OK, I have to confess that I am not a friend of the MS$ products, but it seems that the guys from Redmond are not very clever in the selection of their words when talking to the press. According to…
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
“My job is to destroy IE6″
Posted in computer
Paper statistics
Today I had some time and I did some update on my scientific publications and I also generated this histogram showing the peer-reviewed papers of the last years. 2008 has been a really productive year, but also last year was…
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Posted in paper
EPS award ceremony
The EPS award for the year 2009 was presented to me yesterday at the beginning of the banquet of the annual JPGU meeting. Two colleagues from my institute joined the ceremony and took some pictures which can be found here.…
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The effect of slicing in badminton
Other than in tennis, where a slice impacts the receiver by changing the spin of the ball, in badminton such a technique directly changes the path of the shuttle. This can be a very effective move and usually confuses the…
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Posted in sports
The World’s Top 10 Airlines of the year 2010 – are they joking ???
Based on the annual World Airline Survey a ranking of the top 10 airlines in different categories has been created. About the overall ranking, there’s nothing much where I can comment, except that I wouldn’t expect to see Asiana Airlines…
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Posted in travel
Last second abort stops lift-off of new GPS technology
The third attempt to launch a new generation of GPS satellites with a Delta IV rocket has been aborted in literally the last seconds. The full report can be here. As the radial outward firing ignitors were already lit there…
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Posted in GPS
Google Font API/Directory
Google has announced its (beta) release of their Font API. A first glance at it make me think that this might be a very useful tool for the future. Moreover, it seems that nearly all major browsers will support this…
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Posted in computer, programming
Access stats spectrogram
A few months ago I tried to look at the frequency domain of my blog accesses concluding that there are some peaks popping up at 2.5 and 7 days. As I was working today with some spectrogram tools, I just…
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Google Docs – my first impressions
Until today I had my doubts that Google Docs are of any use for me, but after playing a little bit with the tools in my lunch break I think that these office tools are really something one should consider.…
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Posted in computer
How to ruin a university system
Here’s a simple recipe on how to ruin a university system 1) promise universities to increase their budget, but cut it by 20% in reality 2) give universities “autonomy” but don’t give them enough freedom at the same time 3)…
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