September 11, 2004 – 22:11
We have been in Milan for a couple of days now. Put my foot on Italian soil 19:55 Wednesday, Henrik borrowed 1,50 euro from me 20:15 for the airport shuttle that took us on a wild ride to Bergamo. Where we stayed the first night visiting Citta Alta before midnight, by foot. On the way down via Emanuel, after being stuck behind two beautiful italian teenage girls for twenty minutes (I didn’t complain), Henrik stated that it actually was true, the italians walk slow and drive fast.
September 7, 2004 – 20:03
Tomorrow it’s off for Henrik and me to Milan. The way we over the last couple of days aggregated intelligence to plan our trip, it feels more like a special op. than a vacation. But I hope it pays off since we’re doing this on a pretty tight budget in a city generally known for high fashion and shopping.
The primary reason we’re going is of course to see the Formula One Grand Prix at Monza next Sunday. But in our attempt to save cost on airfare we also ended up with some extra days to spend in Italy.
Since we have a tradition of sucking in the documentation department of our adventures I asked Henrik to see if he could borrow some digital camera for this trip. So Henrik being Henrik went out and bought a new 5.1 megapixel digital camera with 512MB of storage media. This time, I guess, we will have a tad bit more pictures to share with the world.
I’m revamping the site so things will be a little bit up-side-down until it all settles. As you already might have noticed I’ve changed style.
This is because I was pretty tired of the old one with colors that felt a bit “murky”. Another reason being that this one is strict XHTML, something I’m an advocate of, but always felt awkward about not having my own site up to shape after complaining about others. However, this is far from the final style I plan. This is just temporary placeholder I picked, but what a placeholder, it’s a Dan Cederholm creation after all…
I must say that Wings 3d are THE polygon and subdivision mesh modeler. It have been on my radar a long time, but the trouble of getting Erlang and compile everything have put me off of trying out the software before. Wings 3d came up once again during our work on K-3D’s next generation user interface when Joe Crawford told me that its user interface is regarded as the best for modeling of all 3D software out there.
Finally, a couple of weeks ago when I was in desperate need for a texture mapped polygon model I sat down with the notion of really trying to learn how to use it. I must say that there are few programs like Wings 3d where you go from total newbie to create quite good models in less than an hour. Possibly some text editors were you at the end of the hour have authored the first chapter of your new novel, if you’re creative enough to write a novel. That’s what I think Wings is, it is to a 3d artist what a text editor is to an author.
Wow, I couldn’t put it into better words myself to decribe this page:
Got your own homepage? Then you are probably shy, sensitive to criticism and suffering from low self esteem. Chances are, you are male too. So says the psychologists of the Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT) in Germany, who interviewed more than 300 webpage owners.
Some say that personal home pages are futile products of narcissism and exhibitionism.Some say that home pages are “inane, petty, and grotesquely self-indulgent with no redeeming qualities whatsoever”.
I watched Kill Bill: Vol. 1 on DVD the other day. And I tell you, you know you’re old when the first tought in your head after The Bride killed O-Ren and sits down on the garden bench was: “Carefully girl, you might get cystitis.” I know it’s silly, what hero get cystitis — in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
I’m back. Spent the last couple of months punching a sack, think I got most of it out of me. I actually told Henrik to say I was deceased if someone asked about my absence.
Speaking of Henrik, we’re hopefully going to the 75th Gran Premo d’Italia at Monza in September. But Henrik is already talking about going to Monaco next year. I can only hold my thumbs that we’re going there as well, to watch Björn Wirdheim race for Jaguar…
On the software side I’m currently occupied with the work on K-3D’s new next generation user interface. I’ve been working on it together with a canadian, Joe Crawford. With the stable v0.4 branch out of the door it will be implemented in the v0.5 developer branch, and hopefully be pretty sleek.