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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Coloring stuff
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Seeing that I got nothing better to do, I finished up a half done project of mine the other day.
I wrote this program mostly just because I was messing around with different pathing/filling algorithms and the Java PixelGrabber class.
The program lets you color different motives (animals, people, vehicles, etc..) and I’ve probably spent more time coloring dogs and bunnies than actual programming 
Download Kolor with Kribsy
Kribsy BTW is a poorly drawn imaginary bunny with self esteem issues and a knack for painting stuff
Lady Java (Javazone song)
Friday, August 13th, 2010Check out this awesome music video for JavaZone
I guess we CAN make cool music that’s not Black Metal. Haven’t felt such a surge of patriotism since the good old days.
The song says what I’ve been saying for years (except I’m usually not as polite): “Some people prefer other languages, and that’s OK if you’re retarded I guess”
Astrology (channeling XKCD)
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I’ve always found the following weird naming convention kinda strange and annoying:
Somewhat inspired by xkcd
Google analytics (Big tits!)
Monday, June 7th, 2010I love google analytics*, it’s great and awesome in all sorts of ways that I won’t go into right now, instead allow me to present some funny search queries that have all somehow led people to this blog.
*For those of you who didn’t know, Google Analytics is a way to know how many people visit your website, what they search for, or where they come from, etc…
variations of “stargate universe sucks” - 1100 hits
variations of “new star trek movie sucks” – 1800 hits
So far so good, at least there are a few people out there with good taste, but it is when you get down to the more unique searches, those with only a few hits that you find the weird stuff.. Apparently even tough Stargate Universe sucks, somebody on the show has huge (or big) tits 
Stargate universe big tits - 13
stargate universe girl with big tits - 6
“stargate universe” “big tits” - 2
big tits on sgu - 2
big tits stargate universe -3
girl with big tits on stargate universe - 1
actress with the huge tits on stargate universe - 1
who is the girl with the big tits on stargate universe? - 1
biggest tits on stargate universe - 1
chick with huge tits on stargate universe - 1
sgu stargate universe big tits - 1
star gate universe big tits - 1
stargate universe huge tits - 1
sgu kills off big tits?- 1
stargate universe chick with huge tits- 1
stargate universe chick with big tits- 5
I can only assume they are looking for pictures of Julia Benson:
Hmmm. I just realized that due to it’s questionable content, this post will undoubtedly attract more hits from people with nothing better to do than googling for Julia Bensons boobs..
So I might just as well throw in another picture, I’d hate for people to leave here empty handed.
Some other weird searches with only 1 hit
why do the shields on the enterprise suck?
– I have no idea, the real question is why would somebody write that phrase in a search engine?
mexican knick knacks
– I bet this guy was especially disappointed with my blog 
why are everyone in stargate universe morons?
- I… Don’t… Know…
all video editing software sucks and makes no sense at all
- You should stick to pictures, they are simpler to wrap your head around
best brand donkey balls chocolates
- I’m afraid to even comment on this one
fedcon convention swine flu
- Hah! I see I was not the only one worried about swine flu duing fedcon 2009. Not so much worried about catching it, as guests not showing up
feed trondheim
- I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye out for starving children
jello shot launcher
- Let me know if you find one!
ms paint police
- These guys should have a SWAT unit!
Bye bye Godaddy.com (aka Godaddy sucks post)
Thursday, May 20th, 2010I’ve been using godaddy.com for registering domain names for like 10 years, and during that time their account management pages have become slower and slower, and overfilled with commercials and special offers to the point where the task of logging in to change DNS stuff became unbearable. I decided to move, expecting to pay more (which I was more than willing to do for a less cluttered management interface), but I found out it was actually cheaper at the new place.
Today I transferred most of my domains (16) from godaddy to one of the best alternatives I could find: Dynadot.com
Price
Here are the prices for renewals for the domain types I have, and dynadot does very favorable. Their prices are also easy to find, and they don’t have tons of weird sales or try to sell you all kinds of CRAP when dealing with them..
| Godaddy | Dynadot | |
| .com | 10.87$ | 9.25$ |
| .org | 15.17$ | 9.25$ |
| .net | 13.17$ | 9.25$ |
| .info | 8.17$* | 9.25$ |
| .me | 19.99$ | 19.99$ |
* there is a sale on .info domains at godaddy, regular price is 10.87$
These prices where collected from their websites May 20th 2010.
NOTE: I think if you have MANY domains, godaddy might be a little bit cheaper than Dynadot.
So all in all I’m saving around 15-20$ a year by moving to Dynadot, but I would gladly pay that amount extra just to get away from the horrible godaddy management pages which sucks.
Domain management interface
Here are some side by side comparisons of Godaddy.com (left) and Dynadot.com (right):
Main account page
Domain page
The Dynadot pages are a LOT less cluttered, does not use lots of popups/dialog boxes and is much more faster and responsive than godaddy’s interface.
So if you have a bunch of domains at godaddy and have gotten tired of the constant cluttering, special offers and crap they push on you, Just go somewhere else
The Transfer process
Transferring from godaddy.com to dynadot.com also went extremely smooth and fast with no downtime:
- Unlock the domain(s) at the godaddy domain manager, and click the button to send transfer code by email
- You now get an email for every domain you have, with a transfer code
- Enter the domain name(s) and transfer code(s) at dynadot, then pay and proceed to checkout.
- You now get a confirmation email from dynadot for each domain, with a link to a page where you just click “confirm transfer”
- After about 15-30 minutes you get an email from godaddy asking you to accept or cancel the transfer.
- When that email has arrived, log in and go to the domain manager, scroll over the “domains” menu and select “pending transfers”, then just mark of the domains you’ve selected for transfer and click “accept”
- After that the domain should disappear from your godaddy domain manager and show up at dynadot instead within the hour.
Renewing a domain, Godaddy VS Dynadot
This is what one has to go trough in order to renew a domain name, it pretty much explains why I stopped being a godaddy customer
Dynadot
Godaddy
The Infrared Thermometer
Monday, May 17th, 2010I just got this neat gadget from ebay:
It can measure almost anything from -32 to 350c at a distance using a infrared sensor.
So far I’ve made some amazing scientific discoveries for mankind:
- The surface temperature of hands and arms varies between 33-36 c
- The perfect frying pan temperature for making veggie burgers is 220 c
- 65-70c is the optimal temperature a slice of pizza
- A sleeping ferret only has a temperature of 28c, thanks to good insulating fur
- The thermometer can be used to detect sleeping ferrets (there are lots of blankets in the living room)
- The mean temperature difference between the floor and ceiling in my apartment is 2.2c
- Driving at 80 km/h on a motorcycle a cold spring night gives your legs a surface temperature of 16 c (full riding gear).
- The paint from a can of spray paint (the kind used for cars/motorcycles) is quite cold: 0-1 c
- When using quick epoxy, the chemical reaction from mixing the base and primer makes the epoxy 35 c (in a 14 c ambient temperature).
The tapwater temperature
In an effort to prevent Stacy from using to hot water while making lemonade, I measured the temperature in 100 ml increments, showing that the water will at first have the room temperature of the kitchen, followed by the room temperature of the basement before reaching the optimal 4-5 c temperature. This took around 8 liters (or 15 seconds), but will of course vary from building to building.
Chocolate drink blind testing
Friday, May 7th, 2010I saw a new chocolate drink (Q sjokolademelk) with the advertisement “Norways Best” written on the package in the store a couple of days ago, so I decided to do a blind test with that and 3 other brands of chocolate milk.
I tested the 4 brands at 4 tests, and rated them on a scale from 1 (worst) to 10 (best). Thanks to Stacy for being the lab assistant during the tests btw
As the results show, the new “Best in Norway” chocolate milk tasted like crap, while the one I usually buy (Tine sjokomelk) was beaten by a small margin by Litago (also from “Tine”). At least my regular brand had a very low standard deviation . The winners were “Litago original sjokolademelk” and “Litago lettere sjokolademelk”, with the latter having a lower standard deviation (consistently yummy) and being crowned the winner of the test:
Carl Sagan picture
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010I needed a picture of Carl Sagan for a project (I’ll post some info and pictures on this project soon).
Anyway, this was the best image I could find, but it’s kinda old, blurry so I fixed the colors, contrast, sharpness removed artifacts, etc.. in photoshop and I think the end result is pretty good considering my photoshop noobness. So if your looking for a large good picture of Carl Sagan (And let’s be hones, who would NOT want such a picture??) here it is:
original to the left.. shopped to the right (The improvements don’t really become visible until you view the large version)
Click to view larger
Bye bye mr scooter
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I just sold my scooter today (CPI Popcorn), I hated riding that underpowered 50cc thing. And since starting to ride a larger motorcycle every time I’ve actually been on the scooter it’s felt unstable and outright dangerous to ride.
But now it’s gone, and it’s time to remember the good times. After all we shared 11400 km which is the equivalent of a drive from Trondheim, Norway to Kathmandu, Nepal.
After 5 years of faithful service, at least it left with a smile:
