Imperial College, happy 100th birthday!

So... what started as an effort by Prince Albert to create a centre of excellence that would rival MIT made it to its first 100 years.

Founded in 1907 by merging many institutes in the (very very expensive) area of South Kensington, it has been standing well. Thus far it has accumulated 20 Nobel prizes, the Times cited this year as the 9th best school overall and 4th in engineering world-wide, 1st in engineering in Europe and 10th in science world-wide. (Thanks Infrared)

Today, well... rather yesterday, the celebration has began with some free cake, a 1907-style-and-price lunch and finally a nice presentation by its Rector.

So, apparently Imperial College London is great! So they say... To be fair it's great to be part of this institution. Many amazing people were here and many more will come. I am sure I will miss it when and if I left...

Wish you were here...

Τι να πω... ότι και να πω είναι λίγο. Να σε παίρνουν οι κολλητοί σου από Ελλάδα και να μην μπορείς να είσαι εκεί να πιες κάτι μαζί τους...

Και για τι; Για ένα διδακτορικό. Σιγά τα αυγά...

Ο καιρός γαρ εγγύς όμως.

Και το δωμάτιο με την "παρέα" θα έρθει και αυτό. Λίγη υπομονή και όλα θα γίνουν.

Σύντομα... θα γυρίσει ο τροχός.

Ancient Greek Worship in Greece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6283907.stm

Can't we all just be friends?...

And let people worship whatever they want?...

And not be too worried about how many sheep we loose from our flock?...

And better to have a look at our own mess so that we don't loose any sheep?...

Songbird

Oh, and I've translated most of the greek version of Songbird.

I think it's a great effort being open-source and all and it is really a clever idea, to "play the web".

Have a try and let me know if the translation is good. Works on Windows, Linux and MacOS. It is still in beta but no excuses for not downloading people!

EDIT: See what Songbird can do

I'm back!

And more determined than ever to finish the bloody PhD.

今からがんばります！

Free hugs!

I saw one of these people in Picaddily Circus in London. Didn't hug him...

too strange when your sensei is around ;)

By the way, it was great to see him after so long... Kind of missed Japan...

Oh well... maybe I'll go there soon...

My new "scientific" blog.

Check it out here.

Amazing ancient technology...

Ο πανίσχυρος μεγιστάνας των Ninja

No comment...

Casino Royale

Definitely the first Bond movie I really liked. Ok, I also liked "You Only Live Twice".

Great action movie.

No, really!

Amateur action

Do we really need to KNOW an instrument?