Mega Magnet

Have you seen already the amazingly large mega magnet ATLAS?

It's one of the big experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made by the CERN institute.

I found this news very interessting and wanted to share it.
Read for yourself: Powering up ATLAS's mega magnet

Or have a look at more pictures of the ATLAS experiment.

One week Sofia

Last week I was in Sofia, Bulgaria, having some good meetings and working on our projects for the company. What was amazing in Sofia? Taxi-driving for example: Public transportation in Sofia is done either by bus or by taxi, there are only a few trams in the center.

On streets in Germany everything is well organized, in Sofia you almost always search for the roadmarkings. Consequence is that, if there is some space in between those two cars in front of you, you just go in between. But we had very experienced drivers, so we survived it :)

The daily meetings were good, the dinners in the evening even more. There are some very nice restaurants, if someone ever goes over there, I can make some recommendations:

• Restaurant Vodenitsata (at the foothills of Votisha mountain), you should not miss the firedancing ceremony in the evening!
• Restaurant Hadjidraganovite kashti with traditional Bulgarian cuisine