Music inspired by the weekend

It is time now time to once again face the monday morning blues in just a couple of hours. I am not finished with the weekend yet. I have to finish a written assignment in Discrete Mathematics that must be handed in before 12:00 pm tomorrow. Knowing that I want to give some music-hints that may make the monday morning a bit more easy to handle.

Lenny Kravitz - Heaven Help

War - Low Rider

Jay & The Americans - Come A Little Bit Closer

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - I Believe I Can Fly

Morten ABel - Hard To Stay Awake

This should set you off real nice tomorrow morning. Anyone by the way that happens to be a bit of genious when it comes to Discrete Mathematics? Mail me!. I am just kidding. But seriously, if you are then send me a message.

Tonight I am going to dream I am snowboarding down a hill and drinking beer in the evening in Chamonix.

Busted wing

Airbus was conducting tests on the wings of the mighty A380 when the wing cracked and was destroyed. The testing is accomplished with the wing being bent upwards, way beyond its limitations until it snaps.

The cracking occured when the wing was bent 7.4 metres out of the original travel of the wing during normal turbulence. This is said to be completely normal for the wing to burst like this under such testing. The likeliness that this aircraft will ever have to face that type of weather that makes the wing travel out of its standard in that way is like zero.

All aircraft companies have to carry out such tests to find the limits of the material they build the aircraft of. And also to find out if the computers were right in their calculations on the aicraft.

The Airbus A380

is currently touring the world where Airbus engineers and pilots are testing the aircrafts behavior in different environments. About a month ago Airbus did a series of high altitude testing flying the A380 from Tolouse, the base of Airbus in France to Medellin, Colombia which is located in a small valley at about 7000 ft. (2 133 m). Right now the Airbus is visiting the cold and harsh climate of Canada and then it heads further east to visit Asian Aerospace `06 in Singapore.

"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

- Michael Sinz

Happy Valentine`s Day Everybody!

On this day, 60 years ago in 1946 the very first electronic computer saw the light of day for the first time at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, ENIAC. It took two people three years to build and weighed 30.000 kg. Six women was hired as programmers and it used electricity like a small village.

But the term personal computer as we are familiar with today did not appear public before 1962 in an article in the New York Times

-New York Times article reporting John W. Mauchly's vision of future computing spoken to a meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers that previous day. Mauchly told the gathering, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer."

Source:Wikipedia

In Norway the first computer of this kind arrived in 1951 and was called NUSSE. It was a bit smaller than the ENIAC computer. By 1964, twelve computers were in use in Norway and 16 more had been ordered.

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And as my Valentine`s Day surprise gift to all of you from me, I bring you some photos from the last years event of Gumball 3000 in London...

Writings in the sand

I did not get any of the jobs I applied for at the Studentradioen or as a photographer for Under Dusken. They phoned me last week from Studentradioen and informed me that I had not reached up in the competition. I haven`t heard anything from Under Dusken yet, but I consider it as lost to another and better opponent as they told me at the interview that I had to have the last weekend vacant. Since they have not tried to reach me I think the job is already occupied by now. Anyhow, I will apply next semester, this fall that is. Now I feel more confident and secure of what they are looking for and I feel they are looking for students with a bit more knowledge on the student community and a broader network within the University as a whole.

My studies are going steady forward with my weekly submissions in Discrete Mathematics and readings on East-Asia, System Engineering and this course that is based on ICT, Information and Communication Technologies herein how technology shapes our society and most importantly, how we contribute and shape technology ourselves. Tomorrow I am going to meet my group in the course on ICT for the first time. We will consist of three people in all and we are going to work on the submission for this week in the ICT-course with a deadline on friday. Anyway, it is just another manic monday