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In honor of the second annual YellowDay, I have skinned my twitter pageyellow. :-) 

Christopher ByrneandAndre Guirardboth wrote about the first step on the moon, 40 years ago today.When that happened, i was just 3 1/2 months old, since I was born in March 1969. So I have no memories of that event, or even the other Apollo missions. However, in 1977 or so, I did read a book about the Apollo 11 mission. It was a thick book, several hundred pages (I was an early reader), and in July 1979 I re-read that book, following along pretty much in real time. We were on a family vacation to southern Sweden and Germany that week, I remember.Then in 1981 I was all excited about the Space Shuttle. The launch was delayed several times, I remember following the countdown at the school library (they had a TV there) and I was even allowed to leave the class a few minutes early. The launch was delayed several times, and finally me and my best friend ran home to me, since I lived 10 minutes from school. After waiting for over an hour, the launch was postponed several days/weeks.The day of the actual launch, we were driving down to southern Sweden again. I followed the countdown on the radio, and as the launch was a minute or so away, we came to a small roadside restaurant. I basically forced my dad to pull over and ran in, just in time to see the engines firing up on the TV there. My sister wondered what all the excitement was about, she was about 9 or so at that time...  

Today Midsummer is celebrated in Sweden, as well as in several other Nordic/Germanic countries. It is an old pagan holiday, and the only one (at least in Sweden) not hijacked by christianity, despite attempts.Midsummer celebrates the summer solstice, the shortest night of the year. It actually takes place on June 21, but Midsummer is celebrated on the Friday closes to it, in order to give people a three day weekend.The traditions in Sweden are that you raise a midsummer pole (sometimes called May pole), usually covered in leaves and flowers. You dance around it, for example the popular "frog dance" (YouTube video here), then eat pickled herring (different varieties) with cooked potatoes and sour cream, bread, cheese, beer and akvavit.Glad Midsommar!  

Not sure how much I trust this survey, but it is interesting. :-)While computer nerds are obviously good at IT, what we didn't realise is that they're good at "it" too. An anonymous study of 2,000 British men and women from PS3PriceCompare.co.uk concluded that out of all jobs, computer geeks make the best lovers. Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2439786.ece 

Yesterday something happened that never happened to me before.I have always been laughing at people who drop their phones in the toilet. I been using cell phones since about 1993, and yesterday it happened to me for the first time. I had been at the pool, had some sunscreen left on my hands, walked into the bathroom to do something while I checked my mail, and the phone slipped, and plopped down in the toilet which conveniently had the lid up. Yes, I am a male, and living alone...In about 3 seconds I had the phone up again (probably some of the longest 3 seconds in my life). I quickly dried off the excess water and pulled the battery, probably within 5-6 seconds. Took out the SIM card, MicroSD menory card and used some compressed air to clean it out as much as I could. I then put the open phone on top of my Antec Nine Hundred case (highly recommended, by the way!) with a big 200mm exhaust fan which is sending warm air out of the case. I left it there overnight to dry out.This morning I put the battery in and the phone started up fine! The screen have some discoloration where water got in between the glass and the LCD display, but for now I can live with that. I have insurance thorugh AT&T, but the Blackberry Bold have a $125 dollar deductible.I still have not tried everything, like taking pictures, but the phone is charging fine, phone calls and text messages work, etc. Honestly I am amazed that it survived at all. 

I just read Devin's posting about his scare last Thursday.I also have a history of heart issues in my family, both my parents died from it, even if I suspect my mom got a blood clot after she had leg surgery... But the official papers say heart attack. I was always a big guy, and about 8-10 years ago it was pretty bad. I never checked my weight back then, except for at some rare visit at the doctor. I remember once the scale ringing up at 275 lbs and 6'0". I had just moved to the US at that time, and still had some problems grasping lbs vs kg. So I guess it did not really register with me how big I actually was.In late 2002, around Christmas, I stopped drinking regular sodas and switched to diet sodas. Some time in February or March I had dropped to 260 lbs, and over the next few months I lost another 15-20 lbs. All without much exercise, just some small changes in my eating habits. Well, in addition I also was going through some marital problems and in the summer of the same year a divorce. Broken heart can be a good (if not fun!) way to lose weight...I been steadily working on small changes in my life. Adding more exercise, tweaking what I eat, finding good but healthy as well as filling food both at the grocery store and fast food places and restaurants.I am right now at 215 lbs, for the last 8-9 months I been up and down between 212 and 225, but mostly in the lower range of that. I am not going to stress about it, the weight took years to pack on, and it will take a while to get off. I just turned 40 in March, and I am right now at the same weight as when I left the Swedish Air Force at age 22. I am actually probably in slightly better shape now than back then (I was mainly driving trucks and heavy equipment in the Air Force). My goal is to get below 200 lbs, which is about what I was when I graduated High School. My dream is to hit 190, though.It is hard to stay in shape when you have a job sitting on front of a computer all day, and sometimes night. On top of that, I am lazy.I now try to go to the gym several times each week, and working out with a trainer at least once a week. But the biggest effect om my weight is how and what I eat. I foound so many good to eat that I can't really come up with any excuses not to eat healthy most of the time. I am not a picky eater, so that makes things easier, of course. The other day I had a sliced avocado, a can of drained tuna in water and two hard-boiled eggs for lunch. Excellent, very tasty. Sdding some black pepper…

It has been a while since I did some blogging, but I been recharging some this last weekend and I will try to get back into a somewhat regular schedule.Before I start, I would like to point out a function I would love to see in Lotus Connections, where this blog runs. I don't think it is something only useful for Bleedyellow.com, but for all Connections users. The function? To allow anonymous (or at least non-validated/logged in) users to comment.Could be a setting on a per-blog basis. I don't think it is unthinkable that a company get Lotus Connections and use it both for internal/closed blogging, and for some external blogs as well, where they want to allow feedback form the public.OK, now on to other stuff. I been reading for a while about all the benefits of the compression in Domino 8.0.1 and 8.5, as well as DAOS. So of course, having several huge databases, I got very excited. The claim system I wrote is split over a couple of databases. The main one is currently 6,930 MB (including view indexes) with 1,4 million documents, and the biggest supporting one is 7,363 MB with almost 1,8 million documents (about 1400 new ones created each business day). The view indexes are fairly large, over a GB on the first database for example. Our Domino administrator did some testing on a Domino 8.5 server he setup, but he did not see any space savings at all on the claim system. I believe that the database size even increased a few MB. He then turned on the new attachment compression, and got a 1.5% savings, or something to that effect.He will soon try the same with his mailfile and see if he get a better result. When I get the final numbers, I will post them here.So why are we not getting any 20-40% savings others report? Well, for one thing, the documents contain very little rich text data. Almost all fields are plain text fields, and the few rich text fields are used for comments and usually not populated with much data, if any. There are also not a large number of attachments. They are all stored outside Domino, using an FTP upload/download system I designed many years ago. In some of the main documents there is one attachment (usually a PDF of a loss report), but in many of them, the users also use the attachment functionality to put the attachment on the FTP server.So if your database does not contain large rich text fields and attachments, it seems like the compression will not do much good. However, for mail files or other similar applications, the savings seems to be substantial. 

Recently my boss asked me to come up with a way to show certain information on a map of some kind, and after doing some research I decided to simply create a KML file and use Google Earth. In order to create the KML file, I needed latitude and longitude of each address I was going to display. I found a couple of different free services, and I decided to use the one from Google. The Google Geocode service is using a REST API, so it was easy to write some code to send address and retrieve XML with (among other things) latitude and longitude. An additional benefit is that the address get check and modified, so if the ZIP is off, or the name of the street is not "Street" but "Drive", the correct values get returned. You need tosign up to get your own key from Google, but it is free. Today I decided to write a small class to do this lookup, so now I can add this to any program I write. Below is the code for the script library, as well as a small code sample how to call it. Enjoy! Update: I have updated the code below to the latest version, as of March 5, 2013. Dim geodata As GeoData Set geodata = New GeoData("6363 North State Highway 161", "Irving", "tx", "") If geodata.IsValid Then Msgbox geodata.Street & Chr$(13) & geodata.City & ", " & geodata.State & " " & geodata.ZIP,, _ "Accuracy = " & geodata.AccuracyMsgbox "Lat: " & geodata.Latitude & " Longitude: " & geodata.Longitude End If And here is the class, I suggest to put it in a script library.   Option Public Option Declare Class GeoData Private GeoString As String Public street As String Public city As String Public zip As String Public state As String Public latitude As String Public longitude As String Public errmsg As String Public warnmsg As String Public Sub New(streetStr As String, cityStr As String, stateStr As String, zipStr As String) Dim httpObject As Variant Dim mapsKey As String Dim mapsURL As String Dim address As String Dim retries As Integer Dim httpURL As String Dim returncode As String Dim coordinates As String Dim ret As Integer Dim xmladdress As String Dim addarray As Variant Dim success As Integer retries = 0 errmsg = "" warnmsg = "" '*** Use Win32 COM object to do HTTP calls Set httpObject = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") mapsKey = "" mapsUrl = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=" address = streetStr & ", " & cityStr & ", " & stateStr & " " & zipStr httpURL = mapsURL & address & "&output=xml" success = False Do '*** After the two first calls, introduce a 1 second delay between calls If retries>1 Then Sleep 1 End If retries = retries + 1 Call httpObject.open("GET", httpURL, False) Call httpObject.send() GeoString = Left$(httpObject.responseText,16000) returncode = GetGeoValue("code") If returncode = "200" Then success = True errmsg = "" ElseIf returncode = "500" Then errmsg ="[Google GeoCode Error " &…

In a couple of weeks I turn 40, and I am going back home to Sweden for my birthday. It will be the first time I celebrate my birthday in Sweden since 1997. My sister asked me a couple of weeks ago if there was anything special I wanted for my birthday. I could not think about anything back then. Honestly, birthdays are not a big thing anymore. The last few years I been baking myself a birthday cake and pretty much celebrated it by myself. A couple of years I been going out with friends, but rarely on my actual birthday. I am not even used at getting any big gifts, usually I get a card and something small from my son. One year I got a miniature multi-tool than fit my keychain.The last "big" birthday gift I got was 5 years ago, the first one after my divorce. My two best friends (one living in Sweden and one in England) bought me the Special Collectors Platinum Edition of The Fellowship of the Ring on DVD. However, the delivery man left it on the front porch, since I was at work, when I came home it was stolen (but the thieves left the box) and the house had also been broken into. Amazon sent a new one without extra cost, though...So the other day I was thinking, what would I wish for if I did not have to limit myself to what I know my sister's budget is limited to? I have a pretty nice digital camera, a Sony Cybershot DSC-H2, but it would be nice to take the next step and go for a DSLR. So I started doing some research, and even went to a camera store the other day after work. Also, my best friends boyfriend is a big photo enthusiast, and I asked him a few questions. So now I think I know what I would like. :-)My choice would be a Nikon D90 body ($899)with a Tamron AF18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 lens ($599). The lens equals 15x optical zoom and seems to be a great all-in-one lens for me. Later I can get more/other lenses, depending on what I end up taking pictures of.One of the features I liked, and which made me choose the D90 instead of the older but less expensive D80 or D60 is the LiveView, that you can use the LCD display on the back as viewfinder. On my current camera I use this about 30-50% of the time, and it is a very nice feature. I am sure I would have missed that.Of course, I know this is way more than my sister is going to buy me. She thought the $379 I paid for my Sony H2 (or equal amount for the Casio Exilim I got her for her 35th birthday two years ago) was expensive... Or rather, she does not like to spend money on things like that that she consider not necessary. Of course, I knew she wanted…

Finally home after a week in a very cold Orlando, at a great Lotusphere. Picked up my son for the weekend, handed him some of the stuff I got for him on the trip, and turned on the TV and the cable box from AT&T U-verse to watch some shows I had recorded while I was gone."No recordings" was the message I got. I tried a few times, but all my recordings were gone. The service worked, I had all my channels, and the internet connection worked as well. Called customer support and finally eneded up at technical support. After a while the girl I talked to came back and said that they pushed out an upgrade and that "something must have gine wrong and erasedthe recordings". I had about 10-12 movies recorded from when I had HBO/Showtime and the other movie channels (I since then cancelled those channels because I was not that interested in paying $50 extra/month to watchone or twomovies each month), as well as several other shows from History Channel, Discovery, Military Channeland other channels. I had several eopisodes of Mythbusters recorded for my son, as well as a bunch of documentaries and movies that I specifically marked as not to delete.The DVR has a nice feature, it start deleting the oldest recordings to make room for a new one if there is not enough space, but I can protect the shows I want to really save.I asked the girl what AT&T could do for me, and after talking to her supervisor, they offered to credit my account with 10 dollar. I asked to talk to the supervisor, and he siad that is the most technical support can do. When I indicated that I found that offer unacceptable (just going online and trying to find all those shows and movies would take more that $10 worth of time, even if counting below minimum wage), the supervisor said he would send a message to the billing department and someone would call me back tomorrow. They better have something else to offer, or I will be a very unhappy customer.I been pretty happy with the service this far. I have four incoming streams, meaning I can recordthree channelsand watch a fourth one, all at teh same time. The internet service (I curently have the Elite plan with 6 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up) is pretty stable. Lately I had to reconnect more frequently with the wireless router, and for a few days prior to leaving for Lotusphere I had more problems that usual. But other than that, I have been happy with them.The PVR have several USB ports, but they are basically useless, since you can not paly Divx or any files from them, and you can not hook up any external drives to transfer your recordings over to, so you have a backup if AT&T decide to reformat your drive while you are gone...Well, I will update this entry tomorrow, if AT&T call me back... Stay…

The other day I joined the video sharing site/service Qik and downloaded their (free) application for Blackberry. What it does is similar to YouTube, but you record directly for the site and the video get uploaded at once. As they describe it:Join Qik to share live video with anyone and everyone?r only share with the people you choose. Use Qik and start showing your audience of choice what´s going on anywhere and everywhere you go.I thought it could be fun to create a group for Lotusphere 2009, so I did. The URL is http://qik.com/groups/3003. It is an open group, anyone can join for now. Why not use this to upload your clips from Lotusphere? You can setup your account to automatically post a tweet when you upload a clip, and to send it to YouTube as well. A fairly large number of phones are supported, including Blackberry och iPhone.Update: I am still trying to figure out how to add a video you created to a group. Stay tuned. 

This weekend I went to the local AT&T and got myself a Blackberry Bold. I initially wanted the Storm, but after reading all the reviews, I decided I should go with a Bold. My AT&T account was eligible for an upgrade now in January (actually January 19, but as I will be in Orlando then, I wanted to upgrade early). It was no hassle, compared with earlier times I been getting cell phones. In and out in about 10 minutes. I did not bother having them transfer my contacts or contents. All my pictures were already on my memory card (which I could use in the Blackberry), and I had already synced all my contacts to my computer at home. So when I came home, I could just re-sync all my contacts back to the new phone, and I was set.It took me about a day and a half to get used to the phone, find all the settings, find some nice layouts for the screen and download some useful programs (e.g. Lotusphere´09 Session Database, Yahoo Go!, Facebook, twibble and Goggle Mobile/Maps/Sync/Gmail). I also made myself a couple of background images, just to try it out. I had one on my old Samsyn Sync phone I was happy with, but the resolution/size was totally wrong, so I ended up recreating it, and it actually turned out much better this time.So after about two and a half days, what is my opinion? Well, I have to say I really like it. This is my first Blackberry, but I have been playing with some older models, about 2 years ago. This one is very nice compared with them. The screen is absolutely gorgeous, crisp, clear and easy to read. The programs, both built-in and most downloaded, are easy to use. I love the GPS functionality, and the camera is creating pretty good pictures, in good light conditions.What are the things I don´t like? Well, there are a few. Some may be due to my inexperience with the device, but some are legit issues. Nothing that really take away too much from the Bold, though. My biggest issue, and probably just due to not being used to the device, is the keyboard. The numeric part have the numbers in white, just like the qwerty keyaboard. That makes the left-most keys hard to read, and creating some temporary brain overload when trying to type. I also am missing more specialized characters, like the Scandinavian UGand ?characters. My old Samsung had those.The background light level is going up and down, and I have not figured out why or how it works. I am sure it has to do with the light conditions around the device, though.As I said, I synced up my contacts with my computer at home, and when I got to work I synced it up with my Notes address book there. I also synched the calendar both with Google Calendar (using Google Sync) and with my Notes Calendar. Here I got some…

One of CNNs currently most popular aricles is Obama picks Bible for inauguration, but what verse?.While President-elect Barack Obama will certainly be making history when he takes the oath of office on January 20, he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861.Presidents have differed greatly, however, on the question of which passage the Bible should be opened to during the swearing-in ceremony.It brings up the question of what -- if any -- biblical passage Obama will emphasize.Ihave a couple of suggestions:[Exodus 21:2] "When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing."[Exodus 21:7-8] "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do." [Exodus 21:26-27] "When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye´s sake. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth´s sake."[Leviticus 24:16]"And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death." Sorry, I could not resist. :-)Update: Fixed typo in headline... Thanks Roland! 

UPDATE: Seems like the embedded video caused some problems in IE.Here is the direct link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4Enjoy! 

Well, I got my yearly pumpkin done. It ended upbeing Gollum from The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy. The patternwassomewhat complicated, due to the fact there were large areas when the skin was just supposed to be removed and the pumpkin walls made thinner. What I ended up doing was to mark the different sections on the pumpkin with white-board markers, different colors for areas to cut through (black), un-touched (green) and thinned (red):Then it was just to start up the Dremel tool, using different size high speed cutters. Here is the result about 2 hours later:What does your pumpkin look like? 

Even if I am not originally from the US, and we don't celebrate Halloween the same way as here, I do enjoy it. Especially carving pumpkins. I found a cool website, ExtremePumpkins.comwith lot of tips and pictures, where you also could get some inspiration.Last year I created a stormtrooper helmet from Star Wars for my son, who is a big Star Wars fan. I have not decided what to do this year...In Sweden, Halloween (or All Saint's Eve) is a more somber celebration of the dead, celebrated on the first Saturday of November. People go to the cemetaries and light candles on the graves of family and friends. It is a very special thing to see a cemetary covered in thousands of burning candle in a pitch black night. The last few years, people have "imported" the US kind of Halloween (just like they imported Valentine's Day) and throw parties and dress up. Traditionally, young Swedishgirls dress up at witches the day before Good Friday and do a kind of "trick-or-treat", getting candy in exchange for hand painted/drawn Easter cards. This tradition obviously comes form the medivial believe that the witches left Maundy Thursday (the day before Good Friday) to fly awayfor a witch sabbath(where they eat, drink and fornicate) with the devil (usually said to take place at Bl?lla) a on the most sacred christian day of the year. 

Have you ever watched Beauty and the Geek? They are now casting for another season. Why not give it a try?More at the SweetOnGeeks blog. 

As probably most of you know, the scandinavian (Norwegian/Icelandic) explorer Leif Eriksson (Leifr Eir?son) landed in North America almost 500 years before Columbus,in 1000 A.D. or perhaps 1-2 years later. He there established a small settlement. Today, October 9, is therefor, by presidential proclamation,Leif Erikson day in the US. As it should be, Leif Erikson Day is before Columbus Day (coming up this next Monday).Leif Erikson Day, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America On Leif Erikson Day, we remember that son of Iceland and grandson of Norway for his journey to North America, and we celebrate the influential role Nordic Americans have played in our society. Leif Erikson was among the world's greatest and most daring explorers. More than 1,000 years ago, he led a crew across the Atlantic to North America. Today, the same desire to explore and open new frontiers inspires our citizens and contributes to the strength of our Nation. America's friendships with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are strong, and Nordic Americans have added to our rich cultural diversity and proud ancestry. On this day, we recognize these individuals for their remarkable achievements in all sectors of our society. America is grateful for the many contributions of Nordic Americans, and we continue to draw inspiration from the courage and optimism of the adventurous Leif Erikson. To honor Leif Erikson and to celebrate our citizens of Nordic American heritage, the Congress, by joint resolution (Public Law 88-566) approved on September 2, 1964, has authorized the President to proclaim October 9 of each year as "Leif Erikson Day." NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 9, 2008, as Leif Erikson Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs to honor our rich Nordic-American heritage. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third. GEORGE W. BUSH  

The other day I found some fresh yeast in the grocery store, and i picked some up because I wanted to bake something. After I can home, I decided I had not had any cinnamon rolls in a long time. SoisI made some.* Crumble 2 1/2 packages of fresh yeast (totalling about 50 gram) into a big bowl.* Melta little bit more than onestick (113 gram) of butter, I used about 130 gram. Add 5 dl (a little over a pint) of milk. Heat to body temperature/finger warm. You should not be feeling anything when you put the finger in it.* Use some of the liquid to dissolve the yeast, the add the rest of the liquid, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and1 dl sugar.* Add 14-15 dl of flour. I first added 10 dl, stirred well, then added 4 dl more, stired, and slowly added 1 more dl .* Put the dough on a table and kneed until smoth but not sticky. Add flour until you get the right consistency.* Shape into a big ball, put back into bowl, cover with alinen towel and let rise for 30 minutes.* Put the dough on the table, cut into two equal pieces, and shape into two rectangular flat pieces, about 20cm x 45cm (8x20 inches) using a roller.* Spread a thin layer of soft butter over each piece, sprinkle granulated sugar and cinnamon over it, and roll them from the long side. Leave a 1/2 inch strip on one long side without butter, and start rolling from the opposite side. This will make the end of the rolls stay closed. As you can see in my picture above, I did not do that on this particular batch, which caused the ends to separate.* Cutthe rolls into about 1 inch think slices, place each slice laying down on a cookie sheet and cover. You should have about 32-40 rolls, depending on size. Rise for 30 more minutes. Note: I use AirBake non-stick cookie sheets, they work great at preventing the bottom of the rolls to get burned. Highly recommended! I got mine at WalMart.* Heat up the oven to 225 C/450 F.* Brush each roll with egg, and sprinkle over pearl sugar. It can be purchased at IKEA, they have asection with Swedish food itemsin most/all international locations.* Bake for 5-9 minutes or until golden brown.Note: 1 dl = 3.4 oz = just over 1/3 cup, 15 dl = 1.5 litre = 6.3 cups 

Saturday 2 weeks ago, I was cleaning off my livingroom table. Had some trash there from the previous evening, some wrappers from my dinner, a Subway sandwich. There was also the lid from a can of pineapples, the kind that you just pop off. I found out the hard way that the edges of the lid in fact are razor sharp... I put the lid together with the rest of the trash (paper). As I often do, I crumbled the wrappers together whileI started to walk back towards the kitchen and the trash can. Bad idea. The lidmade a nice clean cut into the palm of my right hand. I started rinsing it off, and got some band aid out of the cabinet in the kitchen. Imade some paper towels into a ball and squeezed it with my hand to stop the bleeding somewhat, and avoid getting more blood on the floor. I then suddenly started feeling a bit dizzy and leaned over the sink to be able to stay on my feet. The next think I know was me laying on the kitchen floor, looking up at my worried 8 year old son who was with me over the weekend. I then went to the home office to get my cell phone, and actually passed out once more... Eventually I felt better, and I rinsed the cut off, used hydrogen peroxide to desinfect the wound, and then glued the wound together using Cyanoacrylate (CA) glue (super glue), which I use for model building, but is also used in the hospitals today instead of stitches.Below are two pictures, one right after I glued myself together and put some surgical tape on to cover the wound, and one the next day, when it was pretty much closed up and cleaned off.A week later, there was just a small scab, and today there is just a small nice scar. Perhaps I should switch to a career as surgeon? It does not seem to be that complicated, much easier that learning Java. :-)