After set­tling a few days in Mag­de­burg, I star­ted pre­par­ing a poster for the CMSB06 Con­fer­ence in Trento, Italy (that is the Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Com­pu­ta­tional Meth­ods in Sys­tems Bio­logy 2006), my very first con­fer­ence I would attend.

The con­fer­ence (on the 18^th and 19^th of Octo­ber) was awe­some, lovely people there, quite a few inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions, and the numer­ous talks, espe­cially the invited speak­ers, were also great. Unfor­tu­nately they run a bit late with some of the present­a­tions which ate up most of the time for the poster ses­sion. After that we went to the “social din­ner”, which res­ul­ted in a culin­ary fire­work of 5 kick – ass gour­met courses and copi­ous amounts of local wine and spir­its…

After the con­fer­ence, I had an extra day to explore the beau­ti­ful city, day and night… All in all, it was a great trip. A big thank you again to Ollie from the Hamilton Insti­tute for spon­sor­ing the trip.

Law of Prob­ab­il­ity Dis­persal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Und schon wie­der ist ein gutes Stück Zeit ver­gan­gen. Aber Pod­pourri gibt’s natür­lich immer noch :-)

In der heu­ti­gen Folge gibt’s erneut ein bissl con­tent, jaja! Ich habe Steffi zum Thema Jakobs­weg aus­ge­fragt, den sie die­sen Som­mer ein gutes Stück weit ent­lang­ge­lau­fen ist.

Der Jakobs­weg ist ein alter Pil­ger­pfad im Nor­den Spa­ni­ens, der von den Pyre­näen bis fast an die Atlan­tik­küste im Wes­ten Spa­ni­ens führt. 500km in 20 Tagen zu Fuß finde ich eine beacht­li­che Leis­tung, aber es geht haupt­säch­lich um die Ein­drü­cke und Erleb­nisse (aber auch ein paar Tipps und Tricks) in die­ser hof­fent­lich inter­es­san­ten Epi­sode.

EDIT: Seffi hat inzwi­schen eine sehr infor­ma­tive Seite über den Jakobs­weg (mit viel Hilfe von mir ;-)) erstellt.

On the other hand, you have dif­fe­rent fingers.

Being back in Ger­many, I think now my friends in Aus­tralia (or Ire­land, or else­where) are more inter­ested in read­ing this blog… Hence, I’ll be writ­ing it in Eng­lish from now on (or at least for a good while).

Any­way, sorry it took me so long to get back into writ­ing. I’ve been hanging out, relax­ing and just felt like doing noth­ing I didn’t have to for a while. But I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to (roughly).

My first import­ant thing back here was to give the present­a­tion that goes with my Dip­loma Thesis (remem­ber, that “Algorithm Devel­op­ment and Test­ing for Four Legged League Robot Soc­cer Passing”). I pre­pared it in the last two
over in Aus­tralia, prac­ticed it twice over there and had the real run through here.

For­tu­nately everything went really well, my Mac­Book Pro didn’t ran­domly shut down (actu­ally, it hasn’t been doing that for a good while now — must have been one of these firm­ware updates…) and I man­aged to answer the numer­ous ques­tions people poked at me.

Speak­ing of the people, thanks for show­ing up! The sem­inar room was pretty much filled, I was ser­i­ously sur­prised! Well, may be they just came for the 60 odd muffins I fixed :-)

For those of you inter­ested, I did a video record­ing of the present­a­tion. It is fully iPod com­pat­ible and can be down­loaded here. More infos on the talk here.

Is a light year one in which you gain 50% less fat?

Meine lie­ben Blog­le­ser — ich habe Euch nicht ver­ges­sen. Da ich im Moment aber so eine Art Urlaub mache, wird es noch ein paar Tage dau­ern, bis hier wie­der neuer Inhalt erscheint.

Ich werde mich dann aber bemü­hen, alles brav nach­zu­ho­len…

Bis dahin — danke für Eure Gedult !

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.