So the big news these days is obvi­ously Paul the Psy­chic Octo­pus. Def­i­nitely inter­est­ing. It was able to main­tain a 100% suc­cess rate in this year’s World Cup (and a much higher suc­cess rate than it had in 2008 where it mis­pre­dicted a whop­ping two matches).

So what’s going on here? Freak coin­ci­dence? Super­nat­ural pow­ers? At a first glance, both sound ridicu­lous to me.

But I want to think about the more “inter­est­ing” expla­na­tion a bit: per­haps Paul really is psy­chic. Per­haps Paul can tell the future. (more…)

The end is nigh.

On mon­day the 12th of April, I’m going to defend my master’s the­sis. If you’re in the area, and are geeky enough to find it inter­est­ing, feel free to drop by. (more…)

Just over a month ago, I handed in my Mas­ters The­sis. All that’s left now is an oral defense of it one of the next weeks. So what hap­pens then? I sup­pose I should find a job. A few peo­ple have asked if I am going to do a PhD, but I don’t think so. I think I’ve had enough of acad­e­mia for now. It was fun while it lasted, but I think it’s time to try some­thing dif­fer­ent. (more…)

So Google launched their Twitter/MySpace/Facebook killer, Buzz, and appar­ently sub­scribed every GMail user to it with­out ask­ing any­one for permission.

The result is that a lot of peo­ple now have sen­si­tive per­sonal infor­ma­tion float­ing around in pub­lic. (more…)

We’ve more or less set­tled in our new apart­ment, and we’ve got inter­net… sort of! (more…)

Sorry for the lack of updates. I haven’t for­got­ten about this blog, but real life has kept me busy. The lease on my apart­ment expired Novem­ber 1st, so the last two months or so have been spent try­ing to find a new apart­ment (with greater and greater urgency as the dead­line got nearer). (more…)