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Neat Phone Case

A little more then a month ago, I ordered a case for my phone and today it (finally) arrived.  It’s a baby blue leather case from Noreve.  Quite neatly, Noreve allows you to get a cover specifically for your phone and you even get a choice from 22 kinds of leather in 4 different qualities.

I chose a baby blue one (as this is one of Britney’s favorite colors ;-) ) of the type Tradition leather case for the Nokia N900.  I really like how it is possible to use the phone in the case as it is designed specifically for the phone, letting me open the keyboard and access camera buttons etc. with the cover still on.  The cover also holds a single credit card, making it nearly ideal for me in my current kilty no-pockets apparel.  My only problem with the case is that it is not possible to charge the phone with the cover closed (I don’t have to take it off, though), though I’m hard pressed seeing how this could be fixed elegantly with the connector placement on the phone.

Here are some pictures of the new gadget:

Now I’m just looking forward to Monday when my purple iPod case is scheduled to arrive…

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dDist Week 6: Fault Tolerance

Lectures on fault tolerance in distributed systems:

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Persistence

Somebody really, really wanted me to receive this advertising pamphlet I drunkenly signed up for while visiting Scotland in general and the Ardbeg distillery in particular (a virtual internet-hug to the first who guesses the number of mills they happen to have at Ardbeg).

See, the funny thing is in the address.  My real-life address is

Michael Westergaard

Vestervang 32, 4. mf

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

Let’s look at Ardbeg’s interpretation of this:

Ok, so barely anything’s NOT wrong with this: Country Denmark vs. Germany.  Could sort of make sense, seeing as the country-codes are DK and DE for Denmark and Germany respectively.  This is the first correction done in black pen at the left.  Next up is the postal code and city: Strangely enough, correct.  Then the street: Vestesvang is almost the same as Vestervang.  Then the street number: 52 vs 32.  Could be my drunk and not too careful hand-writing.  Also the floor number is wrong: 7 vs. 4.  Could, again, be my hand-writing.  This is the second correction in red pen.  My name, they got correct.  I don’t know whether the blue circled two with some red in it is also a correction or an internal sorting code.

But despite getting the country, street, number, and floor wrong, the pamphlet still reached me.  So, now I know, after most of the people knowing before most of the rest of the people, that Ardbeg will release a whisky called Rollercoaster (spelled thusly), and I can order it for £50 a bottle (+ S/H).  And now you also know!

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Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot!

WTF is wrong with NRGi (my electricity provider).  Did they just get a truckload of electronical transactions with a best before data in a week?  Why, og why, would anybody even consider making a DKK 0,00 transaction?  Who approved the system that thinks this is a good idea?

The positive and negative transactions sort of not-really make sense (the positive one is some cash-back which obviously cannot be coordinated with the negative payment for electricity).

Edit: The idiots even sent me a letter concerning the 0,00 payment (electronically, but still fairly expensive):

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Hint

I think my computer might be hinting I should get a new one:

I’m certain it’s related to me starting Windows the other day

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