Kampkoder

Yesterday, I returned from Estonia, or more precisely Tallinn. While attending the 20th Nordic workshop on programming theory, I has the pleasure of experiencing Tallinn – or at least some of it. To those of you who forgot, this is the place where, during the Battle of Valdemar, we (the Danes) got our flag, which myth says fell from the sky.

Although I didn’t have too much time to explore Tallinn, it really has a lot of interesting things to offer. Along with its medieval history it of cause has a lot of history w.r.t. the Russian occupation from the 1940 to 1991 (or 94) which still today has a lot of consequences.

In lack of any real news, here is a small story about a little spir-of-the-moment kitchen experiment, which turned out quite nice.

I as probably reinventing the wheel, but hey, who doesn’t like wheels?

I was making my usual, oven baked mix of chopped root vegetable, when I discovered that I actually had the ingredients in my fridge for a, suddenly, much more desirable omelette. Having cooked the vegetables in the oven for 45 minutes, I was too greedy to simply discard them, so I decided to fry some of the baked roots and pour the omelette on top. After a few minutes it seemed that the bottom roots would get burned before the omelette had cooked. In a panic, I decided to through everything (skillet included) in the oven, which was hot, in order to let it bake from both sides. Alternatively, in case it failed, I could probably manage to forget it was in there, and run off to get a pizza.

Luckily it didn’t fail, and I accurately managed to reproduce the experiment this evening. It turned out as you can se in the picture above.

I assume its actually vegematerian, or whatever “they” (who ever they are) call it

So there you have it – or not.

Cheers,

Close to a year ago, I posted a note on the Samsung U600, which at that time was my favorit thing to hate.

Although I eventually god the hang of it, and stopped calling people in my phone book in the midle of the night by accident, it was about the same time as the hardware began tiring. Today I retired the U600 in favor of the new IPhone 3G.

As I’m already a member of the Pod people (I can’t seem to find a referrence here, but ofcause I’m referring to people who worship Apple products) it shouldn’t be much of a surpise that the IPhone, already is much more appreciated than U600 ever was :p

I might update this blog with interessting findings, but lets face it people have already written tons about this little wonder.

You wouldn’t think it, but that my name (he said with a grin that would have send sane men scampering in to trees)

If you feel like having a laugh and kill some time have a look at the anagram server at wordsmith.org. It’s actually quite impressive how many weird sentences or words may be formed by the letters in your name.

If that dosn’t rock your boat, you could always have a look at the short note on OS X essential software, which I put together the other day. It seems though, that there exists an unwritten law concerning Apple’s OS X (or maybe that whenever switching OS in general). Although it looks nice, and gives a very nice first impression – everybody I know which has switched to OS X, has experienced a period of remorse shortly after the switch.

It been a short summer this year, it seams that sunshine has been replaced by rain earlier than usual. One may only hope that its just temporary.

I returned to Aalborg University on the 1st. of August as a Ph.D. student, which has been quite change mentally, although on all other levels changes are have been minimal.

Finally! – yesterday I finished my last exam as a master student at AAU. Which means that can now start to enjoy my summer holidays as well as call my self a M.Sc of computer science – Cum laude or Cand. Scient i Datalogi – Elite. So the last thing to do is to go get my diploma on friday

Although It is the newsworthiness of this post is questionable, I think it is still merited. A couple of days ago, I received notification that my application for a Ph.D stipend was accepted, which means that I will be staying another 3 years at AAU.

Kim G. Larsen, Uffe Sørensen and my self, have submitted a paper to ATVA 2008 (The 6th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis), to be held in Oktober in South Korea. The paper is a full length paper documenting the project on slicing for Uppaal, for which a short paper was published at AISPC’08. We of course do not know yet if it will be accepted or not – but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Well, after a failed attempt to find the a source of the quote:

.. by applying the theory of really big numbers in reverse, we get ..

I found The Really Big Buttern That Doesn’t Do Anything, which is surprisingly funny. One might for example ask the same question as Dave Rogers ponders, “If a tree falls on the Really Big Button in the forest when nobody is there, does it do something?”.

Update: as this blog entry already is quite mad, I just want to remind you of the classical flash video “The end of the world“.

- drink up me hearties yo ho

Yep, it looks different! It’s not you, its me (with a little help from my friends). The blog has been updated to the newest version and given a new look, along with widget showing random photos from my picasa album.