I attended the DEBS Conference this July. The conference took place at King’s College, Cambridge, UK. A magnificent place and staying there felt like being part of a Harry Potter movie 
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End of November I went to visit Boulder again. After 1.5 years since I had left it was great meeting many people again and walking around on campus and in the city
I also managed to visit a few things I didn’t make it to during my first time in Boulder. I went to visit Hammonds Candy Factory in Denver, the US Mint, Red Rocks Theater as well as Pikes Peak, Cave of the Winds and Garden of Gods in Colorado Springs.
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I’ve been to Norway last week to attend the CANOE Summer School about Events and Publish/Subscribe Systems. It was an interesting week, I learned a lot and met many cool people . The event took place at a hotel in Sundvollen, about 40km north of Oslo. Norway has an amazing landscape and the hotel is located next to a lake and mountains. After a week of talks, poster sessions and discussions I went to Oslo and stayed there over the weekend to do some sight seeing. Oslo is a pretty young city with a lot of museums. But what impressed me most was the possibility to catch a boat, just like a bus, to go to the small islands located in the Oslo Fjord. Another advantage of Oslo: while Germany was suffering from heat, it were about 20° Celsius in Norway. Pretty comfortable when walking around .
Finally, here are some pictures:
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Last weekend there was an event called “Darmstadt unter Strom”. Here are some pics from the final show:
Hey folks, this blog is not entirly dead (yet 
). It’s been quite a while since I wrote the last entry. But I don’t wanna bore you with many details what has happened the last months. Just the most important thing (I guess): I have a job . I’ve started working at the Databases and Distributed Systems Group at Technische Universität Darmstadt in April. Now I’m working in a project called ADiWa and do research in the area of Event-Based-Systems.
Finally there is winter again. The last days it snowed a lot and it’s freezing cold outside – around -20°C. But sun is shining and thus it looks beautiful outside with snow all around. Here are some pics I took in Darmstadt right in front of the Computer Science building:
Ich wünsche Euch frohe Weihnachten, ein paar erholsame Tage und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!
I wish you Merry Christmas, some relaxing days and have a nice ride into the New Year!
Last weekend I finally moved back to Darmstadt. I moved out of my old room in July 2007 before I went to Boulder. Now that I’m about to start working on my Master thesis I moved back since it takes too much time to go to Darmstadt by train each day. In addition I don’t live with my parents anymore .
After searching for about 3 weeks I found a nice room in an apartment I share with another guy. It’s pretty close to school and the light rail stop is just across the street. Fitness training is included, too; the apartment is fourth floor and there is no elevator. Thus I get at least some training eacg day when I go up and down the stairs.
I’m back from our 5 day trip to Berlin we did last Wednesday til Sunday. We did all the important sight seeing stuff and had great weather. Wednesday was still a bit rainy but since we arrived in the evening it didn’t matter. The following four days were great; sunshine, blue sky – real nice fall weather. Also ideal conditions for the Berlin Marathon which took place last weekend. Here are some pictures from our trip:
For instance, when we encounter information inconsistent with our schemas, such as an engineer who is a wonderful cook and extremely charming (traits we don’t expect in engineers, as a rule), we do not alter our schema for engineers. Rather, we may place such people in a special category or subtype consisting of people who do not confirm the schema or stereotype.
[Source: Social Psychology; Baron, Byrne, Branscombe; 12th edition]
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