µblog - archive for 2009-01

Oh man, working on a saturday. Looking forward to it, NOT

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Waiting for the tram

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shorter commute ftw

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Grr fibre connection patched into the wrong basement - i.e. not the one we have access to!

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workplace set up. Still no internets, using my phone to get online

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making progress with the office

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we haz internal office network. No internets though, but you can’t have everything!

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Lolz at #googlemayhem flap. Jeez people, it’s $deity’s way of telling you to step away from the computer and get some fresh air

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some chowderhead cancelled our full backup, we’ll have to wait until it finishes. Looking at waiting until <19:00> at the earliest

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proposed new Twitter tag: #incompetentbastards

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adding SDTs in our Nagios is a friggin pain

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damn I wish Gibson’s blog was easier to quote http://is.gd/hN5i

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phone number redirects seem to be working

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man, the one time I didn’t bring my camera I have all the time in the world to take cool shots of the emptiness of hte office

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my desk has been transported from under me

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cracking a can of coke

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Symantec Backup Exec - what a piece of crap software

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now relegated to the server room

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At Mellow waiting for dinner. Old office emptied, just gonna drop off some boxes in the new one, then home

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Finally on my way home. It’s been a long day, but everything seems to be in place at the new office. Tomorrow: installation and patching

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Lloyd Cole’s “Rich” never sounds so good as when you’ve had a beer and you’re on your way home

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urgh this woman waiting for the tram is at least 20 years too old for her clothes. That, or s/he is a sloppy transvestite

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feeling poorly this morning. Just a glass of water for now, will grab breakfast after a brisk walk

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I fucking hate dealing with telcos. Tele2, please fix your fucking SMTP server

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need to insert some mellowness in the twitterstream now that Tele2 have actually managed to get a clue

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ok time for some bile again… contracters effing stuff up in the new office by not doing what they promised

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Both Viking and cousin Theodor are home today so I’m 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Enjoying some Nada Surf

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mmm hint of the ole’ RSI

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movers arrive 2 days ahead of schedule, lucky we packed yesterday :P

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now we have to set up a raffle for leftover computer stuff. Like we don’t have better stuff to do :P

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Leitz Summilux 35/1.4 is a seriously sexy piece of glass

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Leica M7 loaded with film. So far, not a fan

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my plan to avoid the computer this evening has been an abject failure

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punching in

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if you’re in my workplace, check your email. Last chance for dual monitors before the office move!

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evening meeting… bleh

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Sterling is at 11 SEK, unbelievable

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heading home, finally

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wow just remembered I have a ton of graphic novels loaned from the local library still in the hall. “The Walking Dead vol. 1” among them

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huh, looking at my FriendFeed, looks much cleaner and more me than the stuff I post to Facebook. Emulation needed

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took me long enough to realise “Gilded Age” isn’t a positive term. Think a thin layer of gold over base metal

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So far it’s been 100% female singer-songwriters on the iPod this commute

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man the blue buses are seriously misdesigned in the seating department. It’s like we got the one for Vietnam or something

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windows vista dual-monitor wallpaper pic stretch fail

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Google Chrome has some sort of faux-Aero skin that clashes pretty bad with the real Aero.

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wasting time and energy surfing for used gear

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so some bigger fools have invested money in Twitter. Can’t say it’s a good idea, but I guess we’ll get to enjoy the service some more!

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Sore throat FTL

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got a burn from Steve Gillmor on FF after snarking his clueless ranting about FF - so meta! I’d forgotten I had a FF account

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unread zero

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Do I have a cold coming on? I know everyone says this, but I do NOT have time for this!

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virtual fax solution fixed. Fax is otherwise nearly the last bastion of paper

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exchanged my old 19” + 17” flatpanels for newer dual 19”… one silver, one black :P

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good thing about new screens: good handling of VGA signal. Bad thing: too f*cking bright!

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Friday beer in 4 minutes. Don’t tell my boss but I started early…

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old friend has a new blog! bad news, no RSS feed! srsly

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Family had hit Max for dinner, was surprised when I came home! Rectifying with a Hot Chipotle

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Wine can handle Macromedia-based CD-ROM games – so much win!

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ok who stole my sweatpants

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Need more sleeps

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I have a feeling this will be a failmove

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Short meeting FTW

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On my way home after a nuked “dinner” @ workplace. Saying goodbye to good intentions, I’m gonna need all the help I can get

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it’s weird headgear night in my carriage

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happy I managed to fix my Porta-Pros after their fall in my bag. Can’t really afford new headphones

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keystroke command ‘u’ was the final piece missing from Gmail nirvana

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Potential for decent light later

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the recession is showing in Feedburner feeds, really crappy ads are showing up all over the place

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Taking a look at the new office

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Lunch på Texas Burger Co, Kungshallen

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back to work

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grr stuttering playback in Vista is back #windows-sux

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Gonna put a few fish in the oven when I get home

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woman beside me is wildly oversharing norovirus experiences on cellphone

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more in-flight entertainment courtesy the beer-scented bum who just got on

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Chrysler blog seems down, can’t get to the infamous “Thank you America” post!

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checking out MrTweet.com. If @ErikT is using it, it must be good!

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Commute not going smoothly

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trying out twirssi - http://twirssi.com/index.php

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man this move is gonna be brutal

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twirssi not really getting all my updates on time

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going back to #ttytter, best Twitter console app right now!

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spring cleaned my itunes

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I don’t see the point of iGoogle

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Weirded out by the mascara lines under the eyes of the girl opposite

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i trust twitter will keep me informed of any inaugaration streakers and assasination attempts

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weird mascara girl replaced by dude from The Crying Game

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stuck on the Johanneshovs bridge.

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damn missed the swearing in. I see the Cheney-as-Strangelove meme has gotten wings! There is a creepy likeness

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Lockerbie caused Pan Am to go out of business?

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Nikonians.org pulls a bait-and-switch. “Basic” membership is time-limited, you have to pay for further access. Check out Nikongear.com!

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meeting about our impending doom in 3 minutes – I meant impending move

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ok move set to next weekend… we will have a LOT to do before then

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once again my purchasing wishes have been thwarted. Damn you, internets!

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omg is that the time???

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As expected, PBX provider wants 4-6 weeks to move their stuff. I say f*ck ’em, move to a mobile solution. Still leaves fax and conf phones

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Matthew Sweet just keeps getting more and more lo-fi

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Re my Matthew Sweet remark, actually “Sunshine Lies” sounds like a return to old form. More anon

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yay my HR-2 rubber hood arrived. Looks a bit lost on my Series E 28mm. Must get a 55/1.2 I guess

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dear #lazytwitter, are there aftermarket foam covers for Koss Porta-Pro headsets? Or can you get new ones from Koss?

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Seems my pent up blogging needs are spilling out into my delicious links: http://delicious.com/gerikson. Feel free to subscribe!

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took down the lightrope strung through the terrace railing. Xmas is over

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if you think about it, raising a waterlogged plane out of the water is non-trivial: http://is.gd/gkxb

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today’s haul from shopping in #Sjöstaden: CD-Rs, Kodak CN400BW, kitty litter. Nice to have stuff so near, pity it’s so expensive

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dear #lazytwitter: what’s the best IRC client for the iPhone? I’ve seen “Rooms”, looks decent. Any alternatives? No IRC == no iPhone for me

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so both engines have disappeared “without a trace” from the Hudson Airbus. Can they have been dissolved in the river’s water?

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2 thumbs up to @lazytweet, cool service, try it out! http://www.lazytweet.com/

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burning Ubuntu 8.10 on a powerbook. for later install on a Dell… worlds collide

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the Ubuntu installer just gets getting slicker and slicker

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Thank you #spotify for saving me from downloading A Camp. As boring as the day is long

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zomg new Kathleen Edwards album!!!

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re latest tweet “as well as it dead”??? Inappropriate typo is inappropriate.

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I need writeable CDs

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oh bash, you lovable little scripting language with 10,000 different coparison operators you !

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not looking forward to boring meeting, trying to find excuse not to attend. Will “monitor my twitter stream” cut it?

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sucked into American presidential history http://is.gd/g7wB

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höjer en burk Staropramen åt @ghostganz håll

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Heading to Åhléns to check out a jacket

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I’m a bit scared of the fact that one beer makes riding the subway a much more pleasurable experience

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Twitter homepage not updated with the latest tweets. Without Jaiku, Twitter apparently reverting to their old unreliable ways

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Oh man I need to write a review of “Fishing in Utopia”. Such a great book.

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so far the internets have frustrated my attempts to give it money… hope to rectify that soon

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twitter downtime and no failwhale?? We’ve entered uncharted territory. We’re not in Web 2.0 anymore

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when I tire of searching photo forums for gear-related bullshit, I turn to Reddit for a potent source of Haskell bogons

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Damn film, forgot I was at the end of a 24 roll and didn’t have another roll with me.

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keeping an eye on DB loads

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Huddling out of the wind at Karlberg

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actually feeling some warmth from the sun

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bus 553 to Viksjö Gård

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Jakobsberg is out in the sticks where girls have big hair and tight jeans

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nothing looks more relaxed than a sleeping 6 year old

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nice to see the Hudson plane crash went as well as it dead. Kudos to the pilot and flight crew

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Viking sick, home from work today

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mmm sea kitten sushi… so cute and DELICIOUS

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PETA would have a fit over this http://is.gd/fSAY #seakitten

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Being the sad sad loser I am, I forgot the iPod at home

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I wonder how SL gets their commuter trains the exact colour of cigarette butts

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I think Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s version of “Demolition Man” is superior to The Police’s.

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finding it a bit scary I listen to the same music as @jarober: http://is.gd/fGGi

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Bidding on a HR-2 rubber lens hood, will be ready and waiting when I get my Noct-Nikkor ;)

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I wonder why apple are still running iphone ads on TV - slow holiday sales

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that last was meant to be a query but I forgot the “?”

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Viking just asked me how GPS works. How do you explain that to a 6 year old?

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Commute in to work, is it my imagination or is the world leached from all colour

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d’oh that should of course be: leached of all colour

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gah the stench of train brakes is extra bad today #södrastation

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I’m in the top 30 twitterers in Stockholm… http://twitter.grader.com/gerikson

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finally caving in an building a local emacs. Vim is all well and good for short hacks, but for serious work you need a real editor(tm)

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our system still have exchange rates for DEM and FRF… luckily these are now just aliases for EUR

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Outlook misfeaturee: you can’t make a search folder look in separate inboxes. This is so crammping my lifestyle

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are hashtags officially twitter now? #twitter #hashtags #inside-baseball

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“Basement Apartment” (either in the Weeping Tile or Sarah Harmer version) is today’s official soundtrack #sool

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Canada’s top exports: snow, maple syrup, and female singer-songwriters

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Awake. Guess what? I overslept, madly

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Cleaning up

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wasting time reading about medium format gear

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fighting the temptation to write a blog post about the inconsistencies in “Wall-E”

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The new Google favicon is butt-ugly

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from 1000+ posts to 160 in Google Reader in a day… I obviously have too much fluff in my feeds

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I do don’t wanna go to bed… and the cat purring in my lap is the perfect excuse!

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however I do want a cuppa, and that means the cat will be evicted from her purring place

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ok time for bed, finally

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Breakfasted. Planning day, gonna pack as much as possible before departure this pm

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Entrained. Halmstad - Stockholm with no changes. Just passed the road to the ancestral bog

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train delayed due to “reboot”

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“Waltzing Matilda” by The Pogues - such a sad song.

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On the subway home, feet tapping to Elvis Costello’s “High Fidelity”

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can’t sleep, I really should considering it’s back to the salt mine on Monday. Maybe I had too much coffee on the train or something

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Overslept. Hope the kitchen at home isn’t flooded over. Not looking forward to work on Monday :(

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Back after looking at scanner options for dad. Looks like a Canoscan is in the future!

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Making dinner

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Coffee and calvados

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All dressed up, place to go to. That place being church

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Heading home after service and memorial

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At dinner with Oldest Aunt(tm)

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Weird electrical failure at home, wish I had a teleport to help :(

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Electricity is a-ok again, yay!

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Now fridge is on the fritz, can you say emotional rollercoaster

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Day off today, will be taking care of Viking as his school has a “planning day”. This evening I’ll be heading down to Halmstad by train.

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My lack of unread feeds are telling me something. They’re telling me to do something else instead of sitting by the computer

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At the museum of public transport, a perennial fav due to it being close and having a mini-subway you can ride

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Phew hadn’t entered my new password into WirelessIRC and had a devil of a time retrieving it. A-OK now though, ready to liveblog my trip! ;)

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on the subway heading to the train station

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macbook air on plane = borderline cool. Huge-ass Dell in subway = deffo uncool

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SJ are crap at predicting where on the platform a certain carriage will align. So it’s chaos whenever a train arrives as people try alight

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I of course am a pro and managed to place myself exactly by the correct entrance. Go me. Large hairy man smelling of cigarettes opposite

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Sammwich’d.

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now testing Telenor’s 3G connection while moving.

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Damn running 14 minutes late. Should still make my connection though I hope

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made the transfer, left Göteborg 5 minutes late. Typically, the seat on my ticket doesn’t even exist

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this train isn’t direkt so I have to pay attention to where I am and shit

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Students behind me are chatting about a “Facebook symposium”. Wtf

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Arrived safely, late meal and conversation with my mom and aunt about old times. Single malt with dad, now bed!

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Epiphany. Dunno exactly what that is, only that we have the day off. Yay!

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yay finally Picasa for Mac: http://is.gd/eFJo . Dunno if it will be Intel-only, though :(

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haha LiveJournal FAIL http://is.gd/eFK1

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made the mistake about reading about in-camera sharpening on the D200 on Flickr. Now all unsure of what the hell I’m doing

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oh and by the way. If you’re a LiveJournal user, now’s a good time to look at backing up your stuff. http://is.gd/eGr5

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MacWorld keynote seems to be the yawnz unless you’re a die-hard Machead

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iTunes Music Storee: no DRM, variable pricing. Free market rulez http://is.gd/eIjo

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darn Picasa for Mac requires an Intel chip

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Heading in to the salt mine

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Weird weather, it almost looks as if mist has frozen and fallen to the ground

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Commuter train shuffle

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Seems incredible that Mälaren is still ice-free but you should never underestimate the latent temp of water.

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where the hell is my audio?

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“25 to 5 and what a way to start the day” – The Triffids can write the soundtrack to my life anytime

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still no definitive date for the office move… getting concerned we wonn’t have time to move net connection and legacy landline

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looking forward to an early lunch… me be hungry

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Planning some sledding for Viking tomorrow, must find thermal underwear

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constantly amazed seeing people dressed in bulky Arctic jackets yet no hat

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also, 50s style eyeglasses that make you look like a librarian, what’s up with that?

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not sure if Twitter is syncing to FB after I changed the password… not that it’s really a big deal if it doesn’t

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damn holes in both my socks

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when will people learn that black/whitelisting IPs is Not a Good Idea(tm)? http://is.gd/eDvk

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looks like the Twitter -> FB link survived the password change

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Twitter has arrived - phishing scams! I haven’t got a link yet though, does this mean I’m not a “thought leader”??

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Up really early on Sunday, feels pretty ok. Better than being kicked around by a sleeping 6yr old

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Staring at 1,600+ unread emails

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used Picasa 3’s retouch tool to remove a huge dust bunny from an old image. There’s not much Picasa can’t do right now

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Gaza ground war begins, civilians warned to “leave the area”. And go where? http://is.gd/euGi

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Awake, barely. Pondering lifestyle resolutions

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Productive morning! #subrosa NY prediction breakfast, new wallet and lamps. Now coffee and then home!

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I paid $10 for forum access and I’m treated to 15 pages of D3X pricing buttheart. You’d think I’d learn someday :(

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enjoying ththe 2008 Darwin Award nominess: http://is.gd/er3Y

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exploring the madness that is the American right-wing blogosphere

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On the 96 bus home. Direct route FTW! Viking dead tired but a trouper as always

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I may be drunk but I still think the zunefail is the funniest right now!

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Thanks Anneli and Rickard for an awesome evening! And thanks Malte for GH4 guitar newb forebearance!

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New Year’s Day. I’m alive, barely. Poor Viking has Joanna’s cold

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I want Google Chrome for Mac

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Local pizza place is packed

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figured I’d continue using #Spotify as it was so useful last night and I need some tunes on the Mac

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I should head off to bed, early #subrosa breakfast tomorrow!

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