sun & chi

After several days of heavy rain we experienced 2 days of sun in new brunswick. However, right now I'm sitting in a room without any windows attending a session at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI) in Montreal. It's raining again in Montreal while the sun is shining in Salzburg (I hope that this is not the only sunny week this spring in Salzburg) However there are lots of interesting people here at the conference and before that I was cordially received in Montreal by Karin. We got to know at high school and she's now at the beginning of an incredible academic career in biochemistry.

Day 1 in Canada

We arrived yesterday in Halifax and the weather was rainy and stormy - typical scottish weather on Nova Scotia. Today we went to Peggy's Cove, a lovely small village with a harbour and a wonderful light house. We had sunshine for half an hour there but we learned what windchill means ;-) Now I'm sitting in Baddeck, appr. 400 km northeast from Peggy's Cove from where we start our trip round the Cabot Trail tomorrow morning. Life can be so nice.

Spring is back again in Salzburg

Mild temperatures returned to Salzburg after nearly 6 months of snow. We used the sunshine to give my hammock from Costa Rica a try in the park of Hellbrunn Castle.

my current research toy

Even though Sony finished the develepment of Aibo I find it cool :)