Mikkel's blog

Interesting facts, rants and stuff I think worthy of sharing with the world!

Wish list

clock February 25, 2010 15:59 by author mikkel.porse

It'll be in Danish :o)

 

  • Skjorter størrelse 42 / Medium - helst ikke for viskestyksternede
  • Jeans – gerne Levi’s - i godt og vel størrelse 31 (Levis arbejder med 30 og 32 ... tror 30 er det bedste)
  • Simpsons sæson 8-13 
  • Bog: Expert F# ISBN 9 78-1590598504 - f.eks her 
  • Trommesæt til Guitar Hero (Wii) - f.eks. her
  • CD - REM: Around the Sun 
  • CD - REM: Accelerate
  • CD - REM: Live at the Olympia (2xcd + 1xdvd)
  • CD - REM: And I Feel Fine
  • Blitz diffuser - Omni Bounce til Nikon SB-600 - f.eks. her
  • Sovseskål


Hammers and Nails

clock January 19, 2010 09:08 by author mikkel.porse
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.


Real Men Don’t Backup

clock September 3, 2009 16:07 by author mikkel.porse

… but they do cry a little once in a while :o/

On upgrading the BlogEngine.Net software the other day, it seems I accidentally deleted all of the images from the years past .. I know I have some of them on file somewhere, but I also know that some of them are gone.

Time to start digging.



Mont St. Michel

clock September 2, 2009 20:37 by author mikkel.porse

One of the spots Christina and I happened to stumble upon during out week in Northern France.. Quite a sight .. a pitty with all the tourists though

Mont St Michel



100

clock August 8, 2009 15:28 by author mikkel.porse

And so the day arrived, my 5050th push-up which is equal to one extra push-up each day starting at one on May 1st. Now what to do  … Maybe some running. ?!

And this week our new car should hopefully arrive – whee!



End of an Era

clock August 5, 2009 22:43 by author mikkel.porse

8 years ago Microsoft released a new version of the controversial "Internet Explorer" browser - version 7.0. To this day older versions still hang around, which is sort of sad. Now, if you don't see a red-ish warning sign and some links for installing the latest versions of the most popular browsers, I guess this post would seem kind of meaningless. If on the other hand you do live in the past as far as browsers go, I suggest following at least one of the aforementioned links and get with the program! No excuses!

IE6 No More!

The warning originally contained a link to Apple's Safari browser, but seriously: Don't install it. Ever. If anything it's even worse than IE 6 - and Apple bundles it with Quicktime (worst video-plugin ever) and their Bonjour Service, which screws up your network



Almost there

clock July 28, 2009 22:30 by author mikkel.porse

89 push-ups this morning, That’s 4005 push-ups since May 1st Cool



300

clock May 24, 2009 21:54 by author mikkel.porse

Warning: The following may prove educational Adding up numbers from 1 to N is easy with a computer. Try doing it in your head is a little more tricky.

For instance 1+2+3+4=10. (that would be the pins at the end of a bowling lane). Or 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21, which is the sum of "eyes" on a die. So what is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 100?

The story I was told, was of a young German kid, whose teacher wanted a little peace and quiet, so he asked the class to perform this addition. Gauss, as he was called, ansvered the question a few seconds later: 5050

The idea is the following: Adding all the numbers from 1 to 100 is equal to doing it twice and then halving the result. Due to the associative law, the order of which you count the numbers is independent of the end result, so if you choose to add up in this order: 1+100+2+99+3+98+ ... + 99+2+100+1 , you would end up with (1+100)+(2+99)+..etc. or 100 paranthesis adding up to 101. The end result halved is 101*100/2 = 101*50 = 5050. In general notation: 1+..+N = N*(N+1)/2.

I've been doing pushups this month. I started with one on May 1st, two on the 2nd and so forth. Today I reached number 300 and on May 31st I'll add four to my regular program to reach en even ... how many :oP



Retouched

clock May 8, 2009 19:08 by author mikkel.porse

haffelaffer

Slight modifications to an image that drastically improve it (imho)

  • Fixed the shadows in the corners (camera lens thingy called vignetting)
  • Put some more red into the background
  • Made water a little bluer
  • Made shadows a little “lighter” on the baby elephant


Words to Live by

clock May 6, 2009 11:24 by author mikkel.porse

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
  - Arnold Toynbee