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Time-lapse of construction site "Het Ufo" of Ghent University

1 October, 2009 - 13:04
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In front of the place I work, Ghent University is constructing a new building with two large auditoria and office space, called "Het Ufo" (Universiteitsforum). Being in the digital age, there was of course a webcam pointing at the construction site. Since 21 September 2007, I had a cron job running to capture a photo each day. Apparently, the cron job died on 18 august 2009 for some reason, so my pile of daily photo's stopped growing. Time to put them together in a time-lapse video:

Update: Michiel Ronsse (see comments below) also had a cron job running and kindly provided me with extra frames from July 2007 to September 2007. This is the part when there is no concrete yet.

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Rising spam level on my UGent email account

17 November, 2006 - 11:45
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Almost two years ago, UGent implemented anti spam measures that reduced the amount of spam messages in my UGent email account considerably from 20 something each day to zero. But recently the daily amount of spam that reaches my inbox is growing again in an unfavorable way:

graph of spam messages per day and weekly average