One-Click patent is still old and obvious

Posted on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 in Politics • Tagged with Amazon, One-Click

Guess "USPTO":http://uspto.gov/ has _some_ common sense as they have just "reaffirmed that the 1-Click Claim is 'Old And Obvious'":http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/1933206. They should just abandon software patents altogether, as they are "bad":http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m …


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Christmas morning...

Posted on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Christmas, Gifts

IMG_0072.JPG Its christmas morning, everyone is still sleeping. The only sounds in the house, is the sound of me wrapping the last gifts. This year I have done my due diligence and everything should have been in order, but alas "{color: #000; background-color: #000;}Apple":http://www.apple.com didn't, and …


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Happy Birthday Perl!

Posted on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 in Technology • Tagged with Perl

sm_perl_id_bk_wt.gifRumor has it that this fine december day, Perl5Porters is giving us "Perl 5.10":http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/, the best Perl 5 yet. I hope its true, because 5.10 contains loads of fun and useful new features! Well... Its still *very* early in the …


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Is numeric?

Posted on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 in Technology • Tagged with Oracle

obstacle10.jpg I have a varchar in a table on an Oracle 8i database, and I wanted to select only those tuples that contain numbers. Had I used PostgreSQL I could just have used a regex, which is nice and Perl like. But this is Oracle and so the "Enterprise solution" to …


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I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

Posted on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Blog

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!


iDid!

Posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Wedding

572" alt="" width="300" height="200" />Months of planing finally came together to the most perfect day ever! I would like to extend my greatest thanks and appreciation to our friends and family. Thank you for making our big day picture perfect! Thanks to my beautiful bride, for saying "I …


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Guess someone got a new job

Posted on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Funny

The local bus service for the elderly just got a new driver, alas he does not fully remember the route just yet ;)


Now only 42 days until iDo!

Posted on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Wedding

Invitations have been sent out, plans have been made - much still needs to be done, but I think "we'll make":http://bryllup.olrik.dk/ it! It's going to be great!


Back to $work

Posted on Tue, 08 May 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Family, Work

My paternity leave is at an end, and today I returned to my regular day job. While it would have been nice to stay at home for a while longer, it was nice to be back! Now I just have to wade through the 2 months of email that is …


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Numbers are fun! - And can't be censored...

Posted on Thu, 03 May 2007 in Technology

Everyones new favorit number seems to be 13256278887989457651018865901401704640 or if you want it in hex 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 It even has a website