About Mathijs
Here you will find all information you'd want to know about me, covering various topics such as education, music, sports and computers.
Education and Work
I am currently working on the technical helpdesk of UPC Netherlands and studying Technische Informatica (Computer Science) at LOI Hogeschool. Before this I worked as a consultant / programmer at Aia Software BV., a company specialized in intelligent text processing, and (yes again) as a senior helpdesk employee at UPC Netherlands, one of the largest ISP's in the Netherlands.
Sports
I used to play tabletennis a lot (yeah, go ahead and laugh about it) but since I don't have my own table anymore I kind of stopped playing. The sport I still do at this moment is skiing, preferably in Austria or France. In 2007 I bought my own gear, Salomon Equipe 10 3V ski's and Nordica Beast X10 boots, and in 2008 I'm planning on getting my NSL (Dutch Ski-instructor certificate) and Anwärter (Austrian Ski-instructor certificate). So hopefully In a few winters I'll be able to earn money while skiing!
Computers
A lot of my free time is spent on computers, I try to learn as much about them as I can. I'm most interested in the field of security. A hacking guide i once started on can be found here (will be updated, sometime..).
Currently im also one of the (friendly?) helpers on Apache's #httpd channel on freenode, giving help to the masses of people who want to run a webserver. Specs of my own computer can be found here.
Music
I enjoy listening to a lot of different genres of music, including but not limited to: Drum and Base, Ska, Reggae, Classical, Techno, Tekno, Breakcore, Minimal, Breakbeat, Dubstep and Jazz. Among my favorite artists and composers are: Pendulum, Muse, Rachmaninov, Bach, Coldplay, Spinvis, C-Mon and Kypski, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Yann Tiersen, Boards of Canada, Herbie Hancock, Rammstein, The Prodigy, Venetian Snares and many more.
I have put some of my favorite tracks online here.
Also I have played piano and keyboard since I was five years old, currently I have a Yamaha DGX-620 (picture) to play around with. Since about 15 years old I picked up percussion, mostly on the Djembé.
Other
Other things I enjoy: Whisky (see my humble collection here), special beers, going out in the wonderful city of Nijmegen, idling on IRC and playing World of Warcraft.