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Short update: last week Users' Meetings at european XFEL and Hasylab, this week 3-way-meeting at the ESRF. Start in a quarter hour. Have to go.

I thought, I'd give you a short rehash of yesterday plus a vague recipe. So yesterday a friend had all of us over for brunch, which was simply nice and I think it has to be repeated even without an occasion, though probably scaled down. We went at 11 o'clock and at 6 o'clock we noticed the time and left; that alone should tell you plenty about the day :) Later we had visitors over for soup and watching Alias, which was a perfect quiet end to a smashing Sunday.

The day started with me baking my mom's Easter plait, for with I'll try to give you recipe. It's not that easy an undertaking, because my Mom is the queen of "so halt" (which is German for like THIS). This means I never saw a written down recipe with actual quantities, but on the other hand she taught me baking and cooking is all about consistency and the right feel of things instead of sticking to the right amount of flour. Enough of the preface, here is the recipe:

Easter plait

• 500 g flour (in Germany that's not self-raising flour)
• 42 g (a cube) of fresh yeast
• ca 6 tablespoons of lukewarm water
• 2 eggs
• 50 g butter (warmed in the microwave)
• 50 g sugar
• 100 ml milk (plus more, if necessary)
• a dash of salt

Pour the flour into a bowl and make a big indentation in the middle. Crumble the yeast into it and add the lukewarm water. Mix with a fork, whisking in an bit of the flour. Let proof for 15 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and mix using an egg whisk. Knead for approximately 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, while adding more milk if it is too dry after thorough kneading or more flour if it is too sticky. Cover with a clean cloth and let proof for additional 30 to 60 minutes. Then divide in three equal parts, roll them into a sausage form and plait while pressing the ends together. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and bake until golden brown and firm. To prevent burning your Easter plait to a crisp you may cover it halfway through baking with aluminium foil. Brush milk onto the still hot plait and let it cool.

Be proud of yourself and have a victory dance in your kitchen (and cut yourself a still warm slice and enjoy it with ham or jam. Yummy).

Hi there,

just some seconds ago I realised that the nuts over at junien.de have agreed on a date for their next "last" social event, featuring high-speed LAN connectivity and maximum throughput of beer. Or coffee, in my case.

A quick <ul> with the details:

• ['ju:niɘn] XVI
• October 12th to 14th
• Stadthalle Hagen
• next to Mercure Hagen
• beam be up, Spock

See you there!

At the IRP we got new microscope cams for our set-up at P10. If shutter speed allows for maximum frame rate, they give you 74 MByte per second, so two of them pose quite a challenge on our network connections.

Currently I'm working on web based live viewer using a MJPEG coder, that allows for viewing the stream from every computer on our network, not just only one (as before). Markers (crosses and lines) are drawn by Javascript in an HTML canvas; they also appear on all screens (but can soon be muted).

Hi there. Now that the dust of the holidays and their preparation has settled, I'm trying to live up to my own resolution of "more blogging". osti keeps nagging me :) I'll try to touch on the main subjects since my last blog post.

In early December I became aunt of a beautiful baby boy. That event was foreshadowed by an true mountain of knitted items, which I have to tell you about an other time. And there were various birthdays and of course a bit of Christmas knitting. All of that I'm going to skip for now and tell you about our fabulous knitting club.

This past weekend saw our second official meeting. My sis and an friend came to our flat and stayed for the night. Sadly the fourth member didn't have time. But we had boatloads of fun and soup, burgers, hot chocolate with little marshmallows and lots and lots of knitting. Additionally we got ourselves started on our private rerun of Doctor Who. Both me and my sis have watched it already, but our number three didn't and got hooked, so we threw our plans of going out to the movies out the window.

It was a fun weekend hopefully soon to be repeated :)

It's abstract time.

Soon there's the Users' Meeting both of European XFEL and Hasylab in Hamburg, the 3-Way-Meeting in Grenoble, and the Users' Meeting of Grenoble's ESRF. Tonight is deadline for SRI in July and Lyon. Have to finish that, too...

Some time ago I did not find enough time to post a bug report, concerning a strange key repetition delay in my xfce4-terminal. Two days ago I tried some updates, et voilà, problem solved.

Still running x11-terms/terminal-0.4.8; I guess it's x11-libs/vte-0.28.2-r202 that did the trick.

Now that I have more time, I finally managed to fill in the 16 digits called "Stromzählernummer", so Greenpeace energy knows the number of our counting board. Former nuclear supplier gets a typewritten adieu.

Please change, too.