http://monzool.net/blog a/ Jan Skriver Sørensen Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:37:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en COLD, WINDY AND rainy would describe the weather this past Saturday evening. Not that that kind of weather uncommon in Denmark, but this particular day I was at the outdoor Speedway event "Denmark vs. The World" at Vojens Speedway Arena. Speedway is one of the most exiting motor sport ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/10/07/speedway-on-a-cold-windy-and-rainy-day/ THE-CAMP 2008 WAS a repeat of the success from last year. Again this year 40 people, in all ages, from all over Denmark (plus an North America from Norway, plus a Dane from Holland) rallied for 7 days of of open source. TheCamp is the perfect opportunity for doing some ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/07/27/thecamp-2008/ MY T2000SX LAPTOP had been a trusty computer for many many years, but all good things come to an end, and now with mixed mind I've tossed it out. My dad brought it home from work where it, after many years of usage, had depreciated to be worth nothing for a ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/06/24/thanks-for-your-time-toshiba-t2000sx-laptop/ MICROSOFT WORD 2007 was in todays pool of software upgrades at work. Our previous edition of Word was the 2003 edition, and I must say that the UI and MMI has been changed to a whole new concept. It looks fine and all. And its actually pretty easy to navigate ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/06/24/word-2007-learn-from-vi/ BLADE RUNNER HAS been one of my favorite movies since the first time I saw it. I've always hoped that I would get chance to see Blade Runner on the big cinematic screen, but hadn't really believed that an old 1982 movie would get big screen time. But suddenly the ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/05/21/blade-runner-final-cut/ CONVERTING NUMBERS TO strings or the opposite of converting strings to numbers, is an operation that is far from as trivial as one would expect from such an obvious task - at least when it comes to C++ programming using standard libraries. The converting can be performed by the iostringstream ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/05/06/numbers-to-string-and-back-again-standard-c-vs-boost/ MY WOLF TATTOO had been in need of major restoration job for several years now. Today I finally went to "Doc Pain", the local tattoo shop, and had it redrawn. This is a photo taken during the recoloring of the tattoo. It is really stunning to see how much it had ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/04/24/wolf-tattoo-restoration/ LIBERATED AT LAST. No more torment and self-punishment of using Mac OS X. I finally caved and wiped the Apple operating system from my Macbook and installed Debian and KDE 4. Sweet. For a long time I've been reluctant to wipe the Mac OS X. I wouldn't just give up on ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/04/16/debian-on-macbook/ SO WHAT IS more annoying than having to listen to a constant high pitch noise at work all day? Having to listen to two high pitch noises at work all day!. My Lenovo T61p laptop at work emits a terrible high pitch noise. The level of the noise varies depending on ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/04/08/sound-torture-from-logitech-and-lenovo/ C++ BOOKS IS something I've read quite a few of during the years. Having learned my lesson on buying Python books, I would like to share the five C++ books I value the most, and which I would not hesitate to recommend to others. The books target audience range from ... http://monzool.net/blog/2008/04/02/five-good-c-books/