µblog - archive for 2008-10 🏳️‍🌈

#barna visited Parc Guell, now heading for the FC Barca museum

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#barna heading back to the apt, pretty beat

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Checking out

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In queue for boarding

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Squeezed into Ryanair’s distinctive midnight-blue-and-piss-yellow seats

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Arrived Girona, now on the bus to Barna

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#sl kraftiga förseningar på pendeln, fick just rådet att ta bussen vid Södra

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commuter train fail, serves me right for not checking traffic online

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deploying a release

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The Daily Beast has some interesting content but their infrastructure is the pits

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Heading home early to deal with cleaning and packing

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Pit stop @ BK Centralen. Now prepped for bus ride to Skavska

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Forgotten how much stock ipod phones suck

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wow, Fallout 3 sounds like an awesome game. I’ll hold off buying it for a year in case I’m unemployed then

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Installed in the hyper-modern Connect Hotell

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Having a glimpse of sun this morning, scant compensation for this evening’s darkness

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ok so I have an extra ticket to Aimee Mann @ Cirkus in Stockholm 10 Nov. DM me if you’re interested

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I’m such a rube, still think this BT headset is a bit magic

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why oh why did I update itunes

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just found out an efriend died in a house fire on Saturday, so sad

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Meeting’d

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At Max

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getting frustrated by Project Euler’s problem 18. Fscking triangle is driving me nuts

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grey rainy Sunday. Gonna hire a car so we can do some pre-trip shopping

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Supermarket’d

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daylight savings ends, evenings plunged into Stygian darkness. Why can’t we have DS all year round?

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surprised at Google Chrome’s inability to handle youtube. You’d think it’d be a priority

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“Far Cry 2” is a pretty impressive game

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At Sickla, present purchased for cousin Eowyn, having coffee and a muffin

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today is a good day for getting hammered

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wonder why there are flags on the buses today

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at least Greenspan admitted to being “partially” wrong. Some intellectual honesty at least

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Listening to Cowboy Junkies, Margo Timmins can sing me lullabyes anytime

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Kebab’d

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great I hung emacs

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oh maybe it was because I was trying to open a 300+ meg file

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Staying frosty in Stockholm this morning

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``Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!’’

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couple of snarky comments on the news about the layoff but also someone soliciting CVs

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På bostadsrättsföreningsstämma

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dunno if I should blog about the layoff

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ah fsck it, here goes

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Marvelling at the meager warmth of the sun

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perl module I can never remember the name of: List::Util

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Picking up the kid for a medical checkup

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nice and toasty in the tram

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The kind of grey day that makes you question the idea of living North of the Alps

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3 of my cow-orkers managed to get scammed by a MSN worm

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hmm I can’t even interrupt this project euler attempt I’ve written… back to the drawing board!

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``Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)’’ – yeah, that solution is sub-optimal

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my personal leverage: <1:404>

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everything old is new again, witness the current rehabilitation (or re-evaluation) of John Maynard Keynes.

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ok time for bed and pondering the first project Euler challenge

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My Sat so far: 2 calls before 7am for stuff that I shouldn’t have been called for

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stupid Force Unleashed has stopped recording my progress - no holocron achievements, no unlocked content. FAIL

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I should get started with some stuff from project Euler: http://projecteuler.net/

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Bit of a fail commute this morning. Knock-on effects from a delayed tram

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waffling about changing a rather important piece of internal plumbing

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difficult English word to spell: successfully

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“they pulled him out of the cold cold ground // and they put him in a suit of lights”

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the first step in ignoring a problem is writing a bugzilla issue on it

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feh, getting my vpn connection up and running took 25 minutes. So much for my 10 second commute today

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aaaand … the Dow is down again

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Genuinly puzzled that people can be excited over open office 3. Office suite battles are part of yesterday’s war

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not really in the mood to look at a house, I need carbs

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protip: when selling a house, don’t say the empty closet upstairs full of lumber is a finished WC. Also, keep you child-biting cat away

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I wonder how Apple’s margins will fare in the coming economic harrowing. Somehow doubt a premium laptop is viewed as a necessary buy now.

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searching for a good English version of the Swedish term “stålbad”

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the lack of full-screen mode in google chrome is a bit irritating

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fixing internal broken links

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checking out Uptime Party: http://uptimeparty.com

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nice touch: UP sez in their welcome email: “If you have any questions, just reply to this email.”

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I really don’t think the new macbooks are that nice looking, actually

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am I the only one to grok the Evelyn Waugh reference? http://thedailybeast.com

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also, Christopher Buckley sounds gayer than a treefull of monkeys on laughing gas: http://shorl.com/dyfrufebruprude

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wtf is The Daily Beast? Whatever it is, it’s not feeling well right now… CSS not loading for me

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Train’d

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Swedish Lutheran church advertising prayer as wireless, free support in all parishes. They’re pretty lame overall

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yay new Nokia stuff - headset and new battery

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you know your query might be suboptimal when the TOAD statement timer wraps around 1 hour…

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Blog host transition in progress. Feeds seem to have cutover already, but the actual site hasn’t

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./~ when times are mysterious, serious numbers will always be heard

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“Hearts and Bones” is one of Paul Simon’s best albums

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if I resembled the scary mass murderer from Silence of the Lambs I’d get a haircut. Not my fellow passenger though

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So I changed broadband providers only to receive a bill from the new one saying my service has been cancelled. WTF?

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man I should get to bed but my ass seems glued to this chair

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gonna move the blog to a new host come the morning

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At the passport office, a long queue ahead of us

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now at McD’s, ugh

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Det bottenlösa hatet mot McDonald’s St Erik

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My itunes “fav” playlist is chock-full of powerpop. I am the boring

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If you’re curious, check my last.fm last played (after I’ve scrobbled this lot, which will be in about 90 minutes)

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En route to sub rosa, this morning’s subject: PANIC

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Great discussion as usual, not really reassured everything’s gonna be alright though

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looks like the UK hasn’t forgiven Iceland for the Cod Wars: http://shorl.com/frodrolyjygoda

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Indiskt!

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brief burst of productivity, thank god it’s passed!

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motivation level == hovering above absolute zero

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Dow zooms through 8.5K, will we breach 8,000 today?

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oh I missed it did break 8KÃ Low: 7,882.51

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RESOLVED - IN-PRODUCTION

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Rather tight after a pub night @ $work-1

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drunk people think they’re so funny. They’re not.

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Listening to the second NPR show about the economy. We’re all doomed

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I can’t believe the extreme crappiness of USB performance on my lappy

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lots of little bugs shaken out by unscheduled DB downtime

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privatize profits, socialize losses – it’s the American way!

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great, never heard of this year’s literature Laurate

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zomg Dow < 9K

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Krugman on Dow 9,000: there are worse things to worry about! http://shorl.com/tefikukefryni

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GM 52Wk High 43.20, 52Wk Low 4.65

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wtf fireworks?

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found that the string “$count++” is hardcoded in my fingers, I meant to write “$count = 0”….

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Heading home via school and shops

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yay DB maintenance on hold due to b0rked disk :P

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awesome my new host mails

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delivers mail that is

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knackered

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seems like the key to getting correct i18n on FreeBSD is .login.conf

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Russia gives Iceland an emergency loan - what’s the world coming to http://shorl.com/jilevirastuhy

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looking for a blosxom alternative, so far the most promising, blosxonomy, doesn’t seem to work so well: http://shorl.com/groluvogradenu

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At O’Leary’s (generic sports bar) at Centralen, just gave my dad a coatrack to take South with him

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freaky but effective handdryer: dyson airblade

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i should investigate the flickr api

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there ought to be a law against owning a D3 and walking around in mismatched socks. Fucking hipsters

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Monday. sigh

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Why is the news leading with Asian stock market losses?

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Hey hipster, it’s October. Wear a fucking coat already. Only crazy people and anorectics go around in t-shirts now

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reading Peter Watt’s “Blindsight”, so far it deserves all the hype

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went for a short walk in the autumn sunshine with the camera. No keepers but I enjoyed the light

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On the tram

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installing ubuntu server in a VM

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ItÃs Dow 10,000! Oh wait…

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ubuntu server and vmware enterprise donÃt play nice. Now installing FreeBSD 7

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damn, installing emacs pulled in all of X :(

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protipà don’t choose the “emacs optimised” keyboard layout, it’s weird

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bit down on the bullet and got the cat’s claws trimmed. Will try to be more proactive in the future

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financial crisis reaches Europeà http://shorl.com/raragykygomo

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darn my usual host has rebooted and I can’t remember how I invoke ttytter…

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grr wife reset default browser to Firefox from Chrome

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commenting out the https:// versions of the Twitter API calls fixed ttytter

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Bit confused by metering oddities in the D200, suspect they are due to operator error

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was full of pep and vim and ready for work when I got pointed to this timesink: http://shorl.com/gavehajibedry

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Freaking out over the credit freeze, listening to Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” to get some perpective

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Amazingly, on time. Maybe I don’t need to go up so early every morning

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perldoc -f system

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I wonder how hard it will be to manage ubuntu server

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oh crap, now I’m getting Oracle errors in fractured, incorrect Swedish instead of fractured, incorrect English

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how long does it take for an InnoDB-based mysql instance to drop 5+ million rows? Answer: a long time

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How constitutional is it for the Senate to vote on a bill before the House?

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I need to update my reading list

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