Marc Giombetti’s blog about computer science and lifestyle.
In the last weeks I got visit from Christophe and Michel in Munich. They took a lot of pictures of beautiful Munich. Additionally there are some pictures of the Deutsches Museum and the BMW Welt.
At the end of this entry you will also find a video of people surfing on the Eisbachwelle in the English Garden.
In this blog post I will make some publicity for Michel´s project of a spellchecker for the luxembourgish language. This project now also contains a thesaurus database which you should extend by new words, if you find something missing (which you probably will, because the project is in an early stage 
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But before I will try to formulate which improvements have been made and why it is better than before I just cite Michel’s blog post:
The new version of spellchecker.lu is online. After almost exactly two years after the initial release, the free spellchecker for Luxembourgish now has a new website, a nicer logo, an improved online checker as well as a thesaurus (synonym dictionary).
The online checker features the following improvements:
- A more intuitive interface
- A wordlist (also called ”dictionary”) of almost 500′000 words and word forms
- Improved correction of common mistakes (found in instant messaging)
- Improved correction of the so-called “Eifeler Regel” which is unique to Luxembourgish
- Easy-to-use feedback form
Visit spellchchecker.lu for more information.
I am not going to blog about how amazing Munich is (not yet, but I will do so in the next weeks). I just want to share some tunes with you. I captured them this afternoon in the English Garden. The musicians are a band somehow and they were playing some kind of jam session. The music itself was not that great, but the mood of the musicians as well as the listeners was wanton.
While surfing through the web, instead of writing some assignments for university, I just discovered a new search engine: the eco friendly search engine.
According to the Ecocho website:
Ecocho is a new search engine trying to make a difference for climate change.
For every 1000 searches users make on Ecocho we’ll counter balances or “offset” up to a ton of greenhouse gases. We do this by sponsoring two trees via advertising on the site.
Oh mein Gott… dachte ich als ich mir eben die Aufzeichnung der Kochsendung Lafer! Lichter! Lecker! vom 05.04.2008 angesehen habe. In der besagten Sendung kochen Luxemburgs Außenminister und Vize-Premier Jean Asselborn und der Deutsche Außenminister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier bei Lafer und Lichter. Das Kochspektakel artet etwas ins Chaos aus und so kommt es neben der Verwechslung von Puderzucker und Salz, “noch milden” Waffeln und missglückten Erklärungsversuchen darüber was Judd mat Gaardebounen ist zum Schluss doch tatsächlich, und nicht zuletzt dank der 2 Sterne Köche zu einem präsentablen Menu.
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This afternoon I was at the Allianz Arena to watch the soccer game of the Erste Deutsche Bundesliga between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Bochum. The stadium was completely sold out (69000 places) and there was a good atmosphere from the beginning on, even though the FCB fell behind 0:1 after several minutes. I took several photos and I filmed the opening and a penalty kick for the FCB. I attached some of the pictures to this article and uploaded the videos to Youtube. The final score of the game: FC Bayern Munich - VfL Bochum 3:1 (1:1).
Continue reading ‘FC Bayern - VfL Bochum at the Allianz Arena, Munich’
Wie versprochen werde ich auch mal auf Deutsch bloggen, also hier mein erster deutscher Blogeintrag: Diese Woche habe ich mir ein neues Spielzeug gegönnt, das Nokia E51. Ich will an dieser Stelle nicht unbedingt über die Vorzüge des Nokia E51 referieren und das Handy im Detail erklären, vielmehr will ich ein kleines Tutorial bereit stellen, wie man einen VPN Client auf dem Nokia E51 installiert und wie man sich mit einem VPN Netz verbindet. Da ich für die Installation und Konfiguration des VPN-Clients keine ordentliche Beschreibung im Internet gefunden habe und einige Zeit investiert hab, dachte ich mir ich schreib dieses Turorial inkl. Screenshots um Ihnen die Installation zu erleichtern.
