This is a blog post about something which took place six months ago, so it could be considered somewhat belated. On the other hand, that gives me the opportunity to give the full story in one go, rather than just posting “well, I had the operation two hours ago and they didn’t actually blow up my eyeball, so I guess it could have been worse, but I’m not really supposed to be staring at a computer screen just now and anyway I am doped up on painkillers so I’m leaving now, okthxbye.”
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LASEK
Sunday, February 7th, 2010I’m a runner!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Today was the day of the 25th Dam-tot-Dam-loop, a 16.1km running event from Amsterdam to Zaandam. Yours truly was one of the 35,000 people who signed up for the event, and one of the 17,614 people who made it to the finish line! (more…)
Golfing with prime factors
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Dirk-Jan reminded me of the Perl Golf and Code Golf contests, both of which have the aim of solving a simple programming task in as few characters of source code as possible. See his post for a stunning example.
One of the open challenges is to work out the prime factors of a given number. To make things a little more difficult, the output must be printed in a specific format:
7000: 2^3 5^3 7
123456789: 3^2 3607 3803
Arco rocks
Monday, May 25th, 2009I got back this week-end from a nice week of rock climbing in Arco, Italy with Jeroen and Raimond. We stayed at Camping Arco, a really nice and fairly luxurious camping if you can manage to get a place there (they refuse reservations lasting less than 7 nights, or made less than two weeks in advance). The weather was perfect; in fact it was almost too warm for the time of year, and we skipped some of our planned activities because of that. Lessons learned for next year: go in April, and don’t climb south-facing walls in the middle of the day.
A couple of pictures, made by Jeroen or at least with his camera: (more…)
Wheeeeee!!!!
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008So, this Saturday, I jumped out of an airplane.
The jump was a birthday present for my father, who has always been very interested in everything related to planes. But of course, when we gave him the gift certificate, it went without saying that me and my brother would jump as well.
And it was COOL! All three of us loved it.
Hello, anybody there?
Monday, November 19th, 2007Hi all,
I have reason to believe that some of my mail from my mwolf.net account is not reaching the intended recipients. If you sent me an e-mail recently and did not get a response from me, it may be that I sent one but it didn’t arrive. If this is the case, please re-send your message and I will try to reach you though some other way. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post. Sorry for the inconvenience.
And yes, I am aware that I have not posted anything new on this blog for the past half year or so..
Five things you probably didn’t care about
Monday, January 8th, 2007Well, looks like I’ve been tagged for the latest blog fad, the “five things you didn’t know about me” chain letter. Thanks, Edward.
Here we go. Actually, some of these are things which you did know about me, if you are more than a passing acquaintance.
- The first computer programs I wrote, in BASIC, were little sprite animations on the BBC Micro, when I was in my early teens or maybe even younger than that. A typical scenario for such an animation would go like this: airplane flies over, drops a bomb, little stick-man walks up from the side of the screen and pushes a little trampoline under the bomb, which bounces back and hits the plane, causing it to burst into flames. Good times.
- Later, I moved on the Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga, and eventually the first PCs. Other machines that found their way into the Wolf household were the Sharp MZ-700, the Philips P2000 (that was before the BBC, actually, but I never programmed on it), a Canon X-07 1983-vintage ultraportable including a portable four-colour pen-plotter, and a Sharp PC-1248 calculator-sized computer. Most of these were bought by my dad and eventually made it into my greedy hands; I still have the Canon and the PC-1248. I also still have the Amiga, which was the first computer I bought for myself.
- My dad is the one who got me started on the path to computer geekdom. He is, at least in some ways, a bigger geek than I am.
- I have a pet snake, Billie.
- Although never a Sporty Spice, I used to do quite a bit of swimming and horseback riding as a teenager, and during the summer vacations I have been known to disappear into the French Alps wearing a large backpack and not come back for several days. Since a bit more than a year ago I’ve taken up indoor climbing, which I do quite enthusiastically now one or two days a week.
Well, it’s a chain letter, so let me do unto others as I have been done unto: Mark Dirk-Jan Jeroen Bert