New Dask Lamp

Just last week I got an package from USA which I've been waiting for for quite some time. I was thrilled. A friend of mine, that I got to know while I was on exchange in New Zealand, sent me a desk lamp (the silver one).


I am very pleased to have one of these low energy, High efficient LED lamp. It's very hard to impossible to get them in our country or even Europe. That was the main reason why I asked my friend John to send one to me.

Thank you John.

Richard Feynman Lectures

Everyone who likes Physics a bit should already know Richard Feynman and at least heard about very famous Physics lectures books - "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" made after his lectures to undergraduate students at Caltech in 1961-63.

In 1964 he gave a series of lectures called "The Messenger" at Cornell that were recorded and published but BBC. Now they are accessible free of charge at M$ Research center (Thanks Bill for this). I recommend it to every physics fan.

You can watch it on-line here.

Ribno 2009

I felt really bad last year when I just couldn't go camping with our scout group. I went on the camp for 18 year, each year and it was amazing every year.

I was in shortage of time this year again, but I was at least able to go to the "Ferry-tale" (like we call that little piece of heavens in Julian Alps region, near the city of Bled. Its just amazing. I was there for 2 weekends each weekend with different group of kids and youngsters.

For time being I helped two other guides with leading the guide school. It is my favorite task/assignment at camp. With first group we went on the hike on Jelovica. We had a really great weather and awesome time up there where the nature is still amazingly beautiful. With the second group I helped with some lectures and other things that are going on in the guide school.

Once again I was really happy in company of large number of scouts.

BP

Summer schools of 2009

Each year there are several summer schools organized at our Faculty. Summer schools have different target audience. Some are for high school-ers , students or teachers, and there are some that are for all of them.

Last two weeks, we organized two such events. First was CoLoS summer school for teachers of Informatics. It was about Action Script 3 (wiki, adobe) and Silverlight 2.0 & 3.0 (M$).
All the classes were recorded and streamed to the internet for everyone to see. The official summer school home page can be found here (in Slovene), where you can also get all other information and links.

The other summer school was Development @ iPhone platform. GameTeam group from Faculty of Computer in Information Science, University of Ljubljana created great program for a summer school for everybody to join. From beginners to more experienced programmers.
More about this summer school can be found here. Also this summer school was recorded and streamed over the internet and the archive can be found at the home page of the summer school.

Both schools were a success and will probably return next year. There are more summer schools coming up this summer at our faculty. Here is the list of all of them.