Blågg

Secure beneath the watchful eyes..

// July 1st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Personlig, Tanker

I want one of these:

It’s a poster from the government body in charge of transportation in London, these were put up all over London back in 2002 when they first introduced CCTV cameras on all public transportation (?). As you might know, England is the country with the most surveillance in the world (1 CCTV camera for every 14 people) – 500.000 cameras in London, and 4.200.000 cameras in the entire country. The poster is like straight out of Orwell’s 1984, and I want one! I wonder if the people that made it were playing on the Big Brother theme, I hope they meant it sort as a joke..

There is apparently also a similar poster made by an american bus company, it looks more like a war poster though.

If you have any idea where I can get these, please let me know!

HÃ¥vard – Bringer of Entropy

// May 22nd, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Bog-skinke, Personlig

Green plot is me walking from home to Fløyen. Red plot is my route back home trying to follow Håvard. Not even experts in the field of Chaos Theory can predict his path.

Updates..

// December 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personlig

Current annoyances:

•  Saying that I almost never get sick (not been sick for over a year), and then catch a bad cold the very next week..
• Umbrella-thieves, 2 in 3 days, come on.. are these guys organized or what?
• The kilo-price of passports..
• Showers without warm water..
• Running out of interesting courses to take next semester… I know I’ll take INF251 and one of INF235/INF236.. Not sure about the 3rd yet..

Bright sides:

• Almost done with this semester, 2 exams left, first exam went really well.
• Almost Christmas, heading back home some time after the 18th.
• Heading to Tenerife first thing next year with HÃ¥vard and Karl Trygve. Hoping for warm water and great weather
• Seems like Apple is releasing an ultraportable laptop early next year, with flash-disk and all! Doubt I’ll get the first edition, but it’s good news..
• Some hackers managed to get access to the GPU (RSX) on the PS3.

Return of the Blågg.

// August 25th, 2007 // No Comments » // Personlig

I’ve decided to revive my old BlÃ¥gg, in English this time around.

Summer is over and I’m back in Bergen, finishing the last year of my Bachelors degree. Spent most of the rainy summer in Haugesund, working at Diptel on an asterisk based IP-PBX along with my friend HÃ¥vard (same as last year really).

I did take a few days off and spent them hiking on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau with my neighbor and fellow student Mathias. We started out up north in Finse (train from Bergen) and ended up somewhere just outside Rjukan in the south (bus back to Haugesund). The weather forecast scared us a bit before leaving, luckily we ended up with 5 days of great weather. Also had a really strange run in with one of my lecturers this semester, Jan Arne Telle, he’s a professor at UiB – teaching algorithms . I didn’t know who he was at the time, but we ran into him a couple of times and started talking. Needless to say, I was quite surprised when I found out who he was, what’s the chance of running into your lecturer on Europe’s largest mountain plateau? Anyway, great trip! I want to go back there some other time, bringing a fishing rod and spending most of the days following one of the many rivers (remind me to bring a higher factor sunscreen the next time :p). Also want to visit Jotunheimen, Rondane and Femundsmarka.

As for school, this year I’m taking a look at the different Masters degree directions I’m considering – Algorithms, Cryptography and Visualization. The most likely direction atm is Parallel Algorithms. You might have noticed that the development of modern CPUs have slowed down considerably lately? They are adding more and more cores rather than improving the speed on each one. We’re slowly reaching the physical limits of CPUs, so they are forced to build lateral instead of just building higher and higher. You can get a quad core CPU these days for ~2000 NOK. So, how do we harness this parallel power? That’s what I want to help find out..

Which brings me to my next post….