April 2006 Archives
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:44:37 +0000
snowboard season's balance sheet
www.hoehenmeter.com is interesting. I can check there how often I went snowboarding this winter with my season ticket, how many times I used which lift on a specific day and - as the domainname suggests - meters in altitude per run and day.
I was pleasantly surprised that I had managed 25 days although my season was cut short due to scribed (but not completely torn) ligaments in my ankle joint. See below one of my longer days.
| time | location | minutes | meters in altitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | Uga Bergfahrt | 5 | 448m |
| 09:29 | Hasenbühel | 6 | 512m |
| … | |||
| 15:30 | Walisgaden | 3 | 163m |
| total | 10247m |
Update: More data here.
-----Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:24 +0000
Mozilla security update needs testing
Mozilla 1.7.13 has been released, fixing a bunch of issues and Alexander Sack has already prepared a update for sarge based on 1.7.13.
Please test it, especially if you are using extensions or other packages depending on mozilla (or its libraries), like e.g. evolution or galeon.
-----Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:00:49 +0000
how to make useless recommendations
I have wonderded about amazon's stupidity before however I am still surprised about the uselessness of its automatic recommendations. If I bought book A by author X amazon will recommend books B, C, D, &c. by the same author. - That is the whole algoritm afaict.
Not very surprising the implemention of the algoritm is broken, amazon also recommends paperback edition of book A and German translation of book A. Aargh.
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