A small note on me

Es ist nicht die Aufgabe des Künstlers,
die Luft, das Wasser, die Felsen und Bäume
getreu wiederzugeben.
Seine Schaffen soll seine Seele
und seine Gefühle widerspiegeln.
Caspar David Friedrich

I was born and raised in a small town in the Green Heart of Holland. In 1989 I became a student at the University of Techology in Delft and did Architecture and Townplanning until becoming an engineer in 1996. In 1991 I moved to Den Haag, where I still live. I spent my spare time in front of my monitor, on my bike or in my hikingboots in the (cultivated) nature of Europe, and I also like to visit all kinds of towns.
Apart from Siberia, there is no place outside Europe I want to visit right now; Europe is utterly cool and has too many faces to get bored. I like to wander around and read the history from the landscape - it's where I get my inspiration from .

I always felt a need to write things down, thoughts, stories, notes, everything. Some might say writing is a hobby or a job, to me it is a neurosis. I wouldn’t write if anybody else wrote enough good stuff to keep me reading for ages, because, in fact, I am very lazy. I will keep on writing until there are no more words to be written.
I do read a lot and learn a lot while reading. I read both fiction and non-fiction, comics, poetry and prose, books for kids, fantasy and literature. I don’t own a television, I haven’t got time to watch.

I like playing records (the round vinyl stuff) and if you want you can ask me to play on your party :-) I am pretty good at it, even drunk or tired, or both (Kids: don’t try this at home!).
Besides records, I also play a bit of bassguitar. I am very proud of the fact that I play even worse than Sid Vicious (and everybody knows how awful that was).
More creativity? Oh yes, I hardly have time to live. I paint, both monocolour walls and multicolour paintings. I make drawings and I am into photography.

Being a Child of the Eighties (I am only a year younger than the Internet, then called ARPANET), computers came pretty late into my life. The first one I worked on was a Macintosh Classic, way back in 1992.
My current computer is a new iMac rev. B (known as the AK47), bought in 1999, and my beloved iBook iRene (2002). Right after buying the iMac, I went online and experimented with homepages. My first try-out homepage was published in february 2000. Now, I use HTML a lot, because I think hypertexts have a future in more surroundings than internet.

For my fascination about fantasyworlds, see [About Daleth].

If you still hadn't enough of me, why don't you check my other projects? You can find them under this link.


I do have ICQ (I keep forgetting the number, ask for it if you want to have it), but I don't chat very often there. If you want contact you'd better mail. I like to think about things before I write them down and send them... You can catch me in German on IRC, server de.quakenet.org, #weltenbastler.

Still hadn't enough? Then mail me at daleth@xs4all.nl