Just another WordPress weblog. It really is. No really, I mean it, I just downloaded it and have no idea about what to write. Perhaps something about the semantic web, yeah that would make sense. Also I need to reply to that stuff Roy Tennant said about his Volkswagen.
According to sources, Fredrik Reinfeldt (Prime Minister of Sweden) used to be a part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The cover of the album “BBC Sessions” clearly shows a younger Reinfeldt raising an eyebrow in what can only be described as his signature move.
When asked to comment the office of the prime minister declined and the Hendrix family were too busy making money.
Disaster struck one of our neighbours on new years eve. Their (a grandmother + kid) christmas tree caught on fire and their whole flat was basically destroyed, either by fire and smoke, or by water. Our living room was turned into a crisis control center for an hour while the firemen and ambulance people did their job. No one was seriously hurt, and the grandmother got the kid out of harms way within minutes. Bravo!
Made me think a lot about safety though. I’m buying a fire extinguisher tomorrow. And I need a better off-site backup routine. Maybe rsync with a large hardrive at work.
Anyway, here’s a picture from later on. Happy New Year!
I refound this classic comment on Slashdot.
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Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device …There is Apple’s market. Pretty slim, eh? I don’t see many sales in the future of iPod.
I need to work on my masking technique, but I think it turned out pretty good. It’ll be fun to add smaller ones closer to the floor for the, well, small one.
/martin
It’s a girl! And a big one, 55cm/4255g (1.8ft/9.38 lbs.). I’m a bit wary about posting pictures, I’m predicting that today’s toddlers will end up as information hermits since their life will be documented digitally from day zero. Also I feel that internet exposure, like religion, should be opt-in. But I’ll do it just this once.
One of her names is Pi (or π, or 3.14159…). Stating that it was an irrational choice did not go down well with my more mathematically inclined friends. Although π is infinite the jury is out on whether it’s normal or not. So, her name might be a superset of every finite sequence (e.g every name, place, …), but we’re not sure yet.
I went to the DC 2008 this year to present my project report “Making a Library Catalogue Part of the Semantic Web“. It was a lot of fun although I was exhausted by the last couple of months work. I wish I could have stayed longer, but with an eight month pregnant girlfriend even stying one day felt like pushing it. Still, met some people, ate some food, drank some beer.
I only had time to see Ed Summers‘ great presentation. Got to love the huge swedish flag in the middle.
So, we finally found a new apartment. Two weeks before the baby was born we got the keys and “we” started frantically to move our two apartments into the new bigger one. We have ~1800 books (1426 + ~400). Go backpain!
There is a deck (available to residents) adjacent to our own mini deck-on-the-roof where the view is truly awesome. We are happy.
What, no one figured out that giving loans to people that cannot pay back was bad idea? Or that speculating in other people’s speculation could cause instability? Come on!
There’s some great mathematics in economics, I’m sure. But once you act on it, the conditions change. Certainly interesting, but please do not try to make it sound like it’s comparable to physics or engineering. I used to compare economics to predicting the weather, but clouds do not watch the weather channel, freak out and start raining.
But ok, the real problem is not the theories, although a lot of them do seem to start with “given that …” and then some conditions that do not exist. The problem seems to be that Beavis and Butthead are doing the trading. Homo Economicus … yeah right.
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