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[Day Permalink] Friday, August 29, 2003

[Item Permalink] What is this? -- Comment()
I cleaned up my room at work today, preparing the move to the new office on Monday. I found all kinds of interesting but forgotten things. Can you guess what is the device in the following picture (it weights almost 10 kilograms and is almost a meter long):


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How many crashes of Windows daily? "Thirty billion is the same as the estimated number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way."


[Item Permalink] Moving to a new office -- Comment()
I'll move next monday to the neighbouring building, to start with a new group of experts. I'll support scientific computing with my new group: mathematical and statistical software, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, software development, parallelization, code optimization, and data analysis. After four years in the current group, it is good to have new challenges, but at the same time I'm a bit sad.