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It’s been a while…

Anders K. Madsen — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:19:56 +0000

Indeed it has. I’ve been (and still am) busy studying, working and doing stuff, like social interaction with other members of the species homo sapiens – and studying for assignments. In the beginning of January I’ll have to hand in 3 assignments, Language and Culture (actually just anthropological linguistics), Methods of Linguistic Description and Theory of Science.

Language and Culture: I’ll try to reject the strongest version of Whorf‘s theory of linguistic determinism based on studies of color terms in various languages – studies done by e.g. Berlin, Kay, Heider and of course Whorf himself. Going to be pretty interesting – and it’s always fun to criticise Whorf.
Methods of Linguistic Description: Not entirely sure what I’ll be doing here, but probably something computer-related. We’re allowed to do some sort of alternative project, so of course I’ll try to find something that involves some programming, as that is what I’m hoping to combine my linguistics with at some point.
Theory of Science: Based on Morton Winston’s Did a (Kuhnian) Scientific Revolution Occur to Linguistics? and Kuhn‘s own works, I’m gonna write a discussion of the first-mentioned paper and my own view on the subject. Also something I’m actually looking forward to, as I really like Kuhn and (a lot of) his ideas.

And now in Danish…

Anders K. Madsen — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:14:58 +0000

Note: Most of this blog entry is in Danish, as it concerns the Danish music site MyMusic.dk and the users of it. So I’m going to start with a top 3 this time.

Top 3 stickers

The Finnish flag on the back of my Thinkpad
The “This Machine Kills Fascists” on “that guys” keyboard
Anything with Psyduck (Pokémon) on it

Oprop!
Endelig fik madsen nok af intolerance, ignorance og dårlige kodevaner. Derfor har jeg besluttet mig for at slette mine profiler på MyMusic.dk og nøjes med at distribuere min musik her på sitet, som jeg jo har gjort længe – og med relativ stor success endda!

Downloads siden medio Dec. 2003

Migato Estalo Co.: 278 (Oggs: 258 / Mp3′s: 20)
Laxness 101: 683 (Oggs: 624 / Mp3′s: 59)
Anders K. Madsen: 1281 (Oggs: 1093 / Mp3′s: 188)

Download statistikken for de samme bands/projekter på MyMusic.dk ligger i nærheden af antallene af downloadede Mp3′er herfra, så jeg går ikke glip af noget på den front. Samtidig slipper jeg for det helvede det er at være Linux-bruger og bruger på MyMusic.dk på samme tid.

Hvorfor? Spørger du… Det kan du se her: http://lillesvin.linux.dk/stuff/mymusic.php. (Som en ekstra bonus er der også lidt skamløs mudderkastning, samt tvivlen på udviklernes kompetence.)

Ydermere, hvis du har shoppet i MyMusic.dks shop, så kunne du måske være interesseret i at læse denne tråd på Hardware Online.

Gmail backup

Anders K. Madsen — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:12:22 +0000

Got the idea to use some of my 1GB at gmail account (which I only got to check it out anyway) to store backups of my mysql-db and most of the code on this server. Now I just need a way to automate this procedure, so I can make it backup via cron. It appears that gmail is becomming very popular – not only as a mail-service – but also as a backup/blog/you_name_it host. And indeed, the 1GB storage at gmail is certainly way more attractive than the 2MB of n^Hhotmail. Now we’ll just have to see how long gmail is going to put up with this alternative use of their webmail.

In other and totally irellavant news, my birthday is slowly sneaking up so I’ve put up a little wishlist (for my family to see, which is why it’s in Danish), but of course, I wouldn’t mind being surprised by a gift from an anonymous source (as long as it’s not ticking).

In even more unrelated (unrelated to what?) news, here’s a little top 5.
Top 5 cartoons

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“Live free or don’t.”

Mmm… Eye Candy…

Anders K. Madsen — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 06:13:36 +0000

Just spent a couple of minutes shining up my desktop, turned out pretty much like this (image/png).

It’s actually nothing but PapuaWM, a couple of GKrellms, a gDesklets calendar and iDesk with some custom icons I made from an icon-set (Iconica) I got from themes.freshmeat.net. Since the set is under the GPL I intend to release the icons I’ve made from it later, when I’ve got more than four, but that might take a while, so don’t wait up.

In other news…
Top 5 cover songs that are better than the original

Uptown Top Ranking – Scout Niblett (Orig. by Althea & Donna)
Rusty Cage – Johnny Cash (Orig. by Soundgarden)
He’s a Mighty Good Leader – Beck (Orig. by Skip James)
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Squarepusher (Orig. by Joy Division)
That’s When I Reach for my Revolver – Graham Coxon (Orig. by Mission of Burma)

ViewCVS to replace WebSVN

Anders K. Madsen — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:45:11 +0000

WebSVN was simply not efficient enough. It lacked a lot of features and such, so ViewCVS was the solution. The development version has native support for Subversion, so I spent a couple of minutes setting it up. Seems to work out fine.

You can access the repositories through URLs like: http://lillesvin.net/viewvc/dyndnsupdate, unfortunately I can’t seem to get the repository indexer to work at the moment, so the world will just have to know what it wants and put it after /viewcvs/ in the URL.

I wrote a little HowTo on setting up ViewCVS with Subversion support, you can find it in the Brainstorm sektion (NOTE: link removed), which I’ve setup for things such as this. :) (Go directly to the HowTo: ~~http://lillesvin.linux.dk:8080/brainstorm/SetupViewcvsAndSubversion.html~~ (NOTE: Wiki taken down.).)

Furthermore, all subversion repositories are now running through Apache2/WebDAV, so to make a checkout of e.g. dyndnsupdate you’ll should use:
svn co http://lillesvin.linux.dk:8080/svn/dyndnsupdate dyndnsupdate

Top 3 things to do at the moment:

Code Ruby
Play with Apache 2
Brainstorm

Btw, I’ve gotten a Skype account! So, mail me, if you want to contact me through Skype.

500+ Downloaded tracks

Anders K. Madsen — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:41:24 +0000

It’s nice to return from a couple of days in the country and see that the download count for Anders K. Madsen (my acoustic solo-project) has reached 500 downloads.
It would be nice if more people would drop a comment on the tracks if they feel some way about them, so let this be an encouragement to do that.

Top 5 cigarettes:

Camel Regular
King’s Original
Samson Zware Shag + Rizla
Gauloises Original
Golden Virginia + Rizla

No hair, no heir?

Anders K. Madsen — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:50:16 +0000

The evil wizards from the north cast this spell on me (actually “on my hair”), my cursed hair would now curl more and more all the time.
And indeed, it did…
So I took the cowards way out, a trimmer — and this is the result. Unless you want to tell me how great I look, don’t comment on my hair — or lack of…

Anyhow, I had to cancel my plans about going to Finland, since I have no money and it’s the fucking 2nd of the month!!! Hope I can get some work – night shifts – this summer, so I can finally get on top of my economy again. :-p

Well, that’s about it for complaining… No wait… I forgot… I’m NOT at Roskilde Festival, but Graham Coxon is. :-(

Hmm, I guess there’s nothing more for me to do around here at this time, so…

Top 3 Homer Simpsons quotes:

“Marge, everything looks bad if you remember it.”
“Mmm… Something…”
“I gave up anger forever. From now on I’m into candles, soft music and horse tranquilizers.”

Over and (far) out!

Rarities and humour

Anders K. Madsen — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:27:05 +0000

“Which R are you filled with the most right now?”
Right now, I don’t know what to say? (Can you guess which movie the quote is from?)

I just ordered an LP that I’ve been looking for for more than 3 years (Beck – A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight – only 7000 copies released). Found a record store called Holy Cow (via GEMM.com) in Brooklyn that had one in stock in near mint condition for $55. I mailed the store, talked it down to $40 and placed the order, so now I’m just waiting for it to ship.
My biggest concern is what to do with my life now? What’s my purpose now? Once the record arrives, 3+ years of searching has ended…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy that I finally found it. But still…

To get back to the R’s. I don’t know which I’m most filled with right now, relief or regret. A bit of both I guess, one more than the other depending on how I think about it.

Well, never mind… I’m really looking forward to finally hearing it.

In other news, I just stumbled upon this quote (#331940) from bash.org.

And my Top 3 Songs looks like this:

Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus [RealAudio @ universalstudios.com]
Beat Happening – Cat Walk
16 Horsepower – Wayfaring Stranger

Split up

Anders K. Madsen — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:03:15 +0000

Finally it happened… I’ve split up… And no, it’s not an incidental singular form… I do mean “I’ve split up.”. (And FYI, it has nothing to do with schizophrenia.)

And what I mean by that is, that so far I’ve been publishing all my music under the same name, but I’ve decided to keep the elektronic stuff separated from the acoustic stuff. (At least the pure electronic stuff.)

So now you’ll be able to find my electronic tracks under the name Laxness 101 and the other stuff under Anders K. Madsen as usual.

In other news:
I just returned from a study trip to Helsinki/Finland and boy was that nice… I could’ve just moved there… Chilled like a cat in the sun by a small stream on Suomenlinna, saw 22 Pistepirkko live, experienced Kiasma (a museum for modern art) and was just very comfortable in general.
I can only recommend going there…

Current top 3 favourite songs:

22 Pistepirkko – Onion Soup
Scout Niblett – Boy
Kristiina Halkola – Jos Rakastat

As one can see I’m under heavy finnish influence at the moment.

Server Move

Anders K. Madsen — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:01:50 +0000

Finally pulled myself together and moved lillesvin to my own server (the one in my closet here in Aarhus). That means that instead of the crippling 128k upstream it used to have, it’s now at 256k. Hooray!

In lighter news, I’m not spending very much time at my computer at this point. Don’t worry, nothing is wrong, I’m just getting what they call “some kind of a social life”, where I actually meet people for real, talk to them by exchanging live sound waves, actually being in the same room as them – and at the same time as them… It’s actually not as bad as they said it would be.

This leads me to the final topic of this nights blog-entry. (“No, it doesn’t!”)
The usual Top [some_number]!

Top 3 Favourite Songs At The Moment:

Scout Niblett – Your Beats Kicks Back Like Death
Belle & Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not To Care?
The Muppet Show – Cottleston Pie