Adventures with Computers
In the continued effort to cleanup my site I uploaded the Gospel of Tux yesterday. Another text which I had a copy of at my old site is the essay “In the Beginning was the Command Line” by Neal Stephenson.
Since my copy was just a direct copy I’ve decided that there isn’t much point in me putting it up again. A much more interesting read is this commentary by Garrett Birkel.
Stéphanie and I were watching the yearly Eurovision Song Contest yesterday, and it was a lot of fun! And let me just reveal here at the beginning that Denmark didn’t win… and neither did Switzerland… but Denmark lost to Switzerland! Grrr! :-)
At the beginning things looked really well for Denmark. Our song was quite nice and we quickly rose almost to the top of the charts. And we were ahead of Switzerland, even though they followed us closely.
But then something went wrong and suddenly Switzerland was leading the competition, to Stéphanie’s huge enjoyment! Their “Cool Vibes” song by the Vanilla Ninjas was okay, even though the text was a bit strange, containing a chorus with the text “Why did you kill me?”. I think the idea was that someone beyond the grave would talk back to some murderer?
A little later Switzerland have to leave the first place, and Denmark came ahead of Switzerland again. The score remained like that with Denmark being 5-10 points ahead of Switzerland, but then at the very end Switzerland got the maximum 12 points and jumped ahead of Denmark! (Stéphanie was jumping too… :-)
But in the end it didn’t matter — Greece won the contest with a song by Helena Paparizou. In old Greek mythologi Helena was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world — and the present day Helena still looks quite pretty.
I don’t remember what the song was about, but I remember that there was some lively choreography where she was lifted up in the air several times. At one point she played something that should look like violin strings while being held in the air — a bit amusing, but nice to look at.
Next year the show will be in Athens, for the first time in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Seen in that light, it’s only fair that Greece wins after having tried to do so in 31 years :-)
At my old site I had a copy of the wonderful Gospel of Tux — so here it is again!
I’m not quite sure where this text comes from, but I’ve found it posted at lots of places around the Internet. Credit goes to “Lennier” or whoever actually wrote it.
In addition to my enhanced Markdown plugin, I’m now using Denis de Bernardy’s cool Smart link plugin. This lets me to link to my old posts using only their title, and to categories using only their name.
I’ve been putting the old posts into proper categories, fixing mistakes in the conversion, and generally making sure that they integrate properly in their new home in [WordPress][].
I’ve also added comments here and there as can be seen on the right where the Fuzzy Recent Comments plugin shows exactly that: a fuzzy amount of recent comments :-)