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Musings on Torrents

Monday, May 31, 2010 // 0 Comments

File exchange on a distributed network Torrents are wonderful things. For those who are unfamiliar (and it is entirely possible to be unfamiliar yet still be a regular user), [more...]

Get Lucky

Friday, May 7, 2010 // 5 Comments

Poker – is not at all about luck “The man who said I would rather be lucky than good saw deeply into the world” The line is the first uttered in Woody [more...]

Leaving New York

Friday, April 30, 2010 // 2 Comments

view from above “I might’ve lived my life in a dream, but I swear this is real” ~ R.E.M. (from Leaving New York) New York is a very special place. It [more...]

Earth Day

Saturday, April 24, 2010 // 2 Comments

Eyjafjallajokull – try saying that 10 times in a hurry It has come to my attention that today is Earth Day… or perhaps it was yesterday, or the day before. In [more...]

Penultimate Post

Sunday, March 28, 2010 // 3 Comments

About a week ago, the speed skating season came to an end with the world allround championships in Heerenveen. Josh Lose skated in those championships and didn’t skate [more...]

Hockey Update

Friday, February 12, 2010 // 0 Comments

So I’m in Canada and, by the end of this season, will have been here for over three months of the previous twelve. Yet it was only recently that we played our first [more...]

Photo Links

Thursday, February 11, 2010 // 0 Comments

As many of you know, I enjoy taking photos. Some of you even enjoy viewing those photos. Seeing as I do not have any kind of media accreditation for this event, my ability to [more...]

Dutch TV

Thursday, February 11, 2010 // 0 Comments

Those few of you who know me and live in the Netherlands know that I often inadvertently appear on Dutch television. This is mostly because I get press passes to speed [more...]

Weekend Update

Thursday, January 28, 2010 // 2 Comments

Reeeeaaaaaadddyyy… Calgary It is time for another update. After two weeks off without training because of my back, I am now slowly starting to get back into it. How [more...]

Canada Cup

Saturday, January 16, 2010 // 1 Comment

Calgary Sunset on the 1st of January 2010 Apologies for the lack of updates. The main reason for this is because my trusty MacBook Pro stopped working two Mondays ago, just [more...]

See You On The Plane? What A COP-Out!

Sunday, December 20, 2009 // 0 Comments

Barack Obama announces… not a lot København The anti-climax to rival all anti-climaxes occurred late on Friday, December 18th 2009. One of the great opportunities for [more...]

A Mathematician’s Apology

Monday, November 30, 2009 // 7 Comments

I will get straight to the point – it is now mathematically impossible for me to make it to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I would like to apologize to all those [more...]

Ket, Kleinsman, and van der Kieft

Monday, November 2, 2009 // 0 Comments

I am not ordinarily a betting man. But when Swedish speed skater Claudia Wallin suggested we place bets on placings for the Dutch single distance championships, I [more...]

One Year

Sunday, October 18, 2009 // 4 Comments

So I’ve been here for a year. I wanted to write a poem but, to the relief of followers of danielyeow.com, had severe writer’s block. So, instead… I’ve [more...]

Change

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 // 0 Comments

“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain”, so said John F. Kennedy once. Every now and then, one passes through an anniversary [more...]
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