Adventures with Computers
Archive for February 2001
Today Kristian (Cookie) and I are writing some text to what it known in Danish as the Blue Book. Every class in the gymnasium writes something about the people in the class, and this is collected into a Blue Book.
Unfortunately the other two in our little group is missing — this means that Kristian (Cookie) and I are free to write about all the stupid things they have done… :-)
I’ve just printed a physics-report written in MS Word. It was a group-assignment, so we wrote it in Word, instead of LaTeX, because the other half of the group only use Word.
Not only did Word freeze at least once, but the math produced by the Equation-editor just looks somewhat odd compared to the output produced by LaTeX. The worst thing is probably the spacing. It’s simply wrong in many places. I hope that I won’t have to struggle with Word again for some time :-)
The winter came — and went again. The last five days or so have been really cold here in Denmark. And we’ve had a lot of snow also. But now it’s started to thaw, which means that you can’t step outside without getting your feet wet… You can find much more information about this exciting development here, at my friend Kristian’s page :-)
I’ve just received three free certificates from
Brainbench, an online provider of
certification in a number of different categories. The three certificates
look quite nice — they’re printed on nice thick paper and two of them
has a “golden” star with the word “Master” on them :-)
I took a test in PHP, one in Linux Administration (Red Hat) and one in Internet Concepts. You can see my score here. The tests are quite long, and some of the questions are very difficult. When I took the PHP-test, I was asked all sorts of silly questions about functions you use with other databases than MySQL. It would have been nice if I could have indicated, that I only use MySQL.
Gimpster.com is now one year old — I know this because I’ve just received the bill for the next six months :-)
After I’ve made PHP Weather and my PHP Tutorial, I’ve received tons of positive feedback — thanks a lot. Those two projects together with the other things I have here at Gimpster.com have also made it possible for me to serve almost 100,000 pages the first year. Amazing!