De bedste kredse i Storkreds Østjylland

June 10, 2006 by thomas · Comment
Filed under: da, politics 

Nu hvor de nye valgkredse er vedtaget af Folketinget, er det interessant at se på, hvilke kredse, der bliver de mest eftertragtede. Naturligt nok er jeg mest interesseret i Det radikale Venstre og Storkreds Østjylland.

Jeg har taget valgresultatet fra sidste valg samt antallet af vælgere i de nye opstillingskredse, og jeg har meget groft overført stemmeprocenten fra de gamle kredse til de nye. Resultatet er det estimerede antal radikale stemmer pr. opstillingskreds. Det er meget groft (hvis det skal være bedre, skal jeg have fat på resultaterne fra de enkelte valgsteder), men det giver dog et fingerpeg:

Århus Østkredsen 7996    Djurskredsen 2797
Århus Nordkredsen 6215    Randers Sydkredsen 2689
Århus Sydkredsen 5329    Favrskovkredsen 2663
Århus Vestkredsen 4980    Randers Nordkredsen 1923
Skanderborgkredsen 3892    Hedenstedkredsen 1516
Horsenskredsen 3255   

Man ser, at selv om Djurskredsen er den største kreds, er der ikke nok radikale til for alvor at gøre den interessant. Århus hersker naturligvis stadigvæk suverænt, men derefter kommer Skanderborg og Horsens. Man skal dog være opmærksom på, at kandidaterne i de to Randers-kredse muligvis vil lave en aftale om lade hinanden føre valgkamp i begge kredse, og hvis det sker, vil det stadigvæk være Randers, der har den bedste chance for at stjæle det andet mandat fra Århus – men Skanderborg har bestemt også en chance nu!

Pepino Secco

June 10, 2006 by thomas · Comment
Filed under: da, fooddrink 

Efter at have skrevet det forrige indlæg fik jeg helt lyst til at kunne servere en Habermas’ Birthday for eventuelle gæster. Den eneste underlige ingrediens er Pepino Secco, men det regnede jeg med, en Google-søgning hurtigt kunne råde bod på. Men nej – Pepino Secco findes ikke! Jeg gad vide, hvad det var. Så vidt jeg husker, mindede det om Campari (rødt og bittert) – var det mon blot en slags camparierstatning, som studerende drak i starten af 90erne? Selv hvis det ikke findes mere, kunne jeg godt tænke mig at vide, hvad det egentlig var. Kan nogen mon hjælpe?

Habermas’ Birthday

June 10, 2006 by thomas · Comment
Filed under: en, featured, fooddrink 


This morning, I was trying to find a recipe for American breakfast pancakes amongst my notes. I didn’t succeed, but instead I found the recipe for a cocktail I once invented. I clearly remember it. It was a party at the Oriental Department (Østasiatisk Institut), i.e., most of the people there were students of Japanese or Chinese, and I somehow ended up behind the bar. There was a bottle of Pepino Secco that we were trying to find a use for, and I invented this drink that everybody seemed to like, although nobody liked the Pepino on its own. I called it “Habermas’ Birthday” – obviously, it was invented on his birthday, but why I knew this to be the case, I don’t remember, but I studied “Humanistisk Videnskabsteori” together with people from this department, so we might have been reading Habermas earlier in the day, I presume. Anyway, I guess everybody is by now anxious to get the recipe, so here it is:

For one glass of Habermas’ Birthday:

  • 2 cl vodka
  • 2 cl Pepino Secco
  • 1 cm [sic!] Sprite
  • 2 icecubes
  • 1 slice of lemon

Mix the ingredients well and serve.

90 år

June 10, 2006 by thomas · 1 Comment
Filed under: da, family 

Idith at my confirmation
Originally uploaded by viralbus.

I dag ville min mormor, Idith, være fyldt 90 år. Hun gik vildt op i fødselsdage, så hvis hun havde været i live, ville jeg helt sikkert have været i Danmark lige nu. Det var ganske hyggeligt – det betød bl.a., at man var sikker på at se hele den danske del af familien mindst én gang om året.

Vejret er efter sigende også fremragende i Danmark i dag, så vi ville sikkert have spist en stor middag i mine forældres have.

Server move

June 10, 2006 by thomas · 3 Comments
Filed under: computing, en, web 

Yesterday, my homepage and blog went down. This morning, I emailed Yanet to ask what was wrong. It turned out that there were so few people left on the machine I was on that it had been classified as unused and removed. :-(

I was therefore recreated on a new machine and had my files reinstalled from back-up. The new server is very nice and gives me more opportunities to create subdomains, but it’s irritating to be forced to move on the only day of the year with 26 degrees in Glasgow. :-/

I’m using this opportunity to make my blog my primary homepage – I doubt anybody had much of an interest in my real homepage anyway.

At the moment, I’m waiting for the nameserver changes to spread around the internet – by now, I guess I’m the only one who cannot access my homepage, but I’m sure that’s because of a caching problem at my end.