Ok, so I guess I just felt what 40 degrees celsius and 80% humidity feel like :-). It’s amazing here. There is a heat-wave in the US and Illinois is one of the hottest states. But I’m still man enough to survive without AC at home (ceiling fans work wonder, even at 35 degrees celsius inside!).

Jeff Squyres, “the MPI guy” at Cisco, invited me to a guest post about MPI 2.2 (a long while ago :-)). I finally got to do it and here is the result: http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/mpi-2-2%E2%80%99s-scalable-process-topologies-and-topology-mapping-in-practice/.

Thanks Jeff!

I’m wondering if I should put it as a printed poster in my living room :).

Yeah, I cooked more seaweed soup … it’s awesome. Try: broccoli, tuna, carrots, lettuce, seaweed, pepper and soy sauce and you’ll get:

really cool cell simulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSLw1LMvgk

IPv4’s dead song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

Man, RIPE runs BGP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLPKuAOe50

Yeah, I made my next belt (green) last week! So that was fun, ok, I know, I should have done this two months earlier, but I was traveling ;). And I will be traveling again soon. We (the IU TKD demo team) had a performance at some community fair today. That was fun.

There is even a psychadelic picture of me breaking a poor and helpless board with a side-knifehand strike:

see also the “longest belt in club” ;-).

Yeah, I’m still running even though the temperature dropped to -19 degree Celsius tonight. But it’s ok, I can dress up. I ran yesterday and today noon-ish. It was about -11 degree Celsius and so pretty ok. It sucks at the beginning but gets even warm after a while. I ran for slightly more than an hour today … it felt really nice.

Ken Miller on Intelligent Design – I thought it was a joke but this sounds pretty scary! Watch it, it’s long but very interesting and entertaining! I just say theory vs. facts :). This also applies to the recent changes in Germany – oh man and this too :-(! Enjoy and have a happy new year!

Hah, the first day where I was not stressed out since a long time! I mainly answered mails that should have long been answered before. And I finally found the time to read some interesting things :). Some of them are worth sharing. Funny moments for doctors is hilarious, Philosophy of sex too 😉 and this and this is psychologically interesting.

Yeah, a good friend, Jungjin, from Korea made me some nice noodles … ah, awesome …

and as comparison, my standard meal:

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