Author Archives: Morten

Data sharing policies

Posted on 15.07.11 by Morten

I just got an email complaining about web scraping on a common data presentation portal to fetch data for the android app “Global Nuclear Watch” and bragging about some steps they had taken to stop it. I felt an answer … Continue reading →

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Aftenposten igjen…

Posted on 14.07.11 by Morten

Noen lærer visst aldri, telefonsalgsforsøk igjen selv om jeg klagde sist og følgende ble fyrt av til abbonementsavdelingen: “Kan dere få stappet inn i systemet deres at jeg IKKE, gjentar IKKE vil bli oppringt av aftenposten. Har dere noe tilbud … Continue reading →

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Nye Brød

Posted on 02.05.11 by Morten

Matkjedene fjerner gamle varer, så brødoppskriften må revideres. Det vil jo si at jeg går over fra å kjøpe en ferdig kornblanding til å blande selv, så egentlig er det jo et fremskritt: Ingredienser 100g Sesamfrø, 100g linfrø, 100g solsikkefrø, … Continue reading →

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Debian online upgrade from i386 to amd64 architecture

Posted on 17.04.11 by Morten

Jan 2011: Tried this recently on a P4 machine. After a library relink, the machine stopped working… I had to give in and do a fresh amd64 reinstall. No idea why it didn’t work now. Having a relatively freshly installed … Continue reading →

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svg and html

Posted on 23.02.11 by Morten

Using an uptodate browser (or a java script library, such as svgweb) it is fairly easy to integrate a svg file into a html page and to handle the svg-file from html, for a primer, see e.g. alistapart.com. Basically, when … Continue reading →

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Gammal gretten gubbe slår til igjen og sender brev til ntb

Posted on 21.02.11 by Morten

Aftenposten har artikkelen Henrettelse gikk galt i USA som bare henviser til ntb. Der står det: (…)har blitt henrettet ved hjelp av narkosemiddelet sodium thiopental lot til å være våkne(…) Kan dere lære journalistene at det er ikke noe som … Continue reading →

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SQL – setting and resetting in one query

Posted on 16.02.11 by Morten

A colleague has a web application where a number of flags can be set or reset using checkboxses. These flags corresponds to rows in a table. When they have been altered, those who are set are returned from the browser, … Continue reading →

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Making stripcharts using svg and javascript

Posted on 15.02.11 by Morten

April 2013: I have made a new project based on this, although for static plotting. I needed to present data in a webapplication using strip chart. From earlier experiences on data presentation, I knew that making bit mapped graphics to … Continue reading →

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En inngriper

Posted on 09.02.11 by Morten

På vei til jobben går jeg noen dager praktisk talt gjennom en skolegård. Normalt smiler jeg litt av barnas aktiviteter og holder et lite øye med hva som foregår for å i minst mulig grad krasje med noen når for … Continue reading →

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PHP Matrix multiplication

Posted on 08.02.11 by Morten

Needing to do some matrix multiplication in php, I found some code that looked quite promising, but it had a couple of problems: In addition to the matrixes, it needed the max dimentions of the matrixes as arguments and it … Continue reading →

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