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 […]

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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 […]

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dDist Week 5: Consistency

Unfortunately, I screwed up Monday, so the Monday lecture was not recorded.  Instead, here is the Wednesday lecture on algorithms for ensuring consistency in distributed systems. MichaelTime person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012. westergaard.eu/ […]

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Britney Wallpapers

I tried out BumpTop (but decided to scrap it again due to it being a featureless, unstable mess on the Mac).  Previously, I’ve used Wallpaper Clock on my background, but now I decided to try something new.  I therefore went searching for nice Britney wallpapers.  Unfortunately, most available wallpapers either use extremely high contrast ore […]

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Multi-tasking

I’m multitasking like crazy: I’m writing code on my “emergency Mac” (which is the only one really set up for working), compiling the code on a virtual Windows XP machine and testing the code on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, which fails to run my code. Hmmm…  Maybe this is the excuse I’ve needed […]

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