Monthly Archives: September 2004

Half a year

Posted on September 24, 2004 by Ken

These days it is six months since I started working at Laerdal Sophus. It is amazing how quickly that time has passed. So far it has been just as educational and fun as I had hoped for.

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Ida has left the country

Posted on September 21, 2004 by Ken

Today my littlesister left Danmark to travel around in New Zealand for three months. I already miss her.

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The birth of Naja

Posted on September 21, 2004 by Ken

A bit delayed, but here is the account of Naja’s birth. Maria started to have contractions Monday (the 13′th) morning. While the contractions where painful, they where also short of of duration and irregular in frequency. In the evening Kamille … Continue reading →

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Tucking in early…

Posted on September 13, 2004 by Ken

We are tucking in early tonight. Because, judging the signs, we will have to get up during the night…. Update 2004-09-14: No we did not need to get up during the night.

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Changing website

Posted on September 12, 2004 by Ken

It is just a small change, yet it feels like a big step. This evening I made a new (sketchy) webpage in the friislarsen.net domain, and redirected my old page at the IT University to the new page. Now I … Continue reading →

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Shared snapshots

Posted on September 8, 2004 by Ken

Yesterday I bought an external hard-disk for backups. To make the backups I’ve rolled my own script (snapshot.sh) that uses rsync to make a snapshot of my home-partition and transfer it to the external hard-disk. The interesting part is, that … Continue reading →

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Pictures from Kamille’s birthday

Posted on September 2, 2004 by Ken

I have uploaded a new photo album with pictures from Kamille’s birthday and two short movies with Kamille saying “thank you” to her friends from Utah who sent her a lovely dress.

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Now with Java

Posted on September 1, 2004 by Ken

Following up on the benchmark from yesterday, I’ve produced a Java version of the queens benchmark (queens.java). Below is the updated graph. I have a suspision that the reason Mono and Java is performing so bad is not only due … Continue reading →

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