Terry Pratchett
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
This is relevant to my internets.
twisted
\o/DAW Fantasy
Today I started reading C.S. Friedman’s “Black Sun Rising,” which is published by DAW Fantasy and I have to say that I’ve never seen this many typos in one single book. On the first 64 pages I found at least 5 typos and one grammar error - highlights include the misspelling of one of the characters’ names (Damien was written as Damian) and tee instead of tea. Typos are to be expected in a book that’s hundreds of pages long, and I don’t mind seeing a few in a book, but one every nine pages certainly way too much. It makes me wonder if they had a sudden editor shortage before they published the book or if DAW’s editors are simply lousy or lazy.
On the bright side, this edition is from 1994, so there might be a chance that the newer books have less errors…
Interesting Life.
Quick, fashion a climbing harness out of cat-6 cable and follow me down.
Quelle: xkcd
Binary clock
My new hobby: Microcontrollers.
I just finished my first project: a binary clock. It displays the time in three columns with six LEDs each, which show (from left to right) seconds, minutes and hours. The time can be set using two buttons.
I wrote the code all by myself, with occasional help from HK. The microcontroller I used is an ATmega8.
Pics:
Might not be pretty, but at least it looks better than its backside - multiplexing LEDs is hell.
If you ask nicely I might just publish the code 
Edit: Nicely asked, code delivered into the public domain. 
The algorithm
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
(Siehe hier)
Whose side are you on?
There is only one war, and it’s not the rich against the poor, the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg, or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It’s those of us who aren’t complete idiots against those of us who are.