Martin Geisler Online

Today is birthday of my littlebrother Kristoffer — congratulations! He’s turning 17… only one year left until he can get a drivers license and other fun things, and, if he’s unlucky, military service.

And on a totally unrelated note: somebody stole an hour of my time today! I woke up, and at some point during the day I noticed that my computer clock was an hour ahead of my wrist-watch clock. “Strange” I thought… my computer should be synchronized using NTP against some Danish timeservers. So it should be accurate to within ±15 ms of UTC time.

(If your computer isn’t already doing so, then it ought to start using NTP right away. Install a NTP client and make it synchronize against pool.ntp.org. That DNS name will resolve into one of over a hundred different public timeservers from all over the world, see http://www.pool.ntp.org/.)

And indeed my compter was right: we’ve just switched to summertime in Denmark (and probably the rest of the EU if I’m not mistaken) and therefore we all have to live with a Sunday with only 23 hours.

Sorry about the lack of news lately… I’ve had my mind on so many other things. The most important thing in my life now is Stéphanie — my girlfriend. We’ve just spend two wonderful days in Aalborg with my mom and dad and in general we just try to spend as much time together as possible!

I’m having holidays right now — no less than two weeks off! This is because of the new quarter system they’ve made for the natural sciences department where we’re going to have a break in the middle of the semester for our quarter exams. But I’m still having the good old semester courses, so I don’t have any exams now, and hence I have two weeks with nothing to do except enjoying myself!

[][Debian] Right now I’m about to install [Debian][] on Stéphanies laptop — she’s already using SuSE but, frankly, I cannot figure out how their package system works… it looks very similar to the RPM-thing RedHat uses, with the same dependency problems. That’s what I like most about Debian: you don’t have to dig around on the web to find the right packages to satisfy the dependencies, for all the packages that depend on each other are usually right there next to each other on the same server and so APT can figure it out automagically. I know that there’s similar things for RPM packages, but I don’t want to use a lot of time to figure it out, I want something I’m familiar with.

That’s it for now — see you all later!

I found two pieces of interesting mail in my mailbox this morning — no, not the virtual one, the real physical mailbox :-)

The first one was a birthday present from my dads sister Susanne and my two cousins Lars Christian and Hans Peter — they gave me two books about the Swedish policedetective Martin Beck. I’ll look forward to reading them, along with all the other books I’ve gotten lately.

The second thing was a letter from the university telling me that I’m now an employee — I’ve become a teaching assistant in DAIMI:dDist. I’m looking forward to having my first class tomorrow, I hope we’ll be able to get a good discussion going. More on that later, I’m going to an exercise class in Geometry 1 now.

-Unknown, seen at the blackboard infront of the toilets at DAIMI.

Today is my 22nd birthday, I’m a whole year older than last year, where did the time go? :-)

I’ve had a nice quiet day so far — people have congratulated me, and I’ve received a few presents: a really nice pair of jeans from my Mom and Dad and a DVD that looks really funny from my little brother, Kristoffer.

As usual in January, then I’m busy with exams… I’ll have my third and final exam tomorrow from 9-13. I’ve invited half of [Skejbygård][] to come and have cake and chocolate on Friday, and Saturday will be spend with the family, so this is all in all a very busy week! And that’s not all — to night Stéphanie and I will go and have dinner, something that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time!

That’s it for now — I’ll have more adventures to talk about later…