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Today a former customer of mine called with a strange problem. A program I once wrote was popping up error messages, reporting: duplicate entry '17631' for key 1
I checked all database tables for duplicate IDs but there were none. Strange. One table contained an ID-value of 17631, though, and I thought maybe the table index is broken. I tried to ( Read more... )

Some of you may have noticed the sudden lack of posts to this journal. In fact I haven't posted since may 19th, which surprisingly also is the day I started my new job. I am working for DSPECIALISTS now, doing software development on embedded systems. I like the new job, but it also keeps me busy and I have to get used to working again. :-D ( Read more... )

As I am taking a break from my work I'm reading a review for a video projector and come to think of all the things I want to get in - at best - near future:

• A new video projector. I like my Sanyo Z4, but there's just a few things it doesn't do right, and it's ticking me off the more movies I watch.
  • It has a pretty lousy black value. Movies with many ( Read more... )

It's been yesterday, when I met my friend Frank, that I noticed how I totally forgot to tell the latest news:

It was about 4 weeks ago that I kind of finished the projects I had been working on for Dahm and DSPECIALISTS for the previous months. Finishing those was a good thing, because I needed time to work on my thesis, therefor I did not steer ( Read more... )