Monday afternoon champagne

Monday afternoons we usually drink Champagne at work. No big deal.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

• Great Monday morning! Found water on the bathroom floor. Probably the roof that can't handle all the snow. Sweet! #
• But I've got my morning coffee now so all is well! #
• Benefit of working from home. I have a better coffee machine at home so I can make amazingly good espresso all day long! #
• Microlax dags för kissen. Stackarn! #
• Sov länge. Vaknade trött. Ingen bra början på helgen. #
• Was supposed to be at the gym at 10. It's now almost 13 and haven't left the house. #fail #
• Tired in sofa after day spent skating and shoveling snow from the roof. Now californication marathon! #

Stanford’s robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver

“A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming it into a vehicle that drives itself. The car will attempt Pikes Peak without a driver at race speeds, something that’s never been done.”

Stanford’s robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver

Coolness! Knight Rider!

HotCocoa!

The latest MacRuby with HotCocoa is amazing! Finally a way to write OS X applications without having to learn Objective-C.

require 'rubygems'
require 'hotcocoa'
include HotCocoa
application do |app|
  win = window :size => [100,50]
  b = button :title => 'Hello'
  b.on_action { puts 'World!' }
  win << b
end

Progress

They redid the routes at the local climbing wall end of last week, and when we were there on Sunday I focused on lead onsighting lots of blue labeled routes (roughly F6a to F6b+) which naturally went quite fine. The positive thing was that I didn’t feel anything in my finger!

Yesterday we were back at the wall and I continued lead onsighting some blue routes but when I finally figured I had to try my finger on something harder. So I tried to “toprope-onsight” a red labeled route (F6c-F7a+) and I fell on the next to last move due to exhaustion and stupidity. But never mind that, the important thing is that my finger felt fine!

Hopefully I can now gradually go back to climbing harder routes again.

Stopp/start-system spar löjligt lite bränsle

di.se – Stopp/start-system spar löjligt lite bränsle

Facebook’s HipHop Goes Public With a New PHP Runtime

“Facebook said the results of using HipHop have been dramatic. CPU usage on Facebook servers has dropped by an average of 50 percent as the HipHop PHP engine reduced the load on Facebook’s infrastructure.”

Facebook’s HipHop Goes Public With a New PHP Runtime — Developer.com

The article isn’t that detailed but from the following quote:

“This is not an extension to PHP — this is pretty different,” Recordon said. “Right now, the process is once you build and compile HipHop, it comes with a tool that will go through the transformation process and output the binary, and that’s what you actually use to run it.”

And the fact that they’ve removed Apache and uses an own web server. I start to wonder if what they do is actually take the PHP source code and compile it to get one binary that is both the web server and the application in one.

PHP is an interpreted script language so what normally happens is that PHP takes the source file and reads it line by line as it’s executing it. If they’ve bypassed this step completely by pre-compiling the script file into machine code that would explain the reduced CPU usage.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

• Nu har jag gett katten messmör. Dags att sova. Godnatt! #
• Finally gave up my anti Adobe Air campaign and installed TweetDeck. Wow, what a difference. Now I have overview! #tweetdeck #
• back from climbing and tonight my finger felt ok. Maybe I dare to try some harder routes next week when they set new routes #climb #
• Not sure if 23:30 counts as going to bed early which is what I'm trying to do #fail #
• morning coffe #
• Goodnight everyone. Tomorrow is apple tablet day. Exciting! #
• snö snö snö snö #uppsala #
• Jag kunde inte länge motstå delicatobollarna på jobbet. Hade inte ätit någon sen nyår. #svpt #
• Just got back from climbing and now reading up on the iPad. What's the verdict? Is it any good? #
• Watched the iPad introduction video. All I can say is wow! And damn! Now I really need to get my head around objective-c. #
• Fed the cats. Now time to sleep. #
• Frukosten är serverad! #svpt #
• Watching the semifinal between o'sullivan and higgins #snooker #
• O'Sullivan didn't play any good so no surprise he lost #snooker #
• Tired from indoor climbing session with new routes. Onsighting all session. Lots of fun! #climb #
• Pretty hard for Higgins to not win this. #snooker #

Some climbing inspiration in the middle of all this snow

Will Stanhope from Alex Lavigne – ALIAS CINEMA on Vimeo.

Turn up the volume and enjoy!

Grattis!

Jag fick det här i min inkorg idag och jag kände att jag måste dela med mig. Av hänsyn till de som skickat mejlet så har jag utelämnat deras namn.

To: <mail@joakimandersson.se>
Subject: Grattis!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:06:35 +0100

Hej och Grattis på din 40 årsdag några dagar försent! Vi pratade om det den rätta dagen , 
men-------- sen var klockan helt plötsligt 23,00 varför det nu har blivit två dagar för sent!

Tack! Snällt att ni nästan kom ihåg min födelsedag. Augusti är inte så långt bort! Dock är 40 desto längre bort men svårt att få alla rätt i en gratulation.