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Hello everyone,

I just got back from my holidays in France which where great. Good weather, good wave, and good company (ow, and good wine). However, now its back to work.

Momentarily I am working at de Vos en Jansen for the last month. After which I will start a phd at the TU/e and at Stanford. The Phd will be on persuasive computing and is conducted in cooperation with Philips research. Thus, I get to learn new stuff in a new environment, and I get to go to California and study at Stanford. Sounds cool to me.

Besides this obviously the work on Wabebee continues. We have new contacts with iFlavour (a really cool online magazine) where our adds will soon be displayed if everything works out. Besides, we have the baby bunch which will be sold trough Wabebee from October on so we hope to get some revenues there.

Finally, the work on Waalhalla, europe's coolest indoor skate park, is being continued. Check out the picture and see the concrete pouring in. We will be pouring concrete the next few weeks and soon the place will be ready to skate. Make sure you sign up for the newsletter at the waalhalla website to get invited for the grand opening.

Cheers!

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France!

Hey hey, because of a crappy azerty keybord a relatively short message from the south of France. I am enjoying myself here with sun, beach, surf and girlfriend and I am trying to stay azay from computers for a few weeks.

However; when I am back you can expect an update of the gravity zero site (which turned into Curbs so congratulations Joep with moving), pictures of the waalhalla skatepark where according to schedule the concrete is being poured right now, and a really cool update for Youbucket which I was programming just before I left... And of course some holiday pics!

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FCK editor

Hey everyone. Since today I installed an FCK editor to do my content managment. Seems to work just fine. Very cool package by the way. Cool WYSIWYG editor to get some HTML into my database, and implemented in exactly 5 minutes (even when having the admin page on a different domain...) Great stuf!

I will try to keep this updated on what I am doing, but since I will be on a holiday next two weeks I wanted to have an easy way to upload stuf. And here it is. I will be of to France for the next two weeks to go surfing, so expect some pictures from the experience there.

See you!

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Mauris Kaptein.com online. Finally.

Hello!

Welcome to my website. I just redid the whole thing, so now its all AJAX (although I have to redo some of it to make sure google-bot gets around, since he is not into AJAX that much.)

I decided to launch this site with some info about me (check the upperleft corner and click "resume"), some links to stuff I am working on (the two little squares on top) and a blog.

So, what to write in a blog?

Good question.

I decided I would just fill it with stuff I am working on and stuff I am doing. Currently I am mainly working at De Vos & Jansen Marketresearch, a research agency where I develop new online products and write SPSS macro's and script to get the old products working a bit faster. Check them out at www.devosjansen.nl. Beside that I work on wabebee. This is my own online trading company which I founded with two friends. It is not bringing in a lot of money at the moment, but it is certainly a lot of fun. We can be found at www.wabebee.com.

Now, for sparetime I ride a skateboard so we are building a park at the moment, which is cool because I get a chance to weld stuff together and do some good construction work. Video, foto and all that of the upcomming skatepark can be seen at www.waalhalla-centrum.nl.

Sorry, that's it for now since the weather is nice and I should play outside a bit more. Use the tiny form below to leave any reactions to this post if you wish. I will keep you updated!
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