An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

Today, Markus Völter interviewed me for his Software Engineering Radio podcast show. Thus, a couple of months from now my name will be tied to some piece of audio on the internet. Already today, when you use Google’s image search, you can find a picture of me. With audio search some time in the [...]

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According to NPR this morning, a transistor is a priest who wears women’s clothes.

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I sincerely hope that robots in our future are closer than they may appear right now. After the demise of my Roomba I have my eyes set on the guy (gal?) depicted below. (Photo courtesy of Anybots, another Stanford startup. Makes me wonder why I am where I am.)

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Here another piece of spam, not nearly as funny as the previous one. What’s remarkable is that it was sent to the email address “doostang.com@riehle.org”, which is an address that I handed out exactly once, namely when registering at doostang.com, a recruiting website, back in 2006. Looks like they got cracked or don’t take their [...]

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I’m unhappy to report about the demise of my cute little cleaning robot, an iRobot Roomba. It only reached the rather young age of two months, so I guess you can call it a case of infant mortality. It got killed by one of the most heinous dangers out there, an ant invasion of my [...]

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Hilarious! Watch it on YouTube, straight from CES 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q9ITypMV-4 (got removed)
Update: Here a better high-resolution version:
http://gizmodo.com/341472/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs

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