In Grenoble itself there isn’t really any snow, but we have the mountains all around and there you can find actually quite a lot! This weekend we went to Chamrousse (a ski resort close by) for some snowball fights and for some sledging 🙂 !

Yes! Up to now I have ridden 7577 km in France on my bike. Still going every day by bike to the institute, that’s summing up. Public transport is not really an alternative and biking is too great! I’ll keep it up!

I actually did not mention it so far .. I have an iBook G4 and at the beginning I had to discover that even a Macintosh product is nothing more than a computer. Well, I still find it more satisfactory than other operating systems, the concept of Mac OS X is nice since it combines Unix (great for developing and “shelling”) with a great graphical user interface (works pretty well out-of-the-box). Nevertheless, it is only a computer, it crashes, does not always work out-of-the-box, and also the hardware isn’t always that great (during 3 years they had to change the motherboard two times, once the hard drive, once they fixed a problem with the cable connecting the monitor, and still I have problems that my iBook does not wake up after sleeping .. sleep of death [really annoying] .. but think that’s all .. ehem). Also I started having problems with my AC power adaptor. Instead of buying a new one, some websites (e.g., Repair-A-Powerbook-AC-Adapter) inspired me to try to fix it by myself. And it worked! After spending ~2 hours opening the adaptor (it really isn’t meant to be opened by somebody, it’s glued on both sides .. but it is possible) and fixing the problem with the power connection, I reassembled and taped it. You can admire the final result on the photo :).