Martin Geisler Online

I’ve updated the planet so that it grabs the comment feeds and attaches the comments to the appropriate posts. Right now it uses all the comments it can get hold of — the number should perhaps be limited. Or posts with new comments should be pulled to the top? This could be sorted with JavaScript, but I don’t want to mess with it right now. Feel free to beat me to it :-)

I’ve also digged deep in my image archive and found some images of Lars, Mikkel, and Janus. If you guys have any better images then just send them to me. I’ve tried to correct the colors a bit, so if you have any complaints just let me know.

I’m 24 years old today, so in a hexadecimal world, I would now be old enough (0x18 years) to get a drivers license and to get in at the fancy discoteques… in this world I guess it just means that I’m a little older than last year :-)

Stéphanie and I are down in Wallis and today we’ll go to Italy with her parents to have real italian pizza for dinner — you can do such crazy things here in Switzerland! Actually it’s just half an hour with train from Brig, Switzerland to Domodossola, Italy. I think it’s going to be cool!

In other news today: I’m updating the planet soon so that the comments will be displayed too. Maybe I’ll even do some nice JavaScript trickery so that you can show/hide the comments yourself… The generation of the page is almost trivial using the amazing, universal feedparser for [Python][]. But you’ll still have to wait a bit for it…

Accourding to several more or less reliable sources, I’m once more going to be a teaching assistant in the course on security (Sikkerhed in Danish). I guess there’s also an email hiding for me somewhere to confirm it, but now that I have the planet as my all-imcompassing source of news, why bother checking?

Being a TA is very cool — you get to talk for hours about stuff that interest you, and you get paid for it even! So I liked being a teaching assistant, and I hope my students liked it as well :-)

I’ve been messing around with the dates in Planet DAIMI this evening in an attempt to have the all outputted in our preferred timezone: European Standard Time, a.k.a. GMT+1. It finally worked, but I still managed to become mildly upset about the whole mess about timezones, local time, offsets, etc. :-)

But luckily I find [Python][] a mightly fine language to hack around in — the syntax is simply great and the way you can play with lists (called “list-comprehensions“) is too cool.

I did it! :-)

Thomas made a cool little quiz where you had to guess what kind of food he was making, and I happened to guess correctly — he made the good old Danish dish of meat balls, called frikadeller by us Danes. Great idea — when’s the next quiz Thomas?