Kampkoder

Today is the day, I’m handing in my application as a Ph.D. fellow (or student, if you like) at Aalborg University. In about 10 minutes or so, I will pick up the massive pile of papers, summing up my life, and handing them over to the faculty secretary. She (or he) will then, and I say this with a high level of certainty, place them in an even greater pile, later to be scrutinized by a committee of very smart people. At this point in time I have no idea of when I will be informed of their decision.

Today was also the day, where I gracefully declined a job offer from the real world. So I very much hope that I get the position.

I have very recently discovered photography, or perhaps, more accurately most of my peers have discovered it for me. It seams that I have underestimated the fun and artistic challenges which comes with photography. So I have decided to give it a try as well.

My newly acquired Google prise, set me off with a new Nikon D40 Digital SLR camera (spejlrefleks in Danish) which was on sale at one of the local photo shops here in Aalborg. Although the Nikon D40 supposedly is an entry level DSLR camera, it seams to do its job very nicely – surely better than me at this point, as I’m very much a novice in this field.

Although the resent couple of days of my life have been experienced mostly though the lens of my camera, I have yet to produce a master peace .. and I find this strange! don’t you?. Nevertheless a few pictures has turned out ok, and being the computer scientist (read nerd) that I am and living in this digital day and age, I have of course created an on-line photo gallery! I’m quite happy with the result so fare, but the ultimate goal would of cause be, to have the necessary skills to take pictures like the ones you can find here.

Fun with new Camera

If you for some reason feel the need to link to my photo album, notice that I changed the URL (address) from http://picasaweb.google.com/kampkoder to http://picasaweb.google.com/claus.thrane

Animals

I don’t know what this blog is going to be about – but I liked the title. Bear with me for now ..

In the spirit of things which makes little or no sence, observe the following problem solving algorithm:

The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
(1) write down the problem;
(2) think very hard;
(3) write down the answer.