Some texts I wrote, co-wrote or like Interviews Interview with Manfred Eigen Interview with Richard Stallmann General Interest A fighting article against software patents A commentary on the first match between world chess champion Gary Kasparov and IBM's special-purpose Deep Blue chess computer Windsurfing A race report about the Masters of Speed windsurfing competition in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, France A race report about the ISA speed windsurfing competition in Walvisbay, Namibia, October 2005 A story from the San Francisco Bay Wavesurfing A surf spot report about the Reichenbachbrücke in Munich, Germany Research A paper on two-dimensional ordering of the DNA base guanine observed by scanning tunnel microscopy A research report on a massively parallel, custom SIMD neurocomputer A research report on a limited fan-in, random-wired variant of the cascade correlation learning algorithm A visualization of the highly adapted topology of a random-wired, 10-layer neural network that solves the 2-spirals problem with a very low number of weights