µblog - archive for 2009-04

Home with Viking today again, his cough it worse and he has a sore throat. Also, #swineflu

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gonna use #aporkalypse going forward instead of #swineflu, in honour of Pandemic Level 5! Hat tip @ewanspence

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rounding out a great “sista-April” dinner with Ulrika and Rickard with some #ubuntu-upgrading

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Player SwineFlu, you have infected 3 or more countries in one WHO region. LEVEL UP

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if Tuvaulu sinks beneath the ocean, as mystics and statistics say it will, will .tv domains be the only remaining trace? #globalwarming

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I wish every tweet I made contained a line from a Warren Zevon song.

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Fiat taking over Chrysler? Talk about the blind leading the blind. Japanese too smart to get involved?

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Dear Apple, I’d love to upgrade iTunes if I didn’t have to restart the computer for QuickTime, which comes bundled.

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The Robot That Mistook a Head for a Rock - http://is.gd/v74R

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I Travelled to Mexico and All I Got Was This Lousy #Swineflu

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#swineflu has reached Germany! Commence panicking NOW

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WHO sez only 7 dead globally in #swineflu. COVERUP! the WHO is part of the One World Government! #conspiracy

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my earliest post on my blog about Twitter was March 2007, so I guess I’ve been on Twitter at least since then

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excellent view on the #swineflu panic http://tinyurl.com/c8zubc

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Only thing missing from the hipster opposite is an iPhone #lookatthisfuckinghipster

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one day I’ll make fun of someone who follows me and get a punch in the nose. I will have arrived then!

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I go back and forth between multi-paragraph descriptions on delicious and one-word grunts: http://delicious.com/gerikson

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reading about the Mounties in Wikipedia after a tip-off on Kate Beaton’s blog

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Im in ur global pandemic, spreadin my panix #swineflu

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Loving how Israeli official thinks “swine flu” is offensive, but “Mexican flu” is A-OK

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Finally on my way to Calle and a dinner w/ old KTH chums. If they followed me on Twitter they could track me

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man I hate being late, even if I’ve said in advance I’ll be. I think it’s a reaction to my dad’s eternal time-optimism

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On my way from #awesome dinner with Calle and Anna and (parts of) the old TTTU gang. Great to touch base again!

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bah 11 minutes to the next tram

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Reading about Le Corbusier in the New York Review

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Why I love Valleywag: http://is.gd/vcZ6

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so there’s this US pol called Arlen Specter. Don’t know anything about him except: AWESOME NAME. It’s like a D&D tag

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Subway just breaked suddenly. Swineflu? #pandemic #stockholm

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today was sports-jacket only, nice!

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xkcd on #swineflu http://xkcd.com/574/ FREAK OUT NOW

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7 emails from Qwitter telling me random people have stopped following me! I’m crushed, devastated… oh the humanity!

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newly discovered Aussie band from the 80s-90s: Died Pretty

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Excellent post about Twitter, misinformation, and #swineflu: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090426/2048044650.shtml #meta

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Tele2 joins the rank of Swedish ISPs who won’t keep IP-address info on their customers. Nice!

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in Lumaparken, soaking up the sun and missing film (just shot the last of a 24 roll)

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everybody loves #swineflu

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Lingerie Football League - WTF

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woke the Vista work lappy from hibernation. What an incredibly crappy experience. Just a hair faster than a full start #windows #vista #crap

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Terrace is now spring cleaned. Todo: water regularly, fix ornamental basin (sprung a leak due to me not emptying it for winter)

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Lunching on nitrates and pork fats. Yummy! Wish I had a brew to wash it down!

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wow, Ursula K. Le Guin wins a Nebula? I’ve never even heard of the novel.

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when in danger or in doubt // run in circles, scream and shout

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#PANDEMIC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/ - start freaking out NOW!!!

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Melissa auf der Maur is actually pretty decent

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Gotta love the burglars who broke into a house on a farm isolated for anthrax

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Coffee and biscuits in cousin’s courtyard. Awesome #spring day!

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add #pandemic to the #econocalypse tag! #swineflu #fear #terror

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I used to think it laughable that people would leave Google for Facebook, now it’s Twitter they’re heading to. The world is mad

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so bored I’m gonna look at Twitter followers

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these cheese cashew nuts aren’t half bad. nom nom nom

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video conference meeting with the Shanghai team

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got 3 rolls back, about 4 keepers (and they were family snapshots) I kinda suck. Ektar is a nice film though!

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fun hack http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/fake_facts_on_t.html

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hi there script writers, please don’t exit with code 0 if you raise an error. KTHXBAI

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very pleased with the 35-70/2.8 AF-D as a portrait lens on crop

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smells like … weekend

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Sure #meatcards are cool, but we all know the ideal is BACON

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I need to take a computer break, wrist is acting up

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so far Lidle stuff >> Konsum stuff, specifically bacon

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I can’t see what BTaccel’s bizplan is. They’re like the Napster of torrents and will be sued from orbit

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när jag hör ordet “folkkär” osäkrar jag min flamkastare

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O’Reilly publishes book about using Twitter. THE END IS NIGH

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Bret Easton Ellis tweets? THE END IS NIGH

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well 3 tweets so far… baby steps, @eastonellis

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Tried a “smarter” placement in the tram to avoid the crush at #Gullmarsplan. Didn’t work

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all hot air and smoke over TPB mistrial… so Sweden’s a small country, what about it? #spectrial

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TPB might close, but Google won’t! http://www.thepirategoogle.com/

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I’d like to thank the international worker’s movement for getting me next friday off! #mayday

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plenty of Swedish torrent trackers are folding after the Pirate Bay trial #spectrial

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I doubt the TBP case will go to a mistrial, but the next case will probably look at the judge much more carefully #spectrial

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what utter douchebags StockholmGamlaStan.se are: http://www.stockholmgamlastan.se/opera.php

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On the bus towards home, visited Lidl for the first time

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so, judge with ties to content industry presides over court and makes judgement in laws made by same industry. What’s the problem? #spec …

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time to review new followers!

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none worth following, but none worth blocking either… though most are borderline

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so I was gonna go to bed and stumbled onto James Lilek’s site. Thank you internets

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Re: my earlier nit about Wolodarski not being online, turns out it’s a video(!). #DN should tag that in their RSS.

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reading a fascinating review of the original Pinnochio in the New York Review #nyrb

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pissed of at the international financial industry and the content industry. Fuck you, robber barons

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I love the heft of the D200 in my hand, hate the weight of it over my shoulder #photog

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the “known media profile” who allegedly shot 2 people today in Stockholm has like 1 hit on google… known indeed…

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wondering if i can use our current database issues to get out of presenting our revenue-enhancing ideas

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w00t meeting is in half an hour

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Presentation time!

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Jesus - Son of God, or ZOMBIE??? You be the judge!

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planning on heading up to Schönherrs Foto to gawk at gear after meeting

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the Sempler cartoon in today’s Ny Teknik was pretty funny, pity I recycled mine and it’s not online :(

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Checking out cherry blossom progress in #Sjöstaden

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I have memory like a goldfish

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I got dissed by my wife for not being up to date with Swedish blog celebrities

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do I dare to read Doctorow’s latest screed?

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cranky kids make dad late

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that brain-to-twitter interface is nothing, we need a toilet-seat-to-twitter interface

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OMG Obama nearing a detente with Chavez. Waiting for the wingnuts to cry “high treason”

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Google street view starting taking pics in Stockholm today

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Coworker’s old S-E M600i has its touchscreen fucked, rendering it essentially useless

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using the Miss USA gay marriage kerfluffle to marvel at Twitter wingnuts.

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Oh yeah, twitter search in #Gravity rocks!

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second phone related user request today, this time to transfer music files?! #wtf #support #nokia #pcsuite

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Peter Wolodarski tar strid mot fildelning och mot Google. Nån annan som känner han inte tillhör framtiden?

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DN säger att Wolodarski ska “utveckla sina tankar” om Google, men artikellänken funkar inte. Ironi, eller inkompetens?

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idiot ignorant racists piss me off >:|

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finally getting a bit of a background about libertas.eu. I guess you can call them “shadowy”

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starting the day wrestling with outlook issues… sigh

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“billig fulknark från internet”

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the older I get, the more I appreciate the 80x24 terminal size

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applied for a job

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Oracle buying Sun - watch out #mysql!

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off home to prepare delioious meal

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Our former president was here for a quick Q&A, informative and funny

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my goal with this roll is to be able to post a shot to http://is.gd/tvX2

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I love it when I get @hotdogsladies’ references

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still freaked by the Oracle buyout of Sun

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It’s funny, i’ve never actually noticed to solar panels covering most of the facade of 2 building on Hammarby Alle. Pics forthcoming

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back after a walk to the playground. Pics were shot, will upload later (maybe)

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IFPI loses no time demanding Swedish ISPs block #TPB. ISPs say “get bent”

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DN pontifikerar om #TPB http://is.gd/ti9x Undrar hur många potentiella prenumeranter dom tappade där?

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oops “pontifikerar” var tydligen värsta anglicismen… äsch, vadsomhelst

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Rubriken lovar mer än bilden levererar http://is.gd/tibA

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J.G. Ballard has died

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is “debate” Latin for “talking out of your ass”?

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Ann Cthoulter - squamous and rugose

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I love it how the Teabag movement is trying to get their drivel onto Urban Dictionary

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new VoIP box leads to a much more stable internet connection, whew!

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Forest Whitaker in 2 successive movies on TV4

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TV4 will send a series on the Bonnier family… will they bite the hand that feeds?

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heading in for a #subrosa breakfast for once

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no issue of the New York Review is complete without an essay about the Founding fathers

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shooting with a Canonet? You’re in good (or a least nice-looking) company! http://is.gd/sU3B

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TV4 is here filming so I had to hide Twitter/IRC/Google reader. Free ad for Nikon D700 on the homepage

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as noted elsewhere, new movies and court decisions, you get them first at TPB! #spectrial

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LOL Twitter is full of amateur lawyers: http://www.roomatic.com/%23spectrial

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how can anyone not have seen this coming? They sailed to close to the wind and got caught. #spectrial

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hey content industry, I prefer to pay artists, not middlemen. Adapt and stay relevant, pls

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oh hey, a bunch of new followers! Time to take a look at them and maybe follow back!

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IANAL but the #spectrial seems to make it illegal to run a torrent tracker and make $$$ off it. Nothing about sharing as enduser

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I would like to know how much of the damages will be distributed to artists #spectrial

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checking out Swedish NCO ranks, apparently we have “sergeanter” again in an effort to be more international

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friday beer!

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thepiratebay.org still up and running!

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Conservative America’s latest bugbear: DENIM http://is.gd/sE2d

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``Seventy-five percent of American “gamers” – people who play video games – are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote’’ - …

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``This is not complicated. For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don’t wear …

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“they can take away our Levi’s, but they cannot take our FREEDOM!!!”

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Grr doesn’t look like the news are on the web

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jag skulle vilja att vi i framtiden skulle kalla någon som gjort något dumt för “en riktig pontén”

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NOM and now Teabagging, the American right has seized on weird Internet memes

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http://tinyurl.com/dx2bns

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doing the Bugzilla fandango: assign everything to someone else

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heading into deepest Östermalm for lunch with @lsjoberg

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Had a look at an F3 Press at Wibergs Foto. Sweet body but a collectible and priced thereafter #photogeek

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running early for Viking’s trip to the dentist

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yellow jeans, tan duffel, mod haircut, cigarette - dude’s too hip to live

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itunes 2 star playlist in heavy rotation on the ’pod

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Maybe it’s simply too cold for desert boots #spring

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Fellow passenger looks like a blonde Sarah Palin

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ok so VPN works fine from Vista, now to enable it on $other_OS #it #vpn #this-is-your-brain-on-drugs

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man I’m kind of glued to this armchair… gingerly gets up

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“Elin Ruth” is a bit rockier than the Swedish versions of Sigvardsson’s albums: spotify:album:5otqBkgyVFYj4wzma5ddb0

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maybe cracking open another beer is a mistake. Or maybe it’s awesome. Who am I to know?

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April 17 resolution: see Elin Sigvardsson in concert … <3 her music

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Minor public transport fail, weird delays and packed carriages. Trying to keep my zen

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punching in

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Perl has Poland (.pl), Python has Paraguay (.py). Ruby has… zip. RUBY FAIL

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back from a productive brainstorming lunch at TGIF

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I (nearly) killed the database! Or at least my SQL did

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when command lines are outlawed, only criminals will use find(1) - http://is.gd/soKR. Via @jimh

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you are in a maze of Bugzilla tickets, all alike

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thanks @jedrek for pointing me to Wonkette.com

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#publictransportfail in Stockholm, commuter trains not running between Centralen and Älvsjö. Thank ghod I don’t have to take one

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wow found the Twitter trends feature in #Gravity, pretty slick!

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If it doesn’t rain tomorrow I’m wearing the desert boots. Also, need to find a new sports jacket

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The gods punish me for commuter train quip by knocking out Tvärbanan #publictransportfail

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my ISP destroys IP records, can’t turn them over to #IPRED: http://is.gd/sBvr. Go #Bahnhof!

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wow google reader is pretty fucked up at the moment

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best way to find photo ops: bury your camera in the bottom of your bag

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Running late due to the rental dropoff

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ho hum, yet another DX-format camera from Nikon

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obviously we have no index on this field… <eyes TOAD’s execution timer hit 2 minutes>

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is tar(1) the utility with the most options? sure feels like it

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found an important letter from Stockholms Universitet … turns out it was the paper J needs to send in for her degree

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suddenly exposed the seedy underworld of #Flickr “post 1 rate 3” groups… losing faith in humanity fast

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following hte match thru Leo’s yells, sounds like a lot is happening… 4-4!

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Pit stop at #Brahehus. Total queuing fail in the gas station.

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Parking dearth strikes #Sjöstaden, had to place the rental 2 tram stops away.

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Finally getting some grub at #Max

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wow this compost bag I just dumped down the chute was really ripe

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Stocking up on victuals at ICA Flygstaden. Next stop: grandma’s grave to give it a cleaning

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Back from Oskarström, relaxing with a coffee in the afternoon sun #easter09

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Soon off, running late :( but it’s not as if we’re in a ton of hurry.

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Lunch stop at Klinga, south of Norrköping

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Heading off to pick up the rental (in the back of beyond due to me being late booking it)

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first thing I do when i get a new car is switch to SR P1 on the radio. Yes, I’m an old fuddy-duddy

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hey, it was supposed to be great weather this Easter! What’s with all the rain, God???

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today’s investment pan: Long Term Shrimp Funds

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purchased 2 bottles of wine as a gift for my parents

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must remember to pick up the car from its parking space on my way home

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French 3-strikes law struck down by the National Assembly? Hard to tell from .se sources

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I think I see a telezoom in my future… sigh, so cliche

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Vive la France! http://is.gd/rB9c

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off to Halmstad by car tomorrow, expect (or dread) occasional tweets, otherwise sparse online presence

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meeting’d

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maybe if I had been paying attention at the meeting I would have known it wasn’t over, just on a break. Oh well

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feeling pretty sick of my perl app, now looking more and more like a big ball of mud

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omg Mikael Rickfors on #spotify, thanks for the warning. AVOID

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time to push off home

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ordered some food from Restaurang Göteborg, sadly the food doesn’t match the setting http://is.gd/rr3U

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I can’t believe people are posting about TweetDeck vs. Seesmic. 2 free apps running a free service… it’s like the second derivative of …

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On the subway after a long walk in the morning sunshine. Snapped some pics of boats

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lesson of the day: don’t automatically assume that the stuff in production is the same as in the repository

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gonna have to go mano-a-mano with this stupid 3rd-party data upload

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no matter how simple it looks at first, in the end it’s too complex for sh

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feeling strangely tempted by the Nikkor 35/1.8 DX. Gotta see how it handles and what my long-range format plans are #photog

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finally fixed the dark blue directories in my ls listing. Looks as if modern linuxes are optimised for white terminals

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new VoIP box arrived and installed, we have internets!

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great, the newly installed alarm is beeping and claiming “sabotage”

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and on-call week is over!

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3 execs @ $work have now got the iPhone … and we’re a hardcore Exchange shop. Tremble, Nokia and WinMo #mobitopia

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geotarding in #spotify is really pissing me off. Wish rightsholders would realise that audience is global

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babying re-runs of data exports. Moral: Net::FTP will not do your binary conversion for you

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depressed over the Swedish “Lenin prize” brouhaha

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if I had known I was gonna go to a dark pub I’d have taken my flash with me

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finally grokked that the Italian “stampa” simply means “press”

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obsessing over camera straps. If only it wasn’t such a pain in the ass to change straps on Nikons

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idly considered taking a shot of all my gear but decided it was boring

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like everything else concerning the DPRK, this article has an edge of the fantastic: http://is.gd/qQye

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finally realised that as the VoIP box is fux0red anyway I might as well connect directly via the wifi router. See if I get a better conn …

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scary I still remember the weird dselect keystrokes

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heh, Swedish media are more inclined to believe the DPRK over Yank sources re: Juche rocket

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oh no working week, Mon-Thu. Not looking forward to it. At least I don’t have to do school run

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Last-minute bday prep. I now totally see the attraction of offloading parties on faceless corp franchises

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grr forgot the magic mount(1) incantation needed for Swedish characters to show correctly on Win cdrom mounted on Ubuntu.

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time to check today’s shots

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wow, Colin Pantall’s blog is awesome: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/ #photog

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today is also the anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King

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oh noes, google reader is empty

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reddit.com sure is a cesspool

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read a DN on my commute. Verdict: not worth the subscription cost. DEATH OF PRINT PREDICTED

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putty, your crazy right-click for paste sometimes makes for funny tweets

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listening to “Wrecking Ball”, reminded of it by @scalzi

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man I feel like gaming

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there’s a bag-in-box of red wine next to the coffee machine, TEMPTING ME

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oh man Maciej Cegłowski is behind WrongTomorrow.com? I didn’t know!

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impatiently waiting for the next LPfoto auction, 7 June

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perhaps Fox News should be happy the Canucks are holding up their end in A-stan instead of mocking them: http://is.gd/quFb

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I knew we were in a world of pain when we agreed to maintain the PBX and the adjoining DECT handsets…

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I can’t say I give a crap if Twitter is bought by $bigco and then neglected. It’s jsut a website, people. Move on with your lives

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Relaxing after shopping cake, picking up Viking on his last day as a 6 yr old, and getting stuff for dinner. Beer ftw

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presents wrapped and hidden “in plain sight” behind the bedroom drapes

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interested in decentralised anonymity services that don’t rely on payment. Central orgs == larger target for #ipred

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well at least we aren’t France, where the 3-strikes law has passed

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Routine dropoff of the kids

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Eternally grateful I don’t have a hard time I have to be in the office. Oh wait, I do

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commuter protip: don’t use an entire seat for your bag unless you want my ass-imprint on it.

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Thursday morning demo meeting

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thinking long and hard about IPRED and how it affects me

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all perled out

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the wrapping paraphernalia for Viking’s present almost cost more than the presents themselves

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chivvied out of my usual workplace to make room for a motivational speaker

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inspirational speaker is speaking too fast

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hi there, @taptu!

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oh yeah, I’m now living in a police state. Well, more of one anyway. #ipred

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In 18th Britain, crimes against property were punished harder than crimes against people. We’re going back there now with #acta and #ipred

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more presentations! Thank god I managed to snag a beer

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wow, Dow breaks 8K going up, mothership stock on record levels. That relaxation of mark-to-market rules sure gave a shot to the financia …

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to save the free market, we have to destroy it

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Finally heading home, nice sunset

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“I should have known // you’d betray me but without the kiss”

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lol Swedish iPhone ads simply reuse Yank images. Weather forecast is 73 and sunny. That’s lethal in Celsius

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sweet, I just noticed the nice little “actionstrip” that @janole has added to tweets in #Gravity. Great UI!

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Tram’s late - naturally

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sure Vilgot Sjöman was an awesome filmmaker, but the name is still not appropriate for newborns

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preparing for the deluge of crappy April Fool’s stories

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decent one http://is.gd/q2H9

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perl, I love you truly

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new printer/scanner is sending TIFFs instead of PDFs, like the old one. I miss the old one :(

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shit like this infests ffffound.com, and I dislike it intently http://is.gd/q7dv

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taking the easy way out re: dinner - fast food, fast road to fatty perdition and bankrupcy

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oh noes, I’ve worn a hole in one of my fav shirts

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it’s emo overdose in tonight’s “Grey’s Anatomy”

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