tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49009986531152273552024-03-18T08:20:19.613+01:00What the Hedgehog SangSir, please stop trying to convince the nice man that he should destroy us all.Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-83402075185960294142012-07-18T22:41:00.000+02:002012-07-18T22:41:02.817+02:00Open letter to a Google recruiter
You write:
> Hi Henning
>
> My Name is redacted I work in the Engineering Staffing team at Google. I tried
> to get in contact with you via email about opportunities here at Google as
> well as to understand more about what you are doing at the moment.
>
> I just wanted to follow this up to make sure that you had received my
> previous email and to make sure you had the opportunity to have a Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-72709446549394530782012-07-16T01:37:00.000+02:002012-07-16T01:37:46.579+02:00trackmap.net: Even more Berlin, etc.
I have updated trackmap.net with yet another Berlin track map: map 'BeN', showing lines north of Gesundbrunnen as far as Velten, Löwenberg, and Bernau. A few very minor changes to the existings maps BeA and BeO were mad as I researched the new map.
While I was drawing I got an email from Finn Arildsen with updates to Odderbanen on map 'G'. Because I already had everything open, I had an updatedHenning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-64479171380515957322012-06-30T22:18:00.001+02:002012-07-16T01:26:58.302+02:00trackmap.net update: More Berlin, map sizes, etc.
An overview of updates to trackmap.net in the last month or so:
First and foremost, the Germany section has been extended with new map 'BeO' showing a section of Eastern Berlin next to the existing map 'BeA'.
This map is based on sketches and photos from vacations in 2009 and 2010, with a few areas going back to sketches from 2002. Orthophotos from Google Maps also came in helpful, especially Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-27946270320664525562012-06-02T20:02:00.000+02:002012-06-03T01:01:02.755+02:00How the Red Cross lost meAn open letter to the director of the Red Cross in Denmark.Dear Anders Ladekarl,This Friday morning I received a phone call from a gentleman who presented himself as a fundraiser with your organization.The fundraiser's business, apart from delivering a spiel about your organization's work in Syria (no doubt laudable, though I confess to not listening too closely), was to suggest that instead of Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-7946006621687249432012-05-26T03:26:00.001+02:002012-05-26T03:27:02.873+02:00trackmap.net update: SwedenI have updated the two track maps for the Malmö and Helsingborg areas in southern Sweden. These maps used to be based on sketches I did in 2000; now they are mostly brought up to last August. Some follow-up work on the Citytunneln connection was still going on at that time; I'm planning an excursion this summer to find out how it ended up.
Meanwhile, I have done a few additional updates on the Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-29536365688773224812012-05-20T22:46:00.001+02:002012-05-20T22:46:04.299+02:00dk.trackmap.net updateSkyscrapercity.com member Spikespiegel noticed that map A was missing a crossover between the main tracks in the south end of Holte. This error is now fixed.
Looking through my backups, it turns out that the map did actually show this crossover until April 2006, where I updated the map based on fresh observations. Apart from this there's no evidence that the crossover has ever not been there, so Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-5953070295082249972012-05-19T22:58:00.000+02:002012-05-19T22:59:54.867+02:00More track map changesAfter the last post I continued tinkering with the maps for some days. This bout of activity petered out without any announcement being made, but in the interest of history, I should document more or less what happened:
I managed to relayout map A such that it now has room (within my arbitrary limits for how large the image is allowed to be) for the long-distance tracks from Glostrup to Høje Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-68435483623332978882012-05-05T01:17:00.001+02:002012-05-05T01:17:47.342+02:00Updated: track map for CopenhagenLook, an update at dk.trackmap.net! Yes, I am in fact still alive. Amazing, huh?
Specifically, I have updated map A with some news in central Copenhagen:
The fourth platform track past Dybbølsbro opened last August. High time, one might say -- it has been more than ten years in the making!
Two new tracks between København H and Ny Ellebjerg are nearing completion, on ground that was formerly Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-33303016703717056162011-10-04T03:03:00.007+02:002011-10-04T13:13:58.904+02:00Where's the party?
Denmark got a new government yesterday.
Little more than two weeks after the general election, the leader of a center-left coalition went to the Queen and told that she had a government platform and a parliamentary majority behind it. She was duly appointed prime minister. Then handover ceremonies were held at the various government ministries. Outgoing ministers shook hand with their Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-60844907453414793802011-06-24T01:24:00.005+02:002011-06-24T01:31:57.445+02:00Memorable moments lost
I just noticed that the initial digits in some timestamps my code logs out looked familiar.
It turns out that for one glorious second about 38 hours ago, the Unix timestamp value (in decimal) equaled my personal identification number.
And I missed it. Drat.
Danish readers born on on September 13 should be prepared!
Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-4548700230538798252011-05-17T01:50:00.007+02:002011-05-17T02:19:28.604+02:00How to write product descriptions
I own a grand total of zero modular stage deck elements, which happens to be all I need, and even if I did need more, I would want to buy or rent them closer to home than California. This saddens me a bit because these guys' product descriptions are pure gold – they deserve my custom, but I have none to give them!
It seems they're using a website template that wants to have individual Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-43376345570223966442010-12-22T03:27:00.004+01:002010-12-22T03:32:44.852+01:00Henning's 82nd maxim for Staying Sane on the Internet
Against random individual opponents I will defend the reasonableness of my opinions, but not my moral right to hold and express them. If the latter cannot be assumed granted, then why are we having a conversation in the first place?
(I will, however, occasionally defend the right of others to hold and express their opinions, when it needs doing and does not appear to be too pointless. That's Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-90102006443392574082010-08-28T01:08:00.011+02:002010-08-28T01:43:53.066+02:00Dear AbbyNormally I don't read this kind of thing. But the Evil HR Lady mentioned Dear Abby, with a link that I was feeling bored enough to click.
Today, on her front page Abby is relaying a plea from a group of people who use speech synthesizers. They write:
Please be patient. It takes us a little bit longer to get our messages out than it does you.
Feel free to ask questions. Don't pretend to understandHenning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-79686686184796274112010-05-25T02:13:00.003+02:002010-05-25T02:21:44.627+02:00The book of Job
I've neglected to write anything here recently. Perhaps I should save some of the more self-contained comments I write in other places, to give people a better chance to tell me how mistaken I am. Here's my reaction to a recent Slacktivist post:
I've tried several times to read the Book of Job, but always had to give up about a third way in. The prose set-up is readable enough, but then the Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-19756039138907706902009-09-04T15:04:00.004+02:002009-09-04T15:07:39.914+02:00Awesomeness not truthI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
In which the Garfield cast enact a Dinosaur Comics pastiche, creating a sort of complement to No. 5 "Qwantzfield".
Art clipped from the strips of 1994-02-14, 1994-04-19, 2001-04-10, 2003-03-24, 2005-03-08, 2005-07-10, and 2007-02-15.Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-74152562217725264282009-08-24T13:51:00.003+02:002009-08-24T13:55:17.101+02:00Garfield recoloredI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
I drained the colors from the 1995-02-27 Garfield strip and put new ones in. Does it bother you that Garfield is now a gray/white cat instead of an orange one? Should it bother you? Complex issues arise.
First, the strip already has the "token gray" character Nermal, but his appearances are few and far between, especially considering Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-15217636489318677902009-08-14T12:27:00.004+02:002009-08-14T12:34:03.479+02:00The Happiest Dog in the WorldI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
With apologies to David Lynch.
Original strip from 1994-03-05, with new art cribbed from the 1991-01-03 and 1992-08-09 strips.
Earlier I also did No. 124: Krazy minus Kat, but didn't post about it. And a whole slew of Comment on a Postcard reconstructions.Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-8900596113827567732009-07-28T12:33:00.001+02:002009-07-28T12:35:35.325+02:00LolfieldI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
Readers who have been away from the Internet for the past several years, please see Lolcats at TV Tropes. Or the Other Wiki.
It's easy enough to create a Garfield lolcat. The trick is to find a framing such that Garfield is kept even remotely in character.
Original strip from 2007-02-14.Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-43891634373038503392009-07-24T12:35:00.002+02:002009-07-24T12:36:17.457+02:00Dissociated GarfieldI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
Taking "remixed Garfield strips" fairly literally, I created these three strips using a generalisation of the Dissociated Press algorithm to two dimensions. Here is how it works, more or less:
Construct a source image consisting of all regular non-Sunday Garfield strips from 2007, forced into a common 216-color palette. (Avoid ditheringHenning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-5286584381442878592009-07-17T13:13:00.005+02:002009-07-17T13:22:39.190+02:00Thrichromatic GarfieldI contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
Like many other "funny" newspaper strips, the colour in Garfield seldom really adds value to the joke. It seems that colour is just added as an afterthought, because surely the newspapers did not invest in full-colour-on-every-page capable offset machines just to run monochrome line art!
However, for a strip that does not really need Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-27895357788339302452009-07-12T02:51:00.002+02:002009-07-12T03:05:37.333+02:00Trackmap.net update: Central Berlin
My summer vacation this year went to Berlin. I spent a week riding trains, photographing tracks, sketching track maps. Like last year I had no trouble with authorities, despite people in DB Sicherheit uniforms often being around as I took pictures.
Unlike last year, this year I've taken the time to draw fair digital track maps from my photos and sketches. The first part of the results are now Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-57539516689984862382009-07-10T12:57:00.007+02:002009-07-12T02:51:42.294+02:00Garfield IN SPACE!
I contributed today's Square Root of Minus Garfield strip:
Strip from 1982-11-01. Original dialogue.
Obligatory TV Tropes link.
Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-51733777381728952592009-07-03T14:48:00.002+02:002009-07-03T14:51:58.368+02:00Xcftools 1.0.7: This is getting embarassing
I missed a single GPL blurb as I changed the license notices in xcftools 1.0.6. Yet another version fixes it: http://henning.makholm.net/xcftools/xcftools-1.0.7.tar.gz with SHA-1 checksum 3c3cf07ad6183605a3febf5a8af9f2bd4cb4ef83 and signature
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What gives? Just a few hours after I released xcftools 1.0.5, I hit another bug myself. It turns out xcftools would malfunction for canvas-sized layers that have a layer mask but no alpha channel. And while looking through the code for the right place to fix this, I discovered yet another bug sitting in the code.
So here is version 1.0.6, the second patch release in 24 hours. Quite some Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900998653115227355.post-66344476763824677052009-07-03T01:50:00.007+02:002009-07-03T02:31:12.102+02:00Xcftools 1.0.5: a security fix release
Some years ago, I wrote a set of small command-line programs that can extract image data from Gimp's native file format XCF. I call them xcftools and use them for automating some of the steps in the production of track maps. Others have, allegedly, found them useful too. (They are among the top Google leads to my personal website, which I'll admit may not be saying much).
A few weeks ago, Henning Makholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299831550580392748noreply@blogger.com2