the dilfridge blog

We made it to the internal SFB689 spintronics workshop in Niederalteich, though barely in time. The origin of the delay is so bizarre that...

After more than three days of non-stop exam grading (~130 students, 10 questions, ~35% completed), it was time for a break. I mean, at some ...

Thanks to the arXive blog , another gem of recent preprints has surfaced. Multiwall carbon nanotubes, when irradiated, turn into onion-like ...

For those who have not noticed yet, the photo gallery server at www.ostpforte.de is down. For the technically minded, it failed to reboot af...

Have I already mentioned that I'm (as many people around the world at university labs) a big fan of Jorge Cham's PhD Comics ?! Right...

Somehow about every bigger software package nowadays wants to use a full-scale database backend. Just after I kicked amarok out of my box , ...

Somehow the last days of the week already became pretty busy. How did I spend Friday? Well, planning with an engineer the renovation of offi...