Yesterday I went shopping in the city with Mette and David from my dorm. I ended up buying some wodden mind puzzle, the objective of which is to assemble a star from several parts, a handgrip gel for strengthening of the wrist and fingers and Pandora's Star which is the first book in a series written by Peter F. Hamilton, the author of the brilliant Nights Dawn trilogy.

I recently released vplayer which is a xine-lib front-end I wrote at CAVI. The frontend is able to play a movie frame-synchronized on a cluster of computers. It uses SDL to display the video but it is also able to render on an OpenGL texture for use in a graphics engine.

Wednesday evening I returning home from my CAVI "business" trip to Skyskan in Rotterdam and Barco in Kuurne, Belgium (Belgium not meant as the HGTG offensive term, just the country). We went three people by car and had some really warm days on the packed highways of the Netherlands and Belgium.

Yesterday I went to pick up my new Ray-Ban sunglasses, optically they match my ordinary glasses so I am able to use them while driving. Both my sister and Mikoline have approved them, so now I am officially a cool looking bad-ass :).

When I returned from Belgium I learned that I have received a PhD scholarship, which means that I have now resigned from my position at CAVI. I am starting in august and will be joining the algorithms group at the Univesity of Aarhus, where I will be working on external memory (I/O) algorithms and cache-oblivious algorithms with one of the leading researches in the field, Lars Arge, as my principal advisor. Needless to say, I am now looking very much forward to three weeks of vacation and to start in august. Have a nice summer everyone, I will hopefully update this site when I return from Paris.