Lars Pind

Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an “Open Source” license, which is just another name for Communism.

From Evolutionism Propaganda

Ah, the Apple ][, even earlier than the TRS-80, apparantly. Had great fun playing this game where you move a rectangle on the screen to bounce a ball.

Some geek boys got busy and coded
Far into the night they uploaded
They put too much strain
upon their poor little brains
And tragically, their heads just exploded.

New reboot site is up … looking good. Congratulations!

www.tvropa.com: First thing you see is a message saying “GO AWAY!” (minimum requirements, and then a long list of stuff). Then you have to find the small “Enter” button amongs colorful links to Microsoft technology (who’s paying them, anyway?). And then everything goes awry from there.

Good thing Jakob Nielsen migrated away from this country.

Yes, I said it: I want to build a software company with a professionalism like at McKinsey’s and a spirit like at Testrup Højskole.

A number of people have asked me, so what does that mean in practice?

Well, for one thing it would mean that we’d need to write our corporate anthem and sing it every morning around the grand piano :-)

This time, when crossing the Atlantic, I figured I’d try some sleeping pills to fight jet lag, and I found Unisom. Meanwhile, Caroline’s got allergy, so she’s taking Benadryl. And that’s when I found out:

They’re the same!

Active ingredients in Benadryl Allergy Ultratabs: 25 mg of Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride.

Active ingredients in Unisom Sleepgels: 50 mg of Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride. (Or just look at the URL.)

So just take two Benadryl, and it’ll be exactly the same. Damn, are they good at marketing or no?

And yet France’s real problem seems to lie beyond electoral or constitutional architecture, to a reluctance of both politicians and electorate to face up to the fact that French “exceptionalism”—the idea that France is grandly and fundamentally different from all other countries, including its European neighbours—is not only outdated, but a piece of costly baggage which is in the way of straightforward discussions of the issues the country faces..

The Economist, April 22nd.

Trying to get back from New York to Copenhagen, but it’s not going so well so far.

To begin with, things were going to be stressful: We were going to a wedding just 5 hours after our flight was scheduled to land. But then this Tuesday i got a call that my cousin had died. That hurt. I admired and loved her very much. So we had to go straight from the flight to the other part of the country, to go to the funeral. Then perhaps we could go back to Copenhagen to arrive late at the wedding.

When we got to Newark Airport, however, we were told that the plane would be delayed two hours, because of some turbulence it’d hit on the way in. a crew member was hurt, and they were checking the plane, to see if it was fit to fly.

So we put on the patient smiles and sat down to get something to eat, when suddenly a deafening alarm went off. We all looked out, and it was all of a sudden completely dark outside, things were flying around in the air, and everybody in the food court started panicking and running out. I certainly thought there’d been a plane crash, some people I talked with thought a plane had crashed into the terminal building or something. One dude just sat there, quietly eating his pizza while everybody around him was in panick.

It turned out it was just a thunderstorm, and it went over in less than half an hour. No announcement was made as to why the alarm had gone off, but one security guard speculated it was because the wind made doors fly open.

Time to get on the plane. We were already likely to be late for the funeral. Our tight schedule didn’t really allow for a two hour delay. Well, that’s when they announced that the flight was going to be canceled, rescheduled for the next day at 5 PM, a 22 hours and 45 minute delay. The damage done by the lightning was too severe, they had to fix things. Up to stand in line for hotel stays (we had ours exchanged for a round-trip cab fare to the city where we’re staying with a friend).

Woke up this morning a little before 7 AM and checked my mail. The funeral was at 7.30 AM US Eastern Daylight savings Time (1.30 PM Central European Summer Time), so I was thinking of that. I went to pee, when I felt the whole building shake. Was this the terrorist attack on US banks that had been announced? Could it be an earthquake? They’re quite rare on the east coast, at least one as strong as this. Yup, sure enough, it was an earth quake, the only one I’ve ever felt.

Funeral, wedding, plane hit by a lightning, tunderstorm, panick attack, flight cancellation, earthquake, all in the same day. Phew! I hope everything goes smoothly with the flight home. I hope they fixed whatever was broken by the lightning. I hope they fix it right.

I visited TRS 80, which of course brought back memories from my first TRS 80. But I can’t remember which was the first computer I programmed.

I clearly remember my Tandy TRS 80 color computer (specs in french telling me it was from 1982, when I was eight), which my dad brought home from a Radio Shack store in the US.

I also remember the Osborne luggable computer, for which we only had manuals in Norwegian. Was that before or after? Then, of course, there’s the Commodore 64, the ZX spectrum, and my first IBM PC. Hm. Gotta track the history on those things.

...they define talent as “a recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.” The emphasis here is on the word “recurring”. Your talents, they say, are the behaviors you find yourself doing often. You have a mental filter that sifts through your world, forcing you to pay attention to some stimuli, while others slip past you, unnoticed. Your instinctive ability to remember names, rather than just faces, is a talent. Your need to alphabetize your spice rack and color-code your wardrobe is a talent. So is your love of crossword puzzles, or your fascination with risk, or your impatience. Any recurring patterns of behavior that can be productively applied are talents. The key to excellent performance, of course, is finding the match between your talents and your role.—from First, Break All the Rules p71.

Okay, apparantly my newly installed download package didn’t work. I need to upgrade my server to the latest OpenACS 4.5 beta, but I’m a little scared to do so, because apparantly there’s been some incompatible changes which don’t have upgrade scripts, so I’ll have to manually move all my data over to the new version. I don’t have the time for that kind of operation right now.

Meanwhile, you can grab the lars-blogger APM from http://www.pinds.com/tmp/lars-blogger-0.3.2d.apm.

Grab the latest versinn of lars-blogger. This time I’ve actually tried installing it on another server and checked that it works.

If it still doesn’t work for you, let me know.

In case you care, the issues were:

• Missing a lars_package_url_by_package_id proc.
• Missing dependency on general-comments
• Missing gif

I got tired of writing those tedious statements over and over again, the ones that create tablespaces and users in Oracle, so I can get OpenACS installed. So I wrote a little script that could generate them for me, that I can copy and paste from. Enjoy!.

First, Connect

$ svrmgrl
$ connect internal

Alternatively:

$ sqlplus sys/<i>password</i>