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Hrm. Da hat sich wieder eine Menge angesammelt. Und dabei hatte ich die heutige Auswahl schon vor 4 Wochen zusammengetragen, ich bin nur nie dazu gekommen, den entsprechenden Blogeintrag zu verfassen – wie ärgerlich. Nunja, immerhin gibt es dann nun mal wieder einiges zum Betrachten, es sind auch wirklich schöne Sachen dabei!

During my vacation I was reading a glossy paper magazine in a café. No, no, a serious one; if I remember correctly, it was mare. On one of the first pages there was a full-page advertisement for an apparently quite valuable watch (it claims to double the value of your yacht). Now, the advertisement is somewhat funny in my opinion and I would like to show you the picture here, but reading through their 'Terms and conditions of use', I am not allowed to put it here. So I may watch the advertisement in the magazine, but I am not allowed to visually communicate it: Doesn't that somehow defy the purpose of advertisement?

Anyhow, I might as well just link to the page where you can order a poster of that advertisement (for only 20CHF), they have a nice picture of it there. But:

You may not establish a link to the IWC Web Site from a third party site without our prior written permission.
— IWC Terms and conditions of use web page

The whole 'terms and conditions of use' page is interesting to read. I would link to it, but they do not allow me to do so. I would laugh if that would not be such a sad example of legal talk.

The Columbia Club is jinxed. The last time I had tickets for a concert there, it got canceled. And this time, well, Opeth originally was supposed to play there. Two hours before the concert – that is 30 minutes before I wanted to leave for the S-Bahn – I checked their website again, for no specific reason, just had some time to kill. And there it says: Concert in Berlin moved to a bigger venue. Aha. Good that I had a look. So once more I did not get to see the Columbia Club.

But as it turned out, it is actually easier to go to the venue it was moved to: the Postbahnhof. I just have to get on the S-Bahn and it goes straight there. Useful. The concert was scheduled to start at 21:00, I arrived forty minutes earlier to have some time to check out the merchandise material and maybe have a drink. It took me 15 minutes waiting in the queue in front of the cloakroom (actually, the cloak-tent, more ranting on that later) to get in and so I had only a few moments before starting to get to nice spot close to the stage.

As mentioned further down, I have been running quite some debugging runs, trying to beat out the glitches in the code. I am working on getting a parallel version of our halo finder to function properly and because I had to shift a lot of global variables around it took a while to find the last wrongly set one. But finally it works and I have been burning some CPU cycles tonight: