Welcome to my website! My name is Bas van der Veen and I am an enthusiastic Drupalista. Read more about Drupal here. I work as a software developer for IT companies, universities and non-profit organisations, maintaining many complex applications in various programming languages, such as PHP, python, C++ and Uniface.
Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, a small country in the southern Caucasus on the edge of Europe.The Georgian culture is unique; its language has no relation with other spoken in the region, like the Turkic or Indo-European language groups. Georgians are an extremely hospitable and friendly people, who faced many threats and disasters throughout its history, like the Mongol invasion and many wars with Ottoman and Persian invaders. The post Soviet Russian state is seeking to preserve some of its influence in the region, against the interest of the Georgians.
Global warming has been a fact for years, confirmed again and again by new scientific data, and it forces us to take action.
In 2021 29 July is earth overshoot day, the day of a given year when - counted from the 1st of January - mankind has used up as much of the Earth's worldwide resources as they can bring back in one year and process the waste produced. In 2020 August 22 was earth overshoot day.
Just as East Frisia is considered a remote corner of Germany, Groningen is also far away from our Randstad and its Standard Dutch.
For the past ten years I have lived in Amsterdam-West, on the edge of the Jordaan. After all my wanderings, I decided to choose my new home in this city - mainly because of its international and liberal character. I cycle to the cozy Ten Cate market in the Kinkerbuurt, within 5 minutes in the Vondelpark or on the Leidseplein. A little further lies the Westerpark or the Amsterdamse Bos. I used to live in the Baarsjes near the Mercatorplein, where there are fewer tourists, who now have to stow this city in large numbers.
