Matthijs.net

My name is Matthijs van de Water and I'm an Embedded Software Engineer, living in Sittard - the Netherlands. I work in Veldhoven for ASML, the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry.

A little bit of background: I've studied Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology and have graduated my Masters in September 2005. Until recently, I worked for iRex Technologies in Eindhoven. With iRex, I helped develop the iLiad, Digital Reader 1000 and Digital Reader 800 products. 

When I'm not too busy working, I like to go sailing and skiing. I also really enjoy travelling the world.

If you'd like to contact me, you can email me at  email@matthijs.net.

More about my professional background can be found on my .

Yesterday afternoon we signed the contract to buy a really nice house in Hoogveld, Sittard:

We were looking for a house in Sittard for some time now and this one is just perfect. Hoogveld is a new part of Sittard that was built from 2002 onwards and is located close to the A2 highway from Eindhoven to Maastricht, as well as 10 minutes from the Sittard railway station. With Mieke working in the AZM and me at the High Tech Campus, this location will equalize our commute times.

Update Dec 2008: Finally, I've uploaded some pictures to my photo album so you can see how everything turned out now that we're living there.

I've updated my Personal Photo Album to Gallery 2. As you might notice, I've removed a lot of small albums with uninteresting photo's and only kept my holiday pics. I'm still working on the customisation, so it is not yet integrated with my blog, but I really like the new look and feel. I'll be looking into installing more modules to get more functionality.

The album of my latest travel - to Marocco - still needs a lot of captions, but I've been pretty busy with other things lately.

Hello and welcome to my new website! Apart from the fact that my site now looks a bit more 2006, it now also has blog-capabilities. The system I use is called Serendipity.

But knowing myself, I'm probably not going to write a lot of articles. Anyway: it's a lot better than the old phpBB-style design and long overdue.

I've been able to convert (I'm afraid I still had to edit a lot by hand, the conversion tool that comes with s9y is not very good) the important forum posts with reactions to my tutorial to remove MSN Messenger 7.5 Ads and have waved my good old phpBB forum goodbye.

You can stay tuned for an update of my photo album to Gallery 2.0 in the near future. For now, this will have to do.