Finally got access to my wordpress back. The widely broadcasted attack on wordpress installations caused the admin of my free hosting site to lock out all wordpress admin pages. This means, no updating was possible. Oh well, I hope the attack is over. A snippet into the German culture: during our working group meeting this …
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Garden Update (08-07-2012)
Hmm start with some bad news, some of the young “Lime Green Salad” tomatoes have blossom-end rot. That means, the bottom part of the tomatoes are rotten. This follows yet another “Green Sausage” tomato that I threw away a few days ago. I thought I’ve given enough eggshells in the soil mixture to provide enough …
Read More…Garden Update (19-02-2012)
My first garden entry of 2012! I managed to overwinter thymes, chives, rosemaries and the sundew. I’m quite happy with the rosemary cuttings especially, because they’re, well, growing I gave one cutting and a pot of chives to Yannick and Julie. Hope they’ll enjoy them. What’s quite interesting is that the chives are flowering. It …
Read More…The Wheel is Round
and I’m currently near the bottom. Just found two weeks ago a journal paper (and from there a bunch of others) that covers pretty much what I’ve been doing. Was quite a shock when that paper came to light, since it’s already “old” (~10 years) and didn’t get referred to this paper. Now I’m ploughing …
Read More…Oho…
Earlier today I reported with the help of my group’s secretary that there’s some problem with the window seal on my office window, that is the air comes in when the wind blows quite hard. And that’s quite a problem when it’s winter. And just now (that is within an hour of the report being …
Read More…Flies…
Argh… The sun has shown itself prominently for the past 3 days. While the warming rays themselves are welcomed, I certainly don’t like the side effect it produces, namely letting so many fruit flies to hatch! Just yesterday in the middle of afternoon, my room was suddenly filled with fruit flies. While they don’t exactly …
Read More…Garden Update (08-05-2011)
Well just a short update, I’ve replanted most of the tomato and bellpepper seedlings. Took a couple shots of the pea flower as well. Hope the rest of the flower buds bloom soon. Got as well a few extra plants to take care of from friends who are in vacation. I have no idea how …
Read More…Masuk Angin
stumbled upon this while listening to a vid on youtube: “Masuk angin” in Indonesian = “Trapped wind” in English. I’ve been looking out for this for a long time, and at some point settled on “flatulance”. In Indonesia we use “kayu putih” oil by rubbing it on the tummy as an effective method to get …
Read More…Generality Lesson
I’ve taken quite a few courses where generic methods are described in detail with simple examples, such as proving invariants in a simple state transition system. My problem is that I failed to appreciate how general the methods are, because the given examples are so simple. Only of late I’m starting to grasp how powerful …
Read More…Renting Tips in Germany
Just stumble upon a very good post at toytowngermany.com regarding renting in Germany. Something I definitely will follow when I look for and move to a new flat.
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