http://www.biskup.net/blog Thomas Biskups Random Ramblings about life, programming, roleplaying games, gizmos and everything else. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:56:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From time to time it's very cool being reminded of the exciting theoretical problems I encountered during my studies... and from which I sadly (or luckily ;-) ? ) am very far removed these days. Nonetheless it's time for yet another attempt of proving that P != NP and I'm ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/08/09/p-np/ Today I would like to recommend an iPhone/iPad app of a very good friend of mine: BattleDuel. A game that has been around on the Amiga and on the PC. A game that has been implemented in C and in Java. And a great game that now is available in ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/06/22/battleduel-very-cool-iphoneipad-app/ Now it's official - my German Ph.D. equivalent has been documented and now I may call myself a "Dr.". Whew... great feeling :-) What a day! Feels even better than the day of the defense :-) http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/02/24/dr-ing-thomas-biskup/ I love a decent conspiracy theory - and because it keeps popping up when talking to colleagues here's my personal pet believe about Google and Android. Your mileage may vary. My bet is: In at most three years Google will be giving away mobile phones for free. Including the contract so that you ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2010/02/03/my-personal-google-android-conspiracyinat/ Most of my recent movie reviews have been... critical at best. Today we watched the match tooted movie "Avatar" by James Cameron. I was very curious about the "new 3D" technology (having been less than impressed by Hollywood's earlier attempts) and really hoped for a great movie. And what did we ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/29/movie-review-avatar/ Yesterday we released the OpenSAGA website to the public. What's the buzz about? It's about a Java- and Spring-based web framework for which I am the project lead and principal architect and which is going to be released to the public in the first half of 2010. Let me tell ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/19/opensaga-my-recent-business-pet-project/ Powerful stuff... really powerful stuff. Enjoy. http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/12/15/a-song-of-serenity-peace-and-majesty/ I just added yet another blog to my growing collection of personal blogs. I have been toying with the rules for a German old school roleplaying system that I want to publish via Lulu.com at some point in Spring (as soon as I am done). In order to provide a ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/26/yet-another-blog-about-roleplaying/ We just watched 2012 by Roland Emmerich. This movie was truly inspiring. Wanna know more? Read on. And if you work in Hollywood: Read the end of this post - 2012 provided me with an idea that will help Hollywood a lot more money than it already does and it ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/22/movie-review-2012/ I just watched the video about the new iMac displays and was quite enthralled by the display... and then I discovered something neat at about two minutes in the video which activated some beautiful memories... ...the following picture: And I believe I know this place... it's in the Aitutaki lagoon on the ... http://www.biskup.net/blog/2009/11/14/we-were-in-an-imac-video-kind-of/