News from the center of the world
Well, that didn’t really go as planned… Friday: beautiful weather up the mountain. Sunday: beautiful weather as well. Saturday: fog and drizzle. Crap. This time, we went down to the mountain even earlier, leaving Hamiltron just after 5am. By the…
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The death of Knut‘s keeper, Thomas Dörflein, made it not only into the German newspapers, but also into the NZ Herald. I had no idea that Knut was that famous outside Germany… Nevertheless, quite sad that Dörflein died at the…
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Over the weekend, I revamped the my projects web pages on my uni homepage. This was necessary, since the Kepler and Ptolemy II stuff was getting too much for just appearing on the downloads page and for a potential trip…
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Yes, even Auckland can be nice. 😉 The ingredients are: 1 really nice summery day 1 happy couple 1 visit at Lush 1 visit at the beach Man, Mission Bay was crowded with Jafas! Must have been one of the…
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Finally, I got a custom build of Kepler finished that includes my Weka actors that I’ve started to develop some time ago. Here are the announcements on the various mailing lists: Wekalist post Kepler-dev post And, of course, you can…
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Yep, once again I’m an uncle! 🙂 This time to the little Norwegian guy Martin Kristoffer. All are well and the Granny will be flying over to help the mum a wee bit for a while. Will post pictures at…
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Birgit Brauer, the German backpacker that got murdered here in NZ three years ago, will get a memorial in her name in New Plymouth. It will be unveiled and blessed on the 20th.
Well, I haven’t noticed any difference. Went to pub quiz, as usual. Didn’t win, as usual. So far, the doomsday fears regarding the Large Hadron Collider (= LHC) haven’t materialized here at the other end of the world… And that…
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Stephen Fry, as “Freedom Fry” (not to be confused with “freedom fries“), wishes GNU Happy Birthday. And that even with a video! Only two weeks ago, Richard Stallman himself was here at uni and gave a talk. And me real…
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