The pictures from our trip to London are up. Enjoy this one, as well.

I’ll update this post with an account of the trip soon-ish. Before then, let me just add that you should not stay at the “Smart Backpackers Hyde Park Inn Hostel”, even though they tend to …

Did you ever wonder how much the terms “guilt” and “office” are connected? Did you ever wish to just relax while working (and have your work benefit from it), but didn’t actually do so, since it looks bad? Wish you could work at home, knowing you’d be more …

The pictures from our trip to Augsburg are up. Enjoy.

I really do not like the way things are going in recent times within the Debian project. I feel that a group of people has gained way too much control over how things are run, and those people do not seem to care about users, they seem to care about …

To follow up on the previous post, my laptop did find its way back to life. But unfortunately, only briefly so. It started all the way into X just once, and now seems to be dead forever. In the light of this, I’ve given in and ordered aramis‘s …

This July 4th could have been better. While it was a very appropriate day to get my visa (yay!), the evening was actually fairly bad. First, I discovered that a heavy rainstorm this afternoon has found its way into my laptop through an opened window. As yet, the laptop is …

A friend of mine, Hendrik, is on Spiegel Online with his pet project, the Stanford entry into the DARPA grand challenge. His team also made Slashdot a while ago. :D

Go, Hendrik! Will you ever talk to me again, now that you’re famous? ;)

Update: The packages distributed here have been superseded by the new autotoolized ARPACK.

This evening, I ran into a pretty frustrating problem with ARPACK. It aborted without being able to compute an Arnoldi factorization from within one program, but the same snippet of code (with the same matrix!) would work …