Wonderful .. looking out of the window this morning, we saw snow in Grenoble. The temperature dropped these days and it already started snowing yesterday evening. Now we can look forward to go skiing. Haven’t checked out the snow conditions in the skiing resorts, but it should be ok, I guess.

Yes, I bought myself a snowboard :), sic! I mean one should certainly seize opportunities like living in the alpes and being surrounded by innumerable skiing resorts, eh? Well, that’s why I got a snowboard .. but hey, where’s the snow? Ok, there’s some up in the mountains, but even there the weather conditions are not at their best for skiing. Hm .. we’ll hope and see when winter is coming (hopefully we won’t skip from autumn directly to spring!).

I just installed WordPress as my new homepage/blog and added the postings from my former website. Now you guys can comment on things and stuff ;).

Hey, now it’s official .. after having written my master thesis with LEAR at INRIA Rhône-Alpes in Grenoble (France), I will start with my PhD (i.e. doctoral studies) in the group. Today, I celebrated my first official working day with waffles for the whole group, thought that’d be a good start :). So in case somebody is wondering where I am .. contrary to my traveling from country to country in the last years, I am now for the next 3 years at one and the same place.

Today I passed my master thesis defense at our department, that means I am now officially Master of Science in Computer Science :D.