Erlends hjem i skyene
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Gjødselbiller
Dec 11th
“Etter at gjødselbillen har gravd redet og lagt eggene sine henter den en kule av dyreekskrementer fra en haug i nærheten for å tette igjen inngangen. Hvis denne gjødselkulen blir fjernet mens billen flytter den, fortsetter bare billen, og mimer at den tetter inngangen med den ikke-eksisterende gjødselkulen, uten å legge merke til at den er borte. Evolusjon har bygget inn en antakelse i billens oppførsel, og når den den ikke holder blir resultatet mislykket.”
Fra boken min om kunstig intelligens.
Naturen er fascinerende… 
Wikibooks, now also for us who like physical books
Dec 1st
In “just” 19 days I’ll have completed my last exam for this semester and I can travel home for a nice, quiet Christmas with my family. As usual, I’ll travel by train, which takes 16-17 hours each way. Partly because it’s cheap (25 EUR), but most of all because it’s very comfortable and is a nice way to “stress down” after an intense exam period. As usual I’ll pack plenty of books and an iPhone with all the podcast episodes I have postponed listening to.
Among the new books I’ll bring there will also be at least one wikibook. Yes, a real, physical wikibook.
You see, I have been using the x86 disassembly wikibook quite often, and recently I read that there were a “a collection for print-on-demand publishing from PediaPress” available for the book. Being curious, I had to click the link to see what that actually meant…
It turns out that PediaPress will print a copy of a wikibook for a very fair price. It can even be your own compilation of parts of books (and Wikipedia support is coming, according to their webpage). Printing and shipping of the book (200 pages) to Norway was a little over 10 EUR.
I’m now sitting with three printed wikibooks in front of me, and the quality of the printed book are very good. Needless to say, I’m very happy. They even donate a portion of the proceeds to the Wikimedia Foundation (though, they don’t say how much).
Shiny new books
Okteta is of course mentioned
The Vi input mode for Kate is “done”
Nov 24th
Please see http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/ for an updated overview of the Kate VI mode project.
I just marked the Vi input mode (“V.I.M.”? ) for the Kate kpart as done in the feature plan for KDE 4.2. It feels a bit weird to mark it as done, though, as there are tonnes of things I want to implement after KDE 4.2.
As you may know this started as a Google Summer of Code project and I’m quite happy with the way things have turned out. Since we are in feature freeze I would like to present the features that will be in the Vi input mode for the Kate part in KDE 4.2.
Kate Vi Input Mode in action – visual mode selection
And now to something completely different…
Nov 20th
Monty Python har skjønt det.
De evig morsomme medlemmene i Monty Python laster nå opp alt TV-materiale de har laget i høy kvalitet til Youtube på deres Youtube-kanal.
Bloody brilliant!
Mørk regnbue
Nov 17th
dark rainbow, originally uploaded by ehamberg.
Bilde av regnbue tatt fra Gløshaugen mot Øya/Ila.
Kan ikke huske å ha tatt bildet, men fant det på minnekortet nå og liker stemningen i bildet.
Rundkjøringskaos
Nov 17th
Den fantastiske solnedgangen jeg så da jeg gikk til butikken i kveld lot seg ikke fange da solnedgangen benyttet minuttet mens jeg løp og hentet kameraet til å gjemme seg.
Men et fint bilde av rundkjøringen min fikk jeg i hvert fall.
En vet det er eksamenstid når…
Nov 15th
Hello, World!
Nov 3rd
Harddisken på serveren min døde sist uke og tok med seg den gamle bloggen min i kremasjonsovnen.
Så… velkommen til en helt ny og foreløpig veldig tom blogg.
[Jeg har nå importert innlegg fra en gammel backup, slik at bloggen er litt mindre tom.]
GSoC is over: The state of Kate’s Vi input mode
Aug 21st
The Google summer of code programme’s coding part officially ended this Monday. That won’t be the last you will hear from me, though. Kate’s vi input mode has turned out to be quite nice, and there are lots of improvements I want to do in the coming months. The biggest news are a visual mode + visual line wise mode. Visual mode is one of those things that really make vim stand out from all of the vi clones, and having support for it makes Kate’s vi input mode it much more usable for me. More >