Randomness
After discovering Gogol Bordello a while ago I finally got around to buying their cds at Sound Pollution today.I’m very happy with the buy and I have to admit that I find the sound quite compelling. They categorize themself as gypsy punk, and I guess it’s a fairly accurate description. If you think you might like that kind of music I can definitely recommend checking them out.
It’s a shame that I missed their concert when they were playing here in Stockholm…
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my stationary machine in an attempt to get it into a more working state, and I was very unhappy with the 7.10 version. The system kept freezing completely and not even the system recall key combos worked. After experimenting a bit I noticed that it happened whenever the machine was accessing the network, but it didn’t have to be a high network load. Apparently the default kernel (x86/x86_64) has a problem with my system (athlon xp 2500+ with a broadcom ethernet adapter).The solution was to upgrade to the i386 ubuntu kernel doesn’t suffer from the same problems.
So, I’ve quit my job. In about three months time I will move away from Stockholm and to New Zealand.Interesting times. I’m scared about the future, but I think it’ll work out in the end.
UPDATE: See this page for the latest version.
I got my new cellphone yesterday and everything was bliss. I was happy. Everything was just great. I was impressed by the nice feel of it, the responsive interface and the form factor.
Today, I wanted to transfer the contacts from laptop to the new phone and the bliss ended. iSync told me the phone wasn’t supported. I became annoyed. I googled. I found a bunch of plugins for sale and I became even more annoyed. It isn’t much money, but I felt loath to pay to get my phone to sync with my laptop. Besides, I stumbled over a guide of how to write a plugin. So I did.
It is very simple to make an iSync plugin in OS X 10.5, all you need to do is to run the iSync Plugin-Maker application. The application is a part of the XCode tools, and no self respecting geek should be without them on their apple computer 
This is the result. The plugin is reasonable well tested, and I’m using it myself. It does however not contain the modem scripts, I will add those later.I intend to put up a permanent page with the plugin and register it to macupdates and versiontracker as soon as possible. And keep the source there as well.
I need to save this somewhere.
Chocolate (Nut) Brownies (Alison Holst)
125g butter
1/4 cup cocoa
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Melt butter until liquid in a
medium-sized pot then take off heat. Using a fork, mix in the cocoa,
sugar, eggs, salt and vanilla essence. Sift in the flour and baking
powder, add the chopped nuts if you like, and stir until evenly mixed.
Pour into a 20-23cm square tin lined with baking paper. Bake for about
30 minutes, or until firm in the centre. (Don’t worry if mixture is
higher at the edges than the middle — it still tastes fine!)
Cut in pieces when cold.
After sacrificing some of my blood to endyminor’s old harddive I’ve been able to rescue most of the data. I have thus successfully restored the archives of this site 
I stumbled over the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board this weekend. They have a nifty little little image showing the current status of the earth; whether it’s been destroyed or not. For some reason it struck me as incredibly nice and silly, so I decided I wanted it on my blog.
However, I wasn’t comfortable with just editing the theme. What if I wanted to move it? - Thus the decision to make it a widget was made.
I googled around a bit and found a nice tutorial of widgets which contained all I needed to do this. And thus the CEDS widget was born. I shall make the source public as soon as I can be bothered to put up a directory structure on alternating.net. In the meanwhile, drop me an email if you want it.
After a year it seems I might finally be bothered to get my blog to look somewhat decent again. I guess it’s mostly because Chris was bugging me about it, although it’s one of the things which has been bothering me as well. Now I can safely go back to feeling like I have to write something here as well. And be amusing. Bah. I give up already :p
I am trying out a dasboard plugin using the xmlrpc interfae. Wonder if it will work.
I was browsing slashdot today and reading some comments (a sure sign that I’m bored) when I found this little gem. I suddenly realized that following this advice could take my programming to a whole new level. Maybe something to try out at work?
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What do you have to do to make your code ‘OSS appealing? I try to write in different colors and decorate the comments with drawings of flowers, pink ponies and those Gnus from Africa (I draw those in brown). I put little hearts over the “i”s and include smiley faces in the output.
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The actual comment can be found here and it’s written by fahrbot-bot.
