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Well. I had planned to get some coding done today. But then, after a hearty breakfast at half past eight (don't ask), I got stuck on finally figuring out that orange Skype symbol that bothered me already the whole week. And in the end I really wasn't feeling like coding anyways this morning. Instead I was planning ahead for a proper tea time this afternoon. And for this I need short bread. One could buy the Walkers things, which are actually quite nice, but somehow they are really expensive. Fear no more, as with the right substances, it is actually easy to make your own:

620 g flour
290 g sugar
290 g starch
500 g (soft) butter
salt (quantity depending on your taste)

Put everything together and knead it until you have a smooth dough. Spread it on a baking tray with baking paper. Now use a fork to make holes in it and then bake it for 30-40 minutes at something like 150 °C. This yields:

Skype can be really annoying. The protocol is not open, it is acting up quite often, it features unreliable file transfers, etc. However, at the moment it is only slightly annoying. What on earth is this funny orange symbol supposed to, well, symbolize?



After quite some looking around on the Skype page I could not find any information (besides that the symbols in version 4 for Windows are supposedly changed because the old one were too confusing...). So I asked Google. And found an article about the symbols of Skype at TheVOIPGirl which covers the icons I already guessed; the second part of the icon collection does not help either. But in the comments is the solution to my confusion, the strange orange icon apparently means that the user is offline but has a call divert activated. Okay. Good to know?

That's about the n-th time (n large) that I need to search for how to quickly sum up a bunch of numbers on the command line. So here it goes, note to self:

grep -e 'cells' *log | awk '{sum+=$6} END {print sum}'

Maybe I will memorize it now.

Soderle, damit wäre wieder eine gewisse Aktualität hergestellt. Nachdem ich so in 1000er Schritten durch die Bilder gehe, dauert es noch eine Weile, bis der nächste Packen fertig ist. Allerdings überlege ich schon, vielleicht eher in 500er Schritten zu sichten, das ist nicht ganz so anstrengen und es kommen auch kleinere Ausbeuten bei raus. Mal sehen. Also jetzt nochmal das Beste aus 1045 Bilder (527 2D, 529 3D)!

That actually hurts: longest road networks (via Spiegel Online). The US (~6.4 Gm) has longest road network, the only European countries in the Top Ten (that's where you want to be, right?) are France and Spain. Germany is somewhere between place 11 and 20 (they don't say) with pitiful 0.23 Gm. But hey, we own countries like Tuvalu (8 km) or the Cocos Islands (22 km). Normalizing anyone? Tomorrow, the Top Ten of trees per country with shocking results.

This drives me nuts... since the new laptop, dee, also has an American keyboard layout, as does the machine in the institute, I spent 95% of my computer time using the American layout. While jane (the old laptop) was still in use, it was more like 50/50 and switching between the German and the American layout was more or less easy. Well, not really. But much easier than I get along with the German layout of the keyboard attached to the desktop at the moment. Especially when programming. Hmpf. Maybe I should completely abandon the German layout, it doesn't do much anyways besides giving easier access to the special characters in the seldom events that I have to enter text in something else than Vim (side note: the spell checker complained about 'vim', it wants 'Vim'). sigh But what would a day be without the small, however persistent, annoyances of modern life.

Diesmal eine etwas längere Ausbeute mit 13 Bilder in der gemalten und 14 Bildern in der gerenderten Sektion. Insgesamt begutachtet wurden 989 Bilder (516 3D, 473 2D). Nach dieser Ausbeute kommt noch eine, dann ist die Selektion wieder aktuell. Hui!