Fruitbox

Just a little post noting that the visitor counter turned 4000 today!

I just wanted to post that I’ve now gotten a page at The Mod Archive, modarchive.com. Check it out: here!

The Keybuoy!
If you drop your keys in the water, they’ll float right back at you, this is the Keybuoy! (did I spell that right).

I laughed so much while listening to this:
Daily Giz Wiz 149: Keybuoy

So you want more visitors to your website, homepage, weblog, blog, blogsite, webpage, bloghomesitepage, whatever?
I got an answer to the question: Write about how to increase website traffic!

What a wonderful recursion.

The fruitbox is becoming somewhat confusing with the Swedish/English mix everywhere, so I’m trying to change this by organising the content a bit differently.
Most posts on this page will be in English and I’ve set up a dedicated page for my Twitter feed, which will be in Swedish, so I’ll try to keep the smaller, more personal things there.
Sometimes one wishes there would only be one language.

“It’s your language, I’m only trying to use it” — Victor Borge

Jag är inte mycket för denna typ av musik, men Whammer Jammer är ett undantag!

Gå längst ner på sidan och prova! Nu kan vem som helst chatta med mig från denna sida!

Those lists are everywhere.
So here is my take on the computer programmer/scientist one:

1. No one understands what you are saying (see point 4 for ONE possible explanation).
2. You realise it’s pointless to try changing the world, because you don’t have the source code.
3. When facing the concrete problems of daily life, you think to yourself: “If only this had been software…”
4. You sometimes speak in 256-bit Rijndael, just in case!
5. The following strikes you as funny in an odd way: See point 5.
6. Who would use Java and coffee in the same sentence?
7. You think of your life in terms of if-conditions…
8. …Wait! Switch statements might be more efficient in this case, really!
9. You make stupid lists like “You know when you’re been a computer programmer/scientist for too long when”.
10. When something is broke you turn to your trusty old debugger.
11. You immediately realise this is a binary number.
12. You know how to pronounce Knuth the ‘right’ way.
13. C# is your favourite key of music.
14. You think of how to hack your own IDisposable pattern.
15. You think this list ends at 15.
16. Or maybe not, cause there are 16 digits!
17. You occasionally use phrases like: modular decomposition and finite state machine.
18. When you do something wrong you realise you need to overlook your exception handling.
19. When you participate in any sport involving catching balls, you try to avoid the ball, because you don’t like exceptions.
20. You wonder if your body employs mark-and-sweep garbage collection.
21. You know it’s difficult to do two things simultaneously, but you do know that if you switch between them really fast no one will notice.
22. You agree on at least five points of the above.

Expand the list by commenting on the post!

As a follow-up to last post about website traffic, I am going to list a few random keywords people have searched for that ended up on my site. These date from a couple of months back to this day.

fruitbox
fruktskål
tvättsvamp
lejongap
Poincarés
happy birthday lithuanian
psi spår
en fruktskål
ordspråk avigsidan
skärmläsare vista
elephant
…

…without having a million friends, and not writing content that everyone wants?
Well well… wouldn’t that be great, you ask. Besides from adding your site to directories and search engines, what can you do? The obvious answer is: not much. Sometimes in the last century people would tell you to use smart keywords in your meta-tags. This isn’t that important anymore, but it’s nevertheless a factor to consider. It’s the content that matters. So if you, like me, host something very few people read (i.e. as I mentioned earlier, content that “no one” wants), then be happy you have a small trusty audience and not a million spammers, ha!
Or else start filling your page with ads related to sex, and be sure to get a lot of visitors, excluding me!
On the slightly more serious side: remember that we search using text, and results are found by text. You can’t put a nameless image of an apple on your page and expect people to find it by searching for ‘apple’ (yet…)

Tänkte det vore kul att lista alla netcasts jag prenumererar på.

Leo Laportes TWIT-nätverk (ett måste):

FLOSS Weekly
this WEEK in TECH
Windows Weekly
Security Now
net@nite
Daily GizWiz
Futures in Biotech

Övrigt:

Another Visitor
P1 Vetenskapsradion Tekno
P1 På minuten
The Math Factor

At BlindWebAccess.com you will find a petition I ask all of the readers of this blog to sign. You can read more about it at the mentioned site.
Yahoo is a big company, and their services should definitely be accessible to the blind and the visually impaired.

View and sign the petition here!

Då är man tillbaka igen efter något slags semester, bestående av konstigt väder, ständigt resande och tentaläsning.
Äntligen har jag fått motivation till att börja koka ihop ett seriöst album (musik alltså).
Jag har en bra grund med gamla låtar som ska med, och slutresultatet kommer troligen bli en ganska varierande blandning. Eftersom jag förutom piano spelar både blockflöjt och munspel har jag tänkt få med några duetter (med migsjälv). Det blir allt från Jim Brickman-aktigt pianospel till munspelsboogie till något större orkestrerat verk, och en eller tre valser i Chopin-stil.
Vad gäller munspelande har jag följt Adam Gussow på YouTube — bättre lektioner finns inte! Sök på “Gussow” eller “KudzuRunner” på YouTube!
Nu åter till algoritmernas och vektoranalysens värld…

My Materia Magica sigs, from Aodojo.com and pkzone.org, respectively: