blog
5 years ago, on this day, I started this blog on Wordpress.com. And here I am, half a decade later, 2^8 posts later. Let me tell you how it all started. I had been planning for a long time to start a blog. I actually even started one
plants
About two months ago, we had a TetraPak gardening class at work. During this class we learned how to seed and care for spinach (left in the above picture) and salad (right) plants in a 1L milk box. But these were just short term "gardening" ex
photos
I was oncall the week that ended in the long weekend of the 1st of May. It was a rainy weekend and I had to stay inside the house, during my shift, but because it was rainy, it wasn't very tempting to go outside even after it. So
cardboard
Google Cardboard is a low cost virtual reality headset made out of cardboard, obviously, two lenses, a small magnet and some velcro. Instructions on how to make one yourself are available online. I was quite skeptical when it came out last year. I'm not a big
trips
On my second day in Geneva, after waking up quite late, Cipri, Alexandra and I went to the Geneva International Inventions Exhibition. It is quite large exhibition, having 790 inventions, from 45 countries, displayed on 8900 m^2 surface. It wasn't entirely what I
trips
Last weekend I went to Geneva, to visit Ciprian, a friend who is doing an internship at CERN. He also happens to be a frequent reader of my blog :D. Before joining the dark computer science side, I was a wannabe physicist. I went to lots of physics compe
zurich
Every year in Zurich there is a holiday called Sechseläuten, that celebrates the end of winter and the coming of summer. It is held on the Monday that follows Easter, so this year it was on the 13th of April (last year it was on the ~30th of April,
trips
During the Catholic Easter holidays, I went to Romania for a one week visit. Initially the plan was that my parents would come and visit me, but I had more days off, so I ended up coming to my homeland. After having been in Switzerland for 7 months now,
blog
New old feature readded to my blog: the ability to subscribe to my posts via email. If you enter your email adress in the form at the bottom of any page, you will get an email whenever I post something new. There is still RSS, but who am I kidding,
personal
Last week I bought a bike from another Googler. Because it was raining like crazy and then it was stormy and then I went on vacation, it camped at work for a bit more than a week. But yesterday I finally took it home, and today, for my birthday, I
blog
Ever since I moved to Acrylamid, my blog's look has been quite spartan. While I liked the simplicity and minimalism of the theme, several of my friends, some of which are more artistically inclined then I am, told me that is a bit too.
skiing
Last week I went skiing for the first time in my life. I said that I can't live in Switzerland and not go skiing at least once. So I talked with some friends from the church I go to here and we booked rooms at a hotel