The life and ramblings of Mr. Skjæveland
The snow (what pathetically little there was) is thawing rapidly. The sun warms us. Beers can be enjoyed outside. Which leads us to:
Ice cream season is now officially open. That’s your clue, peddlers: Turn on your damned soft-ice machines. Now. You’ve ruined enough spring days already by only selling sticky yesteryear’s ice creams.
Eg ve te Svalbard, eg,
te Svalbard med det samme.
Der har eg det som selen på flaket.
Mørkt og kaldt og isbjørn overalt.
Stumbled over a blog called Skeptico. Surprisingly, it’s a skeptic’s blog, meaning that it discusses dubious topics like astrology, psychic ability, magig/religious healing and other phenomena that, if true, can’t be explained by the body of knowledge and method known affectionately as modern western science. The assumption of the blog, of course, is that the scientific method of western science holds and is a valid framework to test said phenomena in, even if the body of knowledge doesn’t (yet) contain evidence for paranormality. Looks like good stuff. Have a look at The Astrology Challenge, for a start.
At soga om Bone er samla i eitt bind er opplagt ein God ting. Den påstanden held sjølv om ikkje alle sidesogene er med.
Einstein@Home is yet another distributed computer effort thingy. This one looks for gravitational waves. Not gravity waves, which is something completely different and well-understood and should have been called buoyancy waves. However, it’s impossible to spell buoyancy.
I have, of all things, now learnt that lukewarm coffee in my eye in uncomfortable. I feel rather relieved at not having learnt what hot coffee in my eye feels like.
GNOME 2.10 is out. Since somebody were kind enough to drop a list of a thousand or so place-names into GNOME 2.8, I had quite a bit of work last time doing very uninteresting translations in order to get above 80 %. Now this time, the place-name list is expanded considerably. Someone from the Bokmål team did translate quite a lot of them, but that alone wasn’t enough to keep the Norwegian Nynorsk translation afloat above 80 %. Sadly I decided to give my master’s priority this time.
Wonder what GNOME 2.10 is like, though. Will it compile usably on a RHEL machine?
Det virka jo lovande. Men finansieringa er like uviss som før. Og det er litt rart å senda folk e-brev som lågoppløyste gif-filer, vil eg påstå.
