Q's blog

I don't know how you guys feel? When I first see the lego mindstorm humanoid robot, I'm nearly crazy about it. See http://mindstorms.lego.com/. Programmable interface, visual sensors, sound sensors, bluetooth ... etc. That means I can program a pet, who is able to say "Hi, lady, you are so hot! ", when it see a beautiful girl :)! And most important it is not that expensive as I thought, 239,75 EUR from a ebay seller.
With mindstorms I can better make use of my computer vision knowledge to make more fun. Not just differentiate a laser and inkjet printout or photocopies. Not suprisely you will find lots of communities, rototics research group etc. which use mindstorm as prototype for education, research and HOBBY!
Lego has joined the Microsoft Robotics Studio Program, which means your programs may not be robot dependent. You can also program lego robot with Java, see http://lejos.sourceforge.net/.
If you have more interests to this kind of stuff, there are a list of programmable robots at active robots.

What does the porsche museum in stuttgart look like in the future? The new design from delugan meissl has given me really a shock. You can take a look at some photos of the museum in the planning stage at http://www.deluganmeissl.at/detail.php?V_PRIMARY=58. Full respect to the top team in Vienna!

One of my friend is studying architecture. He has told me the basic idea behind  this was already used by picasso. While picasso has successfully combined different sides of a human face harmoniously into a 2-D picture, the architect from vienna show all their ideas in a 3-D room.

If you are interested in viewing this kind of stuff. There are more interesting photos at the website. According to my friend, the  institute of architects is one of the tops in the world. At least it is a good alternation after a long time programming :).

Maybe the boss of sun have seen that many people have bought computers with a dual core processor. A new scripting language called fortress is released for high-performance computing.  The name looks a bit similiar to fortran and it is indeed considered to be a replacement of the old famous language.

The new language is declared to be rethought from groud up, although it runs on JVM 1.5 currently. The most interesting part I found is that fortress programmer have to explicitly declare when software should not run in parallel! Anyone who had a headache by the parallelism of c++ and java could hope the new language could save their lot of time if the sun people have done what they've said.

How did my friends spend their New Year’s Eve, who was not in kaiserslautern?
I had a simple and interesting night with friends. The exciting moment belonged to 24:00. Because it was raining, many people have chosen to light their fireworks in front of their houses. Me either, so I have to say sorry to all of cars and plants at the park place. They had to suffer from coming explosion and sparks every now and then. I had accidentally let a rocket flying direct to the grass at a corner. Luckily it was raining. :) But wind was so strong, that I have used 3 lighters to light all my fireworks.

2007.01.01. A new year begins. Happy New Year to all my friends!