Well i should have blogged about this long ago, but here goes:

The car i bought at the end of february dies, apparently i have a nack for killing my cars. I was on my way to a party in Århus with a friend on the highway. I should explain that in Denmark our highways has different speed-limits depending on ... well depending on something anyway. The national speed limit on highways is 130 km/h (~80 mph for americanos out there) - but on the strecth i drive everyday the speed limit is 110 km/h (~69 mph) so it was the first time my car would try going all the way to 130 km/h - but alas after about 30 minutes of 130 km/h it suddenly "lost the steam", no reaction when i but the pedal to the metal. Luckily, or whatever, the dealer is situated in Randers which lies on the way to Århus, and it could go about 80 km/h - so at that speed we travelled to Randers.

When i got to the dealer there was no shit, i should mentioned that they gave me a 6 months guarantee on the engine and gearbox, i handed them the key and got to borrow another car while the other was being fixed. How's that for service! After about 3 weeks of driving in the borrowed car, which by the way is a bit more powerful - more fun on the highway - but hard as hell to parallel park, i got my own car back - and it's running fine again. Turns out it just blew a "stempel ring", the rubber thingy which goes around the piston in an engine, they said it had never happened to them on a Ford Ka before, but it got fixed, and i'm back and running.

Enough about the car.

I mentioned that i drove to work on the highway each day, well what's that all about, you are working in Nørresundby? I hear you ask. Well i'm working on a project in Støvring (a town about 20 km south of Aalborg) in a company called SimRad, so i have about half an hour commute each way each day, nice to wake up on. The work is really interesting, and has started to include a lot of coding, just the way i like it. I almost don't have the need to write code in my spare time to satisfy my coding addiction, well almost, i managed to work a bit on Vertigo these past weeks. I'm working on getting release 0.6.4 out the door, complete with SSL certificate generation and usage support, a testing release of that code is out as version 0.6.3.3 in the unstable debian archive at http://dev.infonet.dk/debian/. Only a few things left before 0.6.4 is released.

The automated testing framework has been put of to version 0.6.6, i hope to get it done by then, it was also moved from 0.6.2 to 0.6.4. If someone knows of some good libraries to pythonically control a User Mode Linux system or some other thing, maybe QEMU could to the trick. The basic idea is to install Vertigo on a complete working system - and then test that all the services are performing according to some unit-tests - this would put quite a bit of tedious work of my shoulders.

Till next time ...