Originally, I created this website to provide insight in the degradation pathways of 3-chlorobenzoate resulting from my MSc thesis (summary), but over time, I've added quite a lot of extra information, particularly my further study and research efforts, previous work in IT, and some general interest in topics such as prions, philosophy, Spain, etc etc... However, they are not necessarily easy to find, because not all pages are written in English. For a bit of structure on what to find where, check out the site info or navigate via the menu above.

• I've completed my (first class honours) Master of Arts dissertation, called Terrorism and Game Theory. I conducted an analysis of the causes, goals and actors involved in the 'terrorist theatre' and on the possibilities of Game Theory (coalitions, negotiations and audience costs in particular) as a more rational approach towards this emotion-laden topic. Summary - Conclusions - full report (in PDF format, 763kb)
  
  
• As part of some other activities, or just because I was interested in the topic, I've been writing some pages on several topics you might be interested in:
  
  
  
  
  Democracy in the European Union
  Women's rights in Islamic marriage
  benefits of red wine
  prions
  the works of M.C. Escher
  some thoughts on education
  decision making process in the European Union
  psychological effects of colours
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I am the Webmaster of Professors without Borders, an NGO about research and education in peace and development issues.
  
  
• I have been the webmaster of the Irish Peace Society website, which is, like this site, focussed on providing information: readings in peace research, events and publications. We won the Award for the Best Society at the University of Limerick and were shortlisted for the organisation of the Best Event: the Lebanon tour. To my surprise, we also won a Merit Award for the peace.ie website from the Schools and Universities Internet Awards (SUIA) of Ireland.
  Apart form making the pages, and filling some with necessary information (such as the start page, links, ongoing activities, focus regions etc etc), more specific writings for the peacesoc website include:
      Several essays
      La personalita nonviolenta (book review)
      Is 'US Peacekeeper' an oxymoron? (discussion evening contribution)
      Can the use of violence ever be legitimate? (discussion evening contribution)
      What can be done? (write up workshop)
      The Role of Pakistan in Deterring Terrorism (An Focal article)
      Interview with the Hizbollah webmaster (Sesame article)
      Lecture by Rachid Chamoun (review)
      Email conversations with a 'humanist' (a response to hate-mail)
      
  
  
• I was reviewer for Veritas-Online, the Napier Students Newspaper. The Veritas-online is temporarily offline at the moment (Oct 2004 -- and still are now in 2007), therefore the reviews are online here.
  
  
• Some of the pages about art and interior design are still under construction, but I already made the layout of backgrounds (my first attempts while playing with Corel Draw9).
  
  
• I've been exploring Spain a while ago, and made a lot of photos there as well. The pages contain some of the pictures and associated text about what it is you're looking at. The cities I've visited were Barcelona, Sevilla, Granada and Madrid.
  
  
• If you want to do something useful instead of clicking around a bit, then go to some food for thought: scientific articles [although lately they have been giving in too much on the fear factor, paranoia and subjectivity in reporting] etc, as well as some improbable research (AIR) and Pretty Strange Patents.
  
  
• Recipes. If you have some interesting recipes of your own country, please send them to me, and I'll add them to this list, like the Lutefisk and other norwegian recipes.
  
  
• A list of quotes, with an updated section, but by now, you may find Logos Quotes more interesting, which has a large database of quotes and in umpteen languages.