Author Archives: Magnus

Speaking of fish

As mentioned here I have been experimenting with ical, korganizer and KDE’s fish protocol. It sort-of worked but korganizer was sometimes very slow to save after a change and it was always the fishbits that hang… So I fiddled a bit more with webdav, it’s up and running now and hopefully it will be a bit more stable than fish:

Summer

Summer has come! And more importantly, my vacation has begun, 5 weeks of nothing! Well, almost nothing. I’m taking my sisters and my pregnant girlfriend to Bornholm and a small trip to Germany… Should be fun ๐Ÿ™‚

Light just falls in to it…

Remember the ship Zaphod and the gang steals from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? It was made of this:

Black stuff

“Three things can happen to light when it hits a material,” says Boston College Physicist Willie J. Padilla. “It can be reflected, as in a mirror. It can be transmitted, as with window glass. Or it can be absorbed and turned into heat. This metamaterial has been engineered to ensure that all light is neither reflected nor transmitted, but is turned completely into heat and absorbed. It shows we can design a metamaterial so that at a specific frequency it can absorb all of the photons that fall onto its surface.”

Read more here.