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Why does it makes higb sad that Danes makes danish things?

Could it be that he doesn't understands the language? It makes me sad when people assumes that 7 bit is enoug for everybody - So Danish as a language turns into a technical obstacle to be conquered.

I hate when my computer starts speaking danish but I don't think kanikus agrees. But the freedom to use my computer to do danish things that is important. So tools so be able to work on danish text whild the tools themself speaks english.

Surprised to se other Danes on Advogato. Lets get all the members of sslug to put their diaries here. (I hope there's a lot of disk space free)

Work:

My evaluator for the Modal Mu-Calculus works perfect. Proberly not very fast, but it works. I wonder why it always is a problem finding decent set-implementation for a programming language. I ended up coding my own very naive sets. If anyone needs a good set implementation for scheme then write one and send it to me.

Hacking:

Nothing really fitting here these days. I almost predicted death of Usenet today.

More randomness

kanikus: Data technology must be something they teach on DTU. Diku is teaching Datalogi.

And for those non-danish speaking members of the Advogato community: Datalogi is the term Peter Naur inventet for somthing best descibed as Computer Science and Information Systems. Peter Naur was one of the Lead Developers on the Algol Reports. But I wouldn't certify him as Master for that reason.

The definition of Standard ML is much better.

YANI (yet another neat idea):

I need a way of quickly scan the Advogato diaries for references to my personal page. I havn't enough time to read all diaries. I'm sorry.

Yesterday evening
Found a bug in Nethack which doesn't seem to be on the buglist. It's not important for the game itself but I hate exiting a program to a broken tty. It doesn't seem to reset the tty proberly.

So I spend my evening listening to Swinging Bach on the tv while debugging Slash'EM/Nethack on my root account at home. Wouldn't have done that if I allready had xDSL but I'm only considering ordering it yet.

But I did manage to make a more uptodate slashem package for Debian but I would have been nice if I could have worked a little more on the packageing. (I better remember uploading it)

Todays todo
Almost half of my Debian bug are either fixed or non-issues. I should do something about it today.

And then I better do soem real (for money) work. Coding obscure fixpoint operators in scheme is harder as it seems. Scheme is a nice language, but I would have liked a little more syntaxical help with doing stuff as curried functions. But then again, doing stuff the hard for a change could be a nice experience.

Random thoughts
I wonder if it was a good idea to package sarien (don't have a url nearby). It is to much in a development state (and the developers would proberly agree) but I just thought it was nice playing all those old Sierra games one more time.

kernel-patch-int is also getting on my nerves. It's too much work splitting the free and non-free parts. I don't even have a 2.2.x kernel source to diff against after recovering from some really braindammaged partitioning.

Better try to write some of those - Not that anyone would care.

I've used all the day playing with xhtml1.0 and css. I didn't really got what I wanted but I think it turned out pretty good. Now my main page validates against xhtml1.0- strict and css and I think it lives up to the "Best viewed with AnyBrowser" mark.

I've started doing something about the danish freedict dictionaries. It should be integrated with the danish dictionary project but first we need to make a stabel implementation of the latter.

And all my debian packages need an overhaul

I shouldn't have returned from my vacation