Don't complain if you can't use the internet! x)

Some fancy buidling in Bruges :p

Hey there people,

The past week had its good and bad times. I will tell you about some of the good times and we can all be happy together :p

A few days back, while having lunch, we were discussing the quality of the google spam filter. While I have no problem with it at all, my colleagues apparently do, as a lot of their valid mail gets marked as spam. We talked about statistics and figured google will mark a fixed percentage of mail as spam, so if you don't receive spam, that sucks. One of my colleagues then stated that statistics are often flawed, as there are statistics pointing out that 90% of the web is porn, but not 90% of the pages he actually visits are porn. I then told him not to complain if he doesn't know how to use the internet xD We had a seriously good laugh about that! ^^;

Also I discovered some old songs on my phone, really good memories! Especially this one somehow has a whole bundle of emotions tied to it, even though I cannot pin-point it to a specific event :o  But also the front pocket and the aids song, played essential roles in my life a few years back :p

Today I discovered massive amounts of bugs in my code... Coding prior to a deadline when being sleep-deprived and hungry didn't work out so well after all x) But well, this also means my stuff might have actually worked :D So let's see what the future has in store. Since I started coding again, the job somehow makes a lot more fun! (Who would have thought I would ever say that :x)

Anyways, it's late and tomorrow will be a long day, or I will come home early and play FFXIII-2, we'll see ;) Here is a crazy good song! At least for the people that like piano music.

Quick life sign ;)

Okay.... Lots of new stuff! But just a really quick post, so let's actually make some bullets :D

• I soon recovered from my sad mood and learned to live rather well with the cause of it :)
• The next week was really busy, sooo no blogging.
• The week after that I went on a holiday for 5 days. I was "In Bruges" together with my girlfriend :D It was a cool time, the city was nice, but I must admit we chilled out in our apartment a large part of the time, still... good time! :)
• I finished my summer school poster yesterday. WAY more work than expected!
• I might be co-author on a journal paper :D
• Yesterday was Google I/O extended and it was very disappointing :( 
• My phone is broken.... :( I hope it will be fixed as part of the warranty! 

And that pretty much sums it up. And this weekend, long weekend :D Woohooo :) See you around people!

Here is a classic song! Some of you might know it x)

It's Thursday...

... and I should blog something. However, lately my mind has been dwelling around in dark corners of possibilities for the future. This morning it was particularly awesome. :-/  The day offered sufficient distraction, giving me plenty of other things to keep me busy, however when I got home I pretty much got tracked into the same thought pattern again.

Very cryptic huh!? :D  Well yes... indeed :-/ Because I don't want to discuss it on here. So you can wait for my future posts to see how everything will end up :) Meanwhile... take some good music! I have posted it before, but it is a song worth mentioning more often anyways.

Wowzies, it's been a while :o

Hey there!

It's been a while again. As usual I forgot most of the stuff, but there have been a few key moments I did not forget :p After my last post, I worked fairly hard on getting my paper finished. The deadline was the 12th of April, so after the 4th there was no real time for blogging any more. Writing the paper was pretty hard. My professor really would have liked for me to get this one component working, so on one day we decided it was not good enough and on the next day we decided to try yet again. This cycle kept on going until the day prior to the paper. About 6 hours before the deadline we finally decided not to make it part of the paper and just write the hell out of it! He lost track of what I was doing a bit and eventually we just uploaded it to the submission website, without him really knowing what was in the paper x) It was a fun thing to do! We finished at around 4, chatted to the other people and then I waited for the first train to get me home at around 5:15 in the morning. Long night I can tell you :D And I really wonder how the others had energy left to go out and get drunk, but probably that is just me. :o

I stayed home that weekend. Martin came by and gave me my birthday present, which I mentioned before. He gave me Final Fantasy XIII-2  (:D) and thus you know, MADE me play it :p It was hard to really resist it x) He eventually left and I continued playing until about 2 am, considering I didn't know where to find the save point. As it turns out there is no such thing xD (You can just save everywhere :-/)

The next day I then left for Vienna. I found my professor in the train, reading my paper, and chatted with him on the trip to the airport. He liked my text in general, at least that is what I think, but he also discovered a typo in the title of my paper -.-; Soooo bad .... But well, we arrived on time and were in the Hotel at around 11pm. The next three days we spent at the project meeting, meeting all kinds of interesting and new people from England, Austria and Sweden. Well... they didn't all come from those countries, but they are working there. One guy from India figured I look like Howard, from "The big bang theory" and even wanted to take a picture with me xD The food in Vienna pretty much sucked. Most people didn't really get what I wanted and the cafetarie of the place where the meeting took place didn't have a vegan option. But you know... that is what I kind of expected from a country near southern Germany :-/ In this one place they made me a really nice salad and actually were very helpful in advising me, so that was a plus I guess :) But yes, that is what I ate pretty much, salads! Oooh and fruits :p

The two days after Vienna were also the two real first days of my job. I didn't get a lot done, simply because setting up my office, getting bills payed etc. etc. etc. took lots of time :x And well on Friday my girlfriend came here and we spend a nice weekend together :D and then we are here and I figured I should pick up blogging again, because if this is no good time, what will be?

I will not post a picture today, simply because I am in bed and I am too lazy to get up and fetch my camera :p So you will have to do without a picture :x You can watch this cool video instead :P (Warning basic Game of Thrones knowledge is required to understand it. )

Really quick one!

Something different :p

Hey there!

It's been a while, but even habitrpg could not get me to blog these last few days :x It's been such a freaking busy time :x Finishing my master thesis was really hard on me... I worked through the last night, something I have never done before in my life. It was a very interesting experience. The next ... morning I handed it in and went home, watched some series, fell asleep multiple times while doing so and in the evening my girlfriend came to my place. We went for a nice dinner in Aachen and spent a great time together :)

On Saturday I had to start my thesis presentation stuff. Martin came by in the evening... showing me my potential birthday present.... I will come back to this topic on a later moment ;) It was awesome though :D The weekend largely was absorbed by the creation and practicing of my final presentation. The last darn thing I would ever do in my whole career as master student.

The presentation went okay I think. Everyone seemed happy and I even did it within the 45 minute limit :o My supervisor, the professor and me spoke for like one and a half hour afterwards. Being granted such a long time with the prof is a rare thing ^^! We spoke about my paper submission, discussed some great ideas, which I implemented over the last few days. Everything worked out fine, I was finished by far faster than expected, but... even though the code compiled (stage 1 of working) and it ran (stage 2 of working) it didn't produce correct results (stage 3 of working) and thus I cannot say anything about if the approach actually works :p (stage 4 of working)... Today I spent debugging... it was a hard day and tomorrow another hard day is about to come ;)

While doing all this stuff, I also somewhere applied for a summer school in Sicily and got a LOT of paperwork done for my contract... So I am going to finish this post and sleep a little more, hoping that I can finish more stuff tomorrow :D

See you around people!