µblog - archive for 2008-11

my inability to take a keeper shot with the 28mm is starting to bother me a bit. I blame the sucky light

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FB fail: “Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost.”

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return of state ownership: “70% of Swedes want a nationalised Volvo”. Thanks Wall Street for destroying capitalism’s street cred

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Swedish finance minister says no to deficit spending in the current crisis, shades of Herbert Hoover

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Swedish radio news, normally so politically correct, cannot decide between “Bombay” and “Mumbai”. Foreign office is “Mumbai”

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not stressed enough to pack myself like a sardine into the bus, prefer a tram seat instead even though I’ll be 10 minutes later to the o …

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Weekend weather not conductive to wideangle shooting, let’s see if I can grab some details with the 45mm

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gotta write a review of “The Night Sessions”

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1 glass of champagne and one can of lager has given me a nice buzz. Deffo won’t be playing Far Cry 2 tonight

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lazy Yanks won’t update their feeds on Thanksgiving :(

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dear Adobe update, please stop fucking bugging me

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Heading out to Viksjö for a meeting

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what a way to start the day

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jUst finished Ken McLeod’s “The Night Sessions”. Too early for snap judgements

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At the dentis

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heading in from the ’burbs

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looks like the stores want Blu-ray players to be the present of the year…

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great train stops at Odenplan :<

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how come there are hundreds of low-cost airlines and the flag carriers are bleeding cash?

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Ladies and gentlemen, I proud to present: Snow Chaos! #stockholm

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damn using coupons instead of a swipe card in public transport makes me feel like a second-class citizen

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another thing making you a 2nd class citizen: riding the old model commuter train from the 70s

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ruthlessly culling unlistened podcasts

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wow roads are still pretty snowy, glad I don’t drive any more

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global food prices have halved since June… good or bad? Harbinger of deflation?

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“Han är misstänkt för cykelstöld och mordbrand.” – http://is.gd/8FJ5

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Waiting in a phone queue

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waiting for the tram, it’s bleeping cold

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Snow outside. Viking has already been out, bless his heart

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Loving my new bought-in-Spain boots, great grip in snow and ice

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Yes, snow still around. Hopefully will get some sleeding action tomorrow

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why doesn’t MS desktop/outlook search support regular expressions? grrr

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hmm new gmail themes. The “terminal” is monospace (yay!) but too dark (boo)

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sick :(

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feeling a cold coming on

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köplats 5 yay

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getting intimate with find’s -prune option

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adding “unsuccessful” to words I consistently mispell

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got a reminder bill from PWC, they have a web address prominently displayed. Said link is totally worthless for consumers. FAIL

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Girl in front of me is knitting. Not often you see that nowadays

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Bus fail, taken out of circulation. Now shivering in Skanstull waiting for the no. 4

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mobil.sl.se tells me the commuter trains are clusterfucked, taking the subway. Today is #publictransportfail

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I wish I could tag stuff in iTunes

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this query is redenkolously slow

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Why does Niki Lauda have his own lowfare airline and why is he pimping arms manufacturer Oerlikon? (flyniki.com)

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of course his toxic ideas live on in the poisoned minds of Rove et al who’ve now managed to drive the GOP off an ideological cliff

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ok I’ve had this sports jacket a couple of years but still disgusted that holes have been worn in the lining. Need a good tweed number now

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Today’s first-world problem, sitting in a cafe with your sick kids because you have the cleaners at home

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moleskine + ballpoint == instant kid distraction

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Viking: “Pluto is a planet”. That’s my boy

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Killing time in a toy store

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beatiful morning today, of course I forgot the camera

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finally got my new broadband provider to get the bits flowing. Here’s hoping the random cutoffs are a thing of the past

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I think I need an AF 28mm. A f/1.4 would be nice, maybe Nikon will release a new one so the old one will return from the stratosphere

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Spent all night playing Far Cry 2 and would like to do it tonight again but that won’t happen

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fifties fondled during Fotomässanà Nikon 50/1.4, Sigma 50/1.4 and CZ 1,4/50

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Saturday, planning to hit Fotomässan today

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At Fotomässan, stupidly left my camera for cleaning and now have to stay 2 hours

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Heading home. Some really nice exhibitions, the gear stuff was disappointing. Sigma didn’t have their new 50 in Nikon mount, lame.

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also, awesome Zeiss pin and Nikon keystrap, schwag for Viking!

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tram driver: “this train is more than 15 minutes late, so it’ll be taken out of traffic” WTF

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unsurprisingly, trying to launch on a Friday ended in rollback

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Leaving work pub night early.

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I still reflexivly type “blo” (for Bloglines) in my address bar, even though I’ve been on Reader for a long time

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suddenly I’m getting gmail spam

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feed reader zero

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Second person I’ve seen having a jacket with the stars and stripes on as a decorative patch. Bit weird

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why is there a Pictures folder both in $user $user/Documents (Vista)?

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yay 992 unread items!

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trying to track down what’s causign one of my cores to suddenly jump to 95% utilisation. nothing in task manager

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reading about Franco

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boring meeting is boring!

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Early to bed, early to rise

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Gonna miss my meeting

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Meeting in progress, didn’t have time to grab a cup of joe

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hmm one of my cores is pegged, and it seems it’s causing my itunes stuttering problems… can’t see any obvious culprit though

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oh well I need to reboot anyway

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Rocking out to the latest AC/DC, planning dinner

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Even though everyone has one now I’d like a Fjällräven G-1000 jacket

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Phone meeting

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Getting mildly interested in camera gear again

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Re-listening to “Smilers”

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Wonder if the Fotomässan trade show this weekend is worth the 150 SEK

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Awake, barely

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Listening to some Aimee in preparation for tonight’s show

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so not looking forward to ork :P

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so what joker has removed all my Windows personalisation?

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reboot fixed my Vista display issues, switched to full Aero to live the crazy GFX intense desktop lifestyle

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ok last call, anyone wants a ticket to tonight’s Aimee Mann concert DM me

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wonder when I’ll get my Reader unread count below 1000+

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seriously why do I have to add all the people I know to Facebook Linkedin Flickr … there has to be a better way

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gave up trying to resurrect my LaTeX-based resume template and went for a straight conversion to Word (fech!) instead

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Running a bit late, suddenly paranoid Aimee is a stickler for punctuality

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Female chicken farmers in ads look way too clean and perky

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Phew, still a support act. Generic blonde Swedish female vocalist w/ band

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Zomg she’s a yank and praising Obama

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not sure the xylophone adds anything

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actually not too bad for a support band, wish I knew who they are

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quite a large audience, not easy to pin down. Guess most are “my age”

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i wonder who chooses the in-between acts music, this is classic soul

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yay Bill Withers

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i see keyboards, an acoustic guitar, drum set and an organ

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awesome show

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so broke

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or rather I have trouble accessing funds

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Arrived BCN ahead of schedule. Now waiting for bags

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Damn one bag is missing. Now waiting for lost luggage claims

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Apparently Air Europa simply left the bag in Las Palmas so a football team could get their stuff on

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Keeping our spirits up in the Arrivals hall in BCN

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found a power outlet near the Ars cafe, right under the last long bar table nearest the exits

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Great, ipod charger doesn’t work :(

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At Girona Airport, what a dump. Ryanair cheapens everything, including stuff like airport security

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Now been up travelling for 24 hours. Feel pretty beat, running low on energy

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Ryanair runs like a bus company, we’re standing in line waiting for a delayed “bus”

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on the bus to Stockholm, Ryanair much more service-oriented this flight. Sweden cold foggy and rainy

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back home, stupid internet is still not fixed

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Dinner at the in-law’s

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Found out which footy team bumped our baggage off the plane: Gimnastic de Tarragona. Played 2 all against Las Palmas

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Waiting for the bus to the Aeropuerto, 1st leg of the trip home (via Barcelona/Girona)

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In Maspalomas/Playa des Ingles. Touristy resort is touristy

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South coast of Gran Canaria is a pretty depressing place. Giant resorts hewn out of the living rock, facing the sun

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Woke from a McCain victory nightmare. Turned on CNN to catch the end of Obama’s victory speech. So happy

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Glad to hear Prop 8 was defeated too. Stop the h8ing, peeps

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Aw man, prop h8 passed :( ?

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saw an awesomely cute little Atom lappy at El Corte Ingles, bit steep at 300+ EUR. Better never let Viking see it, he’d wear us out nagging

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mibbit is pretty awesome, I thought I’d nuked it on this machine but I wasn’t doing it right(tm)

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Waiting for our order at a seaside restaurant

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Watching CNN, updating my knowledge on US geography.

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Hmmm seem to have blocket mibbit.com on this computer (internet terminal at the hotel) That sucks. OTH maybe IRC isn’t a top prio right now.

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At BCN. Our flight to Palma is delayed, that doesn’t stop people from starting a queue. Rediscovered the pleasure of checked luggage.

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Re the rental @ Palma, I’ll try to sweet-talk myself a car with the help of the police report of the theft

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Safely landed in G Canaria, waiting to deplane

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Bummer, got my pocket picked on the Metro. Lost 2 cards, driver’s license and the coolest wallet ever. No car on Gran Canaria :(

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