Martin Geisler Online

Stéphanie and I went to London on the 1st of July for a quick three day trip. We had a really nice time, and we saw a lot of famous places: Westminster Abbey, House of Parlements, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, and lots more.

We didn’t spend much time inside the big museums over there, we only visited the National Gallery. Instead we enjoyed the streets of London, looking at the small colored flags in China Town, the huge amount of people in Oxford Street, some sort of dance performence group practicing on the steps on Trafalgar Square and Indian food in a small place in Soho.

We lived in a nice hotel on Leinster Gardens — we spend the last day walking through first Kensington Gardens and then Hyde Park, both of which were nearby. We ended up at Buchingham Palace, just in time to see the Changing of the Guards. We then took the tube back to Livingpool Street Station, and from there back to Harwich there our ferry waited.

All in all we had a great trip, and I took lots of pictures. When I got home I transferred them to my computer, the harddisk was still alive at that time. The next morning the computer was dead!

Now, luckily, Stéphanie had asked for the photos, and we had transferred them all to her computer, so the photos were saved. All my other photos (and other stuff) were saved by the backup I make every six hours to my good friend Svend’s computer. So even though my harddisk is dead, I shouldn’t have lost much.

But still… it will take a couple of days before I figure out what to do, so don’t expect me to answer any emails in that period. And if you’ve sent me mail after the 1st of July, then it has probable been lost :-( Sorry about that. I’ll let you know when my system is back -Martin Geisler

Mikkel and I have been studying for our first exam in DAIMI:dSoegOpt, he will be having his exam today (good luck!) and I will have mine on Thursday. Reading up on the stuff went surpricingly well — I was afraid that it would be really hard considering that I have made way too few exercises during the semester. The exercises were simply too difficult, but when the exam is oral then making the exercises doesn’t really matter — I hope! :-)

That’s all for now.

Even though I’m not particularly royal-minded I cannot help writing a little something about the wedding between Mary Donaldson and the Danish Crown Prince Frederik today in Copenhagen. The wedding will be today at 16:00.

I was up early (7:00) to put up the Danish flag “Dannebrog” at Skejbygård, and in doing so I noticed how many other flags there were up. I counted 31 flags in just the near surroundings of Skejbygård!

We’ll have a special bar later today at Skejbygård, and tonight there will be dinner at the basement — at the same time as the royals will have their dinner. I’m looking forward to it, even though I still don’t know what we’ll be eating :-)

While Mary and Frederik will enjoy their first weeks of being Crown Princess and Prince of Denmark, I’ll be studying for my exmas… But I wish them well anyway!

I found out today that I will be having my exams in [DAIMI:dSoegOpt][1] and [Geometri 1][2] on June the 3rd and 15th, respectively. So that means that I have three weeks to prepare for the dSoegOpt exam, and after that 12 days for the geometry exam. That’s pretty good I think… if not, then I have to make it good! :-)

After that I’ll have my summer holidays, I look forward to enjoying them after the exams.

It’s been really quiet around here at GimpsterDotCom lately… or at least I haven’t updated the site. Some other people have spend some time fooling around, but there’s also a new entry to the RecentChanges page, so it’s not all bad. I hope I’ve cleaned up the site, but if I’ve missed something, then please tell me or remove the cruft yourself. The latter will be very much appreciated, just edit the page, and remove whatever nonsense the WikiVandal has put in.