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IEEE 754 Considered Harmful
IEEE 754 is a standard for representing floating point numbers on computers (floating point is equivalent to scientific notation for numbers ( Read more... ) -
Birthday
Thanks for all the Birthday wishes.
I celebrated my birthday this year by going back to work, after the end of my paternity leave. I could have taken a day's holiday, but a colleague of mine is moving to Zurich on Friday, so I need to be at work this week. While I was at work, meglorien did lots of tidying at home, and baked me a very nice birthday cake ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday...
... to Naquis
from Foradan, Meglorien and Narizinho -
Booking tickets failure
At one point on our trip to the UK and Ireland starting tomorrow, we need to get from the UK to Ireland. We plan to take the ferry from Holyhead. The UK National Rail website will tell us the times of the trains we need to take, and the price of a ticket (just like for any train trip within the UK). However they do not sell the tickets, and ( Read more... ) -
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
We have an Eee. It is very light - good for a long trip with lots of travelling next month ( Read more... ) -
Snow
This decade's climate in Oslo seems to mean that in a specific winter we either get too little snow (and sometimes lots of ice instead), or too much. This year is in the too much category. There has been so much snow here in the north of Europe that there was even some left over for the south of Britain this year ( Read more... ) -
Nudged
I have been nudged ( Read more... ) -
Dancing
I just found an article on the web page of one of the main Norwegian Newspapers about Morris dance. The headline reads "English Folkdance in danger of dying out".
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@%&*# PHP @*&%#
Whenever I have to write something in PHP I invariably get annoyed with it ( Read more... )