The global graph  
Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 12:26 PM - Semantic Web
A new year, a new post - perhaps I will also post one in 2009 :)

The new year seems like an arbitrary point to update/fix/tidy a few things so I moved all my emails from INBOX to INBOX_OLD and I can see how long before it goes back to 2000 unfiled emails. I will also update my web-page in the next few days, however, since I use RDFHomepage this requires first updating my FOAF-self. Enter Alex Passant's Flickr FOAF/SIOC Exporter and Matthew Rowe's FOAF Facebook exporter, and now I have RDF versions of my Facebook contacts and Flickr contacts! Both linked from my foaf using rdfs:seeAlso.

I realise that publishing the Facebook IDs could be seen as giving up some of my friends privacy, but probably not more than putting your life on Facebook does in the first place.

Annoyances now include that the data is not smushed, some people are undoubtably in my FOAF as people I foaf:know, in the facebook export and in the flickr export, but without any unique key I could use to smush them. Also, the export was pretty manual, I even edited the files a bit to make sure the URLs for me were consistent, meaning I have to repeat it some interval (I guess every two years :)





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My Koble is your koble is his koble is her koble.  
Thursday, November 22, 2007, 09:18 AM - Semantic Web
And we are all together!

Koble!

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The Ultimate Acheivement  
Thursday, October 18, 2007, 09:43 AM - Everything Else
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Susanowo...--More--
An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...--More--
The voice of Susanowo rings out: "Congratulations, mortal!"--More--
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!"--More--
You ascend to the status of Demigoddess...--More--


Ha! You didn't expect that after the last post! Anyway, Nethack provided a much needed distraction from long hours working on the thesis, and I've now finally beat the bastard. NOW I can finish the PhD, but as colleague Benjamin said: "Why? Just tell your Prof that you finished Nethack. It's equivalent." :)

Anyway, the whole game summary is here.
Some highlights:


Grimnes the Kuge St:18/40 Dx:18 Co:18 In:16 Wi:18 Ch:15 Chaotic
Astral Plane $:1379 HP:211(211) Pw:145(145) AC:-24 Xp:26/60060315

Your inventory
Amulets
d - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)
i - an uncursed amulet of life saving
Weapons
a - a rustproof +6 katana (wielded in other hand)
u - the rustproof +6 Excalibur (weapon in hand)
Armor
b - an uncursed greased +5 silver dragon scale mail (being worn)
k - a blessed rusty +2 dwarvish iron helm
p - a blessed fireproof +5 T-shirt (being worn)
w - a blessed +4 cloak of magic resistance (being worn)
A - a cursed -1 helm of opposite alignment (being worn)
P - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of speed boots (being worn)
V - a blessed +4 pair of levitation boots
Y - a blessed +3 pair of yugake (being worn)
[...]

Vanquished creatures
Asmodeus
Baalzebub
Dispater
Orcus
Juiblex
The Wizard of Yendor (6 times)
Death
Famine (twice)


Genocided species: h, ;, L, Rust Monster, Disenchanter, E (although that didn't work as expected)

Voluntary challenges
You genocided 20 types of monsters
You polymorphed 150 items
You never changed form
You used 5 wishes
You did not wish for any artifacts

Sayonara grimnes the Demigoddess...
You went to your reward with 3855742 points,
[...]
and 1379 pieces of gold, after 54466 moves.
Killer: ascended
You were level 26 with a maximum of 211 hit points when you ascended.


Only thing that makes me feel like I cheated is that I was lawful the whole game and changed to chaotic at the last turn to save me a meeting with pestilence.

Next time I'll do it as a Wizard!

(Apologies if you have never seen or heard of nethack, then this will appear like completely random ramblings :)

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quiet before the storm  
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 06:36 PM - PhD
Running like crazy for the final sprint of the PhD thesis at the moment, so no time to do anything fun to write about here, or to write here for that matter.

In a extremely motivated moment I googled "finishing a phd is impossible" and found this:

A gradiate school survival guide

It is useful and funny overall, and includes several good quotes, like this one:

The Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm:
1) Write down the problem.
2) Think very hard.
3) Write down the solution.

I wish I had thought of that.

Also included is the oh-so-very appropriately for my planning-to-learn thesis:

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."


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Back from 10 days holiday  
Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 01:08 PM - Everything Else
I'm amazed how easy it was to drift away from the online world while I was in Norway, I had no nervous twitched about letting my unread email climb, not letting facebook notifications slip by or not checking flickr comments continuously.

BUT: Now I'm back. I see that six people who are not me have signed up to Koble! Yet I have not received any of my automated stack-trace emails from when things go wrong - yay! (I have also not received any comments, but that's to be expected)



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