Typhoon Frank hit Manila during the 2nd day of the
NetBeans Platform Certified Engineering course, i.e, Saturday,
21 June. At some point I remember asking one of the students: "So
I've been told there's a typhoon in the Philippines. Do you know
where?" And he replied: "Outside that window." It was raining
pretty hard but I wouldn't have ascribed that to a typhoon.
Back in the hotel, at about 2 A.M, I followed the Holland-Russia
match via a Dutch Internet radio station on my...