µblog - archive for 2009-03 🏳️‍🌈

9,305 virus warning emails from our worldwide offices. sigh

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we’re rewriting a component to be stand-alone for the migration. Motto: Why fix what’s kinda broken?

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I can’t believe we’re getting the same crappy security system we had in the last place

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hmm looks like the latest version of Last.fm is incompatible with our a/v

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2 unresponsive ssh connections… my life is not much to write home about ….

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hmm looks like the latest version of Last.fm is incompatible with our a/v

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perl calling perl calling perl…

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I suspect the popularity of using web tech to produce desktop apps is due to the ease of piping in ads

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doing real programming as opposed to #projecteuler: hashes are much more prevalent than arrays IRL

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gmail Contacts, where are you?

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is there a “I think IPv6 is boring techwankery” group somewhere? Coz I totally wanna join

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I still miss the groups in Jaiku and bloggy.se, Twitter needs some stuff like that methinks!

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hi there Active Directory! Can you please wake up and notice my new group? kthxbai

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gonna bring the 135mm to work tomorrow, try to capture some nice views from the windows

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It beats me why MSN thinks I’m interested in the latest Hollywood gossip

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oh crap, I’m on call this week

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so we’ve got a (company) account on TheCloud’s hotspots. Hotspots, how very 2002.

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release deployed. Lovin’ capistrano and our excellent documentation

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problem 78 was a toughie, but once I found the correct generating function I got it. ~30m. #projecteuler

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heh, clock says <17:05,> sun says <16:05.> DST win

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tircd is going crazy, looks like the API interface is unstable

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tried being smart w prob 206 but finally went for brute force. 18m and another one bites the dust #projecteuler

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Wagoner’s resignation is “fascism”? (http://is.gd/pIxI). The dude should have been fired a long time ago for running GM into the ground

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entered bills into the online bank, always a fun thing to do …

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wholly missed DST changeover

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problem 80 was basically too easy, read the docs for Math::BigFloat #perl #projecteuler

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played w/ bro-in-law’s Nokia 5800 yesterday. Not terribly impressed #mobitopia

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looping through 1e9 numbers takes a long time in #perl

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problem 145 falls to brute force, runtime 54 minutes… not good at all! #projecteuler

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Fixed presents. Hope my kid doesn’t follow me (or understand English)

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also spent a happy 15m fondling high-end camera bodies and lenses at MediaMarkt

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feeling like buying a 500W halogen light and blasting it defiantly out the window at <8:30pm> #earthhour

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god what painfully hip kids at Max

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mmm tea and chocolate

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apparently I’m the last to know that a major Swedish poultry producer has distributed chicken with ground glass #kronfågel

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shamed into putting out all the lights by my son, but reading by candlelight sucks so I’m online

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getting fed up with my Op/Tech strap, it’s slippier than a lubed ferret on my shoulder

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borrowed books 2-5 of “The Walking Dead”, dunno if I have the guts to read them

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wtf is Patrick Swayze doing in this British film (besides dying of cancer)?

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damn but teenagers are LOUD

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Cleaning service Friday morning => I forget Viking’s gym clothes. Black looks from his teacher

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ok, moved the office 1 floor up. Now mopping up

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who the F request read receipts in this day and age? lame

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damn lost a nose pad on my glasses

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dead cat bounce over for this time, DOW won’t break up through 8K

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snagging some podcasts before the weekend

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Plans for the weekend: get presents for Viking’s 7th next Sat

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waiting for my tweetstats to load…

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behold! My Twitterverse: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/gerikson

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bailing out from the net to re-read “Cryptonomicon”

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meeting’d

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perl module Games::Cards::Poker demolishes problem 54 #projecteuler

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deploying a release

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surprise! it was the wrong version

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with the 270EX, Canon finally catches up with Nikon’s SB-400. Only took them, what, 4 years? #photo

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and problem 74 bites the dust! time for a break now I think #projecteuler

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yay, my black woolly watchcap turned up! gonna give it a spin in the wash before wearing it though

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maybe doing a mass-update of the CPAN modules was a mistake #perl

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first ticket I’ve submitted in ages

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as ad-laden as Foxit PDF is, it’s still better than Adobe Reader

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Finally on my way home

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yet again, brute force saves the day! problem 70 done. #projecteuler

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stop spamming me, stupid monitoring script!

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I’m loving The Daily Beast (not least for the Waugh reference) but I think it’s ultimately doomed

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I FAIL at Dijkstra’s algorithm (also, spelling “Dijkstra”) #projecteuler

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I love having leftovers from dinner ready for lunch tomorrow

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Yawning and planning perl

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Kinda wish I had a netbook just for hacking Project Euler on the go

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punching in

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Svenska Kyrkans webpages suck donkey balls

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W00t payday tomorrow

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juggling multi-gig files for the Shanghai team

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how’s this for PR: “Twitter: more fun than schtupping Jennifer Aniston”

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no-one outside Sweden will grok why TPB’s new VPN service is called IPREDATOR

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problem 71 was a toughie. Hint: Farey sequences #projecteuler

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hint: read the problem description before coding #projecteuler

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gotta love it when the Memoize module runs out of memory #projecteuler #perl

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Kameradoktorn had my replacement eyepiece for a good price. Nice store, friendly service

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How come “Big Me” is such a popular song to cover?

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I need a better approach to my minimal-path algo #projecteuler #p082

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Jason and Jessica are now following me! How cute! 100 to 1 it’s a couple of spammers though

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so my Voip box needs new firmware, but the company providing it has gone off the web. Now in contact with their successor

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Finally on my way in to work

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hi there Outlook, glad to see you’re with us today - NOT

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symbolic math is hard

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This will be a week of late evenings :P

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nice, 3 qwitter emails. Thanks for nothing, unfollowers!

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HAH! In your FACE, problem 102!!

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seriously, this shellbox and emacs don’t get along

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retraced my steps to try to find the eyepiece, no dice. Oh well, at least I tried

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our internet is fucking worthless

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man, for some reason the List::Util function “sum” barfs when used on array slices. Reason for most of the frustration on problem 50

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investigating Math::Pari

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Math::Pari does seem to be a very interesting tookit at this stage of my Project Euler hacking

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I hate it when I forget basic high-school math

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Heading home from library (just borrowed Ghost World), McD’s, and grocery shopping. Oh yeah, new chinos!

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in the Lamino, sipping tea

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went out to take some pics and lost my eyepiece (DK-21) for my pains

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looks like the recent stock rally was a dead cat bounce, as if anyone is surprised

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read “Trollkarlens hatt” for Viking until he fell asleep

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Project Euler howto: 1st try brute force, only optimise if that takes > 1 minute

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reached level 2 in Project Euler

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Heading home with a cupcake for Viking. Gonna grab some grub too, and a few brews

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oh for Chrome for the (PowerPC) Mac!

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starting the weekend with 0 unread feeds – not good

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I need to try to remember that I’ve made some great deals for photo gear, among them the 35-70/2.8 and the FM2

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if you find Math::BigInt too slow, take a gander at Math::GMP #perl

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cracking open a new can of lager

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gonna play some Far Cry 2, suspect the alcohol in my bloodstream will not help

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finished Far Cry 2, maybe I should have chosen the other ending

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not looking formward to this meeting

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Great, sun is peeping out.

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making perl run out of memory

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another Project Euler problem eats the dust

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It’s still light, yay!

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stuck on Johanneshovsbron

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back at work

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bloody SOX

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my computer is getting old

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pondering lunch

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so apparently not everyone agrees with the Pope when it comes to HIV and condoms

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3 retweets on the theme of Scoble disappearing. I sense wish-fulfilment fantasies

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damn the coffee doesn’t taste good anymore :(

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yay got tircd to work! my bad, incorrect irssi incantation

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I feel a bit less like death warmed over today

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wtf is wrong with tircd now then…

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LOL @ newbs wanting to use the Carl Zeiss ZE 50/1.4 wide open. Can you say “spherical abberation”?

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time for another headache pill and some rest

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finished “Anathem”. Pretty massive, a lot to digest. Will post a review later

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the Russian stereotypes are flowing like vodka #melfest

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wow, didn’t see THAT coming #melfest

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I’m sure nerds everywhere are having geekgasms over the Facebook redesign, but it can be summarized in 3 words: sell more ads

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On my way to the pharmacy in search of something for my fever

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Friday the 13th – champagne!

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so I have: fever, sore throat and a headache. Life is great :P

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having problems connecting to #spotify

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reading about why Pluto isn’t a planet anymore http://is.gd/n4i2

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I might be able to get up to more to put away stuff before the cleaners come. I can’t do squat now though

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made a conscious effort not to go online this morning during #commute, instead read New York Review

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ah, yEnc, that brings back memories: http://is.gd/mQeV

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just not that interested in George Orwell’s diary. Unsubscribing.

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ah the tedium of the workday is enlivened by an IM VIRUS!!!

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maybe I don’t get it, but I fail to see the appeal of visual voicemail. Perhaps I get too few vmails

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CTHULHU HATES CHORDATES http://is.gd/mQTa

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I might actually have to think about this Euler problem instead translating halfunderstood python to perl

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heading home, not feeling too hot :(

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haunted by off-by-one errors. Well not haunted, exactly. More peeved

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Snowing like mad

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Tried to compose a tweet in Swedish, but couldn’t rid it of Anglicisms

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lost in a maze of SELECT statements, all alike

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amazed at the amount of perl code I can write without errors

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$Boss just recieved 3 fortune cookies from Oracle. Beyond lame

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damn but the global economic outlook looks grim :(

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the PBX is making our life hell. I hope Alcatel dies in a fire

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modern version of “when pigs fly”: “when IPv6 is implemented”

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iTunes wedged

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as always, analysing the data is harder than gathering it :P

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oh Vista, could you be any slower?

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Glad to see Patrick Leigh Fermor is still alive!

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Idiot in Bålsta aims against policemen with soft air gun, is shot in the leg. Candidate for a Darwin award

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“Have you heard about the vegetarian cannibal? He only eats Swedes!”

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snow is really pelting down

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we have to SDT the entire fscking office for the router move

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I can haz Sophos A/V?

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finally cracked Project Euler problem 18 (and got 67 in the bargain!)

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Waiting for the router to come back up

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At Monks enjoying beer and food

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Heading home, feeling a bit queesy. Hope it’s not the food :(

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Kinda hatin’ on #Gullmarsplan. It’s pitifully underdimensioned for rush-hour traffic. And the fascist entrance gates don’t help

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less than 4 weeks until I have to return “Anathem”, and I doubt I can extend the loan

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I’m on call this week. Wheee! NOT

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seriously pissed that rearranging pictures in Flickr Uploadr doesn’t get reflected in the actual order when uploaded #flickr

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apparently 200W incandescent bulbs aren’t made anymore! Got a 150W halogen to try in the PH lamp

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ok so you can reorder pics in your stream - by editing the “uploaded date”. Pls Flickr, make it easier, mkay?

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Oh no, I left the ball and chain on my desk… said b’n’c being my mobile. Maybe I should embrace my inner dorkiness and get a belt clip

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got a call from my Dad, he’s on his way to Tblisi, Georgia (the REAL Georgia, not the US state)

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doing the password change dance

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great, my new password is 3l33tp@55w0rD. Noting it here for future reference!

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stupid PBX is acting up, that piece of shit always puts me in bad mood. Why didn’t we get a mobile-based solution?

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Green line seems to have delays, more people than usual on the platforms and the trains. #sl #commute #fail

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feeling sorry for the woman with the hairline at the crown of head and the straggly combover

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train driver publicly scolded the idiot stopping the train just as it was leaving. Personally I think he should have been thrown under it

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Funny how youth subcultures make comeback. Yeah I’m looking at you, “synthare” ca. 1986

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hey! who took all my money?

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sending prints off to friends and family

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ah Sunday morning browsing links

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enjoying the writing genius of Alan Moore

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tried validating my blog - that was a mistake

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Going out for ’zas

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Metallica concert in Stockholm cancelled, James Hetfield taken to hospital #metallica #concert

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The chubbier you are, the harder you fall. Valleywag rips into poor Scoble: http://is.gd/mfXM

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Where is all my money going? Time to track expenses, even with rates at an all-time low we don’t have a surplus

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Yay! Found Stephenson’s Anathem at the library in #Sickla

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back after a visit to #Sickla. Lots of groceries made for a heavy load going back!

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I fear for my son - he’s watching Teletubbies. He’s also nearly 7

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reading up on maybe doing a DIY clean and lube of my 50mm. Consensus seems to be: don’t do it. Will get a quote from a repairman

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donated some quakes to @daxe so he can go where I don’t want to go

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looking forward to reading about the Federalist Papers in the next NYRB: http://is.gd/mi47

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I downloaded and enjoyed “Therefore, Repent!” - http://is.gd/l02v . Recommended!

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Will it ruin my geek cred to say I read “Watchmen” for the first time 2 weeks ago?

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back from a great sub rosa breakfast http://is.gd/m3Cz

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planning a dinner out tonight

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Not really digging Kathleen Edward’s latest “Asking for Flowers” - spotify:album:3DmH2bQ9wLAp6HBLceR07f

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looking around on the web for a way to transplant my #disqus comments from one domain to another, but not having much luck!

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some of the stuff on http://www.fmylife.com is funny but a lot of it is really just sad :(

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At Nalen, having lunch

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checking out Annie Lennox on #spotify

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``find ~/blosxom-data -type f -name “*.txt” | wc -l’’ gives me 994 posts! Just 6 to go for a 1,000

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why am i putting off getting a coffee…

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thanks Seagate for even temporarily shutting Scoble up: http://is.gd/m52c

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Finally got my prints!

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hmm threw away a New York Review with an article unread

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stocked up on a couple cans of lager at #Gullmarsplan

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lftp FTW!

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Coldplay instrumental is sooo much better than any other Coldplay

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“Digital is dead” is the new “Film is dead”

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fuck Warner Music: http://is.gd/mbHH

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Skynet, Cylons, Matrix AI - don’t try total extermination. Do divide-and-rule and wait 50 yrs for the genocides

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Waiting for a call from the PBX wrangler

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PBX wrangler has arrived!

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we can haz landlinez?

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man my 50/1.8 is really soft :( I dunno if it’s my technique or the crappy focus confirmation

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using #spotify to check out Lightning Seeds after a tip on #mefi

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wut, I have a FOAF file????

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man a FB friends list to FOAF file converter would be nice

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Damn, prints not done yet

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depressing to see how much of my blog’s traffic comes from web spiders

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man Spotify may be hacked… that’s a pain

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umm Spotify? You think offering Kelly Clarkson is gonna make me want to buy Premium? Thanks, but no thanks.

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I fail to see why U2 were so protective of their latest album. It’s pretty shite

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calling it a day

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Hmm judging from the throng on the platform, the tram is delayed #commute

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stuck in a tunnel #commute #fail

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oh man we’ve only got to Medborgarplatsen?!

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today is our 6-year anniversary #anniversary #marriage

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huh, a lot of different pointers on how to do name-based virtual hosting on #lighttpd. Bit confusing tbh

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tkjaer: if you compare lighttpd.conf with httpd.conf you’ll see that lighty is way easier to grok

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now using lighty for servign the blog, so long fnord and thanks for all the fish!

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oh man I’ve gotta head to the Jewish Library today!

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spent 15 minutes looking for my lens cap, having forgotten I had put it on the lens 10 minutes before

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linking to p2p content is legal in Spain: http://tinyurl.com/3sj9sq

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Enjoyed an expensive chicken kebab with fries

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nice, new Olle Ljungström album “Sju” up on #spotify

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for your listening pleasure: spotify:album:53Xal92hFQ7dtlhOkrT4e1

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think I’ve figured out how to do a 301 Moved Permanently in lighty: url.redirect is the answer!

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Skanstull #commute

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my 2 star ipod playlist keeping my spirits up

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Daily excercise: 5 flights of stairs. Pretty pathetic

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purchased my first track from iTunes

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oh man I love Chrome so much…

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LOLing at DN’s pathetic attempt to smear the opposition to FRA as being atroturf.

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ugh, don’t think I can do a real 301 redirect using fnord… guess I’ll have to set up apache after all

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struggling with fnord (the webserver, not the Discordian term)

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Dow breaks thru 7,000, keeps on falling

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Heading home, at a loss what to fix for dinner

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aw man the grey humid cold is back

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I would like to run apache on port 8080, via inetd, and chrooted on FreeBSD. It’s puzzling how to get those pieces together

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screw apache, I can’t stand httpd.conf

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sad that so many otherwise great flickr pics are ruined by “poetic” (pathetic) titles

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lighttpd set up, gonna mess around with it some more later

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cats fighting desultory over a spot in the sunlight

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heading out with Viking and his bud

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back after a nice sunny day!

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devoured the rest of yesterday’s dinner - chicken wrapped in Parma ham in a cream-and-balsamico sauce

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Listening to some old Olle Ljungström after watching the documentary about him on SVT Play

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DN sez that the opposition against FRA was coordinated by PR agencies. I don’t believe it.

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BTW DN.se is really slow, getting 503’s all the time. Fix ur code, plz

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it’s a pity Herbert’s “Dune” is so popular that spin-offs and prequels have been written: http://is.gd/eykW

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“Nip/Tuck” is so far over the shark it’s in orbit

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sucked into reading fascinating Atlantic article about talk radio: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace

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