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Archive for October, 2007

Yeah, another 48 hours travel. I’m in the middle right now ; sitting
in my “hotel room” and I’m proud that I was able to defend my power
outlet tonight. It’s 7am in the morning … my travel started yesterday
9:30am. The flight in Dresden began adventurous, the plane had some
“technical problems”. I saw a dozen technicians [...]

EuroPVM

Some pictures from the conference …

I am talking about non-blocking collectives here – we had an interesting question/discussion session afterwards .
  The reception in the French Senate – pretty classy .
Not too much more going on so far (besides some “pub-events” )

Hotel Doisy Etoile, Paris

Only four words: “do not go there”. It’s bad, it’s worse, it’s terrible! Actually the terriblest hotel I’ve been in.

The bathroom had no curtain … so people on the street were perfectly able to watch us on the toilet *and* in the shower.
The toilet reminded me of 70’s GDR design … I thought we’re [...]

Houston …

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been at the HPCC07 conference on Houston. I gave a talk and chaired a session there … and was hanging out a lot (of course ). I’ll just post some commented pictures as I know that you’re all tired of reading:

I lived in the Texas Medical [...]

Nice noodles … *hmmm*

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

and as comparison, my standard meal:
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