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Sebastian Brandes Kraaijenzank

1. Denmark's Economy and Society 4. February 2012 - 21:42
   I recently had a discussion with an American friend of mine. The discussion was rather political as we discussed different ideologies, what works and what doesn’t work in a society, what is right and what is wrong and a number of other topics. My friend was shocked over the introduction of the recent “Fat Tax” in Denmark, which is a tax on unhealthy foods (see video here). She meant that Den. […]
2. Minimal Ubuntu VPS: Setting up VNC 1. November 2011 - 11:01
   I’m writing this blogpost because I recently got myself a virtual private server (VPS) from the German provider Hetzner.de. I chose a small one (512 MB RAM, one CPU core, 40 GB space) for just 7.90 euros per month (including German tax that can be deducted if you’re a non-German citizen, which I am). I fired it up with Ubuntu 11.10 (the minimal version) and I wanted to get Apache, MySQL, PHP. […]
3. Going to Spain... 19. August 2011 - 19:12
   As I have published on various media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a variety of forums, I am moving to Spain on the 26th of August to pursue my graduate studies in business administration and quantitative methods. I’ve been accepted to a great university in Madrid called Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). I’m going to study there for 2 years (starting this September) on the p. […]
4. Thoughts on Mono and MonoDevelop 3. July 2011 - 19:40
   This weekend I have been playing with the Mono framework and the accompanying integrated development environment (IDE) MonoDevelop. I come from the Microsoft world of software development, as I started out with Visual Basic back in the end of the 1990’s and the beginning of the 2000’s. Throughout the past couple of years I’ve spent most of my developing time in Visual Studio working with the. […]
5. ¡Hoy mismo nos comemos a los suizos! 25. June 2011 - 21:50
   ¡Hoy mismo nos comemos a los suizos!
6. The final between Switzerland and Spain in the UEFA Under-21... 25. June 2011 - 20:56
   The final between Switzerland and Spain in the UEFA Under-21 Euro Championship at Aarhus Stadium, Denmark.