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I have been using dvorak mainly as my keyboard layout now for a while. I haven’t still completely forgotten qwerty, although it has gotten a bit slower than my typing speed with dvorak is at the moment.
I still wonder if my qwerty typingspeed would have gone up by at least the same amount, if I had worked with it as much as I have worked with dvorak. I’m still quite a slow typer. I do not know my exact WPM value, but I prefer to just say that I type faster than some people. Although I do have a few friend, who have a reasonably higher WPM count, than I do.
I feel that my typing speed might have gone up by some percents lately, but I think that the amount that it has gotten better might be too little to mention. How ever, I have clearly noticed that this type of writing does cause you to move your fingers considerably less, than qwerty typing does. This

I just finished reading this comic book about one animators journey to North Korea. It was a disturbing piece of reading. The art wasn’t the best and there were no photographs included in the book, but the “authorities” at North korea might get most of the blame about these.
The name of the book was PYONGYANG a journey to north korea and this was made by Guy Delisle. The book showed that many of the privileges that we take for granted here, are not around everywhere, even though they should be.
The funny thing about this was how this book made me to question the western society. Even though I think that what we have is right, it is possible that someone else would see great flaws in our system. The people who thought that nothing could be better then in North Korea are fairly similar to the people who think that nothing could be better than in the western world here.
I hope that no one takes this out of the context and starts to blame me on hating the western world. While I think that many of the things that we have are great and I like how open we are in many things, there are still things that could be better.
These do include things like bureaucracy. While this has been a great model in the past, it needs some serious rethinking today. The amount of papers that everyone has to have is just mind boggling. I know that it is just easy to complain about a problem without actually offering a solution for it, but that is just where I’m going to leave this now.

Fist plugin I tried put all of the posts that my wordpress blog had on one long grid. While this could be kind of useful, it didn’t really let me handle how they were spread out and the outcome wasn’t really what I would have hoped for.
Plugin used here was Grid Archives

The outline for this one looks kind of nice, but I could use some time to figure this one out.

This solution is far from perfect, but it does work a little like it is wished to work. I wonder if this project could be done with just HTML tables, or is there another reason to include some other software? I we were using HTML tables, the lines between components would of course be taken away. The text ‘something for the friday’ should also be taken away, but I imagine this could be done easily by modifying the php code.

It wouldn’t be a trouble to add pictures or links instead of just letters here.

I believe if we actually talk about this we could get a real deal out of the thing. Only sure way to find out is to talk about this. A simple HTML table would be the way that would cause least amount of work, but there are several other very interesting ways available.

There are for example PHP plugins that could read a whole MySQL table and print the output to a table, but this would require a ready table of data to output into the table. This would be just one of the things I would like to know at our interview.

Trying to remember how to open a URL with command + mouse click from IRC with iterm seemed to be just hard because there weren’t any decent how to for this, so I’ll try to make one of my own here.
First you need the iterm app and a browser, I use Google Chrome for this.
First you should go to Bookmarks and add a new one named Chrome or something similar, which executes the comman ‘open -a “Google Chrome” $$URL$$ ‘.
Now go to iterm Preferences > URL Handler and choose your chrome as the default handler for http.
After this it should work.

I did again a blog post on TextEdit and then I started reading it back to myself and it sounded really bad, so I decided that I’m not going to publish it here, where everyone could laugh at it. This itself tells you a little about how much faith I have on my own text.
I have been working on some Java code today. Only difficult thing is at the moment that when I want to make a popup window and I search for some tips with Google, the only thing seems to be how to do it with javascript. I know that these aren’t really even close to each other, but really hard for me to say really anything to this right now.
I was just thinking that how much people in the university for something like literature have to write for their normal assignments. I got some information that a normal essay would be around 5000 words. Even with this 500 words a day pace it would take 10 days to write one essay. The writing isn’t most likely even close to the difficult part. You have to read it again and again to yourself and revising it each time and so on.
I should maybe think about renting a movie tonight. I was thinking of Tom Cruises Knight and Day. I think that it would be something where you really shouldn’t use your brains, but just to watch the movie and be entertained. I’m not sure if many people would use the word entertained with this movie, but I could look at some reviews now.
Only 6.4 from IMDB. That isn’t a too great score. Well, I did have a look at some other possibilities like SALT and it had done about as badly as this movie had. But I wished for a movie where I shouldn’t really think at all and these two look perfect for that purpose. I think that I should see if Knight and Day is for rent at our local library and that should make the decision.
I have now written about 1000 words for today. Including this short post and the 666 words I wrote on TextEdit. I think that it isn’t still too much, but it’s a start for today. I could still use some time for programming and that would include some writing (surprise). Just to go back to the previous topic about these essays. 1000 words a day is a really bad outcome, when you think that this text hasn’t really been read through or edited at all. But I think that this will be enough text for this morning.