy: do you have any important data on your C or D-drive?We look at each other and we both... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sharpened almonds]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/09/27/10738919.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The past two days, I was in Vannes, a nice old medieval city in Brittany, for a symposium. It was a small symposium (10 people), but extremely cozy and well organized. The person who was picking us (a belgian professor and myself) up from the station... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[See you]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/09/11/10360300.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I live close to a church, and around the corner there are some shops: an estate agent, a butcher that sells tasty sandwiches (according to the queue at noon), a hobby-shop where you find papers, pens, pencils, paint, plenty of things for handicraft, a... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Conference]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/09/09/10519404.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am just back from a conference (in Cracow, beautiful city, it's my 3rd time there and still I enjoy going there). It has been quite a long time I didn't attend a conference on my "old" topic (i.e. not mud). It was really nice to feel the atmosphere... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[22-08-08]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/08/22/10311104.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, cloudy, cold Ok, ok, you are thinking "she is on holidays". Wrong. I WAS on holidays (10 days), but needed at least 10 days to recover... and I have to confess: no inspiration at all to write. I'm not saying that the inspiration came back, but... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Booking Slovenia]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/07/08/9859981.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today I completed the booking for our trip to Slovenia. I had a bit of fun too...I was mostly looking for Bed and Breakfasts at farms. The slovenian cuisine seems delicious, and the farms highly advertise for their meals (sort of...): "We provide a highly... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[brulshirt]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/06/28/9735917.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:03:21 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am not so concerned about football. Or any ball in general. But I like the new outfit of the Dutch supporter. Even the colour. ('t has a eye-approved shade of red in it) what to do when your team scores... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The E conspiracy]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/06/23/9680940.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It began in Norway. When I arrived, I got a computer and an email adress where my first name was misspelled "Clair" without the final e. I didn't bother for the computer name, but asked that my email was changed to avoid confusion. I didn't blame Norwegian... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Computers and me]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/06/18/9626975.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am the delight and the nightmare of computer departments. The delight, because I always come to them with funny riddles they have never encountered, sometimes never even heard of. The nightmare, because they don't know how to solve them. Everything... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Red Door]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/06/17/9610480.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, sunny, 20 degrees For some weeks now, I am facing the progress of the destruction of the faculty of Architecture. It is quite an hypnotic view: there is a big machine, like a big crane machine, with a swinging little ball that is poking the calcined... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Houston, we have a problem...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/05/29/9375044.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I love this kind of news: ----------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON—The International Space Station’s lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go.While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kabouters]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/05/26/9332051.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Delft, rain and sun together, not too cold Today I feel like talking about mythology. Dutch mythology. This sounds incredible as Dutch people are very down-to-Earth sort of people, not at all the kind of people to recognize alien spaceships in the oddly... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Loekie]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Piuki takes a bath]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ziclaire.canalblog.com/archives/2008/05/15/9182267.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[PIUKI IS A DOG. PIUKI IS A DIRTY DOG. PIUKI TAKES A BATH. PIUKI IS WET. PIUKI IS CLEAN. PIUKI IS DRY. HOURRAY FOR PIUKI! read further: Hourray for Piuki! Piuki is our mascot!! Piuki is a dirty dog but now he takes a bath. Piuki is clean and dry. Piuki... ]]></description>
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