The last week RIPE80 meeting happened. Online. It should have been in Berlin, with my company DE-CIX as the „local host“. Because of that, I was appointed to the program committee – as a local host representative. For my friends not familiar with what I do, how the Internet industry works or, what a RIPE […]
Stuff I do when working from home: Rebuilding the network
As a lot of people, I am currently working from home. That means: I start about one hour earlier in the morning I have a looong lunch break I finish at the same time as in office I do not have to commute – that saves me 90 minutes each day! So, time to spend […]
New web server
Ok, this is now the 3rd incarnation of my web server. The first one was “plain html” – just a bunch of files I edited with a text editor. The next one was based on a content management system. Since I do some photography, its primary purpose was to publish my photographs. So, after a […]
My travels to India
I traveled to India earlier this year. Over the next few entries I will blog what I have written down while there. Date of the entries will be the date when I originally wrote it. I really liked the country – when I am sarcastic, thats simply my style.
India: Wednesday, nearly done
Well, that was an “interesting” Uber ride to the office. What do you do if you miss an exit on the motorway? In Germany you know – you simply continue to the next one. Not so in India: After our driver missed the exit by a few meters, he simply stopped (which caused a motorcycle […]
India: Tuesday, 2nd week
Our driver this morning took off in an “unusual” direction (after Aerocity where the hotel is located he took a right instead of a left as all other drivers). He noticed that we were looking confused and checking the map and explained it is to “avoid the traffic”. Well, it worked until a T crossing […]
India: Second week, Monday
We used an Uber again to get to the office. This was the third Uber we used with the “low fuel” light on and the second with the “engine warning” on. Makes me a bit nervous as a good part of our trip to the office is via a four lane (of which five lanes […]
India: Friday – 3rd day
Our Uber driver took an “interesting” route today – lots of potholes and shaking. And rubbish laying around everywhere. At the end the route was quite a bit shorter then the usual route. Did I mention that I love Indian food? The photo below shows the menu of the delivery service we use for lunch […]
India: 2nd day
We took an Uber from the hotel to the office today. 20.5km, took us about 50 minutes, cost about EUR 5. Five star driving – lots of honking but no close calls. I never ever want to drive here. One more observation about security (or what they call security here): When entering the hotel area, […]
India: First day at the office
After a one hour ride with a driver from the hotel we arrived at the office building. Quite an interesting area. Drive to the office increased my opinion of never wanting to drive in India. Another thing that gets you is the massive air pollution. People who complain about the Diesel discussion in Germany should […]