Dit was in de tijd dat ik op de Anne Frank school zat, in de Rivierenbuurt,
lagere school dus, en in die tijd bestond er dus nog geen AIDS
(zeg nu zelf, ZIE je dat niet gewoon aan die gezichten?)
het was de tijd van Lovin' You van Minnie Riperton,
When Will I See You Again van The Three Degrees,
The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
en One Of These Nights van The Eagles..
ja zien we het weer voor ons ?
Lord what has become of us... ;-)

toch is er met mij bijna niks veranderd,
zie er een stuk cooler uit dan toen
en voel me eigenlijk nog net als toen
so who cares?

Kiel vi nomig^as? Do you even have a name?

Well yes.
There's a secret internet handle I will not share with you here (duh), but you may know me as:
jult, Julius, J. B. Thyssen, Julius Thyssen, Julius Thijssen, Julius B. Thyssen, Julius B. Thijssen, Julius Benedictus T., Julius Benedictus Thyssen
and I really prefer Thyssen over Thijssen, so, consider the latter to be obsolete.

Why did you buy  j u l t . n e t ?

One fine day long long ago, when I was asked for a login-name by the good people at xs4all, I tried "julius", and believe it or not, it was already taken! Apparently I'm not the only dutchman named Julius. What could I do? It had to be a short login, I didn't feel like typing a long string every telnet session! I also remembered the cheapest hacker drink was "JOLT Cola". That's how I came up with jult. Due to my old homepage with user ~jult people also started calling me by that name;
"hey jult, how ya doin'?" So before I knew it, the domain name was registered because of an offer I couldn't refuse from a weird guy whose name I was forced to remove. Back then he had his own hosting-company and I helped him out with some problems. I was messing with my own server(s) too back then, started playing with some http software, and pretty soon pointed the domain name to my IP-address, using ZoneEdit. Now it points to a very slick home DSL connection, and I thank XS4CISTRON for the fast shortcut to the world. JULT.NET is now closely inter-linked with my old web-pages, and interfacing with the much older jthz.nl
So did you pay for it? Yes and no.
Do you now own the name? Mine forever.
Will you pay for it to stay? Probably as long as there is a www.
BUT WHY, MAN? Hey, why not?

Aren't you and your private data at risk because you run a server?

No. I'm proud to say no server I maintain(ed) has been broken into, not once.
To achieve this, I regularly check Rootsecure.net, Xatrix, SANS, Incidents, CERT, FIRST and The Box.

What is your age?

One of my grandmothers had the coolest habit of making her birth certificate and birthdate in her passport un-readable. I liked this concept very much, I have always hated judgements based on age, and this already started when I was a teenager, it has nothing to do with getting older. When I got to be 24 I decided to stay 24 forever. Secret documents show that I'm from the same draft as Salma Hayek-Jimenez, Kiefer Sutherland, John Cusack, Sandra Bullock, Janet Jackson, Christy Canyon, Samantha Fox, Wessel van Diepen, Theo Maassen and Paul Elstak. However, like I said, I follow up on this old family-tradition of staying young and hiding the numbers.

Are you some kind of freak?

What do you mean by freak? I don't kill people, I don't do drugs, I don't smoke, I rarely consume alcohol, I don't care about money, I don't have any piercings or tattoos on me and you think *I'm* the freak? Get a clue.

You seem so normal, why do you do this?

Does being normal exclude the possibility for me to show the world what being me is all about? I started a homepage in 1996 to show the world some software- and design-tricks I had created together with my cousin, from there it evolved to something terrible. I really like doing this website thing, it has become another creative outlet. I never intended for me or my website to get so popular though ;-)

Why do you assume we care about you?

I don't, but you seem to care, you're reading this, right? People like to know about me, and I don't even have to do my best for that to happen. It's obvious I'm not your average John Doe, I know that. In real life people who just met me always ask me what I do, what I have done in my life so far, who this Julius really is, and part of me likes to be the center of attention, but I have no intentions of portraying myself as if I'm more important than you or other people, even though people think I'm very vain, arrogant even, they couldn't be more wrong. I don't really care that much, I just try to survive in this insane society, and telling you about myself and my life on the www is just a tiny part of my existence.

I read your site. You're so full of yourself.

A misconception a lot of people may have. I admit, I may seem full of myself on this site. Or full of (sh)it as some people might say, but you've gotta realize that it's all pretty much an act. Call it my 'online personality' if you may. I'm very different in real life, almost a complete 180 degree turn from how I am on my site. You'd be surprised.

Okay. So I'm not supposed to take it all seriously then right?

Exactly. But by all means, take whatever you feel to be serious seriously... just keep in mind that I like to write about stuff with tongue firmly planted in cheek. I draw a very thin line between seriousness and jokes. A lot of people fail to see that line. I really fucking hope you can differentiate what's to be taken seriously and what's to be taken as a joke.

Do you really look like the guy in the pictures?

Actually yes, it is me in the pictures, for real. Some pictures are quite old, but I have been told that on a bad day I look like a mixture between Dwight Schultz (Murdock), Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves and some mafiosi ;-) So, yeah yeah, I should have been a famous teen-idol or something, zillions of people have told me to enter showbizz, theater, TV, movies etc. already, please don't be the next repeating that. Somehow I just didn't go for it, maybe someday I will, I hear there's good money to be made in Hollywood. On the other hand I like my freedom very much, I can appear in public and people don't recognize me (sometimes they think they do, but they don't know where from, which is cool).

Are you perfect? What are the downsides to you, Julius?

* I don't have a driver's license, not planning to get one any time soon either, I like cars but I don't like people (when they are) in traffic, they behave stupid, arrogant, impatient, drugged and they take way too many chances, being either too slow or too fast
* Life is a party to me, I don't like forced partying
* I don't get the whole getting drunk thing
* I don't like faking a smile
* I don't like dating games
* I think I can talk freely at all times
* I detest people judging me negatively in general, it doesn't work, I will not change. If anything I will respond by doing the exact opposite of what people ask me to do.
* I hate it when people don't trust me when they should (especially women), my responses can be very tough to handle when I feel I'm being mis-judged. I don't like those who can't give me reasons for what they do or have done (to me). And people thinking they can rate what I do by their sick standards can go, I know very well what I'm capable of and I truly believe I can objectively view myself or what I create from a distance so shut up already
* Some might say I'm arrogant, but I'm convinced that's bullshit, I'm probably one of the least arrogant citizen this world has ever known
* I can be a slob, I don't see the use of putting things away in closets and boxes when you need them everyday, cleaning up a room is not a logical concept. I'm very sensitive to dust though, my nose can be a pain in the ass at times
* I used to be allergic to specific types of fish/seafood, so fish is still not really my favorite food, I love Tuna though
* I'm not the same person in real life (in 3D), as the person I am when I write. Writing can reveal my innermost evil side(s), it comes very natural to me. Quite often I miscalculate the effect my writing has on readers. I tend to spoil entire friendships or (potential) relationships with just a couple of sentences (sorry, can't help being the word-rebel that I am)
* I don't like the overall prestigious competitiveness that plagues human civilisation. For example, when you're truly in love it is so not important what career you (plan to) have, college dropouts like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have become filthy rich in no time
* I don't like being asked what I do for money, I always feel like answering something like: "I earn my money by playing it smart". Hate the dutch "arbeidsethos", all the applying for jobs crap, people should be extremely glad I would want to work for them! I try to be really good at what I do when I need to do it, don't ever doubt that, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. (in case you don't remember, it's from The TV-series The Hulk)
* I don't understand why people want to have (one) full-time job(s). I don't want to understand why people don't value their freedoms the way I do
* I have a problem with authority figures. I know too much for I am always root
* I like to initiate the surfacing of well-kept secrets. I talk too much I grew up with radio
* I tend to expect people to understand me, while they're usually really far too lazy or stupid to get it ;-)
* I don't hit women, ever, or well, maybe during the hunting rituals of mating (running around naked in a hotel knowing you're about to get laid). And I used to be in fights with my sister when we were young, but that doesn't count. Oh hell, this one is in the wrong section, isn't it?

What do you think of all the violence going on?

Looks like a question asked at the Miss World elections, and you will not believe it, but I actually received this question without any further explanation from some girl in Peking. And it wasn't spam. I didn't understand at first, but then I found out she responded to me writing about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, the somewhat violent TV-series. I'm not a violent person myself, if anything I'm the complete opposite. I don't even see the use of fighting sports, learning how to survive has nothing to do with the ability to hit or kill people, it will always be mind over matter anyway.

Are you gay?

Sorry, no, I'm not gay. When you're male and you like to drink tea and are capable of talking about intimate stuff with other males, people often assume that you must be either homo- or bi-sexual. I'm neither of those. I will allow you to think I'm a male version of the best of both worlds :)

Are you mentally disturbed?

No, I'm just victimized by my brain and all the stuff it has absorbed during the years it has been capable of storing external data. I don't think I will ever 'snap' or become mentally ill.

How come you have time for all of this? Don't you have a job?

You have to understand that jult.net and jthz.nl consist of many different parts, old pages that have been released and created many years ago and haven't been updated that much, new pages that I maintain together with my cousin, and so on. I don't even spend that much time on all this, I simply like it to be there rather than not.
And usually I have more than one job, even..

No but seriously, are you gay?

Even though I've lived in one house with my cousin for a long time, we hardly ever even touched each other ;) I can see what women would find attractive in me or other men, but I'm not sexually attracted to the male body myself.

Are You Single ?

No.

So, are you gay then?

Geez! Do I really need to put up pictures that prove that I'm not? I might even do that sometime.

You suck, I've seen that on another site, why did you steal it?

I didn't, oh foolish one. It's much more likely someone copied it from one of the many webpages I've published, or from printed things where I was either the writer or DTP-guy. Stuff I wrote has been around longer than the portal blog weblog homepage webring dumps that seem to have taken over the entire web-population. Face it, I was here before you even knew what Control+C and Shift+Insert would do, and I have not been wasting my time away doing nothing sipping beer being in a zillion worthless relationships all the time.

I've read a lot about you but still have no idea who you really are, what's up with that?

Have you tried reading between the lines? Be sure to check out the archives! In short: I'm an excentric grey-hat hacker god-like media engineer trying to have a life in Amsterdam, and no, I never do drugs and don't wear wooden shoes. If I hold back particular info, hey, guess what? It may be intentional! Here's another clue: First tell me everything about YOU yourself, perhaps then I'll share the same amount of personal info with you.

Al die rare foto's van jou online, waarom doe je dat?

Dat is zodat ik in het echt alleen maar kan meevallen. En meestal doe ik dat ook. Meevallen in het echt, bedoel ik.

Waarom doe je dit eigenlijk allemaal?

Het meeste spul op het web wordt door mij vooral gebruikt als experimenteer-basis voor site-ontwerp, graphic design, netwerk-, server-, PC- en zelf-onderzoek. Gek genoeg leveren sommige online-onderdelen de laatste jaren plotseling reacties op, die mij nogal verbazen. Of het nu komt doordat mensen internet nu pas ontdekken en het niet van me verwacht hadden, of dat ze het verkeerd begrijpen en het verkeerde serieus nemen, ik weet het niet... Anyway:
Als je houding naar mij toe afhankelijk is van wat je hier zoal ziet; Wake up!
Als je oordeel over mij afhangt van wat plaatjes en tekstjes op het internet, fuck you. Ik doe hier maar wat, namelijk! Leuke flauwekul maken, voornamelijk. Dit pleur ik NIET op internet omdat ik zo'n behoefte heb aan aandacht ofzo (hoewel die altijd welkom is). Stel nu dat ik zou meespelen in een leuke film, ben ik dan meteen een arrogante eigenheimer of narcistische freak ? Alles wat je hier ziet is net zo goed fabricage, doen alsof, met voorbedachte rade, acteren. Wel leuk allemaal hoor, dat www, maar het hangt allemaal aan een dun draadje; Als ik 1 letter verander van de WWW-directory is alles foetsie, zo veel is het ongeveer waard. Oh en jij dacht dat IK ziek was? Kijk eens naar deze gek! (Gij zult niet oordelen) of deze brave jongeren, of deze (overigens best leuke) FREAKS!

Je zult hier een aantal (best geinige) plaatjes en teksten zien, vooral gemaakt met in het achterhoofd mijn familie van over de hele wereld. Kunstwerkjes van mezelf, maar niet genoeg om me op te kunnen be-oordelen. Als je hier zit te lezen/kijken, weet dat het maar wat moment-opnames zijn. Mocht er onverhoopt iets bij zitten waar je het totaal niet mee eens bent, laat het me weten, dan haal ik 't (indien nodig) weg.

Hoe weet ik zeker dat je mijn mail leest?

Voor serieuze zaken/vragen kun je mij het best bereiken per e-mail. Ik zal proberen binnen een maand te bevestigen dat ik je bericht ontvangen heb. Natuurlijk ben ook ik wel eens een poosje weg. Als je me een e-mail gestuurd hebt en al geruime tijd geen reactie ontvangen hebt, stuur die e-mail dan gerust nog een keer. Ook bij mij raken dingen soms bedolven onder belangrijker zaken, waardoor ik iets heel lang over het hoofd kan zien. Nog wat adviezen:
Gebruik *alleen* e-mail-adres <net@the-domain-of-this-site-here.net> dan kan ik garanderen dat e-mail 100% zeker door mijn spam-filters heen komt, of dat ik er serieus naar zal kijken.
Probeer mij ook geen HTML gecodeerde e-mail te sturen. Ik kan het wel lezen, maar alleen via een omweg, dus je maakt het dan lastig.

Moet ik bang zijn dat je mijn e-mail publiceert, aangezien je zo weinig grenzen kent?

Alle email die ik van particulieren ontvang zal ik vertrouwelijk behandelen. Dat wil zeggen dat ik alleen voornamen of initialen, maar geen volledige namen of email-adressen op deze website zal publiceren, tenzij de afzender daarvoor uitdrukkelijk toestemming heeft gegeven, of zelf onder eigen naam publiceert en ik zo'n publicatie relevant vind. Waar mogelijk zal ik links opnemen naar andere gerelateerde websites. De beoordeling of ik dat doe is geheel aan mij. Je kunt me suggesties sturen, of ze hier anoniem dumpen. Verder niet zo zeuren en dit lezen! ;-)

Waar moet het naartoe met jouw leven, Julius?

Goede vraag, de beste tot nu toe. Het antwoord weet ik niet. Er zijn wel momenten dat ik het helemaal zie kloppen, dat ik ineens een visioen heb dat iets met reizen voor mij ideaal zou zijn. Precies het tegenovergestelde van wat mensen van mij denken. Moet hier nog op terug komen.

Zeg het nou maar; Je bent stiekem een hoogbegaafde nerd met walgelijk veel geld?

Nee, da's geen goede weergave van de realiteit. Ik heb veel old-school hands-on experience met PC's, hacking en netwerken; Voor een gratis etentje bij je thuis doe ik heel veel 8*) maar ik heb mezelf nooit een nerd gevonden. Misschien kan ik gewoon ook wat nerds kunnen ;-) Mijn vader noemt me wel een wizzard, maar dat zegt niet alles. In een Sinterklaasgedicht voor mij stond: de computer is je lust en je leven Well they couldn't be more wrong! De computer is voor mij wat een hamer is voor een timmerman, meer niet. En mijn lust? Alsjeblieft zeg.

I AM 38% GEEK.