After five months at HP Labs Bristol I’m now back in Berlin. I’ll be busy for a few days catching up with all the things that have accumulated here, but then a lazy student lifestyle waits to be re-adopted for another couple of months. First I need to sort out the mobile phone situation — I don’t have a handset that works with my German contract, and using an English prepaid phone in Germany is obviously not the most cost-effective solution. Fortunately, email setup was as easy as getting out the laptop and asking Anja for the ID of her wireless network.
She is putting me up in a corner of her tiny one-room flat while we are looking for something bigger to move into. We are in the middle of hard negotiations over cupboard shelf space, desk real estate and AC outlet use.
Good to be back.