Apple Store Hamburg Grand Opening
Yesterday, the brand new [Apple Store in Hamburg](http://www.apple.com/de/retail/alstertal/) had its grand opening. I don't know how many people came to be part of this event but there were a lot!
We arrived at about 8am, 2 hours before the store opened its doors for the public. The first guy in the line said that he was waiting since 1am.
CUDA port of OpenSteer now public
During the last months I was busy writing my bachelor's thesis about parallelizing the [OpenSteer](http://opensteer.sf.net) toolkit using [NVIDIA's CUDA](http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html) technology to make use of the power of today's GPUs.
OpenSteer is an open-source toolkit to test and simulate [steering behaviors of autonomous characters](http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/) in animations or video games. Steering behaviors are responsible
to navigate a character around its world in a natural way while reacting on influences of its environment, for example to avoid collisions with obstacles.
The source code of this port is now available on [github](http://github.com/simonboots/OpenSteerCUDA/).
My bachelor's thesis about this project is also available and can be found [here](http://www.stiefels.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Parallelizing-the-OpenSteer-toolkit-using-GPUs.pdf).
On Vacation (with iPhone)
I just came back from a very nice vacation I spent in New York City.
This city is amazing and there is so much to see and to do. One of the best vacations I've ever done.
Two weeks earlier during packing I thought about leaving my MacBook Pro at home. After all, it is a vacation and I don't want to spent too much time with it. But then I realized that there is almost nothing that would require a notebook during vacation when I take my iPhone with me.
