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The Floppy party kicking into life today but unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this year. To at least get some of the good vibes, we scrambled 4/6 of the old Team Instinct and took a small roadtrip visiting the partyplace and hung out with the databoys in blue which as usual was a success..

Hopefully I’ll be able do some progress on my essay this weekend. Being too tired to hack on that I hacked out a small cvsroot backup script for DataHotellet accounts which will come in handy. It still needs some polishing but looks like a promising hack. More info on that and the essay tomorrow, now its GOTO BED in the pipeline.

Some 20 years or so ago my old man worked on the Ericsson PC development and wrote 8086 assembler, this week I wrote a FAT12 driver in 8086 realmode assembler for booting a school assignment from floppy.. the circle is closed, retf. Quite a lot of hacking has happened this week, hopefully I can keep the trend up over the weekend and make some good progress on my essay.

Another really cool thing is that the yearly booksale at Adlibris featured such classics as Unix Network Programming and Design of the UNIX Operating System for practically no money at all. My UNIX library is getting better and better.

Less exciting news is that I will have to miss out on this years Floppy event.. theres just not enough time..

Another busy day spent.. my apartement was in dire need of cleaning so I started doing that after eating breakfast and finishing my current book The Last Continent (review is in the writings section). I’ve started my sixth book this year now not including textbooks, if I keep up the pace I’ll end up reading around 60 books in 2005. While cleaning I decided to go the full length and ended up doing handwashing, folding clothes, haircutting aswell as a major cleaning. I can practically eat from the floors now (although soup would present a problem there). Freshness!

The evening was spent hacking at lock-free synchronization and the resulting implementation is a threaded program which update a global integer without any mutexes and without trashing the value.. time to get the old SMP big-iron out of the basement to do some serious multithreaded hacking! The code section got a small facelift too.

After a long inactive period it’s time to hack away at my essay again. I’ve decided to go ahead with combining traditional fine-grained locking and lock-free synchronization to try and achieve low latency as well as not too damn complicated code. Hopefully I’ll have some preliminary implementation results soon.

My research on efficient database synchronization over GPRS connections has been standing quite still too but lately I’ve been finding some interesting leads here aswell. Keep your fingers crossed, I do..

Saturday was spent at a classmates place working on our distributed RSA cracking project which seemed to make nice progres.. but after a few hours we discovered a major flaw in our original design which resulted in a total redesign of the entire project. Sigh.. Due to this somewhat unfortunate head-on collision with reality, my entire Sunday was spent rewriting design- and requirements documents. This was really the last thing I needed at the moment so of course it happened, Murphys Law in effect. Too much work and too little time.. Unless the workload change soon I’ll have to reevaluate my presence at Floppy 2005.

Snow has been pouring down all the weekend leaving the surroundings coated in white which is… totally useless. There really isn’t any use for snow unless it’s located in a steep slope.

Googlebot spent a few days traversing my server over and over last week and the results seems to have made it all the way to the central database, my logs now show an increasing amount of hits originating from googling. Since quite some hits were on my Keypoints in Data Communications document I spent some time cleaning it up yesterday.

Not much except schoolwork has happened lately and the forecast shows a shitload of more coming my way.. at least it keeps my insomnia away but..

I guess getting excited about bible-like textbooks on computer science classify me as a nerd.. but who cares? This is really cool news! My life will be more complete when I finally own all of them.

Saturday was spent at a mindblowing party at Eriks new penthouse in the klosterghetto hood.. a party that had it all: good friends, kickass DJ’ing and lighteffects all wrapped up in really nice apartement. I decided to hack up a three canvas set to the hosts of the party but got started late due to insane workloads at school, the result can be checked in the gallery. Big ups to Erik, Joel and Stille for kicking together such a bad-ass bash. It’s good to see that the Loosers-Online crew still know how to rip up a night although getting old.

I finally got off my lazy backside and added some hacks to the Gallery today. Among others are a few canvases and some stickers. Some of these will also be posted to Stencil Revolution so go vote for me . The sketches mentioned the other day from Wooster Collective can be seen here.

In school I received the results on the examen in Realtime Programming which I scored 58/60 on, very nice indeed. The evening was spent chilling at Jens place.. now for some PostGreSQL hacking!