µblog - archive for 2009-05

managed to gouge a large sratch in the film wind lever of the FM2 yesterday, hope nothing bad happened to it #photog

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I am procrastinating putting the bills into the bank’s system. Eh. Whatever. I’ll do it tomorrow

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Hmm, I wonder if I can modify my irssi filter to remove mentions of #spymaster

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pretty depressed at the so-called “intellectual” right in the USA attacking Sonya Sotomayor. So much latent racism and misogyny

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getting ready to move stuff off Confluence onto SharePoint… this will be the 4th CMS in use at $company

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when should I start caring about Google Wave?

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stuff like http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/ makes me hope NYT pulls through the newspaper Fimbulvinter

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gjorde DN’s EU-valskalkylator och hamnade närmast… Folkpartiet. ARGH #fb

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it’s beer-time! #fredagsöl #tgif

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friday beer @ work winding down, caught some nice pics that I won’t post w/o getting permission ;)

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found an incredibly depressing article about fundies in the US military that I just can’t read right now

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ok I went for CVS for my version control. What can I say. I’m rocking it old-skool

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I hope my son and his class survived their visit to Torekällberget in Södertälje!

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My son survived his day out! So happy to see him not stricken by pneumonia. Now lazing by getting dinner at Max

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now would be a perfect time for some Crackdown

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so I want to start gnome-terminal with iso-8859 instead of utf-8, and there’s no option for this? such fail

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why am I getting doubled tweets? #tircd issue?

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M$ new search engine effort to be called “Bing”??!! Why can’t they choose a brand and stick with it? #bing #msft

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Got wellies for the kid’s day out tomorrow

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Lars Gustafsson made me happy today http://is.gd/GLDE - in Swedish, unfortunately. Hopefully it will be translated!

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here’s a translation of Gustafsson’s text to English: http://tr.im/mxzD

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wow http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

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created a makefile for the FAQ generation. Next up: version control!

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I want to keep a (local) directory of text files under version control. What’s the simplest solution? Don’t want to mess with servers etc

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I’ll by interested in seeing how #tircd handles the IDNs in @daringfireball ’s shortlinks ;)

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nice, @daringfireball links show up correct in tircd/irssi/screen/gnome terminal, but aren’t recognised as links by latter app

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pondering lashing up some perl for a ghetto CMS

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förundras att jag får FB reklam för kontakannonser när jag är listad som “married”. Trodde dom visste mer om mig #fb

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Kasey Chambers has great songs but her vocal style is a bit off for me… too whiny

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vilken underbar dag det är idag! Tror det blir en tunnbrödrulle vid Adolf Fredrik till lunch #fb

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tanke ang. SD’s försök att skrämma med halal-slakt i EU-valet… Hitler var ju också djurvän #fb

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among my current gear, only the flash and some lensshades were bought new, everything else is used #photog

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I can’t believe Microsoft made the Event Viewer even more crappy than it already was

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urgh food coma

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“make photography something you save money up for, not save money on” – @jedrek #photog

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fin promenad i solskenet ikväll, hoppas det blev lika bra bilder. Vi får se imorgon! #fb

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On our way to the Post museum where the party is to be held. Running late!

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I survived the Postal Museum Children’s Party of 2009!

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Viking’s fav present from today, a colouring book with mandala designs

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plöjt igenom 6 inlägg av @Isabellestahl, fett bra allihopa

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also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoousios vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiousian

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vilken comeback för Schyffert!

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neat, never heard of a process lens before http://is.gd/CK0X

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sometimes Twitter reads just like a @codinghorror + @dansdata lovefest

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Selective Twitter Status - only post some tweets to Facebook http://tr.im/mdGg. Via @staffanm

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Goths in Hot Weather - http://gothsinhotweather.blogspot.com/

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catching up on Xbox game reviews on Eurogamer.net

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man Eurogamer sure have a hard-on for Crackdown - AS WELL THEY SHOULD!

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man, Windows Vista can’t handle undocking of a lappy without fucking up the screen settings. #vista #fail

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also right now having that issue with one of my cores pegged to near 100% #vista #fail

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TipToConserveTweetChars:WriteInCamelCase!

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Emacs meets Mac http://bit.ly/TqnWr

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I can’t believe I used to dis The New Pornographers. They’re brilliant!

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Listening to indie Canadian music on CBC Radio 3 after a tip from @tiwilliam

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I’m so happy FreeBSD has vi as its default editor and not the abortion that is GNU/nano

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.@xboxflickan bättre än att räkna ryska ful-klick

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Feeling inspired to shoot in Ekbacken this weekend (now Sweden’s smallest nature reserve!) but the weather conspires against me #sjöstaden

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dude in Postkodsmiljonären is a dead ringer for @lsjoberg

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I can never remember the syntax for the image tag in #markdown… always have to look at the syntax online

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resisting the temptation to read all the tweets I’ve missed being offline all day

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haha this is good for a laugh http://acquine.alipr.com/

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finished The Confusion, System of the World is up next #stephenson #baroquecycle

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Mark Helprin sounds like a total douche http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090521/0313424957.shtml

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Peter Watt’s “Blindsight” available for free! http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

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wow http://bit.ly/AOZY6

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Thank God (literally!) we have tomorrow off

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argh looks like $company is going for an RT system at the backend, just got a ton of tickets “forcibly assigned” to me

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since when are IRC channels “rooms”? Is this some sort of Mac thing? Or is it from AOL?

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.@ewanspence LOL, that’s unexpected!

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“smaller cars less safe” says US expert. Yeah, no-one has ever died in a SUV http://is.gd/BG22

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some interesting stats on traffic-related deaths http://bit.ly/YahPd

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Heading home to kid and fastfood #badparent

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label search in #spotify? Can’t remember the last time I noticed labels, other than to avoid Sony

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ok read the #spotify blog now, label search can be useful in some cases. Forgot there are more labels than the big evil ones

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gotta love how you follow new people via #tircd, just /invite them to the #twitter channel!

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back from Star Trek. The hype was leading me to expect more

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drinking this cut-rate lager “Sarek” and snacking on store-brand (“Coop”) cheese doodles

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.@caaarlo actually I was looking for a new beer to try, and the store was out of the brand stuff. But it’s a chilling glimpse of the future!

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.@wryandginger yes, my unheated home will be a natural place to store the cheap lager with which I shall deaden the horror of the #econo …

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ESR jumps the shark http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=965

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firing up TOAD for today’s wrestling match with Oracle

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I see your Adium, and raise you irssi.

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wow http://www.thebricktestament.com/ is FRIKKIN’ AWESOME

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Reappreciating The New Pornographers

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kebab @ Cafe Soir #sjöstaden

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Against my better judgement I took the bus to Skanstull. The heat and discomfort aren’t worth the trifling time saving

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punching in for a short week (Thu off, thanks legacy Lutheran society!)

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43% of Swedes “don’t care” about FRA listening in to electronic comms, that makes it a “concern for the elite”?

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protip, don’t have a dude called Messerschmidt as your spokesman if you’re a Danish anti-immigrant party http://is.gd/AWuN

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HADOPI sounds like the content mafia’s wet dream, let’s hope the French people rise to the occasion and resist!

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how come I suddenly have unlistened items in iTunes?

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EU Commission in flames, will they blame this “Reichstagsfeuer” on the pirates?

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I think those Bible-quoting intelligence briefing covers will be the next LOLcraze http://blogslut.com/pulpsecurity.jpg

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all linked out, has 12 tabs open with stuff culled from IRC and Twitter

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hmm looks as if the game I wanted to play has been traded in for something I don’t

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I should stop obsessing over my vanished copy of Crackdown and go to bed instead

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Man it must be crazy to be a Norwegian today… winners of Eurovision and <17:e> mai!

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back from abortive kitty litter shopping, saw giant Norwegian flags and sea kayak paddlers. Lovely day in all. Soon, brunch!

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Slight social scheduling fail at Jimmy’s Sjöstaden. Sipping coffee while waiting for J+B+L to arrive

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not gonna try to get all beta on serverfault.com’s ass, I tried that with stackoverflow and I’m still stuck with 56XP

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Twitter, the global backchannel - hat tip @isobelsverkstad

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now commences 50 min of grade-A weirdness in “Nip/Tuck” #tv

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watching Burn After Reading. Dunno if Elmore Leonard wrote the script, sure feels like it

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At Teodor’s bday party, delayed since last week due to illness

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best camera gear blog EVAH http://tokyocamerastyle.com/

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oh noes, I find that Churchill never said ``The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash’’

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something I’d like translated to Latin: “Judge me by my works, not my equipment” #photog

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hah, the content mafia lawyers have reported http://www.internetavgift.se/ to the police for being a nuisance

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it’s EUROVISION TIME #eurovision

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haha at Dima coat throw fail #eurovision

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ah La France, you never disappoint… there’s a whiff of high culture and tradition that NEVER WINS. Even a fucking accordion #eurovision

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Viking is NOT a fan of Malena #eurovision

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Greece’s singer is very… Greek. And not in a Ancient way #eurovision #gigolo

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Armenia’s song is weird #eurovision

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Armenia and now Azerbaijan, locked in mortal #eurovision combat!

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poor plucky Moldova punching above its weight… knock me over with a feather if this wins. Would bankcrupt the country #eurovision

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look, I like ethnic-flavoured music from Eastern Europe as much as the next guy, but it’s getting a bit rich, ya know? #eurovision

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Denmark in the BoyZone - HT @ewanspence #eurovision

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Germany, it’s like a gay Oktoberfest in Wiemar Germany - ON LSD #eurovision

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I hear the heads of a million feminists exploding #eurovision

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the rest of Europe has caught up with Turkey #eurovision

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Dr Manhattan makes an appearance in Albania’s song! #eurovision

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Alex gets the teen girl vote chez Erikson tonight #eurovision

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Ukraine hits all the notes: disco smoker, poledance, gladiators… #eurovision

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oh for the Swedish-impaired, “disco smoker” is a straight off translation of “diskorökare”

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Musical ballad, I don’t think it will sell. Has any ballad won #eurovision since the expansion?

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Finland’s entry sounds suspiciously like a current pop song… can’t remember which #eurovision

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25 songs is at least 9 too many IMHO

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#Eurovision is a great branding opportunity for Russia, wonder if the images of riot police bashing Pride parade marchers will mar that

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French remains an official EBU/#Eurovision language, like a strange vestige of international diplomacy

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voting begins!

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Czech announcer has that nice clipped Warsaw Pact diction #eurovision

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Sarah Dawn Finer (Swedish announcer) was a contestant in the Swedish contest #eurovision

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Montenegro is a country now! I kinda lose track of these things #eurovision

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Sweden is faaaaar down the list #eurovision

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Andorra knows on which side its bread is buttered - douze points to L’Espagne #eurovision

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Bulgaria is the Grumpy Old Man of Europe, only 4 points to Norway #eurovision

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Cyprus 12 points to Greece?? SHOCKING #eurovision

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is it just me, or do the Baltic state vote readers look scared as hell of the Russians? #eurovision

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Norway smash the Lordi record, 309 points after Croatia votes #eurovision

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Romania gives 12pt to Moldova??? SHOCKING #eurovision

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Twitter buckles under the strain of #eurovision – @ewanspence ’s tweets not coming through in realtime

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Moldova awards 12pt to Romania?!!! SHOCKING #eurovision

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Slovenia tries to pull a little weird stunt #eurovision

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I’m feeling strangely attracted to the dubiosly-gendered Hungarian vote reader #eurovision

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night Europe! #eurovision

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I’m in ur Twitterverse, inciting financial panic

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Dick Cheney for prez 2012? that would be lulzy http://bit.ly/cbfNS

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amazingly bad lunch experience at Pizza Hut Hötorget, Stockholm #pizzahutfail

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just edited a database field and pressed ESC :wq to close it… VI’d much?

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Swedish gov proposes ISPs keep user data for 6 mo. Will be compensated if requested by law enf, wtf? That won’t cover the cost for 2 hours

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sad to see my country building the infrastructure of a police state at the behest of foreign content companies. Where’s the sense of pro …

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Sweden’s biggest book publishers wants to screw authors over by demanding lifetime e-book rights

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Should it really be this cold in May?

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maybe I should try evernote… wonder if my invite still works

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installed evernote… right now I feel it’s a bit meh

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LOL @ this giant list of Dan Brown errors (via @dansdata) http://bit.ly/OX1U

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the Finance::Quote module is broken due to Yahoo changing their website http://is.gd/zJDU #perl #fail

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I need a quick calculator for which party to vote for in the EU election. Must be pro-consumer, anti-agri subsidies

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I’d rather have a 28mm f/2 DX than a 35mm f/1.8 #photog

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Don’t want to install this PowerPoint security update (I never use it) but it will be installed for me anyway. Didn’t need reboot at least

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Come to the sobering insight that I really don’t need any new glass if I get a D700. I need to check out the DX mode on it though #photog

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hmm google not feeling well

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it’s the great GoogleFail of ’09 #google #fail

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it’s the GOOGLECALYPSE!!! Start stocking up water and firearms NOW #google

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other search engines than google? but what about my FEEDS

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you know who sucks? downforeveryoneorjustme.com… they said Google was up but it wasn’t! I’m totally starting a Facebook group about th …

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man identi.ca’s localization is the worst: @someuser’s status den Thursday, 14-May-09 <15:43:48> UTC

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at least when there’s an issue with google, it tends to get fixed fast, unlike other fly-by-night cloud computing outfits

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I feel the urge to play Crackdown again. Man, that’s a pretty sweet game

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Grabbing a kebab after working late

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omg did Twitter just die on us???

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Whether you want replies or not should be an option imho, but the whole thing is very inside baseball #fixreplies #metatweet

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Took a detour through Kolerakyrkogården on my way to work

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this particular perl report I just finished is perhaps the worst I’ve ever written. So uninspired

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nice seeing @scalzi has a way around the no reply rule, simply don’ put the @username at the start of the tweet

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Tbh I don’t really care about the missing feature but I’m gonna pile into the Twitter-bashing anyway #twitfail #fixreplies

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I’m down on this http://bit.ly/qBdOw

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In the toothbrush-branded subway carriage, surreal

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“designed by Pininfarina” the old coot will put his name on anything nowadays

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back from a walk around Tegnérlunden

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great now I’m hungry http://bit.ly/v2hK0

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Mando Diao is vastly overrated imho

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I kinda need a new computer

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Not surprised dirty old man Trump thinks semi-nude beauty queen Carrie Prejean with her traditional view of gender roles is A-OK

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Sweden on to final! #eurovision

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Shaping up to me a bit of a #publictransportfail

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punchin in

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getting a crash-course in cookie-stuffing

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all new mobile phones leave me cold

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found a bunch of links via @gruber for perusal

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nice, Twitter new follower notification emails now contain a little summary of posts/followers/following

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ok @Blink__182 (if that is your real name), your 1 update, 35 followers and 521 following mark you as a lousy spammer

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looking at the horror that is MS SharePoint

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backing up my pics and music

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went out for a walk but was driven back by the thin drizzle outside

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So apparently it’s still quite cold. Hope my son didn’t freeze after I sent him to school w/o a jacket. Myself shivering in sports coat

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a bit mystified why John Heartfield is described in media as “forgotten”. I remember his montages from high school

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rainy day, bleh

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Swedish hockey player: Bronze “would be great” in hockey world cup. How about gold, you idiot?

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lazy Sunday afternoon… finished The Jennifer Morgue. Mini-review forthcoming

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Heading into town to look for The Jennifer Morgue in paperback

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good haul at the bookstore, Jennifer Morgue, Erikson’s Toll of Hounds, and Bank’s Matter

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feeling obscurely pissed, dunno why

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läser om söndercurlade barn, känner igen mig

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looks like my bro-in-law left Ericsson in time, 400 to be laid off in Lund http://bit.ly/C2CzS

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just invited coworker Magnus to my vacation as an “optional attendee” in Outlook

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here come the spam followers (if you’re a recent follower and not a spammer, I apologise)

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pondering dinner

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when your disk starts nattering about “I/O error” you know you should have made those backups ;)

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today is V-E Day, didn’t realise

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bit my tongue. I hate that

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Inbördeskrig i Centern, <lutar sig tillbaka med en öl och popcorn>

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Chinese Geely bids for Saab: http://bit.ly/UlRcF

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borrowed the office’s Kamera&Bild against a promise never to take it to the washroom (long story…)

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Was planning to shoot our apartment building but the light is just too flat

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ah Sun’s coming out, taking the long way round to shoot from across the canal

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architectural photo is hard. Let’s go shopping! (for a perspective-control lens and a D3)

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omg now people are speculating either MS or Google will buy Twitter #youcantmakethisshitup

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Ah, the slaughtered pigs in Egypt were raised by Coptics. They’re understandably pissed off #aporkocalypse

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Stora nyheten hemma idag, Viking fick bolibompa-namnsdag!

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kan ses här http://is.gd/xaf0

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45 people let go from TradeDoubler, a chill wind flows through the online marketing Stockholm

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``the only pig in Muslim Afghanistan, a resident of a zoo in Kabul, has been quarantined for fear of spreading [#swineflu]’’

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lots of new followers today! Hi everyone! I’ll get around to refollowing ASAP

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cherry blossoms have fallen at #Luma

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TPB seems down. IFPI stormtroopers to blame? Or just massive traffic from the free publicity? #spectrial

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upgrading to Jaunty Jackalope

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checked my latest followers, what’s up with the 0 updates, people? Re-followed the few who weren’t spam accounts

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Jaunty Jackalope feels snappier somehow

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on every Swedish keyboard, shift-4 gives you ¤, the universal currency symbol. What a useless feature

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punching in!

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the new MSN messenger interface sucks rotten baboon balls

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lunch’d

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Twitter is getting pretty good at suspending obvious spam users

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today’s giant LOL: Apple buying Twitter

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wish I was home reading Stephenson’s “The Confusion”

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so tired

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exhausted the proggit link list in my reader

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Man Broder Daniel’s original “Shoreline” sucks balls. Anna Ternheim’s cover is the version

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on my way to a PTA meeting

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c’mon google reader, refresh you read counts already

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I feel bad for mixing honey in Viking’s filmjölk, at least he’s not eating this http://tinyurl.com/6oc5wx

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first post in FredMiranda.com. Hope they don’t see my slammin’ them here http://is.gd/x0MW

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something I haven’t seen before, some Flickr user reposting other people’s images and linkgin to a spamblog

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Canon should make those faux-pro EF-s lenses with red-white polka-striped rings on them

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I’m seeing great vistas from the subway that cannot be photographed in a way that doesn’t get you killed

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returning to a half-written script after 4 days off work… what the fuck was i thinking…

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what should I have for lunch…

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finally found a link to the awesome Planet Money show about the pirate business: http://is.gd/u0vb

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best Twitter name so far: @auntykafka. Looks like a spam blog though

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Heading home later than usual, kid is having dinner @ cousins

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Where I not married I’d ask Margo Timmins to be my wife based on her voice alone #cowboyjunkies

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why did i get sucked into reading the history of the Royal Marines #wikipeida

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and from there it’s a quick jump to http://tinyurl.com/24ckax

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the 18th Century was weird http://tinyurl.com/yx8qpc

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digesting a bacon-bluecheese burger from Texas Burger Co. in #Sickla

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so tired

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this year’s cherry blossoms are falling, I haven’t really gotten the pics I wanted but learned a lot for next year!

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when it comes to clueless photo gear comments, this is the thread that keeps on giving: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/767483/0

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hah! Ebba von Sydow in Expressen writes a gushing article about Google’s perks – 3 years after everyone else. #lame

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dear lazyweb, can you combine tag searches in Flickr? As in get one result for tags “foo” and “bar”

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unicode + Google translate = win! Or maybe I should say うれしい！

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WTF is a YouTube video about sniping “not available in” my country? Seriously Google, are you fucking out of your mind?

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Up helluva early to catch May Day #subrosa

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Great #subrosa, but now I’m feeling sniffly. I probably got it from Viking, that walking bioterrorist lab

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Discussed today at #subrosa: Mona Sahlin, SD, EU election, #aporkalypse, alternative ways of disposing of nuclear waste

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All aboard the meta-train http://tinyurl.com/cx6vf7

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teaching Viking to email. Couldn’t find the Compose mail link, as I always use the keyboard shortcut

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note to self, you might want to stop starting replies with “you might want to”. Originality #FAIL

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