spilog

Over the course of my recent trip to Germany/Denmark/Sweden since I didn't have internet access I created audioblogs of the days activities. I missed a few days and the last full day in Hamburg, better then nothing though.

This was my first time using my iRiver for recording spoken audio and now I know how to do it alot better. The first and last day are really breathy as I was talking to close to the mic.

Not sure how interesting these actually are but I like them. :)

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Paul and I arrived back in the states at 3:35 on Tuesday May 17th. After 12 days in Europe it was kinda cool to be back in the US. My first trip over seas was really awesome, it was an eye opening adventure and definately helped me to get a better idea of Europe. Being in a country where nobody was speaking my native tounge was a cool experience. Interacting with the locals was also fun.

Eventually I will post all my pictures to flickr but that may not happen until after I get out to Boston. It all ...

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Our day in Hamburg we really eventful. Paul and I got out to Schwerin to see a 16th century castle. It was really neat even though it was under improvement so some of the shots were not quite as cool as they could have been.

It is a holiday today in Germany so every shop was closed except for a few food places. Thus I didn't get a chance to shop in Hamburg to pick up a few last minute things I needed. Oh well.

Tomorrow we leave from Hamburg for Minneapolis stopping by in Amsterdam. We are going ...

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Paul and I are sitting on the streets of Copenhagen "war walking." We were able to find an open wireless access point after a day of walking(we were not looking the whole time). There are many stores along the main roads of Copenhagen and we went around looking in many different stores and buying many different things. We are staying in Hotel Loven a small place just slightly more then a hostel. Copenhagen is cool.

Tomorrow we head down to Hamburg and we have some free time to spend around town. We will probably head to Schwerin to visit ...

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Today Paul and I spent from 9:30 Thursday until 1:30 Friday getting from Jabel, Germany to Lund, Sweden. We had to go through Hamburg, Germany to drop of a computer Paul brought over here for a friend. Then it was on to Copenhagen, Denmark which was a four and a half hour train ride. A quick jump over to Malmo Sweden, a train down to Lund, and a walk to a dorm room brought is into our first contact with the internet in a week.

Since last Friday the 6th we have been in Jabel Germany. We biked ...

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Today I drove ten hours to the middle of Iowa to hook up with paul. Tomorrow we are going to Minneapolis and then Thursday evening we fly to Amsterdam. After we arrive we catch a connecting flight to Germany. Then we spend a few days biking around the north part of Germany. Eventually will catch a train up to Coppenhagen and then fly to Sweden.

Pictures and updates as time and abilities allow.

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I am more or less done with college as an undergrad. There are no definate plans to continue onto grad school at the moment. An apartment has been found in Arlington, MA. Work starts on May 31st.

Graduation is this weekend, on Saturday. Amazing how I never thought this day would come. Looking back at myself four years ago seems like such a long time ago. It is awesome how quickly you can become very good friends. Finding so many people who share similar interests is also one of the coolest things ever. \<insert threat to LUG members to never ...

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WP-Question is a plugin for Wordpress 1.5. Its only function is to ask a question to anyone posting a comment that will differentiate your Wordpress install from the many other installs that are available on the web. The question is easily answerable by a human but not by a script. This helps to eliminate spam by making it so spam scripts cannot post to your blog.

Download WP-Question 0.3 and put it in your plugin directory after removing the .txt extension. You need to edit the file by hand and change the question and answer. In the near ...

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I flew to Boston today to find a place to live once I graduate at the end of the month.

It is not a good thing to remember one's camera but leave the USB cable back at the apartment. So there will not be any pictures until Sunday.

Sometime next week I will have a place to live. School is almost done. Only a week of classes and then finals until Thursday. The onto another portion of my life. My college days are almost over. Well at least my undergraduate days are almost over. This last week is going ...

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Test from the install-a-thon.

Update: The MTU LUG put on our second install-a-thon of the school year on Saturday. We installed Linux on at least a dozen machines. Ubuntu and Fedora being the most popular. We keep learning more and more about putting on this type of event so hopefully next year the group can execute it even better.

The test was from a presentation I did on web applications and scripting. The slides are available.

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