µblog - archive for 2009-06

FreeBSD ports maintenance is like a blast from the past, and not in a good way

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on my way to the bank to get a new security token

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subway station is delightfully cool, unlike the trains themselves

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.@jimh guess they’re using some form of Septic timezone, it’s amazing how US-centric most corps are

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recent TPB sale a prelude to going decentralised with APIs and feeds? @patrickblixt thinks so! #TPB

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Sms from the ‘rents, they’re having a good time in Georgia (not the state)

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halfway through a run of #freebsd portsupgrade I’m struck by the thought that THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY

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wtf there’s an “x11-clocks” ports section in #freebsd?

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summer party pics filtered and posted internally

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tip for pronouncing Ahmadinejad: say “I’m a dinner jacket” real fast

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Giving SharePoint a run for its money

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nothing like a shot of the evening sky to tell you your sensor needs cleaning #photog

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latest wingnut theory: Billy Ayers ghost-wrote “Dreams of my Father”!

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Battling the heat in tan sports jacket, khaki chinos and desert boots. Wayfarer’s top off the ensemble.

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Soundtrack till resan hem är Docenternas samlingsplatta.. “bensin i blodet / en ensam man på en moped” #fb

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Wtf is the next tram in 13 minutes? :(

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out on the terrace again, cooling off

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Frukost på terassen med New York Review of Books #fb

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spent the afternoon playing minigolf with Viking at Lilla Blecktornsparken. Hot as hell #fb

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whoah so I kinda missed 4 Tradera auctions on account of having a real life

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thinking of taking MS Emelie from #Sjöstaden to Nybroviken tomorrow

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IRC is for people who aren’t easily offended. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

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sitting outside on the terrace with the lappy and a drink + chips

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Shorter pithier @GreatDismal: Twitter rocked by megacelebrity deathquake

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surprisingly, we didn’t manage to solve the #IranElection problem at #subrosa

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one idea at #subrosa: crowdsourced sanctions: expose those businesses that do the regimes dirty work and shame them

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ok sure #MJ was an amazing performer back in the day, but seriously, dying now was kinda smooth move. It’s been downhill for a looong time

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oh wow remote desktop to LA is not lightning fast? #whyaminotsurprised

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bouncing admin servers, Batman!

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Breaking: Mark Sanford and/or the Iranian hardliners killed #Jacko!

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ok I spent a vacation in Greece in 1982 listenign to “Thriller” on a Walkman so I’m listening to it on #spotify now

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poignant article about #MJ http://bit.ly/g1T2h #fb

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Lunch på Drottninggatan #fb

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can’t listen to “Beat It” without hearing Weird Al’s “Eat It”

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summer party time soon!

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back home after a nice office summer party

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iTunes too RT @johanrydberg: Tell me why I need to restart my computer after upgrading to Safari 4.0.1. The madness gotta stop, #apple.

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Ah, finally got my little Swedish holidays app working: http://bit.ly/fajdi

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Första IPRED-fallet avgjort http://bit.ly/2mbCv6

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every time I dick around in lighttpd.conf I’m thankful that I’m not running Apache #nerd

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hmm doesn’t look like there are any #perl modules for dealing with #ical calendars

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now reading http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

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how the HELL did my Wayfarers get this scratched up? It’s like fscking tank tracks #fb

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whoah, almost forgot I’m moving the traffic either tonight or early tomorrow

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meeting time!

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yay I’m GO for #subrosa tomorrow! Lessee if I can find those interesting links I read yesterday

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really enjoyed the Jun 11 issue of the New York Review of Books #nybooks.com

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Farrah Fawcett was an Objectivist? http://bit.ly/riz3H

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tickets to write

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“The Orbo doesn’t work, reports a jury of scientists and engineers selected by perpetual motion company Steorn to analyze its technology”

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trevligt med torghandel på Luma torg, synd att det ser så fult ut #Sjöstaden #fb

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yay got lighty to run my cgi script… but not if it ends in .cgi. Oh well, fix that later

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whoah Mark Sanford implodes… I nearly feel sorry for the #GOP

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testing browsing Facebook stream with #Gravity (beta code), working great so far! This will be HUGE #mobile #s60 #fb

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I think I’m posting way too many pics of the local fountain

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I wonder how many of the people complaining about the death of Kodachrome actually, you know, shoot with it? #photog #whine #k64

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here’s a protip fpr you #k64 latecomers, order like 5 rolls instead of 1

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Tunnbrödsrulle från Henkes grill, #Sveavägen #lunch #fb

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importing 553 images from #midsommar, lessee how many are keepers

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in the spirit of contrariness, I will be the only user of Twitter without a green overlay of my icon

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end of an era “Today, Kodak has officially announced the retirement of Kodachrome 64” #photog

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don’ the bugzilla tango

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slogged through my entire “Finance” category in Google reader

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whoah, that’s quite a pong coming from somewhere :P

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been to #Sickla and bought strawberries (unfortunately Belgian)

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wtf is wrong with my net connection

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bit overwhelmed by my 812 unread items in Reader… I need a better tagging system

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sitter på bryggan på Björkholmen och äter chokladkaka #midsommar #fb

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Sharing a boat with Peter Danovsky of #spectrial infamy #gossip #fb

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På väg till Ahlsvik i en fullproppad “Cinderella”. Att Viking vägrar sitta ute gör det inte lättare #midsommar #fb

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Nu lagt till i Vaxholm, hoppas det kan bli lite mindre folk #midsommar #fb

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So apparently people don’t believe I’m on a boat, can’t post a pic to disprove them

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kinda wish I had a gps

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Moammar Quaddafi must be thrilled to see to many green Twitter profile pics, cf. the flag of Libya

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catching up on IRC backlogs instead of working #demotivated

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Doctorow “ The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are gangsters, child pornographers, terrorists and pirates.” - http://is.gd/158NI

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think I’m gonna hit the Sub an hour in advance

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synd att DagensIlandsProblem är lite långt för en Twitter-tagg #iland #fb

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it irks me that a hood for my Sigma will cost more than the lens itself #photog

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dpreview get their knickers in a twist over leaks http://is.gd/15dWP #photog

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bah, Antipiratbyrån får fortsätta samla in IP-adresser eftersom dom har ett undantag från lagen sedan tidigare #spectrial

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PETA is more known for being weird kooks than for actually helping animals http://bit.ly/lpuaq

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clocking out for long Midsummer’s weekend

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On my way to Willys in Sickla to stock up for #midsommar #fb

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whoah a bunch of new followers! Going through them now

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they like me in Canada… wonder why

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so, I’ve vetted about 50 new followers and followed some back… I’ll get back to the rest soonest!

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took a 45min nap this PM, feels like a power move right now

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I let Viking fall asleep in our bed just so I can carry him to his… I love that

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wtf Foot Locker has stock ticker FL??

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TweetDeck grip nr. 3: can’t handle Unicode URLs

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so, the Acrobat reader update wants to restart my system. Seriously?

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Stolt att bo i “Hammarby finstad […] elitsossarnas vita förortsborg” #sjöstaden #fb

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Being very Swedish, buying Absolut at Systemet in prep for #Midsommar

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I shouldn’t complain, but I’d rather have a 28/2 DX prime than the 35/1.8 DX #photog #nikon #gearwank

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Heading to Enskede Gård to pick up my nephew+niece from daycare

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already people are offering used “Koenigsegg-Saabs” on swedish forums :)

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man the Oly E-P1 doesn’t look as tiny as expected: http://is.gd/13iZa

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I kinda hate “blogs” that just cut-and-paste from press releases

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#photog gear for midsummer will be: D200 SB400 18/3.5 35-70/2.8

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I wonder… would any of the 3rd-tier camera manufacturers get snapped up by Apple in a “strategic partnership”? Olympus comes to mind

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how can you kill a Task Manager that’s freaking out? #windows #riddle

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“piracy of intellectual property” isn’t theft, it’s a breach of contract

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up until I’ve taken a frame, I prefer analogue gear. After, I prefer digital #photog

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someday I’ll do a side-by-side comparison of the nikkor 18mm to the sigma 18-50. Not today though

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På väg in till Rival för en öl med @Petter_L #fb

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oh noes, could it be my cheap D200 battery is giving up the ghost?! #cheapskate #photog

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think I’ll walk to Mariatorget #stockholm #summer

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Took a 15 minute walk rather than wait for the delayed tram #publictransportfail

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förvånad över bristen på rapportering om Iran i framförallt DN #fb

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wtf don’t I get any fucking output from my runs??? #perl #unix #fail

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ser ut som att det blir lunch på Subway igen … suck #fb

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thanks to a wedged NFS mount I’ve had 2 successive multihour runs just result in a zero byte file. #unix #fail

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mmm new Nokia N72 looks mighty sweet! http://bit.ly/Ag8zT

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thanks @SeanC for pointing me to New Model Army! #fb

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power nap’d

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What kind of dude presses himself into a crowded subway carriage with a huge opened lappy?

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today’s commute has been a virtual cornucopia of street shooting subjects if a) i had some faster film than 100 Ektar and b) i wasn’t a wuss

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“Ah reckon someone’s gonna get SUED” - http://bit.ly/6mWQ3

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Twitter and the C64 - a perfect match

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last episode of ER is on, listening to my headphones so as not to get sucked into the dhrama

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hmm, IRC lag time is getting longer and loooonger….

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made it through all my unread metafilter entries

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crap, missed having “gerikson” as my FB username

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waiting for my kid to come home from the party he’s at

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it’s true Veronica, alcohol does reduce stress

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so, what apps have been broken by the tweet ID rollover? http://www.twitpocalypse.com/

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preparing for a dinner party, so long since we were at one!

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weird that 2 separate people choose the Latin name for perch as their handle online

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this turned out as good as I hoped http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerikson/3618364205/ #photog

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wtf kind of term is “hyperlocal”? Seriously, think about it. #neologism #stupidity

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funny stuff “Inside the Startup Office from Hell” (Rubicon) http://is.gd/ZFUj

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I should really get some lunch

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today’s #photog rumours: Nikon D300s w video, Nikkor 24/1.4, and a full-frame Leica M9

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``Z was abolished in Icelandic in 1974.’’ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z

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waiting for this report run to finish so I can go home :(

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You would have thought the Nazis loved Fraktur but you would be wrong http://bit.ly/fqNKz

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man, I LOVE Wikipedia http://bit.ly/ZLgaL

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Picking up Viking 30 minutes late #badparenting

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yes! Gentoo is Rice is back!! http://funroll-loops.info/

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Viking is with me at work today, prompting the usual quips about how developers are getting younger and isn’t there a hiring freeze?

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I wonder why libtards, so critical of government monopolies, are so in favour of the monopolies of patents and copyright

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rapidly heading towards total overengineering of this little monitor script

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somehow our assigment of “getting SharePoint up and running” has morphed into “implement SP for all divisions”

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gonna hit the Mickey D’s with Viking

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this is a nightmare… offsite backups a must http://bit.ly/APNXz

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hehe, just did an “ls *.pl | wc -l” in my “scratch” directory and found 171 files

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1 svägerska på Facebook, 2 kvar ;) #fb

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google-annons “Gå ned 5 kg i veckan med XYZ, det är inte normalt.” håller helt med! #fb

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Documentary tonight about the battle of Bomarsund on Åland… wonder if I’ll remember to see it

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konstigt hur 2 separata skribenter (AB, DN) verkar koppla mordet i Stureby till bloggar och chat http://is.gd/YXYT #media #stureby #fb

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Veruca Salt’s sophomore album is better than the first

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every time I get a new lens I feel that the pics I take with it are the best ever. Maybe that’s what explains gearlust

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having fun reading old Dixon “world of photography” books from the middle 80s. Heavily pimping Miranda gear (house brand?)

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I must say the D200’s auto white balance came through good in these here indoor shots #photog

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facebook uploader plugin for picasa, nice

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Nigerian crew outwits Somali pirates http://warisboring.com/?p=2230

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Gonna pull 2 consecutive weeks of on-call in August #takingonefortheteam

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Facebook ``Soon you will be able to have a username’’. Gee. Thanks? #meh

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tackar @Veidit för att han går till Subway för mig! #fb

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looks like Storable is what I want for my little monitoring script #perl

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hmm Imperiets samlingsbox saknas hos TPB. Skärpning, pirater! #fb

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I’ve never been there, but Scranton, PA doesn’t sound like a fun place. Apologies to residents, it’s the name!

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tweetdeck gripe #1: won’t remember position, always hides below my desktops

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tweetdeck gripe #2: copying a link URL includes a spurious “event:" prefix

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every time I have to use long option handling in #Perl I have to bust out the manual. Seriously non-intuitive

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11 new Vista updates to install… wtf

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wtf kind of abbreviation is “NORK” for North Korea? Presumably chosen for its resemblance to the word “dork” #dprk #language

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Shabbily clad hipster at #Gullmarsplan looks like Philip Seymour Hoffmans idiot brother

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French constitutional court rules HADOPI illegal. Wonder what Sarkozy will come up with next to prevent people from sharing his wife’s music

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even after a lacklustre product announcement, Apple still comes out looking good just because AT&T are such lamers #wwdc

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Summer comes / new iPhone / 2 year contract pains me #haikufail

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Am I bad person for always reading BFF as Best F*cking Friends?

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as long as I’ve known about Urban Dictionary I’ve only used it to look up weird sexual practices

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California as Poland and Florida as Angola http://bit.ly/55Z8t

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stupid Sun Java installer grabbed my focus as I was typing and decided I didn’t accept their fucking license agreement #ubuntu #fail

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trying to manually focus the 18/3.5 on the D200 makes me happy for its ginormous depth-of-field

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I’m trying to love Tweetdeck, but the interface issues are driving me nuts

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went and fetched my 18/3.5, then tried it out on the FM2 around Johannes. Ultrawide perspective is ultrawide! #photog

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.@rcarmo I forgot that! Keyboard in software is obviously better for customisability in different locales

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.@rcarmo I’m starting to think that Air sucks, period.

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wow Mapumental looks pretty cool! Can’t help but think that it’s a lot of work for some pretty maps though

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fun drilling down to my election district at http://www.val.se/val/ep2009/valnatt/kommun/01/80/index.html

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what with @hostageinqatar and the tales from Dubai the little principalities around the Gulf have some image problems

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Heading home with the giant 70s camera bag that the mamiya came in. Just missing a safari suit and long pointed collars #70s #fashionfail

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should I care about #wwdc?

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deliberately leaving IRC channels where the Apple fanboyism is too cloying

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iphone gets MMS! Welcome to like… 2002?

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should I friend my boss on Facebook? That feels weird to me!

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fretting over the new lens

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of course @DougCoupland is on Twitter

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tomorrow I’ll be attending my son’s last day at school (skolavslutning) and then we’ll just hang out all day. No work!

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bah, since I restarted irssi I’ve forgotten the magic command to shift the display time to my timezone

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ah, it’s /script exec $ENV{‘TZ’}=’<timezone>’;”, but in my case I have to use “UTC-2” instead of “UTC+2”…

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At the LPfoto auction. There are 256 lots before the one I’m interested in so I can check out how it’s done

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an 18/3.5 ais lens

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heh that last was for @fkoehn, bit into the IRC mindset atm

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faint with hunger

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I voted! #eu09

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pirates on their way to brussels

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Jag misstänker att Lars Gustafsson klarar av detta personangrepp av Guillou: http://tinyurl.com/pz4ypj

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detta skedde helt nära där vi bodde tidigare - hemskt! http://bit.ly/uPVK2 #fb

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shot a local bike race with the Mamiya, wonder how those shots will turn out #photog

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waiting for Leo to leave so I can continue playing Crackdown

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Oly micro 4/3 rumours http://bit.ly/fxQtx damn that looks like a sweet package!

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saw “Ghost Town”, decent rom-com with a twist

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Crap day for a champagne breakfast

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hmm maybe this is the first Norah Jones song I’ve heard that doesn’t suck…

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the local outside temp is one degree above the max refridgerator temperature :P

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classic 80s pop, Jules Shear “If She Knew What She Wants”

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needed an invalid URL to check a script, go0gle.com was not it !

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i was planning on shooting “studentflak” today but it’s just too damn cold!

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debugging a 3G dongle

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I wonder which one of the faceless profiles in Facebook is my old friend…

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First field test of my new Sennheiser PX100s. Observation: cable is easily twisted

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wife called, ordered bacon and cheeze doodles

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broderade studentmösseband tycker jag inte om #fb

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ambiguosly-gendered emo dude is emo

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Jag kommer rösta för Isabella Lövin på söndag #eu09 #fb

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TV4 has political ads for the first time and they’re all fucking lame

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somehow I managed to leave home with both the RB67 and the FM2 #photog #redundancy

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glasses with clear plastic frames are the fugliest

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stupid tweetdeck always hides itself under the physical desktop. Par for the course for shitty Air apps in my experience

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another TweetDeck annoyance, it wraps URLs in some stupid “event:" wrapper, makes copying and pasting URLs that much harder

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did some work for once

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man I hate our new office printer… can’t forward faxes as PDFs, only TIFFs (!) and prints PDFs like it’s chiseling slabs of granite

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So grey and rainy today, people look miserable in their cold-weather clothes

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so it looks like spymaster is just Dope Wars gussied up by John Le Carre

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sure sounds like eMusic has jumped the shark, maybe Sony has replaced leadership with evil clones? #emusicfail

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wow the Twitter clients for Linux looks just as lame as you would expect

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installed Twitterfox, because why bother with lame apps that take space when you can use Firefox? The browser is the OS!

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once again into the string-to-date manipulation breach! #perl

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if you don’t use the correct ISO 8601 date format, you ain’t no friend of mine!

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backing up my Flickr photos via Net::Flickr::Backup and #perl

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sippin’ on a Dr Pepper

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Time jumps the shark, puts Twitter on cover http://bit.ly/18kOKr

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Hulu is the good thing the content companies have come up with and they’re thinking of charging for it? http://tinyurl.com/oyvw7d

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Swedish version of “Dragons Den” is like beyond boring

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w00t! Obama comes out against illegal Israeli settlements!

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Google docs has revision history… sooo nice

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Stuck at Medborgarplatsen, awaiting a signal #publictransportfail

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boggling at middle-aged dude in shorts, legs pink as freshly-peeled prawns

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Pork-pie hat? Seriously?

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Känner inte igen varken Sahlin eller Ulvskog på valaffischerna. Lyftning, smink eller Photoshop? #fb

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still chuckling over the 4chan Times most influental person hack

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mp3 “genre” tags show the low quality of luser-generated content

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purposely closed all Flickr API tabs to prevent incipient insanity

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wow, hope Wolfenstein lives up to the trailer!

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Viking happy with a new Reader Rabbit CD-ROM from the local eatery

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I just double-exposed my cat in glorious 6x7 b&w #photog #fail

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I bet my fidgety son he couldn’t stay awake 5 more minutes. He lost

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man you think photo forums are pits of ignorance and malice and then you find Usenet photo groups

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man Wikipedia is a fount of knowledge for all things #photog. example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed fascinating

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ha, managed to fix my #Outlook “no subject” problem with some voodo-code VBA. Gotta love scriptable apps!

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amused to see that you can’t change the sort order of tweets in TweetDeck. It has to be latest-on-top

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IFPI’s warning letters to ISP’s could have illegal statements according to Swedish law (in Swedish) http://is.gd/M9bi

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google docs undo saved my ass

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stupid ruby scrpt doesn’t seem to exit with something other than 0 even if it craps out spectacularly

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perl’s system() return values bites my ass again

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expect Spain to be the next target for content mafia lobbying: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090531/2312145072.shtml

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Tabloid here: “What’s happened to the Swedes on #AF447?” Don’t think there’s any mystery there…

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there are tons of apps for downloading your Flickr photos, but I’m still itching to write my own

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I don’t understand people who don’t turn off sound notifications for new IMs

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man, Net::Flickr::Backup has a ton of dependencies #perl

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Template::Toolkit?? wtf do I need that for? #perl

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pondering doing flickr backup to gmail… maybe too mad an idea

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Leo, after watching #E3 press confs, excitedly telling me about games I’ve already heard about. Text beats video every time, baby

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Making my way to work amid delays and hot weather

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fuck you Adobe and your fucking resource-hogging updater

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also, Apple? I don’t fucking give a shit about MobileMe, so stop fucking bugging me

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nice to see @tybstar’s flickr-to-s3 script, in this day and age you cannot be too careful! http://bit.ly/RlVHM

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I love being able to open a window

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testing the air raid warning system here in Stockholm… pretty spooky

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oh no! sent an email without a subject! self.kill

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seriously, why doesn’t Outlook at least warn when sending an email without a subject?

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w00t!! Crackdown 2 announced at #E3!

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Oh man I just know I’ll end up with like 3 or 4 different 28mm lenses :P

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so the TPB defendants have no assets (except Lundström the nazi but his are in .ch). So the content mafia gets a big fat 0

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