My paternity leave is at an end, and today I returned to my regular day job. While it would have been nice to stay at home for a while longer, it was nice to be back! Now I just have to wade through the 2 months of email that is cluttering up my work-inbox… Yikes!
One should think that Tivoli, the second oldest amusement park in the world, would be up to speed technology wise, but when it comes to handling tickets they are still some what in the dark ages. I hold a season-pass to Tivoli and last thursday, the day before this seasons grand opening, season-pas-holders were invited to a “Sneak-preview” for the mere sum of 50 DKK all rides included. Quite a bargin. The “preview-ticket” could be bought online(with a maximum of one ticket per “season-pass”) and printed out at home. But if you botch this, you are screwed… My browser died, so no ticket for me. No problem I thought, they sent me an email that said “Click here to print out ticket”, but alas no link was included in the email. I called their support hotline, which was very friendly, and they would see to that my ticket would be printed and left at the ticket office for me to pick up - no problem! But after waiting in line for an obscure amount of time my ticket could not be found. So I found the confirmation email on my cellphone, and finally they gave up trying to get their one computer to verify my missing ticket and just let us in. If they had just assoiated my ticket purchase with my season-pass there would be no need for paper tickets, no stressed out ticket clerks(we were not the only ones with this problem) and no unhappy customers. But I guess this would be too high-tech for an old amusementpark like Tivoli…
Today one of my best friends turns 30, unfortunately he is no longer with us… A few days before he drowned, his 12" PowerBook died. Just as unexpected. And a few days later Apple abandoned the PowerPC in favor of Intel. Strange days… I wish you could have seen it, I wish we could have debated it.. Laughed at the irony of it… I wish for a lot of things…
I know what you must be thinking: “How can you say a thing like that?”, but please forget about the terrorists for a moment and let me enlighten you… On this September 11. I became a father to Sebastian, the cutes little boy. September 10. started out as any given sunday, we were relaxing at home after a busy week. Around 17:00 my girlfriend started having contractions, and about 19:30 we left for the hospital - it was all very zen like, no stress, no worries. As the contractions grew in strength, our unborn sons heartrate dropped dangerously low for each contraction, and at 00:05 all hell broke loose… Doctors and nurses came running from all coners of the maternatity ward
This week my future wife went on maternity leave, and on her last day on $work, her co-workers gave her a little present. This present brought back all kinds of cool memories from way back. Way back when the handle on the Sodastream machine was orange, terrorism didn’t exist and the Soviet union wanted to nuke us. The “Cola” still has that very special syntetic taste that we love to hate, and there is still something cool and refreshing about carbonating your own beverages.
Fear not the solution is near! Download the Mozex extention, it will enable you to edit textareas in your favorite editor. Here is how to do it: On my mac the preference window for this extention is “abit broken” but still usable. Go to the second tab and enter the following in “Text Editor” [cc lang=“bash”]/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate -w %t[/cc] Assign a cool hotkey (I use meta e) and you are done :-)
People have been complaining about the update frequency of this site, and at the same time some of the same people suggested that I write about all the little apps and tools I find and use on my Mac. 1 So I think I’ll try do do that :-)
The strangest things happen, and sometimes the most wonderfull things happen… On the 30th of May - the date of our anniversary - I had prepared a very special day for my future wife and her son. First we went by horse carriage to Eremitage sletten, for a picnic and afterwards we went to Tivoli in the heart of Copenhagen. What she didn’t know, was that that I had a secret plan… We went in, bought a Multi-ride ticket and went casually over to the The Ferris Wheel. As the Farris wheel were loaded, our gondola came closer and closer to the top - pausing each time the next pair of passengers entered their gondola. As the sun was setting, our gondola finally paused at the top after what seemed like an eternity and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me … She said Yes! =) What a wonderfull day…
