Diary, January 2000

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     9  10  11  12  13  14  15
    16  17  18  19  20  21  22
    23  24  25  26  27  28  29
    30  31

We went upstairs to watch the fireworks from the window. While I was taking some video, we discovered that Andy was screaming. After taking him out of bed, he only calmed down after we had put him in front of his favourite video, and he had watched it for at least five minutes.

In a sense it felt strange having reached the year 2000. Some kind of feeling of We finally made it. In the past week I often thought back about the past decades. But on the other hand it also feel just the same as before.

Sites that support the fact that the next millennium only starts next year are:

• The White House Millennium Counsel (Broken!)
• UNSO Millennium Program (Broken!)
• Millennium organisation (Broken!)
• Webster's Dictionary
• Millennium Brain Bug Syndrome

If you believe that the 3^rd millennium has started on January 1, 2000, please consider the following things:

• You believe that our current Julian calendar should be taken as the starting point for determining the start of a millenium. This means that all arguments based on a birth day of Jesus Christ, can be done away with from the start, as He was not born anything close to the first of January of the year 1.
• The expression "The year 1995", for example, is a short hand for "The 1995^th year of to the Julian calendar". Year 1, was thus the first year of our Julian calendar.
• Only at the end of the first year, one year had passed.
• Only at the end of the 100^th year, the first century had passed.
• Only at the end of the 1000^th year, the first millenium had passed.
• Only at the end of the year 2000, the second millenium has passed.

(About February 29)

SACT 2000

• I want to make sure that we are on the same page
• a breed of printers
• small grain reuse did not work
• commonality
• if fuel for
• to mitigate the risk
• architecture-based design is more than a design method
• UP does not deal with architecture design considerations
• give you a four thousand feet view
• out in front of you
• Oh boy, that is a nice question
• ROSE is not appropriate
• Use the best and make the rest
• The good news is UML, and the bas new is UML
• After you have become a filthy rich CEO, you can still become a software architect
• If it ain't broken, don't fix it
• You used up your slides
• I have a dead-line next week. What does architecture bring me?
• I will take a step here
• What is better trail-and-error or using a design methodology?

Maybe it has to do with my age that I am contemplating what I have achieved so far in my life. I noticed that lately I have been thinking a lot about what I did in the past. For example, about the trips I made. Because of this, I am also paging through my old diaries, which brings back memories from the past.

However, seeking recognition is a dead-end road. As a Christian we should not seek to glorify ourselves. Jesus made some pretty confronting statements.

If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

Luke 9:23,24. according to NASB

Painting by Billy Foley

I was wondering if there would exist a technique to get an image with a higher resolution than the one I was having. Of course, you cannot make the image contain more information than it already has. Information is the opposite of entropy (which is the measure of chaos). So it seems that any operation applied to an image can only reduce the information in the image. This is true if you do not have any additional knowledge about the original thing the image was taken from. But if you do know some properties of it, than it is possible to improve the image.

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