Poker is a type of card game in which players bet on the value of the card combination ("hand") in their possession, by placing a bet into a central pot. The winner is the one who holds the hand with the highest value according to an established hand rankings hierarchy, or otherwise the player who remains in the hand after all others have folded (the player who makes an un-called bet), and wins this pot.

n casual play, the right to deal a hand typically rotates among the players and is marked by a token called a 'dealer' button (or "buck"). In a casino, a house dealer handles the cards for each hand, but the button (typically a white plastic disk) is rotated clockwise among the players to indicate a nominal dealer to determine the order of betting.

One or more players are usually required to make forced bets, usually either an ante or a blind bet (sometimes both). The dealer shuffles the cards, the player one chair to his right cuts, and the dealer deals the appropriate number of cards to the players one at a time. Cards may be dealt either face-up or face-down, depending on the variant of poker being played. After the initial deal, the first of what may be several betting rounds begins. Between rounds, the players' hands develop in some way, often by being dealt additional cards or replacing cards previously dealt. At the end of each round, all bets are gathered into the central pot.

At any time during a betting round, if one player bets and no opponents choose to "call" (match) the bet and instead "fold", the hand ends immediately, the bettor is awarded the pot, no cards are required to be shown, and the next hand begins. This is what makes bluffing possible. Bluffing is a primary feature of poker, one that distinguishes it from other vying games and from other games that make use of poker hand rankings.

First I logged into GratisDNS, which hosts the DNS information for my domains. Here I changed the MX records so that they pointed to Google Apps.

Before this I of course had created the necessary mailing lists and users in my Google Apps.

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Then I started to copy all my mail to Google Apps. For this I used the latest version of imapsync. The complete command was:

imapsync --host1 m00.opasia.dk --user1 gemal --passfile1 pass1 --host2 imap.gmail.com --user2 henrik@gemal.dk --passfile2 pass2 --noauthmd5 --ssl2 --syncinternaldates

This took around 2 hours. Yes I have a lot of mails. But then I was ready to go.

Firmware upgrade
Always start by upgrading the firmware to the latest version. Besides fixing bugs, the firmware also provides new features. In the version that I upgraded to, I got A-GPS (Assisted GPS) which cut the GPS lock-in time in half. You can upgrade the firmware by using the Nokia Software Updater.

Map loader
Use the Nokia Map Loader to download maps and voices for the GPS.
Tip: For some reason this application will fail when it start up if you're behind a proxy. You'll get an error saying "An unexpected error occurred.". This fix is to disable your proxy and try again.

Nokia PC Suite
With Nokia PC Suite, you can connect your phone to a PC and access mobile content as if the phone and the PC were one.

Mail for Exchange
If you're using Exchange for the corporate email, you should install the Mail for Exchange application. This will provide you with access to your Exchange mailbox. It also features push email. This way you dont have to check for emails. The email are pushed to your phone the second they arrive at your mailbox. Very handy. I've set it up so that it doesn't push any emails in the weekends.
Tip: The application doesn't work with the normal "TDC WAP 3G+GPRS" setting, since it uses a proxy. You have go use a non proxy setting. You can get the TDC non proxy setting by going here and choose the "internet" setting.

Other cool software
Sports Tracker from the Nokia Beta Labs
Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary.

Opera Mini
Even though I'm a huge Mozilla fan, I always install the Opera Mini browser in my mobile phone. You can install Opera Mini using a SMS Link.

Nokia Mobile Search
Nokia Mobile Search software gives your Nokia phone a powerful, fast way to access local information, websites, and images. It also searches for messages and other files right in your phone.

RSS Reader
Even though that it's almost impossible to find, the Nokia N95 actually has a RSS reader build in to it. You first have to use the browser to find the website that has the RSS site. Then you subscribe to the site RSS feed. Read more about tweaking the look of the RSS feeds.

Conversation
I haven't used it yet, but the Conversation application looks promising. Conversation is a messaging application that allows you to follow your conversations, organized by individual contacts. In addition, the application provides an easy way for replying to messages, and to continue the conversations.

Flickr
You can save all your pictures to your Flickr account. Remember you have to use this page to get it work. You cant use your normal Flickr username/password.

I started with the Nokia 3210, which is actually the only mobile phone that I bought myself. All the others have been payed by my employee.

Then I moved to one of the best phones I ever had. The Nokia 7110. The so called Matrix phone, since a modified version of it was featured in the Matrix movie.

At the same time I had the Nokia 7110 I also was playing around testing WAP with the Ericsson R320s phone. It was one of the first business phones on the marked and the one I've got was a prototype and of cause it didn't work very well.

Then I got the Nokia 7650 that had a camera. Actually it was the first Nokia phone with a camera.

When that broke I once again move to Sony Ericsson. This time with the K700i. Along with that I also had a T630 but I never really used that. Handed it off to my wife.

Then I got my current phone, Sony Ericsson P990i.

Now I'm also testing a Nokia E65 and HTC S710. Both phones miss a critical feature for me, a FM radio. I use the radio a lot when traveling so that is a key feature in my mobile phone.

Best phone conclussion: The Nokia 7110. It was a really cool phone at the time.

Da vi allerede har et Samsung fladskærm TV og er utroligt glade for det, så bestemte vi os ret tidligt for at det nye TV også skulle være et Samsung. Og da konen fik lov til at bestemme at TV'et skulle være hvidt, således det passede ind i stuens øvrige farver, satte det jo antallet af valg markant ned. Der var faktisk kun en model som vi kunne vælge, nemlig LE32R71 serien. Og da vi gerne ville have et 32" TV var valget jo nemt. Det blev således et Samsung LE32R71W. Og som Kenne sagde "If it does't fly with the miss's, it doesn't fly at all.

Samsung LE32R71W er et HD forberedt TV med dynamisk kontrast på 5000:1, 10 bits signalbehandling og 12,8 milliarder farver, 8 ms. responstid og lysstyrke på 500 cd/m2. Det har desuden HDMI- og PC-indgang. Se flere specifikationer.

TV'et blev købt hos Befro da jeg sparede ca. kr 1.000,- i forhold til hvis jeg skulle have købt det i Fona. Befro leverede desuden fragtfrit. Jeg bestilte TV'et kl. ca. 15 og næste dag kl 10, stod pakkeposten med TV'et. Nice!

Ligesom sidst undgik jeg de superdyre Vogels beslag og valgte at købe et fra Multibrackets.

So I borrowed a HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger Pocket PC Phone. My first impression was: a nice phone with a lot of features. It had build in GPS and a full QWERT keyboard. But the more I used the phone the more I disliked it. First of all it was slow as hell. Switching from PDA mode into phone mode, when the phone rang, could take up to 5 seconds. That's a long time waiting for to be able to pick up the phone. The GPS was a bit slow on getting the initial satellite connection, but that could be due to the lack of SiFR chip. Otherwise the GPS was actually ok. I was running TomTom Navigator 6. Battery lifetime was also very short. Had to recharge the phone everyday. A feature I really missed was a build in radio. All in all not a very good phone. Windows is bad enough and Windows in phone is even worse.

After looking through the marked I decided the my new phone should be a Sony Ericsson P990i. It's a 3G phone packed with cool features. It has Wireless LAN support. So when I'm at home I connect it to my Linksys WRT54G using WPA2. It also has a radio built in, so I can listen to my favorite station, DR P1. I bought a 2GB Memory Stick PRO Duo so that I can download my favorite podcasts and listen to them when I go to Århus. I use Nimiq to download my podcasts. The user interface of the phone is UIQ 3 and it's has Symbian OS v9.1 as operating system. See more specs on the phone.

All in all a nice phone. You have to get used to the user interface, since it's very different than ordinary phones. And remember to update the phone firmware using Sony Ericsson Update Service.

So now I'm the happy owner of a Buffalo LinkStation Pro. It's a 320GB network attached storage drive. It has build in FTP server and is using a SATA drive. The drive is now attached to my router and it has worked perfectly. I've mapped the drives from my Windows PC and can now access the drives from anywhere.

So what happened to my other 320GB drive? I sold it to a colleague.

Onsdag den 31 januar 2007 kl 03:29 blev jeg far til en lille dreng, Mads Gemal. Noget jeg har ventet på i et godt stykke tid. Lige så svær som han var at få ind, lige så svær var han at få ud. Vi tog således den store fødselspakke. Først så gennemgik Nina næsten en helt almindelig fødsel, for til aller sidst at måtte få hjælp af et kejsersnit, da hans hoved lå lidt skråt. Men det blev en velskabt dreng og alle har det godt.

Til de teknisk interreserede, så vejede han 2950g og målte 53cm.

Tro mod dagens internetkultur, så har han fået sin egen hjemmeside på http://mads.gemal.dk/

If you look carefully at the drive (photo 1, photo 2) you can see that the cover has morse code in it. The morse code has words like "innovative", "reliable", "personal", "design", and "simple in it. Super cool!

The drive also won the "Best in test" in the October 2006 issue of the Danish version of PC World.

I paid around DKK 1.100,- (Danish kroner) for the 320GB. Using the currency converter it's around $190,- which again calculates to $1.7 per GB.

For backup I use the very good and free Cobian Backup. It's a Windows program and it has all the things and features I need. It can do incremental backups, has schedules and a load of other things. And the GUI is nice and simple.

You can read more about the drive at wdmybook.com and the morse code at Wikipedia.

Festivalen starter altid med et par foredrag, hvorefter de udvalgte film vises. I år syntes jeg klart at det var foredragene der var det bedste. Især Søren Gudman's var fascinerende. Du kan læse meget mere om Søren Gudman's expedition på 7zummits.dk.

Da Søren Gudmann den 14. december 2005 stod på toppen af Mount Vinson på Antarktis og skuede ud over sneklædte bjerglandskaber i knap 5000 meters højde, havde han bedrevet, hvad ingen hidtil havde troet var muligt. Ikke blot havde han besteget den højeste bjergtinde på hvert af de syv kontinenter - en bedrift, der i sig selv er ganske usædvanlig - han havde endda gjort det på rekordtid og således forbedret en af bjergbestigningens allerstørste legender Rob Halls 15 år gamle rekord med hele 21 dage. Gudmann gennemførte projektet på blot 193 dage og blev den første dansker, der havde besteget alle syv tinder.

I filmkategorien var det den første film, Parallelojams, jeg syntes der var den bedste.
En underholdende og inspirerende film om en flok klippe-narkomaner, der tager alt i brug - fingre, hænder, albuer, fødder og knæer - for at bestige en række frygtindgydende klipper, der rager durk op i himlen i det legendariske naturområde Indian Creek i Utah. En hyldest til den fri klatring i sin rene form med en god blanding af humor og nyttige tips.

Tintin DVD boxen indeholder alle de 21 klassiske Tintin film. Det giver ca. 15 timers Tintin tegnefilm. Det giver minder tilbage til hvor jeg så Troldspejlet hver gang. Nu får jeg det kun set meget sjældent.

Band of Brothers DVD'en kan man ikke komme udenom. Det er en helt og aldeles fantastisk TV serie. Med på 6 disc DVD'en er lidt bonus materiale såsom hvordan de optog serien samt en dokumentarfilm om den rigtige E-company gruppe. Hvis du ikke har denne DVD så skynd dig at købe den.

Godfather DVD'en faldt jeg over mens jeg shoppede de andre. Den indeholder selvfølgelig alle 3 Godfather film samt en bonus disk med 3 timers ekstra materiale. Jeg har ikke set den endnu så jeg aner ikke om bonus materialet er noget værd, mens filmene jo er rigtigt gode. Så måske en regnfuld dag i sommerhuset kommer jeg igennem dem.

Nå men det blev altså et Samsung LE23T51 som er et 23" LCD TV. Det er et 16:9 widescreen-fjernsyn, HDTV Ready, kontrast på 2000 mod 1, en opløsning på 1366 x 768 pixel og 16,7 millioner farver. Og prisen var kr. 4.999,-. Og i stedet for et købe et hammer dyrt (kr. 699,-) Vogels beslag til at hænge TV'et op på væggen med, smuttede jeg over i Silvan og købte et til kr. 99,-

• Pyramidene i Egypt
• Den kinesiske mur, Kina
• Taj Mahal, India
• Serengeti nasjonalpark, Kenya og Tanzania
• Galapagosøyene, Ecuador
• Grand Canyon, USA
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Iguacu Falls, Argentina og Brasil
• Bali, Indonesia
• Regnskoven i Amazonas, Brasil og Peru

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