Advogato blog for goran

31 Mar 2002

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:24:07 GMT

Finally updated my page.

freenet is fun and a good cause, but it is not ready for production yet. Anyone here should have the technical skill and patience to try it out.

java, hmmm, compile once - debug everywhere. Gosling said recently that the VM is the best part of Java. OK Sun give us the source on a free licence so we can debug the flaming thing.

Java is a nice language compared to VBS which a has to hack around with at work. Oddly enough I never learned basic, just as well. I now know enough to hack a few ODBC accesses together which is probably as far as I have to go in basicland.

2 Dec 2001

Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:39:24 GMT

Lots happens, but not much free code.

Moved to another town, lost my love.

Life goes on.

3 Jun 2001

Sun, 3 Jun 2001 07:27:38 GMT

Spam

ORBS is shutdown. Guess it got too popular for Big Business to bare.
Read more here and here.
ORBS will be lost by us and many other postmaster since use it's services was very effective to lessen the amount of spam entering our MTAs. Now we have one back to the more conservative and less efficient MAPS RSS.
I submitted to slashdot, but these days of corporate control /. only seems interested in toys and SF-like dreams.

Cars

Bought a BMW 525 Xi Touring, not new but new enough.
Picking it up on friday. My old Pickup will NOT be missed :-)

12 May 2001

Sat, 12 May 2001 17:07:07 GMT

About to move later this summer, leaving Kiruna for Luleå. Feels pretty OK and it is only 350 km between the towns so I could be "home" in 3 hours.

Sweden just lost to Czeck republic in the icehockey world championships. It was still 2-2 after 10 minutes of sudden death, so it was decided by penalty shots. This means Czecklands vs Finland in the final, because Finland shouldn't have any trouble beating USA.

This is posted with Galeon (CVS-version) with Mozilla 0.9-engine. Still a little bit slower then Netscape 4.77 but it is getting there. One of my internet banks still does not work with Galeon, so I might not switch yet.

16 Apr 2001

Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:50:57 GMT

Uploaded another IMPearl snapshot. Now messages are encrypted, a good base for experimenting. Check it out.

Car trouble!
Still it something mysterious happening in the electrical system and the motor does NOT run smoothly until it is warm.
Unreliability in the car situation and my friend being away from town (with her dauther and car) kept me in town these past sunny days. :-(

15 Apr 2001

Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:54:59 GMT

Car trouble, have had some strange electical problems and yesterday the battery finally kicked it. Trouble was I could not get to a petrol station to buy a new one because I had no battery. :-(

So I got stuck in town instead of going to my cottage. Skiing in the forest beats a walk around town, specially on sunny days. Will give a new try today. Really needs to get to the cottage and my sauna, my body starts itching due to lack of sauna for almost a week.

Hacked some more on impearl it's taking shape. Going to restructure some thing and release a 0.0.2-version.

I hate designing GUIs. I could use some help in this area. So if you are fluent in Gtk-Perl and like to help out send me (goran at kirra dot net) a note.

14 Apr 2001

Sat, 14 Apr 2001 08:20:27 GMT

Started writing a new IM system
I tried out jabber, first I was excited but after a while I became a bit annoyed at the complexity.

I want

simplicity
security
openess

no XML
GnuPG/PGP message encryption
simplest possible protocol (UDP)
interface to any good tool already existing (no NIH outside core protocol/service)

Currently I write a proof of concept in perl. I call it impearl

Feel free to comment/flame me :-) Will write an article in which I develop my ideas some day when the sun does shine like today. The skis are waiting.

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17 Mar 2001

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:34:47 GMT

Slow saturday, weather is very nice, but I feel too tired, so I have been inside most of the day, what a waste.

Read a python tuturial. Nice language, but perhaps I'm to much old sysadm to think of using python instead of perl for my daily tasks.
The root of the languages (perl from linguistics and python from CS) shines through. In my world of quick-hacks, ease of expression is more important than syntactical purity.

27 Feb 2001

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:53:18 GMT

Time flies, march is around the corner.

Car crash

One of my car was destroyed in an traffic incident, not my fault, no injuries on any person. The insurance company of the other driver bought my car since it was cheaper for them then the repairs would have been.
Have to hunt for a new car, since I don't want to drive my old Nissan pickup all the time.

Life

Slowly getting back to normal after being on the road for 17 weeks. Many things to sort out, still.

Hacking

Some new ideas, but not enough time yet, we will see.

13 Jan 2001

Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:10:18 GMT

Holidays are over.

Have been working a week at homebase and a week in Göteborg. During the break I came to realise being irritated at the work situation only hurts the relations I hold dearest more than the actual "being away". Relating to a whining jerk during weekends is nothing to look forward to, so I am trying to change my ways.

Have also started fullfilling my new-years-resolutions:

start brushing up my spanish
start smoking (a little)

a bit strange if you don't know it is preparations for a trip to Cuba I will make sometime (hopefully) during this year.