What I really wanted to do was to play a round of quakelive. But right now, quakelive is down (well, it's Beta, isn't it?). Quakelive pointed me to their twitter feed . read more

Saturday my new book arrived - The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose . This is a much appraised book. The saying goes that it is somewhat too complex to be understood by the minds that, let's say, usually deal with stuff that has not much connection to the thought processes that lead to a mathematical...

I was looking back at Christoph's ruby code and was thinking that by now I should be able to implement that algorithm in Haskell. Indeed, one of my solutions looks like that: read more

What Andre's link caused ... One idea that came up from a former colleague of mine, Christoph was to rebase the number PI to 27, allowing for a presentation in the form of letters of the alphabet. His first tackle at this was written in ruby: read more