twenty-first century code monkey

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Fun with numbers

At n.nfshost.com you’ll find a fun little challenge with numbers. It is really rather simple, you need to guess the filename for the next page. You get the first two pages for free (just click the 1 on the first page), but from then on out you need to guess the name from the clue you get. It gets real challenging very fast. The page from 13 to 14 was very difficult for me since it kind of breaks the theme, but also page 18 and 22 put me off for a while. I can recommend a search on google and especially wikipedia.org on their pages about numbers 🙂

Zelda for your mobile

Zelda mobile demo 2MIDP Zelda og perhaps Cell-da 🙂

joystiq.com has a post about a mobile version of the popular Zelda game. I’ve tried the game on my Nokia N70 and there’s an issue with the sound effects, but overall it plays quite well.

It’s not a direct conversion as far as I can tell or it’s simply because it’s a work-in-progress. The demo I tried was release in late june. There more information on this site as well as a download link, but the site is quite slow so I mirrored the jar file here.

winther.nu

Finally, I now own a domain name with my lastname. I would have preferred the .dk version, but .nu will do. I’ve been tracking the renewal status for the past couple of months and today was my lucky day where it had completely expired and was finally up for purchase.

I’m not really sure what I’ll use it for, other than the obvious e-mail address. We’ll see how it goes.

10th anniversary party

Yesterday was the big day a couple of us had been planning for a long time. The reunion of old classmates from ten years ago. Around 50 classmates and 10 teachers were invited, unfortunately less than half of those showed up.

We started off from our old school where we also met the teachers that showed up. We had hoped we could enter the school and see some of the stuff they have changed since we stopped. This was not possible, so we had to look through the windows. A pity, I would have liked to see some of the buildings from the inside again – it would have brought back a lot of memories. Oh well.

In the afternoon we moved on to a local sportscenter where we spent the rest of the day. First with physical activities and later on with a nice buffet and plenty of booze from the bar. The physical activities were mostly rundbold (I have no idea how to say this in english), but there were also time for a little soccer fun, etc.

Still with the lack of people and all, I think we had a very good day and I look forward to the next reunion, whenever that will be.
Oh yeah, the weather was amazing, which unfortunately my sore red body is a perfect example of this 😥

I put up some photos in the gallery. They are not the best quality, but still decent for a camera phone I guess.

The car accident

Yesterday afternoon I was in a car accident, but luckily there were no physical injuries, except for the soar neck – known as the whiplash syndrome. The accident happened in the rush hour traffic next to a bus stop. A bus had just left the stop and in their usual reckless behaviour forced it’s way back into traffic. The two cars ahead of us had to make a hard stop to avoid the bus and each other. My brother, which was driving the car I was in, just barely made it to a halt without hitting the car in front, but he did make it stop.

Unfortunately, the driver behind us payed more attention to the bus that the car directly in front of him, and hence smashed into us and my brother’s car and we were pushed into the car in front of us. I seriously don’t think the  guy behind us pushed the brakes before he hit us. I guess safety distance is not in his dictionary.
My brother’s car got pretty smashed up at the rear and some at the front as well. He hasn’t looked to much at it yet, but he expects a lot of damage underneath the car. This is so unfortunate and sad. My brother have inherited the car from our father who passed away one and a half year ago. It’s a nice car and my brother is always afraid if something should happend to it, so he takes good care of it. These past months he spent a great deal of time fixing the car with lots of new parts, a new paint job, and with many custom parts and now all for nothing. Just because some jerk don’t know how to drive. It makes you wanna cry. 😥

Eventhough it was a relatively low speed crash, it was all that more shocking to us. We though we had made it to a halt without hitting the car infront, and then boom. We were all shaking for the next couple of hours and my brother’s girlfriend was a mess. Although none of us have any physical injuries, it will definitely leave a scar on the soul.

Now I really only hope the process with the insurance company is without any trouble. That would make healing the soul somewhat less painful.

Really Simple Syndication

I’m really into RSS feeds. They make my life easier since I don’t have to visit a bunch of websites to keep updated. I use the Sage extension for Firefox, so news is only a click away.

Unfortunately not all websites sport a RSS feed, so I have created a couple feeds myself by parsing their websites. Feel free to use them, they get refreshed once a day.

  • ScummVM – news from scummvm.org
  • DWN – Debian Weekly News from debian.org
  • Vim Tips – Random tips from the Tips section on vim.org

Unpleasant phone call

Yesterday evening I got one of those inevitable phone calls. The ones you just know are bad news even before you pick up the phone. I knew because my mother had tried to call me twice in quick succession, which almost never happens. The message was bad news indeed.

My aunt is dying.

She has been ill most of this year. Cancer in or near the brain. Although the doctors did try to fix her with surgery and various other treatments, yesterday they came to the conclusion they had tried all and couldn’t do more for her. She might live for a while, or maybe just a few days, they don’t know. Lucikly she has no physical pains.

She is only 66 years old.

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