Like any other serious website www.labraaten.com now has its own Sudoku! Wee! Just click a ’square’ and enter a number.
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When it comes to Visual Studio installation folders, why is it that Microsoft don’t just settle for one naming convention?

Here it seems that thy’re not sure what their product is named. Sometimes is .NET, sometimes not. Sometimes by year, sometimes by version (with or without the decimal):

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
Microsoft Visual Studio 8
Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0

At times they find capitalized words totally unnecessary:

microsoft frontpage

And sometimes a space, sometimes not:

Microsoft ASP.NET
Microsoft.NET

- petter

But now as I do, it makes me feel stupid.

Today I learned that I don’t need a 3. party utility or a feature-rich graphical application to make a snapshot of my active Windows window. I can simply press Alt + Prt Scrn.

This message keeps popping up on my laptop:

As far as I know my laptops network card is a part of the motherboard, and trying to remove it would probably involve a hammer and a chisel. And that’s safe?!

You’ve managed to get this far, so you might as well leave some ‘comments’ in my guestbook…

Some time back I had an experience down at a local supermarket, a strange experience that reminded me of a neglected topic in software development. The topic of efficient multi-threading.

Everybody knows multi-threading as a difficult thing. Multi-threaded applications are inherently difficult to develop, debug and maintain and has potentially evil pitfalls in form of race-conditions and deadlocks and what not. You need your thoughts clear and your tongue straight and remember to put locks, monitors and synchronization objects all over your code… but in the end it will make your application run at leaping speeds while utilizing the smallest of transistors in your top-notch multi-core CPU. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of months back I had some trouble with my WLAN router. Its little yellow traffic light was blinking continuously, and the router periodically stopped responding to wireless connection attempts from my computers. After some digging I quickly found out that my ISP was routing a lot of bad, crappy and seemingly wrong data to my router. Anyway, even with all this bad data, I couldn’t see why my router should stop responding… OK, it was ’a lot’ of bad inbound data - at some point it was about 2 gigabytes an hour.

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…and this time it was for real.

Today, while standing outside of my office with some colleagues, I was attacked by a blind old lady. Twice she hit me with her cane, before slowly passing on by. I’m in shock!

I spend a great deal of my time looking at maps - it’s a bad habbit, almost like a compulsive disorder, but I enjoy, for no reason, pinpointing known and unknown locations. When I’m in the compulsive/joyable mode I usually use the good old book version. Not e-book, just book.

Then there are other times when I use the e-book version - typically Norwegian map providers and sometimes Google/Yahoo! Maps. Those are times when I need to find information about a location and typically how to get there.

One day I was looking for an island off the coast of Kristiansand, Norway, and I found this map with a rather strange feautre.

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…and tomorrow I’m going fishing.

By the way, here is probably the most funny lure of them all.