Archive for the 'Computer' Category

A lot of eMails…

Published on November 6, 2008 in Computer. 2 Comments

Maybe time to think about getting a new eMail address?!?

Study: Women ‘prefer computers to men’

Published on October 21, 2008 in Computer. 0 Comments

Another intersting study which shows what women prefer ;-) :

Women office workers spend almost three times as much time with their computer than their husbands or boyfriends – and they prefer it that way, an American study has revealed.

Good News for Internet Users

Published on October 17, 2008 in Computer. 0 Comments

Surfing in the Internet is good for the brain. These research findings make me happy since I don’t have to have a guilty conscience for being online all day instead of reading a book :-) .

Life Goes On

Published on September 15, 2008 in Computer and School. 0 Comments

Last Monday I had my very last exam (at least for my degree in Computer Science at Darmstadt). It was an oral exam in Social Psychology and it went pretty well :-) . So now there is only one thing left before I can graduate – I have to write my final thesis which takes about 6 months. Now I try to find a place and topic for the thesis and hopefully I can start working on it within the next weeks. It’s a strange feeling knowing that it’s only some more months of being a student before starting to work and not knowing any details yet. So basically it is a big question mark how my life will look like next summer, or better: a big adventure :-D .

During the last week I’ve helped several friends solving computer problems or setting up a new computer. It were 2 new laptops, 1 partly destroyed Windows installation and 1 fully destroyed Windows installation. All computers are up and running now (hopefully for a very long time without problems) and I think 4 computers in one week is my personal record ;-) .

What else is worth mentioning: The LHC is up and running, too, and the universe still exists. I think the whole LHC-leads-to-apocalypse-thing is a massive public relation campaign which motivates people to catch up on what is happening in the LHC. I have no clue about what is happening there in detail but I like the funny stuff in the Internet concerning this topic. My favorites are the Large Hadron Rap and the following cartoon:

Next week I’ll be in Berlin for some days with friends so most likely my next post here will be about this trip and contain some nice pictures.

Games Convention 2008

Published on August 24, 2008 in Computer, Germany and Photos. 0 Comments

Games Convention – the world largest video games event in Leipzig, Germany. That’s where some friends and I spent last Friday. Waking up at 4.30am, driving for 4 hours, getting tickets and then entering the world of video games. I had no idea what to expect since I haven’t played an up-to-date PC game within the last 5 years or so. So after a day of waiting in lines to test the newest and best PC games ever for a couple of minutes I know a bit more about the current state of the art. It’s all nice to see but no game was amazing enough to persuade  me buying a new computer for gaming ;-) .

Besides playing computer games we also had the opportunity to drive quads; one company had a quad track with small hills and we could drive for a couple of minutes. It’s pretty easy and it’s really fun. The quads had automatic transmission so all you had to do is accelerate and brake :-) . Unfortunately jumps were not allowed. Here are some pictures from the games convention:

Finally I want to point to two funny articles I’ve discovered recently. Number one: some people in Germany got arrested for tuning an office chair and driving it without license.

Number two is a study about beer and publications. Unfortunately beer seems to decrease the abiltiy to publish papers (or failing to publish papers motivates drinking beer). That’s sad :-( . But since I finish school next year and don’t plan on publishing a paper I can bear it. Bad luck for all the PhD students though.