I found this brilliantly written Assembler, which I’m reading for my thesis, book online a while back already but I thought it might worth mentioning now. It’s called “PC Assembly Language” and its author is Paul A. Carter. It can be downloaded in PDF and PostScript so I suppose most of the people can read it. I don’t about the accessibility of a PDF or PS so I won’t say everyone can read it, but the text itself is very clear and easy to understand. It also offers good examples. I think it’s a bit sad that it’s written in Intel syntax, but I suppose that’s unavoidable. I’ve been reading mostly AT&T syntax which is a bit different, but you get used to Intel syntax fairly fast.
Now I’m off to a meeting…
Why, oh why, is it so hard to get a job from Rovaniemi? I can’t believe my current luck with the companies there. They’re either in need of proper employees, who want to stay there but not in need for summer employees. What’s up with that? Boring I say!
Please someone who knows about something about the work possibilities for skilled software developer please point me to a some direction! Here’s my CV. Please find me a job!
To explain the title to non-Finnish speaking it translate something to: “The name won’t worsen the man if the man won’t worsen the name.”.
Another page has turned in my life! I’m now Tarmo Aidantausta and not Tarmo Friman anymore… It’s kind of weird, but then again it feels good at the same time. The reason why I changed my surname is that Aidantausta is a really rare surname and at the moment I’m the only male in our generation. It’s my mothers maiden name and because I’ve been raised by my mother, it just felt natural.
My parents divorced when I was something like three or so and I’ve never really got to know my biological father while I was still bearing his name. I don’t think that there’s really anything wrong with the name Friman but I guess Aidantausta is more the family I belong to. My grandparents and my few aunts are the only proper link in my fathers family I really keep in touch. Not to petty their impact on my life but more to embrace my mothers side of my family. I admire my inheritance also from the Friman family but come on Aidantausta-Friman is really far fetched. Besides it’s way cooler to have a surname which has ever had 36 members (me included)! Aidantausta is also more Finnish because Friman is actually Swedish and means free man. Of course having a Swedish name in Finland is very common since we were indeed once under their dominion.
Anyhow… I know it’s been a while (like two years now) since I’ve written anything and it kind of feels odd to blog again but I suppose I’ll get used to it. Now I had something to say and maybe I’ll have more to say while I’m writing my thesis which is about: “The common programming mistakes which lead to a security hole”. The title is still in draft phase but I suppose most of you get the drift of the subject. I still have almost two months before I have to deliver but I’m in a big hurry so we’ll see how it goes. I hope I have more to write soon…