http://www.scepticalmind.com The ramblings of a Danish sceptic liberal Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:58:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone! Dear friend, visitor or whatever your role might be. Please take the time to help me and my fellow computer science students get a free dinner at the Danish restaurant Jensens Bøfhus. They basically have a small competition running right now, where you can upload a picture and get voted ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/10/30/help-us-get-a-free-dinner-at-jensens/ I recently had a bit of a problem with a server running a Ruby on Rails application. I wanted to make sure the server didn't give out any information about service versions, however mod_rails didn't give any easy way of doing this within the module itself. I therefore began searching ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/10/30/removing-x-powered-by-mod-rails/ Hello everyone, I thought I would try something new today. I just bought a microphone a few months ago and haven't really attempted to get it tested yet, so I guess it was about time. For this reason I've recorded a small message to the world, summing up the status of ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/10/19/the-status-of-the-world-audio-version/ So I recently had to come up with a simple backup solution that didn't involve any fancy system and basically just gave one the opportunity to choose what directories to backup, where to back them up and notify if something goes wrong. So I came up with a solution which, in ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/09/28/simple-backup-script-with-notification/ I saw a new TV-add from "Elsparefonden" this morning. As many before it, it tried to get people to think about how much power they consumed and thereby consume less to save the environment. Before I go on, you can watch the add here from YouTube: So what's my problem with ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/09/11/energy-saving-hype/ This is probably the funniest Christian music I have ever heard.. Very very odd! http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/09/09/funny-christian-music/ !!VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA!! Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight' O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/09/04/tribute-to-the-american-flag/ When I originally decided to write this post I was a bit hesitant about attacking Linus too vigorously. I do have a huge amount of respect for what this man has achieved, however I'm not going to censor myself in any way and need to say what has been irritating ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/08/26/linus-torvalds-living-in-a-dream-world/ LEARN BIATCH! So as some of you may have read, I flunked Linear Algebra a few months ago due to picking a subject I hadn't read or prepared in any way. So this time it was up for a re-match and I kicked Linear Algebra's ass! Picking the subject ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/08/13/linear-algebra-pwn3d/ I was watching tv the other day and suddenly this add came up: Mikrolån: Du kan vælge at låne 1.000 kr. eller 2.000 kr. (til Danmarks laveste afgift). Lånet skal tilbagebetales inden 30 dage. Now.. this is obviously Danish. Roughly translated it means: Micro loans: You can choose to loan 1000 Danish Kroners ... http://www.scepticalmind.com/2008/08/06/folkia-loans-the-stupid-mans-loan/