The Engineered Boulderer

As Susan did, so did I. These are my URL ABCs:

• A is for applegeeks.com/ – Riiiight, this coming from the guy in the tiger suit
• B is for binarybonsai.com/ – Danish blogger Michael whose site I stumbled onto a short while back
• C is for comics.com/comics/dilbert/ – A cartoon from comics.com (as are my most of my C’s)
• D is for drdevious.com/ – Another comic, and one which doesn’t even start with C
• E is for earthlink.com/ – This is one of the bookmarks included with Safari, and I don’t think I’ve ever visited the site (before today)
• Got Nothing for F
• G is for geekculture.com/joyoftech/ – Another comic, you’d think I did nothing but read comics
• H is for htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties/font-size/ – HTML Dog is one my favorite reference sites, I guess I’ve been reading up on the font size property
• I is for icompositions.com/ – I can’t even remember what this site is, and unfortunately I can’t get to it now
• J is for janjaf.net/nkkforum/ – The forum for Nørrebro Climbing Club
• K is for kottke.org/ – The grand master of blogging from the fair NYC
• L is for little-gamers.com/ – Yet another comic, hot swedish love… Don’t ask me, I don’t get it either
• M is for mediamac.dk/ – Danish macintosh news site
• N is for noscope.com/journal/ – Another danish blogger, Joen. I stumbled onto his site around the same time as Michael’s
• O is for ordbogen.com/ – An online danish-english-danish dictionary (2 free words each day)
• P is for pvponline.com/ – One more comic. This is one of the grandfathers of online comics, Scott Kurtz’, comic
• Nada on the Q’s
• R is for reallifecomics.com/ – The twisted comic that is the life of Greg Dean, more or less
• S is for weblog.scifihifi.com/ – The weblog of Buzz Andersen, Apple employee and programmer extraordinaire
• T is for tv.tv2.dk/tv/ – A good online tv guide
• U is for userfriendly.org/ – One of the first online comics I started reading
• V is for veerle.duoh.com/ – Veerle’s blog that I totally forgot I had bookmarked
• W is for weblog.karelia.com/ – Weblog of Dan Wood founder of Karelia and maker of search tool Watson
• X is for xerox.com/ – Xerox, nuf said
• Y is for yahooligans.com/ – Yahoo! for kids, again one of the included bookmarks
• Z is for zanik.pl/filmy/ – A polish climbing movie site, lots of movies! Many cool ones!

I recently ran System Update on a number of Macs upgrading from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9. Among the upgraded pieces of software was Safari which went from version 1.2 to 1.3.

One of the developers on Safari, Dave Hyatt, recently asked for comments on regressions from Safari 1.2 to Safari 1.3.

On that note I think I have one and this entry is a means of tracking back to Hyatt’s original post.

The problem

The javascript event onload, which is specified as an attribute on the body tag, is not called when accessing a page using the back and forward buttons of the browser. I choose to call this a regression since the behavior of Safari 1.3 differs from both Safari 1.2, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Having borrowed a car over the weekend we thought we’d go out and find something we are sorely missing, an answering machine. Finding one, however, was not as easy as we had hoped.

Our hunt started in the TDC shop in Lyngby, the only model they had was a Doro Titanium for kr. 399,- which seemed very plastic-y. In the Sonofon shop in Lyngby Storcenter they had the same answering machine for 299,- and nothing else. Hmmm, we started getting a bit puzzled, neither Fona nor Merlin had answering machines so we broadened our search.

El giganten in Gentofte only had the same ansaphone as TDC and Sonofon. Electric City in Taastrup didn’t have any, and neither did Electronic World nor Kvickly in City 2.

Status is that we’re still without an answering machine, and quite puzzled as to where you’d buy a good answering machine in the greater Copenhagen area.

We just put a gate in the fence seperating our yard from the common area between the apartment blocks. My dad came over Sunday (last week) to help set the posts in concrete, and Susan and I mounted the gate Thursday. Toby really enjoys the new gate, since it allows him to get out on the common area and run around, and play with Oskar.

Today was such a momentous occasion as to bring me out of my blog hibernation. Today I graduated from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a degree of Master of Science in Engineering.

My master’s thesis was on the subject: “Preventing illicit information flow in networked computer games using security annotations” and I managed to secure the Danish grade 9. On the subject of the grade, I am both pleased and dissapointed. I had hoped for a two-digit grade (10 or above), and the amount of praise my supervisor and external examiner made me feel like they were trying to show the grade as being better than it was. However, it feels very nice to finally be done, and once I get my head around it (in 5 months time) it’ll probably feel even nicer. Basically, they said I could have done more theoretical work on the project (essentially proofs) to receive a better grade.

After I had gotten my grade and received my congratulations from the friend and family that had attended my presentation, Susan and I went to Fisketorvet (mall in Copenhagen) and did a bit of shopping and finished off the day with take-out from Thai Lanna which was really good.

One the subject of my thesis I have written a bit about it below for those that are interested. (more…)