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

“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!

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

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.

“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.

Will Stanhope from Alex Lavigne – ALIAS CINEMA on Vimeo.

Turn up the volume and enjoy!

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.