I have actually been quite in favour of the One Laptop Per Child Initiative (OLPC) from the very beginning. And it turns out that the operating system if pretty good aswell..
Found this when I was surfing around the Foresight Linux page.. It does bug me that they don’t use its full name (GNU/Linux), but I guess I can live with that if the distro really works as well as I expect. Might not be the most stable one to date, but I am after all using the sid branch of Debian..
Too bad they’ll have to take it offline in a few days.. Taken a few screenshots, and might post them later on..
I have come to the conclusion that this is probably the best time of the day for maths.
That was all.
I have, by the way changed the time on the blog to match our current time. (We’re not on DST anymore.. ) Thinking about switching it to UTC entirely to keep it consistent.
octave:1> cos(pi/2)
ans = 6.1230e-17
So to be totally honest with you: this of course has a reason. The reason being that Octave (or it’s non-free sibling Matlab) actually compute cos(pi/2) by dividing the number which is stored as pi by two and then applying the cos-operation to that number. The result is this tiny, yet still non-zero number.
(For anyone who wants to know: pi = 3.14159265358979.)
Sorry for not posting anything this month so far, but I’ve been rather busy with university and work. Well mostly university, but I’m adding “work” to make it seem like more.. (and to have an entry to file under that category.. 
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Anyway, physics is just great. I’ve taken something like 5 extra courses already and am enjoying a solid 60 hours week or something.. to put it lie this: I’m either sleeping, drinking coffee or doing maths most of the time. I am actually solving some equation right now. Honestly.
All the same I wasn’t actually planning on using a whole paragraph complaining about my workload ’cause I’m really having fun doing that stuff. We’re doing very much maths right now (four out of five of my lectures are maths lectures) but that’s mostly fine (ever proved that sqrt(2) isn’t an integer? and two days later that it is actually a real number?) and I’m really looking forward to the physics courses later on during my studies.
I was actually planning to make this a really long post, but I just looked at the watch and I need sleep more than those 15 minutes of fame I’m hoping to get through your combined lobbying efforts due to my enormous volume of posting.. (this is the moment I noticed that I was begining to write nonsense.. I digress.. )
Hope you all are having a great time as well. Catch you later..
This post is a work-in-progress.
Well, I am officially MIA now. Meaning, I am about here:
or so..
Anyway, not really a post about Inter Rail itself, but about the things it does (can do?) with friendship.
Yesterday I fell rather sick. We were running around Berlin quite a bit and were actually planning to go out later in the night, but when we lay down to get an hour of sleep I felt that I was developing a fever and wasn’t feeling so well generally. So I stayed in bed while the others went down to the bar of our hostel, I took some antibiotics (cause I don’t seem to get well without them.. :/ ) and fell off.
At about midnight I was woken up by all three of them handing me pills against fever and my cough. Apparently one of them went to Alexanderplatz and somehow managed to get all that stuff in the middle of the night.
Now, the thing is the three of us weren’t best friends when we left Austria. We knew each other well and we liked each other, but it wasn’t a really deep friendship, I guess. Sometime during those last three weeks that changed. We know each other really well - our weeknesses, our strenghts and we care for each other. I guess that is the most valuable thing I have learned from Inter Rail.
Hope all of you are having a great time as well (wherever your are)!
I’m having a great time here (even trying to type on this godforsaken dutch keyboard.. ).. today Antwerp; tomorow Brussels and then.. who knows 
God, Inter Rail is just awesome!
Hope I get round to writing entries on the tour after I return..