Rudolf W. MEIJER's Private Website

About myself

• born 30 September 1946 in Amsterdam, married to Marian Klumper, three children (Sandra, Bastiaan, Astrid)
• educated at University of Amsterdam, PhD in physics, December 1973 ( WorldCat record for PhD thesis)
• worked for PTT, the Netherlands (now KPN) 1975-1981
• worked for the European Commission 1982-2009
• most recently Adviser in the Research Directorate general (retired as of 1 September 2009)
• living in Overijse, Belgium (see map)

Projects

• This website was primarily conceived as the home for my work on the philosophy of Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677).
  I have produced a comprehensive edition of his works which I invite you to visit.
• One of my pastimes is programming, and I have been professionally associated with the design of several programming languages.
  A special page on this site is devoted to programming languages and the art of programming.

Complimentary links

• Several members of my family have their own business and I am happy to list their websites here:
  René Meijer & Judith Budde - Het Balkon (Personal and Professional Development - in Dutch)
  Joelle Meijer - Artiztix (Multimedia Productions and Web Design - in French and English)
  Menno Meijer - Menno Meyer Associates (Incentive Congress & Event Management)
  Oscar Meijer - KompasCD Multimedia (Musical Communication in the Digital World).
  John Parsler - Ablecraft Ltd (Craftsman Landscapers & Builders)
• Also worthwhile visiting are
  the Pantafos website of my friend Dirk J. Wiersma with samples of his photography,
  the site of his artist daughter Dorine and
  the personal website of Claudine Marichal, a lady with many talents who has worked as a secretary in my unit.
• I am currently webmaster of the AIACE site (association of retired EU officials).

More links

• I have surfed the World Wide Web since 1994, almost since its inception (see WWW Project Page as of 3 Nov 1992),
  and like almost everyone else, I suppose, I have collected my own set of links to sites either very well made,
  or rich in content (or both), or otherwise worth re-visiting;
• some favourites I want to share with others are collected on a separate page.

Some words about my working life

• As a curiosity, I offer a very serious description of what that implies, in a document dating from before AD 750 (!)
  Since I don't expect many people to read the Arabic original, here are two fairly authoritative translations,
  in English (Epistle to the secretaries) and French (Lettre aux secrétaires).
• A not-so-serious contemporary description of life in the civil service is the British TV series Yes Minister,
  and its sequel Yes Prime Minister, which aired in the 1980s. Hilarious but oh so true. There is a website still.