With the monthly FSCDC e.V. committee meeting coming up tonight, I took some time to update my Jitsi Meet installation to the current version. There were some inexplicable issues with the one I had (which is by now several years old), mostly during our committee sessions where two parties could join a discussion but when the third arrived, everyone would be kicked off. This was more of a nuisance than a show-stopper, because with some perseverance we usually managed to get a conference going with everyone, but still …
Read moreGuest Teacher!
Tonight at the FSCDC e.V. we had Yulia from Schwalmstadt as our guest teacher! She's the teacher of the SCD group in Marburg. Great fun!
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Database News
I finally managed to whip one of my long-standing Strathspey SCD Database enhancements into shape to a point where I feel reasonably confident about releasing it into the wild. So … drum roll … please welcome the Graphical Dance List Editor!
Read moreNo Burns Supper
Today is NOT the date of the traditional Burns supper at the Johannes Gutenberg University here in Mainz. It was originally scheduled to take place today but then the organisers figured out that the date was uncomfortably close to the end-of-semester exams and that they would find it difficult to attract student volunteers to help put on the event. Too bad. Perhaps next year?
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Big day today … For my niece at least. She's on a flight to Istanbul and then after a couple of days there will be going on to Bangkok. Huge adventure! She plans to travel around south-east Asia for several months (or until she runs out of money, presumably). At first she will be travelling with a friend but the other girl apparently needs to go home sooner.
Read moreBlog Improvements
I took some time to tweak the templates for my web site (just because). There are various behind-the-scenes changes as well as some usability improvements.
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