As some of you might know, me and my girlfriend both enjoy cooking. Recently we picked up a book called ‘Kaffe’ (‘Coffee’ in Norwegian), that contained various recipes for making special coffees, deserts and pastry. In there was a recipe for bagels, which seemed interesting. We decided to try and make them, but instead I dug up a recipe online. They came out nothing short of awesome. So I’ll share.
Doesn’t this look better? !http://printf.dk/img/operaicon.png! Read on how to do it.
So I get to work today and there’s this funky email in my inbox. Apparently an invite to something new called “Measuremap”.
Last friday, I got my brand spankin’ new Sony Ericsson W800! This is most possibly the best phone I’ve ever had. I’m coming from the Samsung SGH D-500, which - frankly - is a piece of sh*te. It’s not bad, but compared to the SE, .. wow. I’ve been a fan of Nokia for a while, and have been ambivalent towards SE, Samsung and Siemens, so I was a bit baffled when I got the D-500. I still thought Nokia was the best. I guess you can compare it to coming from Windows to another operating system which does things differently and everything isn’t really integrated as much as one would want (read: linux), but ladies, SE is the Mac of cellphones. Everything just works (TM), and it works well. Anyway, back to the point: My bluetooth was a bit rusty, so I wanted to upgrade my firmware, which turned in to a living hell.
Did you ever sit and spend time copying music from your one computer to your Mac so you could listen to it there instead? Did you ever wish there was an easier way of sharing this music? There is. It’s called [“Bonjour”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/], and it’s another piece of quality software from Apple, albeit proprietary (open source, though). I’ve written this guide to help you install and setup your linux machine to continously scan a folder recursively, pick up MP3, AAC and other musicformats and expose those over the network to any iTunes (OSX or Windows) and have those available for streaming on-demand. Sort of like an advanced multithreaded jukebox.
When I woke up this morning, it wasn’t sunny, like it was yesterday. Oslo is a strange town. This is what I woke up to. As the image says, yes, that is snow. In late October. As a dane, I find this remarkable.
It’s been a while since I blogged. I’ll sum up my recent activities in this extended entry. :-)
Hm. I don’t know what the “MySQL”:http://www.mysql.com guys are up to, but apparently if you go to their site sending the user-agent Opera'', they will redirect to. To microsoft.com. More specifically to/we/write/great/software.html”. Some web-guy having fun on Opera’s expense? What do they mean by “we write great software”? They do? We do? What? :-)
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So the other day, all of a sudden my host is down. I figure out that the entire server that my site was on, is just dead. Re-installed actually. First, it seems like all of my files are gone, but thankfully my friend took a back up of my mail, data and database. Phew
Just like “everyone”:http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/09/opera-free-free-free “else”:http://my.opera.com/vetler/blog/show.dml/22626 “at”:http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/22619 “opera”:http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStuff/ “are”:http://weblog.timaltman.com/node/793 [“posting”:http://www.eiriks.net/index.php?id=117], opera is now free. We’ve removed the textads, so the $30 we previously required, are now obsolete. Unless you want premium support, of course. Happy days!
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Yesterday (wednesday) and a few hours this morning, I toyed around with some code generating live statistics on our new [“brand new clustering solution”:http://printf.dk/work/clustering.html]. It generates some graphs, but since we’re using DR(Direct Routing) it’s impossible to meassure the outgoing traffic as well as the incoming. The graphs and charts are pretty interesting though.
Over lunch today, me and my “coworker”:http://joen.dk/ had a pretty stupid conversation. We overheard some guy mentioning STD'' (probably not as in sexually transmitted diseases), but we started discussing it. He made a reference to the pokemon theme song ala "gotta catch 'em all!", and I wondered what would happen if you replaced the wordpokemon” with STD in the “lyrics”:http://files.joen.dk/fun/txt/pokemon_std.txt. No conspiracy theory, but it’s still fun. My favorite is:
I will travel across the land Searchin’ far and wide Each STD to understand The power that’s inside! (Power inside!)
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I “recently”:http://printf.dk/it/hacks/poweredbymint_tm.html installed “Mint”:http://www.haveamint.com on this server. It comes with a stack of scrap-“peppers” and some other people wrote theirs. I was late at work this evening, and decided to try out the API myself. Looks like this: !http://printf.dk/img/flashcharts.png!
As some of you may know, we’ve launched the new “my.opera”:http://my.opera.com/ here at Opera. There’s been a few cumbersome issues with regards to the site. It’s basically been slow. Very slow. The apparent bottleneck from the beginning was suspected to be in the database backend, and so it was.
A [“good friend of mine”:http://joen.dk/] tells me to check out this site called “have a mint”:http://www.haveamint.com/ and it turns out to be some kind of smart statistics web application you can implement on your site. So I decide to give it a try.
This weekend I took a 3-day trip to see [“my girlfriend”:http://grigoratou.com], who studies in Bergen. Took some pictures here and there (less than I planned) and decided to write a little about it here.
Yesterday evening I had a dinner with the social committee here from Opera, which I am part of. We had arranged the 10-year anniversary party, and management decided to thank us in the manor of buying us all dinner.
Today, ending tomorrow, we’re giving away all the licenses we can for the Opera desktop browser! Just email “registerme@opera.com” between 30-12-2005 12:00 PDT and +1 day. We will send you a free license :-)
Today it’s opera 10 years anniversary, and I’ve contributed a piece of music.
So far, I would say it’s my best work. I haven’t been mixing for long, so I think it came out ok, considering that. I mainly set up this entry so people could comment on my set, if they care to.
Here’s the tracklist:
Get it here!
Oh, and the My.Opera party-thing is going down over at my opera right now.