Bloghaus

Nicht nur, daß das Bloghaus niedlich aussieht, es verspricht auch eine interessante Site zu werden!

“Das Bloghaus ist ein virtuelles zuhause für alle deutschsprachigen Blogger, eine Sammlung nützlicher oder netter Infos und Texte, z.B. Filmkritiken, Kochrezepte etc.”

Expo Update

The pictures are ready! Because there are 39 photos, I devided them into four pages. Start at the first page. (By the way, if you discover any broken links, please let me know!)

I also have a Quicktime Movie of the ‘Well of knowledge’, but it’s 7 MB, and I don’t have software to cut it yet… maybe in a couple of days.

If you want to see the other photos from the Expo, go to my Expo index.

By the way, here’s a picture for you, Frauke and Scott!

Four days, eight languages, millions of people

The Planet Project looks interesting:

“You’re invited to participate in an event that may become a part of history. For four days, November 15 – 18, 2000, you and millions of other people around the world are invited to answer a series of questions about what it’s like to be a human being at the beginning of the millennium.”

The site is also available in other languages, including German.

Nobel Prizes

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics (deutsche Version) is awarded to Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer “for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics” and to Jack S. Kilby “for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”.

See all the 2000 Prize Announcements.

New design

Hey, what happened to Weblogs.Com?! Cool new design, I like it! And it would make a nice Manila Theme, too.

Now I wonder if EditThisPage.Com will get a new design as well…

Expo 2000

I’m working on the pictures… they’ll probably – hopefully – be ready later today.

The Cider House Rules

Craig is reading The Cider House Rules by John Irving:

“… a novel that deals with the abortion issue. As with most books that have been made into movies, the book is much better than the film. I recommend the book. The movie was good too and if you’ve already seen the movie, the book is very different so you can still read it!”

I’ve read the book a few years ago and recently watched the movie. I was surprised that I couldn’t remember the story as well as I thought – until I heard that the story in the book is quite different from the one in the film! I liked the film better, too, by the way.

I recommend other books by John Irving, too. I especially enjoyed A son of the circus and A prayer to Owen Meany (but I haven’t read all of his books yet).

Hiatus

Hal announced that blivet is going on hiatus because he has to write his thesis and the weblog tends to distract him too much. I can understand that very well because I’m in a similar situation. My deadline is still far away (mid-March 2001), but when it comes closer I won’t be able to update as much as I do now, I guess.

Hal, I’ll miss your updates!

Boom!

After I started the computer this morning and edited a text in BBEdit, the machine crashed so bad that the built-in tools of MacOS couldn’t repair it. So André and I had to make backup copies of important files and format the hard drive and install a new system.

This took so much time, I guess I won’t get to write my Expo report today since I’ve got to work on my thesis, too. Tomorrow, hopefully…

I’m back!

I just returned from Hanover… exhausted and tired.

I spent the weekend with my sister, Katrin. We went to the movies on Friday night and watched Im Juli (German movie), which we enjoyed very much. – Obwohl der Film zugegebermaßen recht viele Zufälle hatte… aber der Tip war gut, Jörg.

On Saturday, my sister and I visited Gabi and Swen, two friends of mine. (André and I went to their wedding party in August.)

And yesterday, I went to the Expo. I had an afternoon ticket, valid from 3 p.m., and I had to leave the Expo at 7:30 p.m. in order to catch the last train to Bonn, but I managed to see quite a few interesting pavillions. I avoided all the crowded ones, so I didn’t get to see the pavillion of the Netherlands (which I really wanted to see!), but the less crowded ones were interesting as well. Now I’m off to bed. Expect pictures tomorrow – um, I mean, later today!

Have a nice weekend!

Yes, I know it’s only Friday… But in less than an hour I’m taking a train to Hanover, to visit my sister, some friends and go to the Expo once more before they close the doors at the end of this month.

Of course I’m taking my camera, and this time I’ll make sure to take a picture of the “well of knowledge” in the Czech pavilion that’s made from thousands of books.

Drückt mir die Daumen, daß es am Sonntag nicht regnet!

It’s likely that I won’t update my weblog until Monday… Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

Reunification

Scott dropped in at my Discussion group. He says the reunification was the reason why Frauke and he moved back to Germany in 1990.

Another historical day?

Jan-Willem Swane over at Tsja talks about Yugoslavia. He wonders whether the era of Slobodan Milosevic is finally over.

I’ve been following the news on the radio today, and it seems that Milosevic has sort of disappeared since more and more people support his opponent. Even the news agency, Tanjug, no longer supports him…

Since I can’t get through to CNN at the moment, I can only offer some German news pages on this: Seite 1: Kampf um Belgrad, Tagesschau: Kampf um die Macht in Jugoslawien.

Not famous yet?!

Dave reports that Alex Bierman and his father, Bob, went to a baseball game and managed to get their picture into two newspapers – the San Jose Mercury and the New York Daily News.

André and I met Alex on our first day of our trip to the US last year. I knew I should have asked him for his autograph!

Jordan Curve Theorem

I found a good page on the Jordan Curve Theorem, by Octavian Cismasu.

So what’s this theorem? Here’s an
explanation:

“Jordan’s Theorem Light: One can’t get from one side of a line to the other side without crossing the line.

“Now this may sound like a silly theorem (and maybe it is) but the weird thing about it is that it is also a difficult theorem. So it’s hard to prove that you can’t crawl through a line without hitting any of the points on it. But what exactly is it that one should prove? One will have to expain what a ‘line’ is, what ‘crossing it’ means, what ‘sides’ are, etc.”

Good thing that I don’t have to do the proof from scratch. I only need to find a proof somewhere that I’m able to understand…

Good morning!

Totally forgot to link to this yesterday: Jeff pointed to Space Week, a must visit for all those wannabe astronauts out there…

Back to normal weblogging today…

Thanks everyone for their responses and links to yesterday’s posting! Today, everything is back to normal. People go to work, I need to get some things done for my thesis… and the sun has been shining all day so far! Goldener Oktober

Okay, back to work. More postings later, hopefully…

… or maybe not. Busy day today. Wasted most of the morning on going to the Prüfungsamt to solve some problems concerning my final exams. I think the most difficult part of the whole studying business is trying to register for the exam. Lots of forms to fill in, but before they let you do this, they need to determine which set of rules apply to you – the new ones or the old ones, or maybe some of each? I think I heard the third version of what I should do within a week…

In the afternoon, I actually got some work for my thesis done, before I fell asleep on the sofa while reading a book on elliptic functions. Sigh…

I didn’t do any surfing today, except I read the Presidential Debate transcript to which Sheila pointed yesterday.