Go, go, go

I’ve decided to learn Go. Not the board game, but the programming language. Why? I’ve been wanting to learn a systems programming language for a while, but have so far avoided picking up my brick of a C++ manual.

The stuff of spy movies #2

The spy-files Hadn’t heard about The Wikileaks Spy Files before today. This post is a follow up on the previous post on surveillance software. Who knows, maybe I have some of that on my computer as I’m typing this. Better…

The stuff of spy movies #1

Reporters without borders (RSF) have a website on topic: surveillance.rsf.org The topic being malware that can be used to spy on you through your own computer. It is frightening and intriguing at the same time.

Thank you Scott!

I just read this blog post by Scott Hanselman (I’m a phony. Are you?), and it was a bit of a group therapy moment. It’s nice to know that you’re not alone in something!

Downloading environment data for Denmark

This post is very Denmark-specific. I was annoyed that downloading environmental data from the ministry of the environment was so cumbersome. Long story made short, here are download URLs for environmental data: Dataset URL Kirkebyggelinjer KIRKEBYGGELINJER_SHAPE.zip Skovbyggelinjer SKOVBYGGELINJER_SHAPE.zip Åbeskyttelseslinjer AA_BES_LINJER_SHAPE.zip…

Ordering cheat sheet

Non-strict orders: ≤ The symbol ≤ denotes a generalization of “less than or equal”, and it defines either a partial or total ordering over a set P (in the table below a,b ∈ P): Constraint (Non-strict) partial order (Non-strict) total…