Mixed Feelings

Sometimes, when I have solved an exercise or understood a proof, I think it would be fun to study Mathematics.
Sometimes I think Mathematics just sucks and that I am just too stupid to ever understand it.
At the moment the latter prevail. But maybe thats just because I am hungry, tired and another deadline is upcoming.

Two new events

I have added two events to .
I will visit 20C3 at least one day, while travelling back from Germany to Vienna.
In February I plan to visit FOSDEM, because I have never been in Brussel.
In January I already planned to visit NordU. They now have the program online. 2 Full days FreeBSD 5.x tutorial with Kirk McKusick sounds interesting. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about how to pay.

lunar eclipse

Okay added another feed. Godany has nice pictures of last night’s lunar eclipse. I discovered her blog through the Evil Horst’s blog and visited it from time to time last week. Second person in the feedlist that I haven’t talked to yet, neither in Real Life nor on IRC. She is living and working in Vienna.
BTW Now there 10 feeds.

Blogshares

After talking about real money yesterday. This next entry will be about virtual blogshares. You probably noticed the new button on the lower left. I didn’t really understand the concept, but obviously Rob is a professional blogshare player since he already bought shares from this blog.

Looking for a new bank in Germany

Since last week my former bank was “integrated” into the Dresdner Bank.
Look at the Website and you can already see why I am looking for a new bank.
This Website is just ugly, especially the Online Banking portal. The charges will be expensive. And the service is bad too :-(. The most hilarious, they are trying to force me to use their branch bank in Munich which is 400km from Vienna.
Since all banks suck, I am looking for the one that sucks less.
I will need a preferable cheap 🙂 giro and custody account with good Online-Banking Interface that works with Konqueror and Opera.

Goodbye Eastern Europe!

Just in case you have come to this site looking for a stocks advisory,
I’ll start selling my Eastern Europe funds tomorrow. The russian political situation does not look promising.

CD Garbage

Today I cleaned my CD boxes. Now my garbage can contains two dozen CDs with various magazin CDs with Shareware Collections, Internet browsers and of course Linuxdistributions like DLD 6, Debian 2.2, Mandrake 8, RedHat 7.1, SuSE 7, NetBSD 1.5, a BeOS 4 demo and so on.
I kept the more interesting ones like a SCO Unixware demo, a BeOS 5, and a FreeBSD 3.1 from 1999 (which I probably never installed, since the first one I can remember was 4.0). I have also kept the payware CDs like my “NT Workstation 4.0”.