• Stockholm impressions

    Stockholm impressions

    I know, I know, I write too much about those photos. I’ll try to be brief this time. The Nordic Museum reminds me of the Harry Potter castle with its many towers. I did not visit it, but its neighbour, the Vasa Museum. But more on that in a later post. Me being a total…

  • CERN impressions

    A spontaneous visit to CERN was surprisingly rewarding. I managed to sneak into the fully booked French guided tour. For the next two hours, we visited two spots: first was the historical synchro-cyclotron, which surprised with a well-produced animation of its inner workings, projected directly onto its skeleton. Then we went to the building above…

  • Details of Geneva

    Apart from the historical centre (and CERN, of course), Geneva has many nice spots. Here is a sample of two days aimlessly strolling around.

  • Lights of London (yep, these are wallpapers)

    When I stood on Queen’s Walk in London, next to the National Theatre (roughly here; btw: this is one of the few occasions where “here” is a sensible choice for a link text, but I digress…), I could not help but notice the abundance of lighting. So I opened the shutter and waved my camera…

  • Details of London

    Some details I noticed along the way.

  • Cyclists of London

    They must have nerves of steel. Cycling in central London is a close contact sport. Narrow roads and dense traffic make it quite a challenge to go by bike. Nevertheless, I could not fail to notice quite a few cyclists on my first day in London. I even spotted the notorious #TrafficDroid (background story on…

  • How to remap the Win button on a Microsoft Sculpt Comfort mouse

    If you use the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Desktop with its gorgeously sculpted keyboard and the round pebblestone mouse, you might not need the brightly branded “Windows” button on the mouse. Program AutoHotkey to the rescue! Simply remap the Right Windows key (that conveniently does not exist on most keyboards anyway) to any other convenient key…

  • The definitive full-frame graphic command for beamer in LaTeX

    The definitive full-frame graphic command for beamer in LaTeX

    2018-06-02: This content has been superseded by this newer post: Finally the definitive full-frame graphic commands for beamer in LaTeX. Look there for an updated version. After my previous post on the same topic, I have improved upon the command considerably. This time, it is based on Matthew Leingang’s answer on the question Image on…

  • North Hive – [2015] Gaia

    North Hive – [2015] Gaia

    Detailed ambient treasurebox. If you are easily offended by non-musical “noise” in your music, give this release a try anyway. While North Hive heavily uses field recordings for its compositions, the results often sound quite musical. This album was released at Enough Records.

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  • Triple screen desktop wallpapers II

    From this handy index of high resolution Hubble images I have derived another set of three screen wide (3·(1920×1200) = 5760×1200) space wallpapers: Image credits: Both: NASA, ESA; Orion nebula: M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team; Helix nebula: NOAO, The Hubble Helix Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector…

  • “Laudato Si’” word cloud

    I wanted to get a glimpse on the language employed in the latest encyclica Laudato Si’, so here it is. If it weren’t for god, the cloud could also come from an sustainable development manifest:

  • Triple screen desktop wallpapers

    I needed three screen wide wallpapers in resolution 5760×1200. But there were only a hand full of decent ones. So I searched the European Space Organisation image archive for material. Luckily, they release their photos under a Creative Commons license, i.e. the CC-BY 4.0. These four wallpapers are based on two images: Carina Nebula, NGC…

  • How to add subcategories to templates in WordPress

    How to add subcategories to templates in WordPress

    This is the snippet I have added to my category template in my blog’s child theme. I paste the following snippet usually after the taxonomy-description paragraph. This is how it looks (the two paragraphs Parents and Subcategories): This is the code: And then in the (child) theme’s stylesheet, add suitable specification. In my case, I…

  • How to horizontally align beamer columns with surrounding text

    How to horizontally align beamer columns with surrounding text

    If you (like me) assumed that placing two columns width 50% textwidth next to each other would align with preceding or following text on a beamer slide, then you are mistaken (like me). Fortunately, a discussion on Bug #262: Provide more usable columns environment showed a viable solution in form of the optional argument onlytextwidth.…

  • My Python setup

    My Python setup

    In this post, I summarise my custom settings for my IPython, Matplotlib and IPython Notebook for my Windows machine at work. IPython First some aesthetic preferences: [code lang=”python” title=”.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py”] # select qt backend for plotting from terminal from IPython.terminal.ipapp import TerminalIPythonApp TerminalIPythonApp.matplotlib=’qt’ c = get_config() # bigger plots in IPython notebooks c.InlineBackend.rc = {‘figure.figsize’: (16.0,…