TED konferencerne er fantastiske

Hvordan kan man andet end at blive glad når man høre intelligente mennesker tale om emner der virkelig interessere dem. Til de af os der ikke har tid, råd eller den mentale kapacitet til at deltage, ligger alle præsentationerne på ted.com. 
Den sidste video jeg fandt interessant er Dan Dennett der diskutere religion og videnskab:A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren

Jeg er rig, igen!

Denne gang skulle der være godt nok, jeg er rig, de siger svenskerne i hvert fald. I følge BloggVarde skulle spiceweasel.dk/blog nu være over 50.000kr værd. Det er selvfølgelig svenske kroner, men det er da stadig nok til en stor softice.

Denna blogg är värd 50 701 kr

Gad vide hvad de egentligt har at underbygge det tal med?

Learn to use power point (and other presentation programs)

The following video is a pretty good guide on how not to use Power Point, watch and learn from it.

How NOT To Use PowerPoint

The adult plan – porn feeds

Looking through the logs for my sites, I noticed that most of the search words are related to, well, adult content. Therefor I decided to try out how little adult content you need to produce traffic. Enter fuck.dugg.dk, I like that url. It will be interesting to see how much traffic I can generate. I guess it will take a while for it to get going, but will see, it can just sit there without any interaction from my part.

I haven’t dropped NetBudget.dk, but I am still waiting for Google and other search engines to pick up on the content.

NetBudget.dk – Your guide to finance

In my more or less headless quest to figure out how to make money doing absolutly nothing I’m launching a new site netbudget.dk.

It’s meant  to be a finance site, not that I know anything about finance, so it will be interesting to see how well the articles will do. The articles will not be written by me, but be provided by article syndication sites.

I won’t be displaying ads until I have some traffic and I can see how well the articles are doing.

The domain could be better, but I had netbudget.dk already, originally bought for another project which never really got started.

I might need to look into some additional search engine optimization, perhaps a few blog ping services, but I’ll post more on that if it becomes relevant.

Animated Boobs

This site need promoting: Animated Boobs. I hope the owner can live of the banner ads on this thing.

Modern computers suck

I stumple upon this article on reddit.com: Computing in molasses « Musings of a crusty old fart. I can whole heartly agree with the comments made by the author, I have only had similar experiences, mostly with Windows, but also with Mac OS X and Linux.

I work as a .Net developer and I’m therefor forced to use Windows every day. I really like .Net, or at least part of it, WinForm and Form in ASP.NET is really stupid, but C# and most of the library is really nice. From my point of view it seems that there is something very wrong in how we design and build GUI applications, perhaps the concept is wrong or many we’re just trying to do to much. Trying to do to much would also explain why people see the slow application more frequestly on Windows, Windows apps seems to try doing to much, compared to Mac OS X and some Unix apps.

I also noticed a small flaw in Microsoft way of thinking of resources. CPU is cheap, memory is cheap, not as cheap as CPU but still cheap, disk access is expensive, so we should try to avoid it. When Microsoft design the search feature in XP and Vista, they seem to have forgotten this. On Mac OS X Spot Light is capable of searching in files you just saved, this is because the file is indexed by the OS when the file content is chanced, on Windows the index isn’t updated only the search indexer is run, this may be next time you are not doing anything or a night. Apple solution makes a lot more sense because we already have at least part of the file in memory so indexing it right away will only use memory and CPU, which are both cheap (I’m not sure that this is how SpotLight actually works, but it would make a lot of sense), with the Microsoft solution the indexing tool will need to check each file on the harddrive, to see if it has been chanced, if so read the file and index it. Microsoft solution is very IO intensive, which is rather stupid, given that we could quickly index a file when we’re writing it. I’m not saying that SpotLight never starts to re-index every file on the disc, it does.

We as developers really need to think more about what we’re doing, we have almost endless computing resources or at least we program as if we do. We have plenty of CPU power, which we rarely use, we have loads of memory, which we tend to use to its fullest and we have hundreds of gigabyte of storage, which we use, but we forget that it’s rather expensive to access it. I’ve seen developer do things because it’s the easy way of write a given bit of code and forgetting to consider what will happen when massive amounts of data is in play, hell I’ve written code like this. It’s to easy to just test something with a small amount of data and forget what happens when a real user tries to use the same code with real data in the real quantities.

Something similar happens with responsiveness. Either the developer have a really fast workstation and forget that the avarage user will be on slower hardware and therefor doesn’t take the time to optimise or redesign heavy parts of the software, or the developer have a workstation that is actually to slow and notice that the software is slow, but then make the assumption that the avarage user will have “real hardware” which will be much faster.

As always I blame the software companies and the companies that allow their software providers to get away with bad code. The massive stupidity behind mordern software development is impressive as are the lenghts company will go through to save even the smalls amount of money on software.

Speisen.dk

Min kærestes nyeste projekt, at samle sine opskrifter et eller andet sted, så de ikke bliver væk og som tillader at man kan søge i dem.

Oprindeligt ville hun have skrevet et lille program der evt. ville kunne klare opgaven, men jeg fik hende overbevist om at WordPress nok kunne klare sagen. Det er også lidt nemmere end at jeg skal til at lære hende at programmere.

Resultatet er speisen.dk.

Old but funny quiz

Find out what kind of operating system you would be, if you where an OS that is. Turns out that I resemble Palm OS in some weird way. I wouldn’t have guess.

Which OS are You?

Se OL live på nettet

Min arbejdsgiver laver nogle begavede beslutninger ind i mellem, den seneste: Live Streaming af OL. Jeg synes måske vi skulle have reklameret lidt for vores OL site, men det nåede vi vidst ikke.

Jeg har allerede haft stor glæde af at kunne se roning via Internettet, mens andre har beslaglagt mit TV for at se landvejs cykling. Kvaliteten er glimrende og kommentatorene kvalificerede.

Det virker som om at SilverLight video-streamingen er lidt bedre end Windows Media Player, i hvert fald på Mac OS X, så den vil jeg anbefale at man bruger.

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Hop ind på Sonofon.dk og se noget OL: www.sonofon.dk/ol.

Direkte link: http://front.xstream.dk/telenor/player/ (Fordi rigtigt mange mennesker åbenbart har lidt svært ved at klikke sig frem til den rigtige side.)