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Blogging pretty much came to a halt due to my holidays. I hardly spent half an hour in front of my pc the last few days, only checking my emails every now and then and reading through some news feeds. And uploading photos to Flickr, which is really addictive.
I will leave Austria in exactly three weeks (17th of August) and I’m so excited, I can’t tell. There are still some things I have to in Austria so the next weeks I’ll be as busy as the last ones.
Huge thanks to Marcus Vanstone for fixing the stupid bug I had in GeoMint for ages. It is now able to use Mint and GeoMint with Internet Explorer. Just grab the newest download (and please read the readme!) or use this guide by Marcus
Now it’s official, I’ll leave Austria on August 17th for five months in Borås, Sweden. I passed my math test (spot landing), my room is already booked, the flight too and so I’m principally already away ;-)
Of course I will still maintain this blog but I’m not quite sure if I will setup a seperate one for my time in Sweden (like Martin did) or if I will just create an own category (maybe the latter, I must have a look at the styling possibilities of Wordpress).
At first I have to say that it’s not really a switch: I’m still using WinXP on my notebook (which will stay there for the next 3-or-so years). But I decided to reactivate my old desktop pc and make it a Linux box. I found an Ubuntu 5.04 package lying around on my desk and installed it, without any problems. Ubuntu is famous for its usability. Usability yes, but not when you’re updating from 5.04 to Dapper Drake. It really wasn’t easy especially because I’m pretty much a Linux noob. After fiddling around for two days it finally worked (had to download the iso image two times, the first time a firefox extension, down-them-all, screwed it up).
So I’m using it for about two weeks now and I’m pretty happy with it. I mainly use it for working on a small Rails application, hosting a private svn server and playing around with Mongrel, Blender,…
College is finally over, I had the last test on Friday and now I’m fully enjoying my holidays. I slept like a baby the last two nights and I can say that I’m pretty relaxed. I also got a new camera (Canon EOS 350D, I know, it is expensive and yes, I am a student, but you have to set priorities). So I’m really looking forward to my possible exchange semester in Sweden (still waiting for math grades) and to the next weeks where I can finally play around with Rails again and with .Net 2.0 (I don’t have a clue about all that generic stuff, which’s actually a shame).