In the very early hours of this morning I wrote a little LaTeX package that can add Gamst brackets to any theorem environment (well, I have tested this only with the amsthm package, but it should generally work with other packages providing theorem environments as well. The Gamst bracket is a large square bracket on the left side of a paragraph containing a theorem like statement. This type of highlighting was frequently used by one of my Professors when I was a student in Bremen, and this package is named after him.

Another feature of the package that is possibly... Read more.

About a week ago I ordered a popcorn maker on ebay. Even with postage it was slightly cheaper than if I had it bought at BigW or a similar place, and it was conveniently delivered to my doorstep on Thursday.

I had already purchased some green beans from BeanBay some time before, so all that was left to do was to cut an old tin to shape and do the first roast. I roasted 100 grams of Sulawesi Rante Kapua Torajah green beans for about seven and half to eight minutes. I could clearly hear the first and second... Read more.

There’s some info available on how to use Apple’s TimeMachine backup facility writing to network devices. Also you’d find information on how to set up encryption for the backup image.

I used the steps provided below (for Leopard that is) to have TimeMachine backup my hard drive including a FileVault encrypted home directory in such a way that the backup (including the contents of the home folder) can be browsed using the galaxy timeMachine frontend. The backup is contained in an AES-256 encrypted sparsebundle, so the data contained in it is similarly safe as in the encrypted FileVault folder on... Read more.