Tov Are Jacobsen

28.10.2008  I finally got around to syncing my calendar. Since I use my own domain with GMail, i found https://www.goosync.com/ to be the best service around. It works perfectly, but I have decided to use the free calendar only version a few months before going for the commercial version, which ... Read more

Dell seems to have the greatest discounts at the end of a quarter. Dell's fiscal year ends on the Friday nearest to January 31st. Assuming Dell has met it's margin requirements, end of quarter is a good time for them to boost revenue. So for purchasing in the first quarter ... Read more

I just came across a post on news.com from may, noting that unicode is beating other charsets like ASCII on the web.  http://news.cnet.com/underexposed/?categoryId=1089 Unicode is quite old in computer terms and was published in 1991, but still most operating systems default to their own litte variation on 8-bit ASCII, so ... Read more

Hosting with eApp   Journal 2008-09-15    Performance is a bit worse than the first day of operations with MeshCMS. The average is over 391 ms, with a low of 198 ms. Something strange is happening, and I don't really know why.      17:26:52 up 62 days,  3:28,  1 ... Read more

21.01.2005 Soundex in the Io Language Soundex [16.04.03] (updated 20.01.05) This is my first stab at doing something in the Io Language www.iolanguage.com which is a small footprint scripting language. The soundex algorithm is used in database lookup applications and genalogy research. It finds certain classes of similar-sounding names. Name ... Read more