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Welcome to my personal homepage!.
My name is Maarten van Gompel, or Proycon, as my nickname is on the internet. I am a Dutch guy and I live with my boyfriend in the city of Eindhoven, in the south of the Netherlands. The website you are viewing now is my personal homepage, where you can read about me and my various interests. I also keep a blog here.
I have a wide variety of interests: I really love languages and I try to learn and speak as many as I can. Furthermore I am a proud Linux-user and I'm really into programming, language technology, and webdesign. Buddhism is also important in my life, as a source of inspiration and tranquility. I also like philosophy in general. And like everybody else, I of course also enjoy music and I myself play the piano.
Latest news
I use twitter to let people know what's on my mind and what I'm doing:
- Feb. 5, 2010 8:45 p.m. Back from the CLIN conference. I won the STIL thesis prize for my master thesis (computational linguistics)! Yay!!! http://bit.ly/98BoAW
- Jan. 21, 2010 9:31 a.m. I found a wonderful song in Cabo Verdian Creole. / Encontrei uma música maravilhosa em crioulo cabo-verdiano: http://bit.ly/4BRN8q
- Jan. 16, 2010 5:37 p.m. Yay! I got a new piano, an actual acoustic one instead of digital, arrived yesterday !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8Y5zkQGhw
- Jan. 8, 2010 2:18 p.m. Portugal aprova casamento entre homossexuais!
- Jan. 5, 2010 12:33 p.m. 100 Ways to develop your mind, looks like a nice list of new year's resolutions: http://bit.ly/Uf8qK
My Profiles
You can also find me on various social network sites. I'm always open to meeting new interesting people, so feel free to add me, but please first leave me a message in my guestbook so I know who you are:
