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Yep, I’ve ordered a brand new MacBook (the one with the Santa Rosa chipset) last Thursday. The Apple website says that it will ship on Friday, unfortunately I have no clue where my MacBook is at the moment (Apple tracking doesn’t seem to work for now). But I will happily wait, read all those fancy Apple blogs which are floating around the web, collecting hints and tips and will be a happy Mac user on Friday (please!).

Update: Seems to have arrived in the Netherlands.
Update #2: On it’s way to Vienna.

…is probably the most relaxing thing for me (followed by driving my car at night).

You know that you have some real friends when one of them tells you that you look like you’ve been partying for the whole night, but you’ve actually just returned from holidays.

It got a bit quiet here for the last few days. That’s because I started my internship at Frequentis on Wednesday. Work is truly interesting, lots of new people, loads of abbreviations and terminology I’ve never heard of.

On Thursday I’ll meet my advisor for my bachelor thesis, which is about Parallel Processing.

I shortly wanna tell you what I did the last semester. There were some boring subjects, some partially interesting ones and some which were really a challenge. Building an AIS Viewer with C#/.NET was indeed a challenge and it will be for another month - I’ll work for the company which provided the project in August. We had a pretty long way to go but finally the whole thing looks quite good and we are quite proud of it.

The next semester starts at the end of September but I’ll do some research during holidays (it’s the last but one) for my bachelour’s project - Parallel Processing.

Summer semester is finally over and I’m looking forward to enjoy my holidays in July (I will do an internship in August and fly to Corsica in September for one week with my girlfriend). And I hope to take more photos, write more blog posts and finally find some time to get fit. Wonderful holidays.

knock knock Anybody here? Long time ago this blog was visited by billions of people, they posted comments, the author replied and wrote new entries - daily. {dream:off} Well, time’s changing, I’m now again 100% studying and have a bunch of things to do (some keywords for those interested: .Net, NMEA, FreeBSD, UI, Oracle, Ruby, UML,… - you can find more info with the help of my del.icio.us bookmarks).

Got it a bit quite here over the last few days - ahm, weeks - mostly because my studies require a huge portion of my time. However, I’ve read some books over the last two months which might be interesting for you (I gonna skip the cost accounting literature, that’s not so exciting):

• The Ruby Way: Excellent book for Ruby starters and intermediates, it resides near my new LG display

• Database Systems - An Application Oriented Approach: I need to read it because I’ve missed the database course last semester. The books is great, covers all the details but I have to say that I’ve skipped a few pages of Relational Algebra.

• UML 2 for students: We had a business design seminar in Sweden but there are still tons of information about UML I don’t know about.

• Design Patterns: I was a bit septic about this one but it turned out to be a good inspiration, found some things we can use for our project in college.

Taken in Stockholm, Sweden. Original image on Flickr.

Assembled by Last.fm:

1. Nick Drake
2. Moby
3. Snow Patrol
4. Elliott Smith
5. Bernard Fanning
6. José González
7. The Cardigans
8. Norah Jones
9. Wilco
10. Jeff Buckley

Not including the music from my iPod.

Via kottke.org

Happy new year, by the way!