It is a bit windy tonight, and according to weather.com it is “Wind: From the South at 47 gusting to 66 km/h”. I am rather worried about the roof over my new patio that I built last summer. It sounds like it is no longer attached to the wall!
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Giving blood
Do you know what the worst part of giving blood is? It is not all the questions, it not seeing your blood flow out, it is even the large needle they stick into you. No, it is all the disgusting iron pills you have to take for 6 weeks afterwords!
I started giving blood on February 26 2003 and I only have one pill left.
Network down AGAIN
Last Friday it was down for 50 minutes, now it is down again. It always seems to happen when I am about to have an online meeting ;-/ It went down 08:30 and now (8.45) I have to get out in the cold and move to Marratech.
I feel so sorry for myself! đ
Sigh, 41MB email
One of my co-workers (Fredrik Karlsson) just sent me an 41MB email !!!! Can you image a professional in the computer science business sending that large emails đ Had to wait for 1.5 minutes for my inbox to open. Hrrmrmrmrrrrmrmrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The email was a bunch of presentations from a research meeting we had last week (my Umeå trip) but also all the digital photos they took there. WWW is a working medium, even the press have known that since around 1995 when they invented the Internet (I wonder what I was using before that?).
That feels better. Now of to bed to read some Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (more about that tomorrow!!)
Rate Me (or my Blog)
Have you noted the Rate Me section to the right? Now you have! Give me a vote and tell me what you think about this Blog! Please (with sugar on top đ It you want to say something more than just a number then comment this note or any other note on this Blog. Please (with honey on top).
No longer a virgin: Online voting
I have now done my first online real voting (not the normal online voting stuff) but a real political issue! The question was if the central street down town should be for busses only (for all Americans, the kind of vehicle that more than person rides at a time đ or for busses and cars. I obviously voted for the former (not having either drivers license or car). I have actually voted twice tonight. Johanna was to lazy to do it herself!
As of 22.26 tonight I am no longer an online voting virgin.
Human Powered Bus !!
As some of my dear readers might have noticed I am very fond of human powered vehicles and I just got a mail about a Human Powered Bus! Check it out! Note the small numbers at the bottom of the page with links to more images of the bus!
Random photo: Tovah on the Trike
Tovah learning how to cycle on Johanna’s Flevo Trike (we sold it last year though so I guess she will never learn to ride it). Click the image for a larger view. More Flevo photos.
Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun, yeah fun Movie! Interstate 60
I just saw a really funny movie! See it or miss something really fun đ Interstate 60 with James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Michael J Fox, Chris Cooper and many more! Just see it!
Video conferencing research direction
I just read an old paper (1992-93) entitled “Why Do Users Like Video? Studies of Multimedia-Supported Collaboration” by John C. Tang and Ellen Isaacs. The paper is long paper and reports on an investigation they did within SUN regarding different video conferencing solutions. They write many good points but one thing really stood out:
“Rather, we should strive to understand how new forms of interaction can be integrated with the existing ones into people’s day-to-day work”
Too much research in this area today is done on the technical details underneath ( that is what I got my PhD in!).