Yesterday, while I was running to work a woman with a baby carriage stepped in front of me so I had to dodge her, causing me to twist my ankle pretty bad.
After 4 hours at work, it started hurting so bad I thought something might be broken.
Anna picked me up from work and drove me [...]

If you are making a case insensitive string comparison, you can logically AND each character with 0xDF, which will make the character upper case if it's lower case, and leave it untouched if it's upper case.
This is a good way to save an if (and thereby a potential cache miss) in your inner loop.

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Tomorrow morning is going to be the first day of a new experiment.
I am going to start listening to audio books when I am running to work. I think it'll be a lot more interesting than listening to the same songs on my mp3 player, which I have forgotten to change for the third [...]

My birthday is August 25th. That's wednesday next week.

It's also the birthday of Sean Connery, Tim Burton, Claudia Schiffer and Elvis Costello.

For a good long while, Anna has been trying to get some help with her whiplash.
It's been more than a year since the accident that caused it, and so far Anna has had to fight for every little bit of help she could get from the danish social services and healthcare system.
The whiplash policy of [...]