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This post is going to be a little bit different. I'm going to try at some humor, with just a lace of truth to it to be sad.

Windows Vista is, in retrospect after trying it out for a couple of months, simply a skip me version of Windows. I can just note my own folly in buying it.

Windows.h must be the worst engineered header of all times. It's a meta header, designed to include several others and these are usually so bad that I'm wondering if anyone at Microsoft ever learned to program in a larger environment (ironic is it not?).

There is some debate regarding Windows Vista, Microsoft's flagship that is supposed to be the answer to Apple's MacOSX. After trying it out for a couple of days now I can only come to the conclusion that OMG it's bad. It not only looses by a wide margin to MacOSX, it stands no chance against its supposedly older sibling Windows XP. There are a lot of nice features that I do like, foremost the proper support for running as multiple users smoothly, running as a non root user and then installing programs as root. Nice. Now we've caught up with UNIX who had it, ah 1970 or so...

It's a little bit disappointing to see that the industry still are clamoring and lamenting the (supposed) difficulties of developing for the Playstation 3. Meanwhile, the consumers must be either thinking that the PS3 is a load of crap, or that the developers are. I can't really decide if they are correct on both accounts or if we as an industry have to get over ourselves and just stop whining and get to work. Now if it was easy to develop top notch video games, then they wouldn't need us, right?

This article is a little random musings about game difficulty, save games and downloadable games...

For writing math papers I always use Latex, it's really the only thing that can be used in a sane manner. As a programmer I kind of like it as well, since it's very easy to structure your document and you get a lot of things just for free, that seems to work poorly or is right down broken in other so called word processing softwares. For writing mathematical notation it's great. It's not all like the editors like Microsoft Equation (in the office suite) or Mathematica's one for that matter. No, here it's fairly straightforward and writing more complex things are a breeze.

The old comment system I had on my blog was kind of dated and convoluted. A friend of mine complained a little about it and I set out to see if I could improve it a little bit. Whew. What a can of worms (thanks Nick). Turns out that in order to fix it I needed ssh access to my webhost...

It finally happened. I'm starting to get Swedish spam (well, obviously email one, not that pig meat thing) to one of my actual email addresses. Then world is ending! Seriously though, WTF. I just wished that people started to stop clicking on these infernal links. I mean, if someone is willing to pay some amount of money for each email, or just each click originating from a particular email, all we have to do is to stop clicking, right? It's getting ridiculous. We are now having the neural nets we just so touted that would do awesome things to just sort our emails for spam.

I ran MacOSX early on my G3 laptop (now retired) and I loved it. One of the things I really loved was the way Mac rendered fonts. They are really completley different than the way Windows does it. Now I recently found out that I can run Safari (the native browser on MacOSX) on my Windows machine.