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According to one Swiss website the forecast high here today is 22 C (72 F).

Huh? What the hell is going on?

UPDATE: It's currently 24 C !!!!!!!

New Zealand is having a record cool summer, while Switzerland is having a record warm winter. For example, the forecast high tomorrow in Wellington is 16 C — the same as here in Lugano! For New Zealand in the middle of summer to be the same temperature as Switzerland in the middle winter is so screwed up I can hardly believe it's happening.

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else

I just read this, sort of an interview with Bill Gates. At one point he was asked what he wants for Christmas. His answer was lectures from here. Me too ( Read more... )

According to this article, in the UK,
"... in the past four years demand for IT and computer graduates has doubled while at the same time the number of students studying the subject has declined by a third."
I've also heard similar things from the US in recent weeks. Even India is supposed to be having a skills crisis according to a few articles I' ( Read more... )

7 months left on the PhD. Lots to do and not much time to blog. I almost have a committee sorted out, and hopefully in a few weeks I'll move to "PhD candidate" status. I know that seems a bit strange at this point, but it's because I've joined the program after a few years at a research institute so I'm doing all this in a compressed amount of ( Read more... )

For a long time I have called myself agnostic ( Read more... )

As a geek who might start a business at some point in the future, this was an interesting read. Indeed I've seen and heard most of this before, but this is a nice compact summary.

I think I can now basically make perfect pasta sauce. The down side to this is that now when I go out to restaurants, unless they are good Italian places in Italy, I tend to wonder why I'm paying so much money to get something that's not as good as I make at home. Anyway, here's one pasta sauce recipe, more or less. See I can't tell you the ( Read more... )