My Life, My Universe, My Everything

Last week I attended a seminar about our System Development Method. The course was rather interesting although I was pushing our seminar leader a bit. I feel that my experiences in project management and agile software development added to the seminar although I could have made this less obvious sometimes. I am so used in [...]

So I’m back from the US. I had a great time in Boston, New York and Washington. Big hugs to my friends who accommodated me over there. Since I am so fortunate, I thought I share my luck with others and offer my place or time for visitors too. Due to a recommendation by Henner, [...]

I just want to let you know that I will travel to the US (East Coast) soon. I will go to Boston to visit Franzi. My plans include to drive to New York City, to Washington and to Philadelphia. In Washington we should meet with Fares, an old friend from Kent.
In October I will [...]

Today I found the webcalldirect.com service. It allows you to make free calls, so they claim. I decided to try it out – and it worked – for about 5min I could chat with my parents, then we got disconnected. So I called again,… and again… All this without even registering.

As mentioned before, I went to Venice July 22nd – 24th. Today I managed to put up the pictures.
A little tool called Exifer helped me to solve the following problem: given two photo collections of the trip – both cameras not synchronised on time – how can I order the pictures chronologically? Using two [...]

Recently I went to Venice. A friend recommended to call Lorenzo who opened a B&B in Venice not so long ago. Lorenzo had indeed a room available so we stayed for two nights there. The B&B is located near the Piazza San Marco. We had a very pleasant stay and I want to recommend his [...]

Dr. Dobb’s | Escape the software development paradigm trap | May 29, 2006
I want to keep a marker to this article as it addresses several interesting issues in software development but also the metaphors used are thought provoking.

Wired News: Work More, Do Less With Tech
This article at Wired describes a feeling I have came to think about lately, too – technology, work load and productivity. Many people consider me to be well organised and a person that “gets things done”. However, I don’t feel the same way. I find it increasingly difficult [...]

In case you missed, it was Kurt Gödel’s 100th birthday on April 28th. Why should you care, you ask? He is one of the greatest logicians of all times, some say. All computer scientists out there should know the “Incompleteness Theorem” Gödel proved in his habilitation (after he proved the “Completeness Theorem” in his dissertation). [...]

…lots of time to find my data.
Last week I decided that my private laptop needs a clean-up – a very thorough one. I backed up my data; basically I copied a few directories to my external HD, amongst them “Application Data”. Then I reinstalled Windows. Of course, I wanted to get my data back but [...]