Hi all

About a week ago, our digital camera decided that its time had come, and it closed down for good.

The camera was a gift we received at our wedding back in 2003, so 7 years… can’t really complain about that.

Anyway, we bought a Sony Cyber-shot DSC W350 yesterday. Nothing fancy – it is very small, so it fits into my pocket and it has 14.1 megapixels and 4xOpticalZoom. It also records videos in HD quality so I am looking forward to being able to both take pictures and record videos of my kids.

Wish us luck!

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eliasen

Hi all

Yesterday evening I wanted to move some papers on my desk and accidentally knocked over a glass of cola I had on the desk. The glass, of course, was so near my personal laptop, that the cola went straight over it and into the keyboard

I wiped it clean as fast as I could, but the connection to all USB peripherals was gone – suddenly the external USB harddrive couldn’t be reached, so my running virtual PC just crashed, and the external mouse and keyboard were also gone.

I chose to close down the laptop immediately and let it dry up over the night. It seems ok now – it runs and the peripherals are back… hoping that was it…. Would hate my laptop to crash.

So today; No beverages near the laptop!

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eliasen

Hi all

I just upgraded this blog to use BlogEngine.NET 1.6.1 instead of 1.5.1.46 which was used before.

I hope no one gets any errors from that. If you do, please let me know.

Thanks

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eliasen

Hi all

I finally decided to create a gravatar account at http://gravatar.com/janeliasen – so now you will be able to see my face in lots of places where you couldn’t see it before – when I comment on blog posts and other such stuff.

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eliasen

Hi all

Just finished reading The BBook of Geek and wanted to share a short review.

The book is a sort of almanac of geek topics. It is divided into eight sections, or “pillars”, each consisting of 16 topics. The eight pillars are:

1. Software
2. TV
3. Literature
4. Gaming
5. Movies
6. Science
7. Hardware
8. Internet

Within each of the eight sections, 16 geek topics are discussed (a total of 2^8 topics) with a brief introduction, some “facts” (some of which are true, and some of which are not (the exercise of knowing which is which is left to the reader)), and a page of each topic is dedicated to something funny. This could be a list of words that you need to decide whether they are a programming language or a movie robot, a top-10 list of something or some prose which is a funny story – often with some funny details.

The page numbers of the book are in hexadecimal, meaning that there is a page 1B and so on. You will find the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on page number 42, naturally, and the book states, that there are 31 other “coincidences” between the page number and the topic of the page. That’s 32 in total, naturally - 2^6. I only discovered the one about Hitchhikers Guide, though… which is even mentioned explicitly in the introduction of the book But to be fair, I wasn’t really looking…

To be honest, I am happy to announce, that there were SEVERAL topics, of which I knew absolutely nothing. Perhaps even 20% of the topics, actually. This means I am not a total geek…

The topics you know are by far the most funny to read, but there are all in all a whole lot of fun stuff to read. The book states that you don’t have to be a geek to read it, but I’d say it definitely helps

So, go buy and read!

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eliasen