µblog - archive for 2009-12

Rose bubbly at the terrace!

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This cover singer isn’t half bad #nye

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#10yearsago we were at the big Bingolotto Millenium special, no lie #fb

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Waiting for 12 o’clock with a very sleepy 7yr old

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Happy New Year! #fb

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Back after a snorkling trip

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Upper level of Grand Makadi reception area is perfect for pr0n surfing

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Wife has been diagnosed with gastroenteritis, but has recieved superefficient Egyptian medecines!

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Finished Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, an amazing reinvention of the fantasy genre. Harry Potter meets The Secret History

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We want this corner table for NYE, but we have to commit for 4 bottles of bubbly.

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Fourth day in Makadi Bay, spent swimming in the pool and sea. Merry #Xmas! #egypt0910 #fb

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In the taxi on our way to Arlanda

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Enplaned in a pretty cramped A321

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Sippin’ g&t’s on the terrazo at Grand Makadi #egypt0910

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Tired after being up since 3am, but the hotel looks really nice!

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depressing reading the (thankfully very few) negative review of the place we’re visiting

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Julhandel i Sickla Köpkvarter. Mindre folk än befarat. Snön har slutat vräka ner. #fb

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Maybe I should have eaten before #xmas #shopping, feeling faint

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I just want to get out of here :(

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so tired my hands are literally shaking :P

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man this wok we have is the pits

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contemplating the “TSA lock” on our new Samsonite suitcase and betting the “secure tools” are already abroad in the underworld

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needed, Swedish-English botanical dictionary

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when you look at a cat’s front teeth in close up you see the Alien

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most pretentious camera review ever? http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/ #photog

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amazing story http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/america-most-wanted-mark-weinberger

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den här bilden föreställer väl inte glögg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine#Gl.C3.B6gg #fb

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RIP #Saab

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discussing different language’s handling of dates and times, so nerdy

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sets up the holiday auto-reply #xmas

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brilliant #Achewood http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12182009

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pondering a final coffee before leaving for xmas

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punching out of work for #xmas #newyears!

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Röda linjen försenad, kvar i Mörby Centrum #fb

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Sony-Ericsson phones still popular in the #xmas ads here, can’t help being reminded of #Saab #otemporaomores

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Matthew Sweet’s “Thunderstorm” is 9 freaking minutes long

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Is there a more baroque pop song than “The Other End of the Telescope”? #elviscostello #aimeemann

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oh by the way? Viking’s second name? Costello, not Presley

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hmm the Lindex lingerie ads are shot with front-flash, rather cold look

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my walk through a sunny and freezing Danderyd today resulted in exactly zero keepers. That’s how it goes! #photog

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weather.com says it’s -14 centigrade in #stockholm!

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the Swedish establishment’s and media’s faith in the UN is a bit naive at times #cop15

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Leo came home from seeing Avatar, he wasn’t very impressed

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a week ago I was worried about my 1000+ unread count, now I’m down to 106 and will plough through them before bedtime

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shedloads of snow this morning, and a bitter wind

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iphone overtakes windows mobile? not surprised http://bit.ly/8IAcSv

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Company meeting, I’m to present myself in slides in 30 minutes

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dear skriptkiddies, stop ddos:ing Freenode, it’s not worth the effort

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survived my presentation phew

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the view out of the window is solid white

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belly full of Xmas food #sated

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time to punch out!

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Still light snow falling here in #Stockholm

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Ett av få fördelar att pendla från Mörby C: alltid sittplats för liten tupplur #trött #fb

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#Skeptoid ep 46 about “reptoids”, weirdest conspiracy theory ever?

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to the whiners about “police brutality” in Copenhagen, man up and wear proper clothes

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heading to work sans coffee and breakfast - shades of Bataan #bathos

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early at work

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so unmotivated

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I can’t believe I’m writing a BAT file

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sweet, my new used HB-1 hood on the 35-70/2.8 won’t shadow the pop-up flash

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crap I have to go to the store #dontwann

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time for bed after a good day, productive at work, my Dad over for dinner, and fun times on the ’nets

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hmm my newly repaired watch stopped during the night… what’s up with that? is my bedroom HAUNTED? #skeptoid

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ironically, despite the tight integration into the OS, IE is still slow as a dog

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hmm pretty large dent in the corner of my ipod… seems to be working fine though

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time to move my email client to the secondary screen, it’s used way less at this place than previous workplace

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känner mig mycket “dagen efter” #fb

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reset all my FB privacy settings to their old values… will deal with the details later #fb

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Panasonic buys Sanyo, merger of the Helveticas! http://is.gd/5lPjz

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I wish I could be the dad JG Ballard was http://bit.ly/7OCIjY

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Got shots for bacon plague, diphteria, lockjaw and hepatitis #sore

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delayed reaction, seeing Vattenfall’s huge logo on some hulking powerplant in Eastern Berlin was surreal

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20 minutes left on call

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Finally on my home, leaving my coworker to grapple with the balky client: good luck Frank!

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the awkward KTH students out for a night on the town take me back down memory lane

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jUploadr is a decent Flickr uploader app for Lulnix

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teaching my kid about IRC… come to the Dark Side, the water’s fine! #darthnerd

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the young man who not 20 minutes said “I’m never going to bed” is fast asleep beside me…

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Heading to the salt-mine sans breakfast, planning on picking some up en-route. Never actually done that for this workplace though

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patching client installation by hand, I have 28 minutes left in the window

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#redline fail, still in Mörby #sl

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Pringles and watered wine, fuck yeah

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hell of a morning

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I find out that my computer can’t reliably burn CDs after sending off 2 of them to clients #fail

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God I suck at bowling #nightoutwithwork

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Well this is #fail, missed my stop

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after a few added buttons my tab order is shot to hell #winforms

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Learning C#, one Google query at a time

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Imma gone zone out I think

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I’d like a Tri-Nikkor 28-55-90 f/4, 55mm with close focus. Small and compact, great image quality #neverhappen #photog

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of all the luser-generated-content sites out there, I’m enjoying http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/ most right now

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why am I still up? time to head to bed

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Whoops! Forgot presents for the boys, now I feel crappy……

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Weekly support meeting

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I think I forgot my lightmeter in Berlin :(

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lunch room was packed. Waiting to nuke my overprocessed crap until later

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Great Achewood http://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=12052009

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ok gonna make up for a lot of time here

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bara jag som tycker att FRAs nya emblem är riktigt snajsigt tydligen http://is.gd/5flx4

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sure the LumaLoop looks good and all but it’s the third strap I’ve seen on those general principles #photog

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this website has to be seen to be believed http://www.mabou.ca/

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Second day of #Berlin09, soon heading to Bauhaus Museum, then Alexanderplatz. Gonna use the 24mm today #photog #fb

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Leaving Berlin after 2 awesome days hanging out with @tkjaer and @jedrek. Light could have been better but it’s Dec #berlin09 #photog #fb

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Sounds like I need to change to a bus at Schöneweide, the trains don’t run all the way? My German is rusty :(

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Landed safely at Skavsta, now in the bus with good tunes, a good book and great memories! #berlin09

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met Viking’s old daycare teacher on the plane! Random. Of course it took me 30 min to place her #old

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Coach driver just told the front row to turn off their reading lights. The fuck?

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new mobile twitter site looks exactly the same as the old one to me

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Scratch an anti-muslim and you often find an anti-semite

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new hackable “netbook” @PsiXpda http://bit.ly/7yw9WQ #PsiX via @Ewan

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At Cityterminalen, what a horrible example of 80s architecture it is #berlin09

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Scarfing down an overpriced pasta and beer at Skavsta #berlin09

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air travel was never exactly fun, but 9/11 and Ryanair are doing their best to make it as bad as possible

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why am I standing in the queue anyway

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ok 15 min until scheduled takeoff and the gate still isn’t open. Fighting hard to be like my dad and go with the flow

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Arrived Berlin Scönefeld, now on the train to Ostkreuz. Berliners like their trains warm. #fb

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seriously this train is like a sauna

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SnagIt is the Outlook of screen capture programs

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Delicious tells me “1524 Bookmarks” - #FMR

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People are too slow to detrain/entrain from the subway

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so sick and tired of Yank wingnuts blaming the entire world recession on poor people of colour and the CRA instead of the batshit Randians

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assigned 3 new issues to me #work

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man this little twitter-to-wordpress hack I’ve coded is just a snarl of regexps separated by colons and whitespace #perl

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“As a punishment by Napoléon Bonaparte, Navy officers have not been addressed as ‘mon’ since the Battle of Trafalgar.”– http://is.gd/59N6N

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I wonder why my computer is so goddamn slow. Page swapping? #grr

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asked IT for another GB of memory, turned out I already had max installed #luser

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Leo presented me with a long list of approved works for reading in English, I picked out “A Modest Proposal” (6 pages) as ideal

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Peintre de la Marine - http://is.gd/5a3AD

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Sweet Åhlens has Pilot G2 XS pens

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Alumnipub på #Agero, alltid like trevligt! #fb

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reading this typography book in Swedish makes me appreciate the technical precision in the language

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of course most of that precision is on loan from German… #oldschool

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wtf my phone saying “max number of connections reached” when I’m trying to open the web browser??

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Haha Red the vidcam co obviously didn’t count on today being Red the hipster charity day #overload

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musically, I’m living on the thin end of the long tail

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hating on C# XML processing, but The Pogue’s “Waltzing Matilda” puts it in perspective… C# > Gallipoli, if not by much

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Internal launch of Teleopti Pro Call Reporting freemium

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eftermiddagsfika: knäckebröd med gravlax #lyx

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one of the fun things about learning new programming languages is handling dates and times. c# is complex but complete #hacking

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Can’t help but thinking the dude in Assassin’s Creed II is dressed a bit too flamboyantly for a stealthy killer. More like RenFaire clubbing

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Äntligen skaffat SL Access #livinginthefuture #fb

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even chubby gothgrls in fake fur and goggle glasses use the iPhone! It’s really a hit now

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speaking of gothgirls there’s a chick on the tram w/ lashes 2cm and apparently made of solid kohl

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a small test, pls ignore http://google.com http://gerikson.wordpress.com http://gerikson.tumblr.com #vanity

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I’m so used at Tumblr being used to re-purpose stuff I’m surprised when anyone uses it for original content

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F11 gives you full-screen mode in Chrome now? I love how it just updates behind your back

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