I just got my dispatch notice from W.H. Smith.

Soon I am getting:

Michael Crichton – Rising Sun
Vernor Vinge – Across Realtime
James Clavell – King Rat
Dan Simmons – Hyperion

Crichtons Rising Sun is one of the two books I have yet to read (Congo being the other one).

Vernor Vinge has put out a disappointingly small number of books, [...]

Those of you that read slashdot have probably seen Elenas rides through the Chernobyl area.

If you haven't seen this site before, I urge you to see it. It's powerful stuff.

Right now I am Jutland visiting Annas parents.

They have an old Amitech PC from 2000 which sounded like a vacuum cleaner when it was on, so I offered to make it a bit more quiet.

I picked it apart and realized it was the fan on the graphics card and on the two fans on [...]

I just implemented a sort of wiki, using the impressive HTMLArea for editing. It took me little more than an hour.

It has a semi-defunct search function, a page list, page revisions and wysiwyg editing.

It's just a "sketch" of what I might make. There's no security or limitations to what kind of HTML you can put [...]

I was offline since midday yesterday, but I am online again with 2.5/.768 mbit from Cybercity.

Finally some more upstream bandwidth.

Anna was kind enough to wait for the TDC technician that was supposed to show up 7:30-15:00. 15-20 minutes past three I called Cybercity to hear what was going on. They called TDC who said "oh, [...]