Some 12 years ago, I created this website to provide insight in the degradation pathways of 3-chlorobenzoate resulting from my MSc thesis (summary) and practice a bit with HTML (in the time before abundance of free CMSs).
Over time, much more information has been added, in particular my further studies and research efforts, and to a lesser extent previous work in IT, and some 'general interest' topics.
Those not particularly relevant yet interesting topics include, among others, prions, a summary of the works of M.C. Escher, a trip to Spain, and so on, although since 2006 similar additions are being added to my blog, such as on the complexity of coffee and culinary evolution.

• Not so recently, I have 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:
  
  • Women's rights in Islamic marriage
  • Benefits of red wine
  • Dependency and underdevelopment in Third World countries
  • Prions
  • The works of M.C. Escher
  • Some thoughts on education
  • Democracy in the European Union
  • Psychological effects of colours
  • A selection of more recent ones from my blog are:
    • The complexity of... coffee
    • An analysis of culinary evolution
    • On a typology of bureaucracies
    • Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi in Bolzano
    • Multi-tasking or parallel processing? Operating Systems versus processing in the brain
    • Failing to recognize your own incompetence
  Maybe I should focus more on a few topics instead of fanning out. Either way, I hope you found reading any of the of some use, or else good for procrastination.
  
  
  
• I am the Webmaster of Professors without Borders, a (by now near-dormant) NGO about research and education in peace and development issues.
  
  
• I have been the Webmaster of the Irish Peace Society website with former lication at http://www.peace.ie, which was focussed on providing information: readings in peace research, events and publications. We won the Award for the Best Society at the University of Limerick in 2003 and were shortlisted for the organisation of the Best Event: the Lebanon tour (schedule of activities and the projects for which we collected funds, such as the adult literacy project, restored from backup). To my surprise, we also won a Merit Award for the peace.ie website from the Schools and Universities Internet Awards (SUIA) of Ireland (the site is offline as there weren't perpetual IT students willing to maintain it).
  Aside from making the pages, and filling some with necessary information (such as the start page, links, ongoing activities, focus regions etc etc), a selection of pages I wrote for the peacesoc website are (put online here again after a late restore from an old backup, in the original layout):
      La personalita nonviolenta [the nonviolent personality] (book review)
      Is 'US Peacekeeper' an oxymoron? (discussion evening contribution)
      Can the use of violence ever be legitimate? (discussion evening contribution)
      The Role of Pakistan in Deterring Terrorism (An Focal, the UL newspaper, article)
      Interview with the Hizbollah webmaster (Sesame, the OU UK newspapers, article)
      
  
  
• I was reviewer for Veritas-Online, the Napier Students Newspaper. Also Veritas-online is offline... so here is a selection of the reviews taken from the backup.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 I used to collect.