18th January 2006, 04:32 pm
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 :-)
16th January 2006, 11:42 pm
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.
16th January 2006, 10:56 pm
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?
14th January 2006, 05:48 pm
Using the very nice [Python][] script Planet Planet! I have now made one for myself and my friends: http://mgeisler.net/daimi/. As the name suggests, it aggregates the news feeds of my friends from [DAIMI][].
Simple and fun! :-)
Update: I’ve tweaked the [CSS][] a bit to produce margins for the post content — and thus to avoid having the faces collide with any right-aligned images you guys post yourself. Let me know of if you use any fancy CSS classes that you would like me to add…
14th January 2006, 04:58 pm
I logged into [DAIMI][] today using the usual DNS alias fresh-horse.daimi.au.dk. This alias is points to the most “fresh” machine out of a number of machines named horse01 … and counting upwards.
Now the sys admins have apparently grown tired of the horses and have switched to camels, for I was logged into camel04 :-) I love this idea of such an alias!
At the [ETH][] things are much more chaotic — the two times I’ve had to log into the network from home I had to search for a long time to find the name of a suitable host! I couldn’t find it on any of the official ETH pages — in the end I found a working hostname somewhere in an exercise sheet for some course in distributed systems.