2004-06-29

Status report

By hannes @ 23:13

Just a quick roundup to keep you up-to-date with the latest (publishable) developments about me, myself, and I:

Without being aware of, I attended my very last computer science lecture as a student.
I actually was terribly sick, a stomach upset and a splitting headache were not actually helpful in delivering my OWL presentation, which turned out to be of inferior quality and entertainment value. I guess I should rather not publish material produced and presented under such unfavourable circumstances online.. :)
As a byproduct of the presentation, I hacked up popoon_components_transformers_highlightcode, which uses PEAR::Text_Highlighter to produce those nice colorful syntax examples included in the slides.
The paper for ICNEE I co-authored with Andrea Helbach has been officially accepted. This means another opportunity to practice public speaking.. I guess it'll be the first appearance in front of a non-geek audience :)
Ars Electronica 2004 will be just during my planned trip to Ireland. Which is a pity. I wan't to go see both, but Fribourg→Dublin→Galway→Linz→Fribourg seem just a bit too much (both in terms of km and €). Nevertheless, (the beginning of) this year's Ars Electronica Statement still is great fun to read:

“I’ll throw the damned rearview mirror out of the damned window because I don’t want to know where I’ve come from, but where I’m going,” Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, is reputed to have said once in the ‘30s, and indeed he did actually break off the car’s rearview mirror and throw it out of the window. A brilliant anecdote. But...(read on)
I'm finishing "Hackers and Painter" by P. Graham... I don't particularly like it, in fact I disagree with quite a number of statements.. will be a fun review to write for O'Reilly :)

Thanks for your attention, please come back to check out the more interesting contributions slowly growing on my harddisk :) Stupid cliffhanger, I know.