The software we should have used for the conference is called PPV. It’s an old software, only written for single monitors, and is a reasonably lame shell for PowerPoint itself. What I did was that I wrote a new program, dramatically increasing the capabilities of PPV, which I called OasPresentation. It contained the ability to [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
July 31, 2006
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July 30, 2006
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Oasis Reflections
Random highlights for myself: Anders from Kristnet didn’t at first recognize me behind the computer desk at the conference, but then he saw that I was compiling a program in Delphi, and he realized it had to be me. :) The guy with all the flags (forgot his name) who suddenly took off running full [...]
July 29, 2006
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Oasis, Part III
I’ve finally managed to delegate some of the tasks to my “helpers”. Right now, I’m sitting at home and taking a break from the services. Eva and Emil are handling the current seminar, and there’s only one meeting to go now: The final service this evening. It’s been a long week. I’ve worked from early [...]
July 27, 2006
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Oasis, Part II
So another day is over. This is now the evening of Day 2 of the conference, although this is more like day four or five for me, since we’ve been up since Monday morning working on all the practical stuff for the conference. The morning service gave me more time to work on my program. [...]
July 26, 2006
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Oasis, Part I
The Oasis conference rolled in today. We’ve been preparing since Monday morning, of course, but the first meeting was today. Sooo many things to do, so much to consider… and the sweetness of seeing it all work out in the end. It’s cool. I had to coordinate with the worship leader to get songs and [...]
July 15, 2006
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Reflecting upon Reflections
I like to think. Thinking is a way of life to me. I think. I reflect. I look at the world, see cars passing by, people walking down the street; and I think – what if? What if there was a better way to do things? What if we could make cars just totally different, [...]
July 13, 2006
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Stylish Backgrounds
I’m becoming more sensitive to my desktop wallpaper. Gone are the days when I could download thousands of images from Webshots and cycle them as wallpaper. The ideal wallpaper should, in my view, be minimally intrusive, non-disturbing almost to the point of mono-chromatic – but yet with lively color; it should be very nice-looking, somewhat [...]
July 12, 2006
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Growing Pains
For the past few weeks I’ve been increasingly engulfed in preparations for the Oasis conference here in Skövde. I’m heading up the computer group which is a rather small part of it, but it’s the first time I’ve been the leader of such a project. It is interesting, but also rather a lot of work. [...]
July 12, 2006
13:33
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Massive Parallellism
Ever since computers were developed in the early 1950′s, there has been a chase for speed. The first computers, large as an entire living-room and containing tens of thousands of vacuum tubes, had about the computational power of a solar-cell desk calculator today. Since then, computers have shrunk enormously, while their processing speed has increased [...]
July 10, 2006
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In the Heat of the Night
Recent temperatures have been above normal, if I have anything to say about it. Which I do, because this is my blog and I can say anything I want. The official statistics may of course lean whichever way. Maybe it’s because of my office. Where I work right now, we have a constant indoor temperature [...]
July 4, 2006
23:57
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RDI: The Systematic Spreading of Knowledge
My former boss coined the RDI method. RDI means Reflect – Document – Inform (in Swedish: Reflektera – Dokumentera – Informera). The more I think about it, the more I like it; and I’m starting to understand the different steps in RDI as I ponder the development process at my new job. Whenever something happens, [...]
July 4, 2006
10:47
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Impressions of a New Job
I’m two weeks and two days now into my new job and it’s been a mixture of impressions. Some good, some bad. First, the obvious benefits: Free soft drinks, free coffee, free fruit. Reasonably flexible hours, although some people are here as early as 6:00am and complaining that the alarm doesn’t go off before that. [...]
July 1, 2006
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Freedom is Old, Try Safety
In his book Fighting Terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu describes a fundamental shift that most democracies go through in their battle against terrorism. Sooner or later, it becomes necessary for a democracy to adopt “anti-terror laws” which enable the government to take unprecedented action against terrorist through espionage, surveillance and other unorthodox methods. These anti-terror laws adopted [...]