Lolcode

July 1st, 2009 by admin

LOLCODE is an esoteric programming language inspired by the language expressed in examples of the lolcat Internet meme. The language was created in 2007 by Adam Lindsay, researcher at the Computing Department of Lancaster University.

The language is not clearly defined in terms of operator priorities and correct syntax, but several functioning interpreters and compilers already exist. The language has been proven Turing-complete by the implementation of a Brainfuck interpreter.

Wikipedia gives you all the info on this revolutionarily simple to me previously unknown scripting language, and if you are intrugued by the Brainfuck programming language you may read more about that as well - right here. I’ll provide you with an example structure of how lolcode is executed below:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
VISIBLE VAR
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Amazing, aint it? O_o

(b) Short Report

June 22nd, 2009 by admin

Summer came at last, a wave of heat that left my skin burning after just a few hours climbing on stoney cliffs, looking down at the lake, our house, a large river on the other side of the mountain, and the small road running through the countryside beside it. The wilderness is undefiable. My second drive up didn’t go to well, I missed a stop sign, stupid mistake. Next available time was the 29th/June, but I’ll be in Kangos helping my grandmother with this winters supply of burnable material then, so I’ll have to wait all the way till the 16th/July, bummer. We’ll be celebrating her birthday the 4th, mine the 10th, my sister is coming up the 13th, mothers birthday is the 18th. My cousin David is turning 16 (I think) in five days, we’re leaving for Kangos tomorrow btw. Always great with many happenings. :)

I’m searching for a cheap car and apartment up in the north of Sweden atm, but can’t seem to find one, summer isn’t the best of times to search for property, prises always rise as the tourists arrive, and sink again during winter. So I’ll be waiting a bit. In the meantime I’ve been chopping up wood, chopping down trees, and slicing up grassy fields. Great passtimes. Not much going on worth mentiont to you peoples online, just daily chores and more. Happy midsummer btw!!

A-maze-in Windows

June 20th, 2009 by admin

Sometimes when I turn on my computer and start doing things I open up my web browser and notice that as soon as I perform some action on one tab, I can no longer switch to another tab before minimizing the window and opening it up again from the tray. If I do this, then, once again I am limited to one single mouse action before needing to minimize the browser once again to switch tabs. Not only tabs can only be clicked once, but also buttons and any flash objects. Text links work fine though. And it’s not only my browser that weirds out in this way, it’s all applications, if I need to switch application I first need to minimize it to the tray before opening up a new one. Within the applications everything works fine though, except sometimes the right-mouse-button popup menu appears while clicking the left button, repeatadly, and stays that way for a long time. In this state of computer, another action that I cannot do is move files or folders. I can drag them to a different location on the desktop, nor can I move them to or between folders with the mouse. I can still copy and paste them, however, but between switching folders I must minimize the folder and return to Windows for a while.

This doesn’t happen very often, but it’s been happening more and more the past few years. If it is an error within Windows XP or my computer hardware I will probably know, but it bothers me that as soon as I think I’m grasping the less surface features of my Operating System, things like this turn up. I did a quick Google as well, and a few similar problems appeared regarding the folder issue only. One way of solving the problem was downloading a Registry file and installing it through a click. I couldn’t install it through a click, since I have Win XP Home Edition. Now, this is strange since when I rewrote my harddrive last time I was given the options to start my computer with either Home or Professional MODE while turning on my system. After using the restore discs and installing Drivers n’ Stuff instead of just the OS, this option is no longer given to me, and on the disc only “Home” is visible. So I’m confused.

Another thing that confuses me is the font “Minion”. I used it once, with Adobe Illustrator, and then I went to another program to use it again, but it just wasn’t there. I checked through Illustrators files in the program directory and found two font folders, one empty, the other with three fonts and a list of them. Minion wasn’t in the list. I haven’t compared the Illustrator font list with other font lists since it’s just waaay too big, so I’m wondering if the font has a different name than the filename, even though I know it is installed by default - I haven’t done it. Or if different programs parse fonts differently. Or if the font really is embedded within Adobe Illustrator. Hmm. Can someone clear the tense tranquillity around these three musteries and launch an answer? Let me know.

(a) Short Report

June 11th, 2009 by admin

I’m sitting at the public library in Överkalix today, three days into my summer vacation. It’s raining outside, lightly, but it’s been doing so all day, and looks like it will be continuing for quite some time as well. Yesterday was sunny, as was the day before, and during our journey by car the 1100 kilometers up to our summerplace the clouds covered the sky but shed no water - perfect driving weather. We watched as a convoy of old cars sped by on Swedens national day, and spent the night with a couple of old relatives. Great food granted. We stayed with an old friend on the way up the next day, recieved a guided tour over his new establishment by a small torrent. Great place.

We arrived around ten in the aternoon, with the sun still high in the sky (land of the midnight sun, all June & July). I started out the night by thoroughly cleaning out our primitive sauna, floors, walls, ceiling, everything. Filled up the water tanks and lit a fire, and shed a few liters. After the ten hour nap following I woke up and mowed the lawns, and a bit more. Plans for this year include opening up a large new patch of grass infront of our house and a smaller one behind it from the surrounding fields of green. Towing away decades of grassy decay isn’t easy, ground is uneven and a thick layer of dried remenents coat the ground. A brave attempt at clearing the edges of our fields from shrubbery and now larger trees also is in my minds store, with an axe. To get rid of the source, the roots, hacking up the trees and everything beneath them is the only alloted option. There is a potential reapage area of around 40,000(!) steady plants in varied sizes and breeds just waiting to be ripped and hacked away… good exercise. :) 

Every summer that passes carries progress with it, so soon the summerhouse will be back in optimal shape (as it was before my parents grew old and stopped tending to it on the previously used regular basis). I plowed up a patch for tomatos too, started expanding the “farm” a bit. If all goes timely i should have built a lifesize chess board in stone/wood, an outside shower with a manually filled water tank and a few bridges around our arena before the sunshine is over.

This is the second run into Överkalix (place where library resides, nearest city, about 20km away). The first time here I planned to schedule a drive up, but I appearantly forgot a password needed up in Stockholm so the attempt failed. I have my second drive up scheduled for Monday now though, by phone, hope it goes well. Thought I would have gotten over my previous nervousity after failing ones, but it’s still here. Had a killer headache yesterday so I was in bed mostly all day. I’ve been sleeping at least 10-12 hours the past two nights, making up for lost sleep the hectic week before I left for vacation (studies/websites gave me no rest), and on Tuesday I was so sore from all work the day before I didn’t have power left to do much of anything. Hmm, week so far has been weaker than I expected it to be, hehe. I’ll catch up though, am still jogging every other day to in shape stay.

Internet connection here is hellishly slow, bugs me like a mountain of ants. To logon to gMail I have to reload the page it seems a dussin times before anything happens, or type in the main adress again, otherwise the “Loading” message runs forever. I can reach the admin panel for my sites fine, but viewing the main site is an impossibility, the graphics are too heavy for this computer.  There is good news though, the assignments I stressfuly sent in before leaving seem to have passed judgement … the ones that have been judged thus far that is. I probably won’t be by a computer for a while now, there’s nothing more that needs doing ‘cept checking back on my studies to see if I have anything with remaking mandatory. Have a good sommer peopls!

Tricky Trickle

June 9th, 2009 by admin

Nothing is worth happening
If it doesn’t happen
I feel like I’m back again
Thus you should be clapping

The world is round
The pull surreal
It’s full and real
Of hurled ideals

Nothing is worth slapping in
If it just slaps back on whim
Thus the slap should crack a rim
Somethings are worth said

Less then they are dead

Swedens National Treasure

June 6th, 2009 by admin

June the 6th. Woo, cake and joy, bluejays zoom, by. :)

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