Category Archives: Books

Mars Trilogy

I recently finished reading the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. The trilogy, consisting of the books Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars takes place primarily on Mars (d’oh) and describes the development of a community on Mars. Starting … Continue reading

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Testing Ubuntu

I gave up on the old computer, and have now bought a “new” old computer from David from my dorm. The specs on the new computer is roughly the same as that of the old one. The only really important … Continue reading

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Exam Day and Lots of Books

As Rune reports we did not get much work done friday because the exam in Advanced Algorithms – Data Structures was placed in the meeting room right across from our office. Because of this a bunch of people hang out … Continue reading

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Fancy “New Media”

Martin has created a planet aggregating the blogs of the DAIMI-crowd. I think it is a brilliant idea, mostly because it is kinda geeky. Now all you computer-science fan-girls and fan-boys have a place to crowd! Today I have been … Continue reading

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The Commonwealth Saga

A few weeks ago I finished reading the book Judas Unchained which, together with Pandora’s Star make up the Commenwealth Saga duology. Written by British science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton the style of the books is similar to his … Continue reading

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Enlightenment

I have been playing with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries(EFL) enlightenment 0.17 from CVS for quite some time now, it a bit today. I have been running is nice to play with developing software. Using evas and ecore I was able … Continue reading

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Reality Dysfunction

I just finished reading the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamlinton. It was really a remarkable book, and I had to buy the second book in the series because I could not wait for the library to get it … Continue reading

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