My printer didn’t arrive yesterday, so I’ll have to wait until Monday.

I don’t really have that much time this weekend anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. Today I’ll pickup my Grandma from Mols — it’s a 115 kilometer (72 miles) drive, both ways. She is coming to Aalborg because of Kristoffers (my littlebrother) confirmation. The rest of the family is also coming by train from Funen.

Today I’ve received a mail from www.itbutikken.dk that said that they’ve sent my printer! If I’m really lucky, it’ll arrive today — but if it doesn’t, it should arrive on Monday.

www.itbutikken.dk has a really great Track & Trace-system where you can get up-to-the-minute information about your order. The page is update when they confirm the order, when they send the items etc…

So it seams that I get a chance to print at least one of my physics reports using the printer, assuming that I can get it to work properly :-)

Yes I know — I should update this page more often. But I’ve just been busy lately… So let me just give you an update on what I’ve been up to:

Making Physics reports

Because we’re a little behind schedule in physics, we’ve had to make a report every week for the last six weeks. That’s simply too much… But now I’ve finally managed to write most of them — one more and I’m all done!

The problem is, that we’re experimenting with the same stuff that we did last year: we’ve made two reports about how radioactive elements behave… It pretty boring stuff, and because there’s so many questions, you can’t really just finish it quickly.

Sort-project

I’ve been fooling around with a lot of pointers lately — we’re writing a program that implements several different algorithms for sorting a linked list. It a project we’re making in our computer-science class, by “we” I mean: Cookie, Ole and Tais.

I’ve written something that resembles a Quicksort, but so far it can only be called a semi-slow-Quicksort :-) It’s slower that a Mergesort Ole has written, but at least it’s quicker that a Treesort I’ve made…

Hopefully we’ll be able to optimize it a bit before the project it finished.

Waiting for my EPL-5800PS

First I was told by www.itbutikken.dk that my printer would arrive on April the 25th. But it didn’t show up — now they say that it’ll be here on May the 10th. I really hope that they’re correct this time.

It’s a shame that it won’t make it before I’ve finished all my physics reports — I’m can’t wait to print my beautiful reports written in LaTeX with a 1200 DPI printer :-)

I’ll try to make another update soon — but my first written exam is on May the 10th, so don’t expect too much activity up to that “event”.

My littlebrother bought Black & White the other day, and have been playing it constantly ever since… And I must say, that this is probably the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen. The amount of detail in the graphics are simply stunning. If you zoom in, you can see the expressions on peoples faces, and if you zoom all the way out, you end up looking down on your island through some nice fluffy clouds.

The graphics reminds me of Populous The Beginning and the AI-part of the gameplay reminds me of Dungeon Keeper. Peter Molyneux has developed all these games — a very talented guy. Like in Dungeon Keeper you control everything by using your Hand — you can pick things up and put them down again (or throw then around). One of the goals was to remove all icons from the game — this means that you select your miracles by doing gestures on the ground: drawing the correct symbol activates the right miracle.

Black & White also has some quite interesting network features, like a built-in email-client, a weather-system that gives you the same weather in the game, as the one you have outside your windows. Your Creature (you have a learning creature that can help you) also maintains a real homepage on the Internet! When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke, but it really is true — amazing :-)

In case you’re interested, then I’ve updated the page about myself — there’s now even a picture…