Pink Pasta
For my parents 40th wedding anniversary my brother, my sister and me prepared dinner. We made, amongst others, ravioli filled with red beet and goat cheese. When we had enough ravioli we still had some pasta dough and beet filling left so we experimented a bit further.
In the end we created Pink Pasta, there must be a giant market for this, just look at it:
My cat can’t fly
Sunday evening after cooking a dinner for friends my beloved lady friend, bastet, had disappeared. She is the master of hide and seek so at first I assumed she was hidden somewhere in my spacious loft. After searching all known and possible hiding places I figured she somehow had gotten out. I have a secluded courtyard which has multiple exits, but they all have doors. So I hoped she somehow escaped when my guests left and was hiding out in the courtyard.
Alas! I searched the courtyard two times that night and once the next morning but no sign of her. On Monday evening I planned a search and rescue mission together with the owner of the cat. While I was delayed she discovered Bastet outside the building hiding under the bushes. When we brought her up and let her loose again in my house she limped heavily and did not want to eat. So we brought her to the Vet the next morning and apparently she tried to fly and failed. Our guess is that she jumped out of the kitchen window at 20m above ground.
She has spliced her palate and broke her hip in a way that separated her hip from her spine. But according to the vet these are common injuries for non-flying cats and she should recover fine, although they’re going to operate here hip/spine problem. I just got word that she started eating again so the palate injury is healing very quickly. Tomorrow she’ll be operated and I hope to see her tomorrow evening.
OSGeo got into GSoC ’08
I just received an email from Google inviting me to take part in The Google Summer of Code(tm) 2008:
Earlier this year the Mapbuilder community came up with some GSoC ideas and by kind permission of the Openlayer community did a joined ideas list with OL. I volunteered to Mentor a few of those. The Openlayers/Mapbuilder/Mapfish ideas list is part of the umbrella entry of OSGeo.
This message means that we made it to the GSoC, apparently over 500 organisations/projects applied and only 175 made it. I’m happy we are one of those and I hope we get some enthusiast students who will extend OL/MB/MF in ways beyond our dreams, or at least more or less as the ideas describe.