There is something deeply embarrassing about the state of your nation, when the time to get a new apartment in a different city is not measured in weeks or months, but rather in seasons.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
February 26, 2007
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February 24, 2007
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From OPOOP to POPO
Once upon a time, while still in high school, I ran a BBS called OPOOP. This was a very mysterious name, and it meant “Organized Programmers against Object-Oriented Programming”. This was in the days when every program written in C++ suddenly became half a megabyte bigger than the C equivalent; and in those days, half [...]
February 22, 2007
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Contracts
I signed the contract on my new apartment today. I am now – well, from the 15th of March actually – “owner” of an apartment in Skärhamn. Or at least I rent it on a first-hand contract. I met the landlord today and he seemed like a really nice guy; we sat down with the [...]
February 20, 2007
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The Story of e, i, pi and the Elusive Minus One
There are three magic numbers in mathematics that stand out above all else. The first one is π, the relationship between a circle and it’s diameter; there’s e, the natural logarithm that permeates so many areas of mathematics; and i, the square root of -1, which is an impossible and unthinkable number (for no number [...]
February 14, 2007
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Impressions of Vista
I just got my new computer today, a brand new laptop with Centrino Duo, Bluetooth and the whole shebang. And, it came with Vista preinstalled. My first impressions of Vista, however, is rather negative. I’ve spent the last four-five years getting Windows XP to work pretty much just the way I want it. I have [...]
February 14, 2007
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I Pledge Allegiance
I have a song, sung by Lee Greenwood, that nearly makes me cry. After a long, hard day of work, I might put it on, and it opens so wonderfully with a class of schoolchildren reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. And then Lee starts to sing it. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the [...]
February 1, 2007
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Komm ja, kleine Katze
I brought a cat to work. Of course it’s not a real cat, it’s a fake one. But it lies so silently and comfortably on my desk that when people pass by and see it, they jump out of surprise to see a cat there. And then they move closer, carefully reaching out and petting [...]
February 1, 2007
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Borland Makefiles
What’s the point of having makefiles if they don’t work? Borland Developer Studio (formerly known as Delphi) builds nice little project group files, that look exactly like makefiles. The problem is that if the projects included in the makefiles are in subfolders, the makefile doesn’t recurse into these directories, but runs dcc32 from the current [...]