Casper's Life

Sooo, I decided to do things in the wrong order, and only figured it out after I'd done it, and then it was too late - as with most things in my life ... I stopped smoking (maybe I'll let the world know how I feel about specific thing), but I had all the symptoms as most people who give up their lifeline to sanity; eating (bring it on), not too happy with anything, and in general just a pain in the bottom for a few months (I'm amazed that I still have a job, but hey I tried). Now after not having my life extension between my fingers every 1 hour (on avg.) during waking hours left some space which needed to be filled with other things, and as I've always been quite outspoken about stupidity I decided to get Angry with stupidity. Like; why the f... can't you figure out not to throw your cigaret buds on the street, or don't throw you Mac D. wrap paper on the street, shithead. Stuff like that, and what I found is that I actually don't get along with most people ...

On Facebook, the group for Danes in The Netherlands shared a job opening for a chauffeur at the Danish Embassy in Den Haag, The Netherlands. New Colleague 05.08.2014 10:31 We are looking for a new driver. We are looking for a driver with driver certificate CCV-D1, who also is expected to take care of administrative and practical tasks in the embassy and in the residency of the ambassador in The Hague. Flexibility, loyalty and reliability are important aspects in the choice of our new presentable colleague. Some experience is desirable. It concerns a full-time job. Working hours also in the evening and during the weekends according to agreement. Working languages: English and Dutch. Start: as soon as possible. I read it and stopped at "Working languages: English and Dutch.", no mentioning of Danish. I would expect that Danish would be a required language, in addition to English and Dutch. So just to have a go at it, and send an email to Dansk Folkeparti (the most right wing ...

I've always been told to make sure that I do my best to know the background before I comment complain about something (the weather is exempt). But with the introduction of Facebook we now have "amateur" specialists, who will "like", "share" etc., anything which they think make any sence. Unfortunately it is not only the "amateur" specialists on Facebook which do this, also Journalists who write for previously recognized broadsheet papers have started to do this, which means that we cat opinions without substance. I quite often (until I dis-friended them), got forwarded (shared) information about animal rights on Facebook, though being interesting, but the information in general terms came from fanatical people who only have one reason in publicizing this information; to tell other people what they SHOULD think, there is no room for creating ones own opinion, nor to criticize their opinion - it's very much; either you're with us, or y...

Some time ago, I read an article about why an "IKEA" would never happen in Denmark. Not that Swedes are anything special, or that Danes are't smart enough. But the argument is that to be able to create an IKEA, one would have to decide that things are only made to be "almost good enough", meaning that one know that the product is not perfect, it will not last longer than it was designed to last, and so fort. And any one in Denmark who would start a company would would do so to produce products which where the best of the best (I am not fully in agrement with that one). But lately that made me think about the stage of software quality, we know that it is impossible to remove all issues in software, the 90/10 rule still plays a role in our daily life. But we have gotten used to software which, we actually pay for, doesn't work, or it crashes, or causes data loss. The vendors, in many cases does not care, or tell us that it's caused by us using the software...

Just watched Horizon on BBC ( Science under Attack ), which was presented by Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse, who obviously must have done some remarkable work, otherwise he would probably not have received the Nobel Prize. His argument for the whole thing is that Science is under attack, and that something must be changed so that the public (that is everyone who is not a Scientist) will gain trust in what the Scientists are telling them. Through the whole thing, he is trying to point out that science is not an exact science, that is for example with the argument that we can never really be sure, but if the same thing happens again, and again then there is a probability that there might is a pattern, and that can be use to prove something. So if it rain every year on May 2nd, except for every 7th year, then science should be able to conclude that there is a probability that it will rain on May 2nd. That is how they can conclude that May 2nd is a wet day. Now this is the simple appr...

"You know", actually I don't, which is why I'm listing, if I did I would be doing something else, like reading a book. It seams that an American add-on to the English language have been spreading to the rest of the civilized world; most sentences are littered with "you know" as if the interviewer know exactly what the person they are talking to is thinking, and so it would seam the people who are watching, or listing to the radio. Please stop using useless terms, in this case "you know", it makes you look as if you actually do not know how to form a sentence appropriately. And, even more, look like you actually do not know what you're talking about.

Someone said at a few years ago that the more you know the less you actually know. And that with the growth of information on the internet we would reach a point where there would be so much information that finding the right information would be very difficult. I would say that we are staring to get to the point that there is so much useless information available that actually finding something is becoming more and more problematic - at some point it will be close to impossible. I have to say that companies like Google , and prior to them Yahoo , and also to some degree Microsoft Bing does make it easier as they have these wonderful robots eating away on the internet and sorting it so that we should be able to find it again. Unfortunately these companies also have to make a living, which means that if one search for something there is a 50% chance that the first 100 hits one get are pointers to companies or sites which actually do not provide any information, but they have paid to be...

Politikken (Danish Newspaper) just published an article ( english via google translate) where they say that a majority of Americans (that's the people living in the USA), think that God created the Earth, in Denmark it's minority. Some years back I heard this small story which puts a bit of color on the whole thing; Moses walks up to the mountain where he receives the tables from God, and part of the conversation which took place was told as; Moses; "So how did it become?" God; "what do you mean?" Moses; "how did all of this become, you know, life, universe, everything?" God smiles, and settles down and says: "billions of years ago there was nothing, and then suddenly there what this very big explosion, which started the process of creating stars...." Moses looks at God (very confusing at this point), and says "aehhh, could I get the short version please, this is too complicated" God; "Ok, on the first day...." Not s...

I was watching God's Warriors on [stag]CNN[/stag] yesterday evening ( CNN God's Warriors ), and finally I got the explanation why evangelists mush think why Darwin is wrong, and by no means cannot be right. It goes like this; "If Darwin is right, then Genesis cannot be right, and therefor the whole bible is wrong", therefor Darwin is wrong, as the bible is right. I still like the joke; "Moses on the mountain, asking God how the whole thing started. God; "8 billion years ago...", Moses: "hey, stop, can I get the short version!", God; "On the first day..." Just shows that if you have doubt in your faith, then you have doubt in everything....

One may sometimes wonder what the computer have given to us, I hear do not think of easy access to information, email, etc. more in the way of what have lost by having the computer. I was having a discussion with some friends this weekend, and one of the things which came up it looks like "just" because we now have the computer, and there are tools which can help in our work, and somethings are easier to do, it then does not mean that it's done the right way. For example, retouching photos. In the "old" days it was a pain staking job to do, now anyone can scan the photo (if we are talking about photos), use Adobe PhotoShop to stretch/repair the photo, and everyone can do it with a bit of trail and error. But is it done the right way? And how can it be that some crafts are no longer taught, my dad was a blacksmith and was taught to make horseshoes from raw metal, these days it looks like one can buy horseshoes off the shelf and then "just" do the fittin...

Ever thourght of owning your own Integer ?? Neither have I but it is now possible. I now own 2702 EC16 23C6 8FB7 3EEF 3E40 F2DB 288F , and I here by ask you not to use it:-), if you do please do contact me for a licensing deal:-) The whole thing comes down to AACS trying to stop people distributing a specfic integer which is used for copy right protection on Blue-Ray and DVD-HD disks, I've seen it, and don't really have much interest, but owning your own Integer is kind of geeky.

A story came up on the Danish newspaper Politiken , that [stag]Mel Gibson[/stag] have stopped a small danish brewery ( Midtfyns Bryghus ) from producing a beer by the name of " [stag]Braveheart[/stag] ", as he thinks that he owns that word.... In my humble oppinion this thing where 'famous' people can decide to trademark words which has to do with what ever roles they have played in good or bad movies is starting to go over the top. So maybe "drunk", and "alcoholic" will be the next Mr. Gibson will trademark?

So, it seams that my fellow Danes can't keep up their best behavior. Yet again it seams that a group of people do their best to my our reputation out in the 'big' world show us a discriminate, and intolerante country. The latestes which probably will infuriate people in the middle east is an advert which was brought in Tehran Times this week, which first would think that it would support the Iranian Precident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but if one looks carefully it gives a diffrent result. In many ways I could not care less, but it is signed with 'Danes for World Peace', and that would in some sense include me, and no I did not have anything to do with it, but now they have made sure that I yet again will have to defend the Danes, and tell people that yes we are a peace loving country (and I don't live there), and normally we do not really care for what ever religion people have, or what ever skin color they have - as long as they are nice people. But this advert , ...

Doing some other reading I stumbled over this thread (letter to OLPC) over at bsd-misc . First OLPC is short for One Laptop Per Child, and it is an initiate to produce US $100 Laptops which can be distributed to children in the 3rd world - read more here . Now the interesting part is that Redhat signed a NDA with Mavell to be able to write the wireless driver for these laptops, which means that this driver will probably be a binary only driver. And as far as I know this is against GPL, and the spirit of OpenSource - read more here for how RedHat thinks about other companies who have done something which is not even as bad Now the intersting part, when one follows the thread on bsd-misc are comments like: Red Hat (and a number of other linux distros) are morally bankrupt. By that I mean the sit under the linux banner touting the GPL, and yet this is not how they act. They act in a way that helps to ensure that GPL'ed software can not continue to be written. And it goes on. For som...

I've been following the Novell/Microsoft discussions on Groklaw lately, and have to say that quality of some of the entries does not really enlighten me much. It is especially comments like "makes me puke", or "boycot novell". Not that it really matters in this discussion. But when I compare the what Groklaw have done (and still is doing) in the IBM vs. SCO, Novell vs. SCO, and RedHat vs. SCO cases one can start speculating about if the success they have had in these cases have produced a monster. With monster I mean it have started to attract the kind of people who would be quite happy to have their word on a public forum, but am not able to express anything usefull, to the people who feel that their success in other ways allow them to be obnoxious (where I come from we call them childish). /. is know for entries from people with "extreme" views (always good for a good laugh), but as Groklaw have been know for having a very objectiv view, starting t...