Done some fairly random recategorization of the entries. Of rather limited value until I actually show you the categories, but I’ve read the webcomics and e-mails, so the alternative would be to work.
Monthly Archive for September, 2004
Dette er ein nokså gamal artikkel no, men likevel: Det er ganske så utruleg kva ein kan forska på i eit halvt år av og til. (Og det seier eg.)
One of the little perks of this job is the monthly bank statement from my Swiss bank account.
Nkf. Harddisken til magnetfelt har visst bestemt seg for å døy. Faen til opplegg.
Sånn forresten så ser pulten min slik ut. Kaffikoppstabelen har vore meir enn dobbelt så høg, men det kjære vaskepersonalet har ikkje respekt for skrivebordsdekoren min.
The CINT C/C++ Interpreter is precisely what it sounds like. Mostly works, and has some minor syntax extensions. Not entirely useless when writing in this language, though I haven’t tested fancier features like using external compiled libraries and suchlike. It’s used in ROOT. Such a clever name for a scientific programming environment. One nifty feature is that when you load a datafile in a ROOT session (which is a CINT session with various ROOT things loaded), that datafile’s variables appear magically in the local scope. I expect C programmers to cringe, but to us users of MATLAB® and IDL it’s commonplace. And it doesn’t happen if you don’t want it to.
Sånn. Med absolutte lenkjer burde RSS-straumen fungera med bilete slik at Blogroll vil visa dei. Teit opplegg, men gidd ikkje fiksa noko betre no.
Tek med eit bilete frå i går, slik at eg får testa. Det er eit av dei betre.
For at dette skal sjå bra ut må det vera såpass med tekst mellom bileta at ikkje det fyrste stikk ned i plassen til det andre. Då vert det opne luker, og det er ikkje fint. Kunne kanskje mekka noko betre enn float: right; for å få bileta til å sjå brukbare ut, men det gidd eg ikkje finna ut av no. I staden for å gjera noko nyttig, trur eg eg skal sparka litt i Movable Type-kjeldekoden slik at eg kan få auka breidda på redigeringsvindauget til noko leveleg. Eg meiner, dette er berre teit. Ikkje det at eg kan Perl. Det kan eg ikkje.
Sveitsisk jernbane er bra. Presis. Bra togsett. Nokså dyrt. Dobbeltdekkartog på intercity-linjene. Dei er lure, dei.
Went to Air 04 in Payerne. Very good show. The Swiss were good, but couldn’t beat The Red Arrows. The individual plane shows were also interesting, although it got a bit boring after a couple: They all did pretty much the same thing. Looping, fast flybys, rolls, etc. Although the quarter-turn jerk of the F-15 and the wobbling the F/A-18 did was nice. 
But it takes a trained eye to appreciate the real differences between an F-16 and a Mirage 2000. All modern fighters are fast, manouverable and noisy as hell. It’s small details that set them apart, although when push comes to fire, a good man in an old machine will swat a bad man in a new crate.
Forgot my sun lotion. As a consequence, am now nice lobster red with a camera strap mark on my neck and glasses stripe on my right temple.
The focusing capability of my camera is a disappointment. (I did honestly expect it to have one.) The autofocus is frequently slow, and if it can’t find a focus, it’ll frequently just pick not-quite-infinity. Scuze me? Hello, Konica Minolta? Do ah need ta whup yo asses? Manual focus is an even worse bitch. Not only is it a pain to set (with fancy digital buttons instead of manual twist-a-ring-on-the-lens thing) but it drifts. I swear ta ya, I focus it as well as possible, take a nice crisp test picture, and then when I wait for the right moment when the planes are doing their beautiful chicken run, and I get an unfocused image! Honestly, KM, are you feeble?
I left the airshow a bit before the end, since there were no big team-acrobatics left and I was rather too tired and hot. As I stumbled along, I happened to turn around, and saw what you should see a picture of somewhere around here, unless you’ve turned off images or are using Lynx. (If you are, consider Links instead. It’s superior.)
So somebody decided to (or oopsed to) vent their smoke canisters on the runway. Funny effect.
Over eighty percent! Åsmund da man! I rule!
So. Norwegian Nynorsk will now be an officially supported language in GNOME 2.8, and Evolution will hopefully be half-decently translated for once.
