20:07

Article
LinuxJournal published an article by yours truly. I'm very psyched. You can also read it online on my website: More than Word(s). It's on how to deal with the infamous proprietary format...

22:37

Code
Release Version 0.3 of 2vcard. Now converts mh's alias file as well as abook's addressbook. That's all.

16:31

Life
Wrote a short essay regarding my experience of what happened on September 11th. I originally wrote it in German so as to possibly send it back to my brother for his schools news paper.



While I was in New York State of Mind, I also grouped together a bunch of pictures of New York that can be used as Wallpapers.

16:07

Code
Wrote a little perl-script to convert pine's .addressbook and mutt's alias files to VCARD format. You can get it here.

17:30

Life
Amazing as it may seem, life goes back to normal -- it always does. I'm compeltely amazed by how New York and New Yorkers deal with this desaster; this truely is the greatest city in the world. Several articles in Thrusdays New York Times captured many sentiments prefectly.



As incomprehensible as it may seem to non-New Yorkers, the way the city managed to maintain at least some normality (garbage-trucks running, mail coming etc) is touching in its own way. Mayor Guiliani has demonstrated extraordinary leadership (something that just can not be said of the current President). Again, another article in last Thursdays Times expressed my feelings as well.




Job
Exactly one week before the catastrophe I was granted my H1-B visa -- paying the $1,000 bribe, uhm, "premium service fee" obviously yielded a quick response. That means, that since that day, I'm officially System Administrator for the CS Dept. at Stevens Insitute of Technology in Hoboken. So far the job is fun: almost all of the departmnets machines run NetBSD, and we have plans to build a 30-Node High performance cluster. Unfortunately this leaves me once again with less free time for free software. But thank $your_deity I'm back to a normal (in contrast to unemployed) life.

Being employed by a university allows me to take classes at night (for free) and to get my Masters degree. This semester I take Object Oriented Database Systems and Interactive Graphics (using OpenGL).




On another note, I got my skateboard which I had ordered a few weeks ago and took it out to play today. For the last four years, I've only been riding my longboard, so it was kinda weird to be try tricks on the small one. Even though I suck big time after such a long time it was fun. Fell on my ass, though, so it hurts a bit.




<cheese>Life, again, amazes me. As Guiliani stated, New York will come out of this even stronger.</cheese>