Monthly Archives: October 2007

Danish Election

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There’s an election in Denmark in November and I am kinda bummed that I won’t be there to vote. This document at the website for the Danish embassy in Washington says that I can go to a Danish consulate or embassy and vote by mail, the deadline for doing this is November 6. According to this list, the closest official danish mission is in Atlanta, Georgia or Charleston South Carolina, but that’s still quite a drive and I won’t have time to go there before November 6. On the other hand, there’s a Danish consulate in Seattle, and I am flying to seattle on November 6. It’s a long flight, but due to the time diffence I am going to be arriving in the late afternoon (about 3pm) and the Danish consulate closes at 4pm – which means that if I don’t get delayed in flight and get a very fast cab from the airport, I might just make it.

Israel

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I have not been very good at updating this blog lately, I personally blame the fact that I have both Facebook and IM accounts. It is more convenient for me to update my facebook status, so my facebook-friends get more updates than the readers of this blog.
Anyways, a fortnight ago I travelled to Eilat, Israel for the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). The conference hotel was situated right by the red sea and a few hundred meters from the Jordan-border and sported several swimming pools and bars.

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View from my hotel room’s balcony.

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The lagoon on the back side of the hotel, the mountains in the distance are in Jordan. Continue reading →

Noise Cancelling Headphones

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I ended up buying a set of Sony MDR-NC60 at Circuit City here in Durham. So far I am very pleased with them, they come with airplane plugs and a handy bag and the sound quality is quite good. Furthemore, when the noise cancelling feature is turned on, the hum of A/C devices pretty much disappears, I am looking forward to see how effective they will be on airplanes. I constantly turn the volume up way to high on the crappy head phones that most airlines supply – hopefully I won’t have to do that with these.