My Life and I

Cambridge 2010

stefan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:45:02 +0000

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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Merry Christmas – Frohe Weihnachten

stefan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:20:24 +0000

I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!

Ich wünsche Euch allen Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr 2010!

The Flatirons

Boulder again

stefan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:22:13 +0000

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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Norway

stefan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:12:31 +0000

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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Darmstadt unter Strom

stefan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:29 +0000

Last weekend there was an event called “Darmstadt unter Strom”. Here are some pics from the final show:

Hello World 2!

stefan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:22:56 +0000

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.

Winter in Germany

stefan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:44:38 +0000

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:

Merry Christmas

stefan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:21:45 +0000

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!

A New Home

stefan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:45:36 +0000

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.

Skiing at Sölden

stefan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:16:42 +0000

Three weeks ago the summer officially ended for me because I went skiing for four days. I’m pretty sure the amount of skiing I got last season is unreachable this winter. My first day of skiing last year was end of October. So for not living near the mountains anymore 4 days of skiing in November are a pretty good start. We went to Sölden (Austria). Since there is a glacier, snow was not a problem and we had good conditions and nice weather 80% of the time .

Here are some pictures: