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tweets for 2009-02-28

 

At Sickla doing my bit for the economy. iPod dock, wine, dvd cleaner. Now burger + hydrate, next ingredients for tonights dinner

 

of course camera is with me, but light is dull and flat. Listened to an entire Stackoverflow, I love that show

 

ok, prepared to do battle in the supermarket

 

Supermarket vanquished, but missed bus by 2 minutes. Twitterverse, keep my entertained!

 

loaned 2 more Moomin stories for reading aloud to Viking. Hey Author’s Guild of America, you can sue me if you want! #kindle #copyright

 

bus came early!

 

relaxing after making my way home with lotso stuff from Sickla

 

wtf is @beethamtower following me on Twitter? Seriously

tweets for 2009-02-27

 

Hi there Small Business(tm)! Even if you only have 1 page on your website, please put your opening hours on it. kthxbai

 

of all Zevon’s songs on “Transverse City”, “Networking” has aged the worst, yet it’s still such a happy, life-affirming song

 

hi there Emo Girl! Despite your obvious low self-esteem, you can do better than current Scruffy Boyfriend

 

dollar inching towards 9 SEK #currency #fail

 

plowing through 1,522 unread emails (after being OOO 2 days). And those are just the stuff I don’t already filter into “To be deleted”

 

in these economic straitened times it makes no sense in investing ethically. Bring on the cluster bombs, it’s sauve qui peut!

 

I find it deeply ironic that while prosecuting the #spectrial, the music industry insists on hobbling @spotify_com with geotarding

 

old Nokia model names really stick to your memory… like Teflon

 

time to claim some expenses

 

Ryanair to start charging for toilet visits? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7914542.stm #ryanair #extortion

 

disappointed the prints I ordered last week weren’t scanned to CD

 

thepiratebay.com seems offline. has the RIAA launched a pre-emtive strike, or has the #spectrial been good publicity?

 

enabled scrobbling from #spotify! #last.fm #audioscrobble

 

dollar is now > 9 SEK, Dow heading towards 7,000 #econocalypse

 

man I wish I could make calls on my E61 from Nokia’s PC sync

 

hehe #spotify skyscraper ads don’t resize well

 

TGIF!

 

days are getting lighter - half past 5 is grainy dusk and not Stygian blackness

 

loaded the FM2 with a roll of BW400CN fresh from the fridge

 

“En film om Olle Ljungström” på SVT2, ska försöka se den på Play senare

 

checking out new music via tips from Twitter, IRC, Tumblr

tweets for 2009-02-26

 

wrong day to run out of coffee grounds

 

testing tweeting from irssi via tircd http://code.google.com/p/tircd/

 

nice touch, apparently people who are following you get a ‘+’ in front of their nicks

 

here’s a quick test of how tircd handles Swedish characters: RÄKSMÖRGÅS

 

lookin’ good! I really like this client

 

tarek: glasses aren’t the end of hte world ;) how about contacts? Can you use those?

 

hmm, what to have to dinner

 

we will be having salmon, potatoes, carrots and onions, prepared in the oven #dinner

 

DN startar http://dn.se/livsstil. En trend är över!

 

Andrew O at the Register discusses TPB codefendant’s shady past: http://is.gd/kZyf #spectrial

 

tircd - Twitter via IRC done right http://tinyurl.com/d2e55l

 

awesome, tircd tinyfies your links … I <3 this piece of software!

 

is it just me or has the photo-related blogging slowed down a lot?

 

getting mad at spoiled spendthrifts on TV (“Lyxfällan”)

 

Looking forward to the new version of #gravity during my commute tomorrow, so far the auto-updating has been flawless

 

Leo is off to see “Valkyrie”, hope he manages to take something away from it apart from Tom Cruise in a smart uniform

tweets for 2009-02-25

 

at home, sick

 

thanks internets for giving me the skinny on Safari 4. I’ll stick with Chrome

 

found 2 of the 3 important things I needed to find before J’s interview tomorrow

 

thinking of giving up booze for Lent, but what about the Fri 13 champagne? #undecided #lent

 

great, now we have a law (IPRED) that will allow private companies the powers of a police force. Welcome to the Panopticon #ipred

 

hi @c_of_e and thanks for following me! Dunno if we have much in common though!

 

yay, my blog at http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/ is back! Thanks @rafe!

 

Philip Jose Farmer lived in Peoria?? Random. http://is.gd/kQJC

 

ok “Jessica”, if that is your real name, looks like Twitter is blocking you as fast as you can create robo-accounts!

 

I know a lot of the FML stories are made up but sometimes they are too bizarre not to be true: http://www.fmylife.com/love/132840

tweets for 2009-02-24

 

out of battery? Are you serious?

 

access to gmail timing out…

 

I thought following the dpreview Nikon lens forum via RSS would be a potent source of luls, but it turns out it’s mostly depressing

 

how ironic that Twitter confirms that gmail is down…

 

Gmail: “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a small subset of users. “ - if by small you mean NZ, UK, and Sweden, then sure

 

here’s Google’s definition of the entire world as “a small subset”, recorded for posterity: http://is.gd/kEjq

 

omfg the crown princess is engaged… the pointless spectacle that is our royalty gets another act

 

Rupert Murdoch’s mom is 100 years old?! Does this mean the old devil himself will be around that long?

 

hehe ser at http://www.fmylife.com är på väg att bli mainstream… jag gissar att 80% av historierna är påhittade

 

feeling both dry and phlegmy… cold coming on, I think #tmi #oversharing

 

off to wrangle servers

 

I need food for energy, but I don’t have enough to go find food #catch22

 

Heading home with some leftover “semlor” - trad Swedish Mardi Gras buns

 

grabbing a fish’n’chips

 

Viking stayed up for his semla, but Inter-ManUre put him to sleep. Thanks, boring championship football!

tweets for 2009-02-23

 

Listening to Stack Overflow #41 with Uncle Bob. He has a weird accent. That, or he’s just enunciating very well

 

lol entire pavement in front of work blocked off because of falling snow/ice from the roof

 

testing TweetDeck, wishing it had identi.ca support!

 

man TweetDeck is the Twitter client for nerds. Of course, so far it’s the best client ever!

 

I kinda wish you could dock random apps to the vista sidebar… there does seem to be an invisible wall separating “normal” apps from it

 

err TweetDeck notification window? Please get the fsck out of my way, pronto

 

got a bonus morning sarnie courtesy of my boss, who was concerned there might be traces of nuts in it. Feeling kinda full now

 

hey all you new app designers, how about choosing another colour than charcoal gray? I know all the cool Mac apps are using it, but still?

 

oh sweet, make money fast spam on Twitter! I could use some of that (not)

 

waiting for FedEx to deliver our new tape reader. And in the nick of time too, the old one is seriously fubared

 

“Physical Volume Library Robot not found.” As I said. FUBAR

 

German sex! (SFW) http://is.gd/kwq6

 

Carina Rydberg dubbelmoraliserar om The Pirate Bay: http://is.gd/kwIG. (via @isobelsverkstad) #spectrial

 

off to rack a tape drive

 

nothing is ever easy with our rack :(

 

Good summary of TPB’s finanancier Carl Lundströms murky past: http://is.gd/kxcJ

 

hmm, maybe running “install Bundle::CPAN" was a mistake…

 

grrr, wondering why I can’t get my own timeline from @net_twitter

 

blocking some obvious spam twitterers. A bit passive-aggressive, but the best you can do, unfortunately

 

“more than 70 United States military advisers and technical specialists” operating in Pakistan http://is.gd/kxA9

 

Viking lost his first baby tooth just now

 

“Techcrunch are full of shit.” - http://is.gd/kyml

 

FINALLY got my Net::Twitter code working. I have no clue why it didn’t work before

 

when you absolutely, positively have to prevent the coolant from leaking from the core: http://is.gd/kvYx

tweets for 2009-02-22

 

snow finally stopped

 

stupid internet is acting up again!

 

damn got a call

 

compared the Mac, Windows Vista’s suspend/resume is beyond pathetic

 

just had to reboot my windows lappy because the fscking VPN connection panel hung

 

and now of course the stupid piece of shit can’t even boot normally #windowshate

tweets for 2009-02-21

 

we had good light this morning, but it went away before I could get my ass out of the door. Borrowed Hanna’s micro-Nikkor 55/3.5

 

this day has sucked

 

no article by @gruber is complete without the phrase “private beta testing”

tweets for 2009-02-20

 

Stressful start to the day. Wish there was a good sandwich place near work, could do with a nice sarnie

 

some people just give me bad vibes when it comes to support

 

In line at Subways after 45 shooting and ogling old cameras

 

that should of course be 45 minutes

 

hmm tracks are disappearing from Spotify. I wonder why?

 

TGIF, time to head home and fix a nice meal!

 

Much as I like gravity, having Twitter integrated in WirelessIRC is so convenient! #mobileways.de

 

this acoustic set by Lloyd Cole in Bremen is fucking brilliant

 

oh Windows, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways…

 

haha I found this pretty amusing http://is.gd/kgHh, but I would not even consider downloading anything by U2… they are like totally boring

 

I find it pretty depressing that DN said Kadima was the “winner” of Israel’s election when anyone w/ a clue could see Likud would form a gob

tweets for 2009-02-19

 

Love how people will cram themselves into a full subway when another will come along in 2 minutes. Guess they’re eager to get to work #sl

 

Testing @janole ’s new Twitter client for the S60 (currently in beta). Looking good!

 

changing at Centralen, such a pain in the butt #sl #centralen #publictransportfail

 

the Contacts section in Gmail is in no way as slick as the Email part

 

Grabbing a kebab and chips at Gullmarsplan

tweets for 2009-02-18

 

Cold sunny day

 

tvärbanan was fux0red so I walked to Gullmarsplan #sjöstaden

 

Expressen headline: “9 tips for getting pregnant”. Tip 1, have se

 

last word should be “sex”. Now, and always ;)

 

afternoon werk

 

I am Master of the SOX! (it’s about as uncool as it sounds)

 

“all the salty margaritas in Los Angeles - I’m gonna drink ’em up”

 

“they killed to earn their living - and to help out the Congolese”

 

yet another “best programming font” meme on proggit? why can’t people google?

tweets for 2009-02-17

 

Frikkin’ cold

 

my what.cd ratio is just pathetic

 

disappointing that so many albums aren’t available on spotify in Sweden. Georetarding sucks!

 

waiting for a run to finish

 

Putty Connection Manager has its points but it’s a pretty buggy app altogether

 

I’m still LOLing at the fact that the #spectrial prosecutor had to drop the really meaty charge in the second day.

 

It’s a wicked cold tonight, sucking the heat right from your body

tweets for 2009-02-16

 

feel we should get a meal at local $fancy_restaurant before the economy puts a bullet in its brainstem #sjöstaden

 

looking for a good resource to follow the Pirate Bay trial

 

searching for neg holders

 

Heading home to pick up the boys

 

apropos song of the moment: “Valentine’s Day is over” by Billy Bragg

 

potatoes, carrots, onions and salmon in foil is in the oven

 

it was a great dinner, if I can say so myself. Sure it would have been better with some wine, but it’s Monday

tweets for 2009-02-15

 

On the train home. Thanks Lena and Lasse for a great brunch in Malmö!

 

Arrived at Alvesta

 

Of all the photo mags I’ve read, Photo Techniques is the meatiest

 

back home after a long trip

 

hmm my blog is unreachable, looks like the entire symbiandiaries.com has fallen off the face of the planet

 

heading for bed

tweets for 2009-02-14

 

Watching Melodifestivalen at Hans and Anne-Marie in Lund

tweets for 2009-02-13

 

Got my replacement driver’s license, yay!

 

can’t believe I’ve forgotten the Markdown syntax for links! zomg haven’t posted in ages

 

lol FEAR 2 gets 5/10 at Eurogamer http://is.gd/iZSi. Another game Leo won’t have to buy

 

app i’d like to see: something that takes my follower list and generates a simple metric for Following/Followers/Posted

 

when will YOU celebrate the time_t=1234567890??? perl -le ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890)’

 

time to start moving off to the train station, Lund ahoy!

 

Ascertaining both cats were in took time, now in a cab to make sure we make the train in time

 

all this rush and bother, and the train is 5 minutes late

 

train now 20 minutes late. Yay SJ :/

 

oh I’m sorry the delay was “only” 14 minutes

 

man I was counting on us seated around a table, but we’re “in line” :(

 

we are now 24 minutes late

 

filling in a 41-page survey

 

Torn on whether to chuck this giant SIFO survey or drag it home to take a pic of its awfulness

 

Snow in Nässjö

 

Delay is now 28 minutes

tweets for 2009-02-12

 

Freaking out my fellow passengers by watching The Venture Bros. on the ipod

 

packed subway is packed!

 

for those who care, Symantec are active on Twitter. Just in time for us to be swithcing to Sophos antivirus. Mhwhahahahaha

 

oh no, the Chevy Nova mistranslation legend is just not true! http://is.gd/jgvB

 

waiting until tomorrow to check in with the train tickets… I’m feeling a bit wonky and Viking has a nasty cough

 

Outlook’s mail filtering solution is so retarded… obscure syntax, limited storage space… oh for a plain-text solution!

 

it’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you

 

kinda looking forward to my commute home and more Venture Bros!

tweets for 2009-02-11

 

o hai Twitter, you’re back?

 

Östermalm reminds me of student days. Nice

 

need coffee

 

finished dismantling our decommisioned harddrives, we have a stack of platters that’s 15cm high

 

knocking off a bit earlier as I promised to pick up Viking at 4pm. Nice to see some light in the sky!

 

trying to summon up energy to start fixing dinner

tweets for 2009-02-10

 

Heading to the office after a morning of offsite Akamai wrangling

 

managed to trim the claws of the last cat. Got the scars to prove it, too

 

my computer fan is runnign all the time, I wonder why

 

fan finally quieted down…

 

On my way home

tweets for 2009-02-09

 

punching in

 

new 35/1.8 DX is $199 but €243, apparently Nikon have missed the USD/EUR exchange rate or they’re trying to soak us Euros

 

back from filling if not stellar pasta lunch, also bought a new watch cap at walterborg.se

 

spent an enjoyable half-hour dismantling hard drives

 

heading to school to pick up the boys

 

amazingly bad experience with the autocheckout at the local Konsum. I hate that idiotic thing

 

I feel like strangling one of the cats. I’m trimming your claws for your own good, you little bitch

 

seriously. My New York Review of Books. Give it to me. Now

tweets for 2009-02-08

 

mad oversleep

 

considering stopping echoing my Twitter statuses to Facebook.

tweets for 2009-02-07

 

playing a bit with the very low-contrast scans from the M7, I think I can get better results with some post-processing

 

So I was planning on not using hte computer today… that worked out really well…

 

Think tanks tanking - does anyone care? http://is.gd/iLHL

 

movie adaption of a Philip Roth novel - no thanks

tweets for 2009-02-06

 

Now I’m on 3 microblogging sites I need one app to bind them all. Will twihrl hack it?

 

crap, backup failed with a hardware error

 

sorry for the spam, my putty crapped out

 

dicking around with conference room bookings

 

giving up struggling with AD and Exchange and asking for help from the US gurus instead

 

Waiting for my sub

 

Re the sub, need to start taking a lunch with me, eating out is too fscking expensive

 

and it’s not even good eatin’ :(

 

wildcat garbage strike, great

 

Quickie brew at the office, now off to pick up kid, dinner and scans!

 

wth did my woolen cap go

 

disappointed with my scans, everything looks overexposed.

tweets for 2009-02-05

 

Forgot my phone at home, so running late

 

Need to re-read Anthony Burgess’ memoirs

 

PriceRunner.com in the US is no more

 

Wonder if Webhallen have managed to find the item I ordered today

 

webhallen 0, kjell & company 1

 

yay we have coffee!

 

scary, our bank losing lotso money http://is.gd/ity4

 

Ironically, bloggy.se crashes the E61 browser

 

This has not been a good public transport day.

 

the giant Fjällräven down jacket trend is alive and well in the northern suburbs

 

most impatient subway driver ever

 

implausible domain name: AlltOmKebab.se (AllAboutKebab)

 

created a bloggy.se site: http://gerikson.bloggy.se

 

yay, the law that prohibits the planning of new nuclear power plants in Sweden will be repealed.

tweets for 2009-02-04

 

damn this lack of coffee! Making do with bleh instant, no milk. Contemplating a strike

 

so apparently we’re not gonna have a receptionist any more. And “collective” care of the kitchen. Like that will work

 

pondering lunch

 

ok where are the lightbulbs…

 

mmm new foam pads for my porta-pros…

 

man Windows sidebar apps are pretty lame

 

Trying to stay awake in meeting

 

wow managed to skim through my Reader unread items (600+).

tweets for 2009-02-03

 

yay norovirus strikes the household. And by “yay” I mean bleeeeechhhh

 

looking back, we should have prioritised getting coffee to the new office before networking…

 

inbox zero

 

Viking has finished reading his first book by himself!

 

caught up with my Tumblr follows

 

twitter is for the loquacious: http://is.gd/igMV

tweets for 2009-02-02

 

so apparently we have internets now. Will see if this translates into actual bits flowing when I get into the office

 

in the office, connections are up except to our admin system. Oh well, can’t have everything

 

your cool web service is only as good as your latest backup: http://is.gd/hRlM

 

ah coffee… life seems a little more bearable <saves receipt for expenses>

 

where the heck is my NYRB?

tweets for 2009-02-01

 

hehe Expressen tipping people off about Cameron Highlands in Malaysia…

 

apparently you can’t mention Tila Tequila’s name without her permission: http://is.gd/i04E. I guess I’ll see you dudes in court…

 

Sunday night, should considet hitting the sack. Long day tomorrow.

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