…to the last of the class 1995, which is graduating today to become “Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence”. Well done! He never gave up, and finally got what he was working on for so long. I am proud of him. Too bad I can’t be there today, but hopefully many of my former classmates [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 28, 2007
The meaning of “nothing”
A while ago, our internet provider has, as is normal these days, merged/been bought/acquired/made a deal with (delete as appropriate) one of the largest DSL providers in the country. The result was that I paid a third of the price for a better connection. In the letter (one of the few REAL letters that I [...]
September 24, 2007
My sons best friend
I want to introduce my son’s first friend to you – he is now 6 weeks old, so his vocabulary is rather limited and consists mainly of “coo” and “aeh aeh”, but he does talk already (yeah, we do have a super child. I expect him to ask for his first playstation any day now). [...]
September 19, 2007
Multi tasking
You know they say that woman is naturally gifted with the ability to do several things at the same time i.e. multi tasking. Let that be cooking dinner while talking on the phone (and not burning the food, that is..), putting on mascara while driving (some women can do it apparently..), or in my case [...]
September 13, 2007
More old friends
A while ago I wrote about a website that I re-discovered after someone sent me an eMail commenting about it – it’s the MOMO page that you can find here on this blog.
Today I am not talking about the site though but about real people, old friends that keep reappearing. The last few months I [...]
September 8, 2007
Berlin must be so safe…
… because the police here has nothing better to do than stopping bikers that bike the on the pavement, and extract the exorbitant sum of €5 from them. This is what happened to me yesterday, when I wanted nothing but get home after a hard days of work – the shortest route leads past a [...]
September 5, 2007
Going back to work
Today is my last day off – 4 weeks of holidays have flown past, and I have barely noticed. I am a bit torn, because this holiday has at the same time been very dull and more exciting than any other holiday (or any other part of my life) so far. On the dull side, [...]
September 2, 2007
wonders of modern technology
A friend was kind enough to lend me one of the hottest mobile phones on the market right now, a Nokia N95. While I am not the most geeky person on the planet, I certainly do like my toys, so I could hardly wait to test all the great new things. To make it short, [...]
