Archive for March, 2004

New Books

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

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 [...]

Ghost Town

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

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.

The Old Computers

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

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 [...]

Quickie Wiki

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

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 [...]

Vroom!

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

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 [...]