Early Bird

Last week, I suffered from a "temporary sickness" - showing up in office between 07:00 and 08:00, much earlier than my usual habit of sneaking in at (read: after) 09:00, the start of the official core working time.

It involved going to bed at 20:00, waking up at 01:00, 04:00, and finally 05:45. It seems to have passed without permanent damage, though. And, frankly... I should admit I liked it. It was a welcome change of everyday routine. Maybe it was just a passing disorder, or maybe it needs some causal starter...

Feathers

A display of new feathers... on the university lab website.



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Lights out at 1&1

Since Monday, the 1&1 mail servers are down.
At first there was no information, then some "necessary software update problems", then a RAID gone bust. However, nothing of all this through customer communication channels - only hearsay.

Which means, give or take, 50 spam mails per day less.
However, this also means that one of the biggest webspace and mail providers in Germany has stopped providing service for almost a full working week.

"Mailservice von 1&1 nach wie vor gestört" at Heise Online

Which also means, anybody who *needs* (for some reason) to reach me should rather try writing to philipp.stolka [AT] uni-bayreuth [DOT] de, for the time being.

Choose A Topic

(Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham)

According to MW, another way to deal with the problem of being scooped out is choosing a topic nobody is interested in any more: "All the people who once were interested in this are dead."

ICRA 2007

To: Mr. Philipp J Stolka
From: Prof. Bruno Siciliano
Re: (476) Robot-Based 3D Ultrasound Scanning and
Registration with Infrared Navigation Support

Dear Colleague:

It is my pleasure to inform you that the paper referenced
above, for which you are listed as the corresponding
author, has been accepted for publication in the
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation to be held in Roma, Italy during
April 10-14.

We received more than 1800 submissions for review and
evaluation, and it is commendable that your paper is among
the 787 selected for publication.

[...]

Congratulations on this fine achievement! I look forward to
welcoming you in Roma in April, for what promises to be a
very strong and innovative technical program and
conference.

Sincerely,

Bruno Siciliano
Program Chair
2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation



As per personal(§) request, the following is to be added for completeness:

2007-01-08 13:25:23 [----] Michel:
Submission information
Authors and title:
Philipp J Stolka*, Michel Waringo, Dominik Henrich
Robot-Based 3D Ultrasound Scanning and Registration with Infrared Navigation Support
Type of submission: Contributed papers
Conference: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

(§: "Personal" means on behalf of a colleague who - for privacy reasons - shall be called "MW" here.)