Chris’ Miscellanea

Now I'm the proud owner of a hand-signed edition of bunnies "Hacking the X-Box" book :-).

During my commute from work I saw that guy with his computer sitting in the train whom I cowardly photographed from where he could not see ...

Because of the hot weather here in germany, the HERA accelerator has problems dissipating all the heat the overdesigned and energy wasting ...

Tinkering, Chatting, Eating.

I ordered myself new toys...

Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

So I get a phonecall from my friendly T-Mobile user-care-agent, a very friendly saxony-accent woman who is tremendously grateful that I'...

Its really great weather, currently. Unfortunately it's also quite warm in my office. As long as some wind blows its tolerable though.

I just want to use the opportunity to direct the valued readers of this blog to the Wikipedia entry regarding holes . There are always too ...

I was at the berg for the first time in my life... and I had a sausage roll with mustard, not with Kets hup .

Jun 5 21:12:55 entropy racoon: INFO: IPsec-SA established: ESP/Transport 192.168.1.36[0]->192.168.2.33[0] spi=254685122(0xf2e2fc2) 21:...

Where I live, some prehistoric golden-cone has been found few years ago which gave one of the trails it's name: „Goldkegelweg“ (golden...

Just had a look at legacy code that spans several pages in this style:  DO 13 K = 1,N     Z(6) = U(K,I)     U(K,I) = Z(5) * Z(6) - Z(4) ...

Don't ask.

On my last day in Hamburg it is too rainy to do something non-work related - like visiting the city. That's sad.

Phil , one of the queen's folk dancers just joined the shiftcrew of the experiment. And not only is he coming to do my work, he even b...

I worried that I would not have a nice guestroom but would get one with shared showers and bathrooms. Insted I got one of the rooms for di...

I just read a email from one of the bosses that people would not be allowed to work more than 10 hours straight. That's the same person...

It's good to have friends when you need them the most, which, sometimes, is for such mundane tasks as moving sand. So here goes a big t...