Konaki Greek Restaurant

Posted on 17 October, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

There is a large variety of great restaurants in Cambridge which offer all kinds of excellent food. But so far Silke and I haven’t found a nice greek restaurant like the ones we knew from Germany.

After visiting the Hadrian: Empire and Conflict exhibition in London yesterday we were looking for a nice place to have dinner. Just around the corner from the British Museum we found a greek restaurant called Konaki which we hadn’t noticed before. We took a quick look at the menu and decided to give it a try.

We were lucky and got a table because the restaurant was full about half an hour later. After we tried our food we knew why. Our meals were delicious and the portions generous, just like in the greek restaurants we remembered. I suspect Konaki hasn’t seen us for the last time.

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20 Year High School Reunion

Posted on 27 September, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Two weeks ago my friend Mario and I visited Lippstadt, the town of our school days. The occassion was the 20 year high school reunion of the Ostendorf Gymnasium.

I felt a mixture of anticipation and apprehension when we arrived at the Goldener Hahn. But after sighting the first familiar faces I began to relax. The first pleasant realisation was that I’m not the only who got older. I actually still have more hair and less grey hair than some of my former schoolmates. And while a lot of them have gained weight I lost one or two kilos in the last 20 years. 🙂

Mario and I spent the rest of the evening talking to as many schoolmates as we could. Unfortunately not all the people I would have liked to meet attended the party. But most of the people I didn’t really need to see again weren’t there either. The hardest part was to remember everybody’s name.

During the evening I realized that I knew next to nothing about the girls on my high school. Well, considering that I was a fairly overweight geek with a lot of spots back then I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Alltogether it was a really nice event. I hope there will be another reunion in a few years.

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Security updates vs libtool

Posted on 17 September, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Apple has released another update for Mac OS X Leopard yesterday. As usual it fixes a lot of security problems and bugs.

Unfortunately it also breaks the development environment, and not for the first time. The update included new shared libraries e.g. version 0.11.8 of pixman. The related libtool archives however were not updated. As a result linking with one of the affected libraries fails because libtool tries to use an old version which no longer exists. Even after installing the latest version of Xcode (3.1.1) the problem remains.

Apple really needs to come up with a way to keep the development environment in sync with security updates.

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