I have just applied for position 513-03 at the Luleå University of Technology, Chaired professor in Media Technology. Here is my current CV if somebody is interested.
More Tenerif
Forgot to mention that we are going to stay in a 3 room apartment with two bed rooms and a kitchen.It is about 1.5 Km from the sea but some walking is just good for you. Today the temperature high was 24 (Celcius :-).
Tenerif
During the weekend we decided that we needed some sun and beach so after many hours of looking through catalogues and looking over all the details we today booked a one week trip to Tenerif. We will be staying at the Compostela Golf III apartments. The trip is Sunday February 8 to 15, but we are leaving Friday evening by train to Stockholm where we will spend the Saturday. Then sleep over night at Arlanda and leave early Sunday morning. On the way back we will sleep over in Stockholm again and then fly to Luleå Monday morning and be back home again around Monday lunch. A nice short trip and it will cost us about 22000 less than our original winter vacation (which we cancelled).
A fun note is that the trip between Stockholm and Luleå on the way back was really cheap. 17:- per person 🙂 plus tax and fees it ends up at 290:-.
Anyhow, it is going to be fun to get away from the snow a few days and play with Tovah for a whole week.
Cancer
My friend with cancer mailed me earlier today. Her plan to save base cells before the final treatment failed and they haven’t found any matching donors. In a few weeks she will start the heavy treatment. I hope she makes it! She has been through treatment twice over the last 2 years and she just have to make it a third time!!! She is a true friend and I really miss her (we cannot meet due to the illness).
I miss you, my friend!!!
iTunes
iTunes might be a bit buggy on Windows but there is so much happening out there around iTunes. Make me feel like I am part of some special iTunes cult (or why don’t we just call it a community). People share the libraries, recommend songs, or write full blogs about iPods and iTunes. So much great music out there and so little time to listen to it all.
I have for many years been away from the the music market. I haven’t just “had” the time to listen to music. I have been to focused on what is coming next and in the long run death so I missed to be in the present. BUT as I am now Peter 2.0 I have time to listen to music again.
My next problem is getting full MP3-ID tags on all my music. There is so much music out there without complete information 🙁 Also I cannot decide if I am going to trust iTunes to rearrange all my music on disc. I think I will make a full copy of it all (100GB almost) and give it a try.
Well, I am of to be. Tovah is probably going to wake me up around 6.40 tomorrow as that seems to be her new morning time.
My Music
Want to see some stats over my iTunes library? Well here you go 🙂 The Internet iTunes Registry shows stats about single users iTunes libraries as well as total stats. It is not updated automatically so it will not be up to date as of a few minutes. Current library size is 19283 songs, 55.1 days, 95.88GB.
hmm it is already outdated (I just added Sarah McLachlan and some more).
Lego Master Builders Selected
The Lego Master builder search is over. Lego decided they needed three and here is the story of the final part of the “competition”.
Sigh, I also want to be a Lego Master builder.
Music
There is so much good music out there. So many classics to listen to. On of my all time favorites is Everly Brothers. I should get to bed but I am downloading music instead, my music library just passed 90GB with 17696 songs. Off you go you tired sod….
How to make a G5 into a PC?!
What should you do if you get a Apple G5-DP as a present and all you wanted was a PC? This is one solution…
Cold
Tovah has a cold and she woke up at 1am this morning complaining about her ears hurting. After much fuss I got her to accept that nose spray might help, and voila it did. I am getting good at getting interrupted in my sleep and then falling asleep again, or it might be that I am accustomed these days to be tired 🙂