Just a reminder, we got this much snow:
Archive for 2005
Snowfall holidays 2005
Saturday, December 31st, 2005A public scam
Friday, December 9th, 2005A couple of months ago I had to catch a bus from an unfamiliar location. Since I didn’t know if I had to hurry or not I accessed the mobile site of HUR. After entering the bus number, however, I was presented with a page saying it costs 1.50 kr to access the service. Now it’s not much, but at that moment I couldn’t be bothered and just hoped I would catch the bus.
Last weekend I wanted to find out when the first bus came Sunday morning. I didn’t feel I had a choice and selected OK to pay the 1.50 kr. At that point, however, I was presented with an error:
Unfortunately, we can read your mobile number which this service requires. This error probably occured because you’re trying to view it in a normal web browser, or your cell phone is set up to use an internet gateway…
(My translation, probably not 100% correct.)
Well duh, you don’t think I’ll be using the WAP gateway as you suggest? I have better things to use my time and money on than surfing on my cell phone using wap. With GPRS at least I don’t have to wait three days trying to access the site. Seems HUR have elected to not get any customers on this service as everyone I know use an internet gateway and GPRS instead of WAP.
Sucky milage
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005I spent part of my evening watching Top Gear the most awesome motoring television programme ever. They’ve had several programmes where Hammond (the Hammster) and James have taken some form of public transport while Jeremy have driven a super car. They’ve gone to somewhere on Côte d’azur, somewhere in Switzerland, and in this episode to Oslo, Norway. Each trip started in London, first to the destination won.
While the race was interesting enough, albeit somewhat predictable (as they’ve all been), what stuck out was a tiny tidbit of information. Jeremy was driving the Mercedes McLaren SLR and said that going full out (at the top speed of 330 km/t) the SLR would drain its 95 L gas tank in 19 minutes! That is an astonishing 1.1 km/L which is, believe it or not, worse than the Hummer H2. Of course the H2 doesn’t do 330 km/t.
Idiot America
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005I stumbled onto a transcript of an article from Esquire titled Grettings from Idiot America. It is a very long article, but everyone and their mother should read it start to finish. It explains everything about Creationism and Intelligent Design that I think is wrong. Furthermore, the points on Idiot America and the decline of science as an ideal can be applied almost directly to Denmark and the discussion of “Smagsdommere”[1] which went on when our current government came into office.
1. Although “Smagsdommere” (lit. taste judges) was meant as a derogatory term for experts (especially experts who were not in agreement with the politicians), I find I use it quite often when describing my own knowledge and scientific training, I guess it has something to do with the self-irony instilled into Danes from the moment they are born.
Hat tip: “Brian Meidell”:http://meidell.dk/archives/2005/11/15/there-is-hope-after-all/
Mintless
Monday, November 14th, 2005Doh, I was fiddling around a bit with the design of The Engineered Boulderer and copied the header file for my theme from my test site on my powerbook to here. Unfortunately, I hadn’t added the call to the mint javascript on my test site, and didn’t get any data from 2 am Sunday, until I discovered it a 10 pm.
Yes sir
Sunday, November 13th, 2005Very amusing, sir. You put the wit in twit.
Lawrence, butler to the bad guy in Rachet and Clank 3: Up your arsenal
Late night session
Saturday, November 12th, 2005There’s nothing like a late night programming/writing session with plenty of candy, Dr Pepper, and good music. Ok, so technically it’s not late night yet, but when you’re used to going to bed at 10 pm it is. Only thing that could make it better is a batch of Mountain Dew…
… which we have!!!
Your Comments Plugin
Saturday, November 12th, 2005One time on flickr I was looking at the “Photos you’ve commented on” feature, and thought, wouldn’t it be great if we had that on our blogs? Then we could follow the discussions we’re taken part in.
If you are not familiar with this feature, it’s a list of a number of photos you’ve commented on with newer responses shown too. I took a little screenshot for clarification purposes.
For each photo the title is shown – for example Worst ad ever! – along with the total number of comments and the number of comments since your latest. Unless you’re over the threshold the first comment shown is your own, followed by the newer comments.
My idea was to include it in the sidebar, but including the comment text as flickr does would be a little to extreme. I simply include the name of the author of the newer comments.
I’ve included a limit, if there are more new comments than this limit, only the newest within the limit are shown (with an elipsis in front). By default the limit is 6 comments. The limit on the number of posts to show comments from is 5 by default. These are the same default limits as Brian Meidell’s Latest Comments plugin. In general the resulting html has taken a page from Brian’s plugin. This plugin also incooperates the comment temperature feature as seen in Brian’s Latest Comments. The implementation of that feature is courtesy of Brian.
Plugin will be available shortly, just have to clean up a bit and document it.
*Update:* There is a bug in the plugin where the listing of the comments is borked. I thought I had the SQL figured out, but I guess I’ll have to revisit it. I’ve taken the link down until I’ve fixed it.
Update: Error has been fixed, get it here: Your Comments and place the extracted php file in the plugins folder of your wordpress blog.
(more…)Pretty sunrises
Friday, November 11th, 2005I’ve never been one for early mornings, especially not in Denmark during autumn and winter when it’s pretty much dark all day. Having to work 7.4 hours each day, however, I’ve gotten somewhat into the rhytmn. I don’t think I’ll ever love getting up early, but it’s not without benefits. This wonderful sunrise was caught about a week ago about 8 am.
All translatiatized
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005Looking through my referers in mint I noticed a google translation someone had tried to read my page in French. I thought that was pretty cool. I guess I’ll use “Bout de chapeau” instead of “Hat tip” from now on, and for some reason “Le Boulderer Machiné” sounds trés cool, although “Le Escalateur Machiné” would probably be more correct (I can’t figure out what boulderer is in French, but bouldering is simply called Bloc after the word for boulder).
