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Summer is coming
Finally. Went running today. Was pretty good. But it was warmer than I expected. Used the power gained for some physics. Exam tommorrow. Will see how that works out. I do not expect to much from it. I'll see. Have a nice weekend.
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Cacao tastes good
You should not try to open a cacao pack without scissors. It might make your kitchen look brown.
Another dumb idea is to let a biro jump by hitting on the narrow side while you have a cup of cacao standing near.
Trust me...
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What I missed
To give you an impression what you can miss if you get into that horrible position to be offline for two weeks here is a short excerpt form what I missed in that time: Jim Kerry gets presidential candidate for the democrats with Edwards as running mate. Interesting resume in the IHT - did some turns as it seems but overall a lot better than Bush of course. I just discovered that Minolta released a new camera: Dimage X50 - how good that I bought the Xg just three months ago *argh*.
There is also some good news: SCO is about to loose the fight against IBM as it seems - they are asking for more and more information and creating delays. Yes I know, that may only be a very small hint, but this is afterall a good news.
Netbeans 4.0 is close to release as it seems and Forum Nokia has a new design and Nokia announced support for Eclipse for the coming version of the developer suite. Since Palm and Nokia are now both support this IDE maybe I should gibt it a try..
As I read in the IHT there is some good news about the battle about software patents. It seems that some governments came to some insight at last.
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I'm back, I'm online!
I'm finally back home, sitting on the couch and enjoying to be wireless online. Ahhh, Internet.
RoboCup 2004 was great, so were the few days we had left to explore Lisbon. Will write more about that later. Just need to catch up before. Number one - deleting spam - from my to do list is already done. And that took a while...
Yet a lot of news to read about the last two weeks. I'm confused about letting thousands of nerds suffering from being offline...
I'm back and online again. Woohoo! :-)
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RoboCup 2004 - Setup
I'm right now attending the RoboCup 2004 as a member of the AllemaniACs of the RWTH Aachen.
We arrived on last friday.After getting up way too early at 3:20 we took the
train to Duesseldorf Airport and flew 2 hours and 40 minutes to Lisbon. The camping ground is OK - but when we are they we are pretty tired anyway :-)
On the first day we built up tents and did a short shopping tour - food, a grill, some stuff at Ikea and beer...
On Saturday we visited Lissabon city. Nice city. Liked what I saw till now. But it is a pretty bad idea to wander around at noon. It is way too hot! Fortunately it almost gets cold at night so sleeping is not a problem and the tent has a good temperature.
Since yesterday we are working on the robot setup. The first day was pretty much wasted since the organisers did not manage to get everything ready in time. The goals where not positioned before 19:00 so that we could start working. We do not even have internet in the team area! There is just an "internet area" with a deadly slow connection. That sucks. How get they think that some kind of (slow) ADSL connection is enough for hundreds of nerds sitting in a hall full of robots!? Strange!
We are at the international fair place in Portugal where they had the Expo 1998. Nice place and a shopping centre right across the street. So we should have enough food most of the time. They have a McD and KFC...
Worked the whole night on camera calibration - calibrated my ass off as we like to say. Had a strange problem which needed some time for fixing. Not good if two programs try to control the camera unit at once... Got to bed at about 6:40 today (after a 45 minutes ride back to the campsite...) and got up at 9:50 again - after sleeping about half an hour on the field. This sleep was interrupted by screeming people trying to stop a robot from kicking me from the field - had my red Linux T-shirt and the robot thought I was a ball. This could have hurt me plenty. Fortunately Alex was fast enough. Thanks :-)
Have to see what we have to do today. It seems that the security staff will throw us out at about 12pm so it seems that we can get some sleep :-)
We will have our first games tommorrow. Stay tuned.
