µblog - archive for 2010-01

Sunday lunchtime McDonalds hell in #Sickla

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Midwinter getting me down, gonna re-read Patrick O’Brian again to cheer myself up

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live and die by ISO 8601

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everyone’s gabbing about the lack of Flash on the #iPad, what about the lack of multitasking?

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think you don’t need multitasking? How else are you going to chat + surf at the same time? #ipad

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I should be more specific: if I would want an iPad, I would want multitasking. I realise I’m not Joe 6pack

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varför är det bara kvinnor som lagar mat och tvättar i TV-reklamen? #könsroller #fb

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watching “The Kingdom” on TV3

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despairing of teaching Leo the rudiments of linear equations y=k*x+m. Kids these days

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“Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try to use the Internet”

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what’s cooking? Sjömansbiff, that’s what! http://is.gd/7mfqj (zomg horrid photo) #fb

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whatever you think of the iPad history has taught us that you bet against Steve Jobs at your peril

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Flash ``is now measurably in decline’’? News to me as an end-user http://is.gd/7mrty #ipad #defence

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regarding iPad somehow replacing Flash, remember IE6 is still around #stickyuglytech

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Age of consent in the Vatican is 12 years http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm?12

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Häxan Surtant FTW #fb

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TV3s lördagssatsning är tråkigare än det man kan se på vardagseftermiddagarna #tv #fb

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Confessions of a Book Pirate http://is.gd/7n1Gv

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stupid banking interface keeps timing out #bills

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läser att Wallenberg vill ha en “balanserad debatt” om banker, spelar Billy Braggs “The Internationale” #fb

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Jakob Wallenberg: “det är mediernas fel att folk ogillar banker, inte bonuserna” ORLY? #fb

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picked up Viking from school where he had “laid a pizza” to use a Swedish phrase #sick #fb

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where the FSCK do BoingBoing put their damn permalinks??

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the only people calling our landline are telemarketers or “poll takers”

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MORE snow? You gotta be kidding me

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my poor kid can’t keep anything down :( #sick

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stupid cat, stop rubbing your arse against my face

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everyone else is “woo #ME2!”, I’m all “woo finally #MW2” #xbox

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adding cheese to my buttered toast and some tea w/ honey #sick

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while the reaction after the iPhone was all ZOMG JESUSPHONE the reactions to the iPad are all snark http://is.gd/7ee9B

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How unique and trackable is your web browser? http://panopticlick.eff.org

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still feeling like crap, think I have the dreaded #vinterkräksjukan (calicivirus) so will be staying home tomorrow too #sick

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trying to eat a piece of toast… hope it stays down… #sick

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underwhelmed by the iPad

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I’m starting to think that this Microsoft Dynamics CRM we’re using is the root of all evil

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uh why is FreeBSD ports compiling a mozilla plugin on my server

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Hmm verkar som om jag kan twitter på svenska från irssi/tircd numera, skickar Latin1 ist för UTF8

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Landed at Arlanda

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Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones saved my sanity on the flight back

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gotta hate having to restart your entire computer just because your browser is patched #IE8

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yes, just 45m of sleep and no shower has left me cranky, why do you ask #diaf

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The Swedish Academy’s perpetual secretary blogs: http://akademiblogg.wordpress.com/ (in Swedish, of course)

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gotta love these Disney-themed DDT wallpapers http://is.gd/6ZWQN

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in a sweltering meeting room in Dubai, solving support issues remotely

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Dubai is like the city in Crackdown writ large and IRL. Bizarre

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Dubai is a city that needs the William Gibson treatment… hi-tech buildings, medieval legal system, LOTS OF MONEY

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Schlepping a roller over snow and ice ain’t fun

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hmm the reviews of our hotel are all over the map… no wifi apparently (which isn’t a dealbreaker)

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grabbing some food before heading off

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På bussen till Arlanda #dubai2010 #fb

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crap, Boeing 737 :(

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not looking forward to 6 hours in this tin can, but what can you do

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stoked to see David Simon is behind both The Wire and Generation Kill #stuffWhitePeopleLike

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the fact the Richter scale is logarithmic is hard for laymen to fathom. What are linear alternatives?

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Burj Khalifa is GO! Sunday <15:30,> not sunset but it’s pretty popular

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60 people from work want to go up Burj Khalifa… hope we can get a group ticket

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nice timing, got a clip from Wired about #HAARP from @gunderhaegg just as nuts are saying it quaked Haiti

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getting dangerously addicted to the Klondike game on my ipod classic

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the new redesigned logos for Office 2010 applications make me want to puke http://is.gd/6AGNM

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Etology #wordsyoudontheareveryday

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epic flight tragically ends on first leg http://is.gd/6B1wX

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Lindy hop is the Swedish hipster dance par preference

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jobbar du ideellt i en kommun? Se till att inte köra VPN http://bit.ly/6tEaCO #polisstat (via @isobelsverkstad) #fb

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nice, coworker will be fixing tickets for a visit to the Burj Khalifa. 100 AED sounds a bit pricey, hope it’s worth it

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4 months spent immortalising a truly n00b view in Tetris http://is.gd/6vQRv

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this “explanation” of the made-up holiday of “Agnostica” is eye-wateringly bad http://www.agnostica.com/

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feeling sorry for yourself? Why don’t you listen to “Johnny 99” and consider yourself thankful

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learned about the interpunct today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct

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Killen mittemot ser ut som alla KTH-studenter sen cirka 1985 #fb

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Wow really smooth change to green line at #slussen

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snow?! The fuck?!

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sigh having to weed out my Facebook page… and I’m not talking Farmville, just social gardening

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it’s not made easier by FB being flakey right now

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pretty sure the global stock market is in the throes of low-interest fuelled bubble. What will pop it?

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I’m half-convinced it will be a massive earthquake in California, or Japan

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Lax och rotfrukter i ugnen #fb

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OD:ing on The Oatmeal http://theoatmeal.com/comics

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watching Blade 2, on the list of best SF films of the last decade by @scalzi

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speaking of vampires I should re-read Lucius Shepard’s “The Golden”

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.@gunderhaegg thanks for the Wired article on Robert Gates! Check out the “War is Boring” blog for another view

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hmm looks like i can’t connect to Twitter via API from my server, the API limit is reached

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author of “Stuff White People Like” himself whiter than sour cream: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_White_People_Like

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Windows, IE, and Acrobat Reader form a dripping triptych of #fail, like a 3rd Francis Bacon painting

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that should be “3rd rate” Bacon painting, and yes, I have been reading NY Review, why do you ask?

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FMR, installing subversion from ports pulls in half the tree…

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tircd still doesn’t look like it’s working, I’m getting a 400 error from twitter but can’t see how I’m exceeding the rate limit

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red wine + cheeze doodles == win

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the amount of internet butthurtz over the new Nikkor 70-200/2.8 is pretty amazing. Be smart, buy used

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playing around with http://fffflckr.com/, awesome webapp from @jedrek

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I have no idea why it takes almost 10 minutes for my winXP box to come up to speed after I login, but I’m not very happy about it

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“Svenska hjälparbetare möts av kaos i Haiti” - känns rätt självklart, varför skulle dom annars dit? #dummarubriker #fb

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reading “Stuff White People Like” is akin to watching The Office. Cringe comedy. Also, I’m betting white people love The Office

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tagging stuff with “bokeh” in Flickr will get you laid. Known fact #photog

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Had excellent commute flow until I made the mistake of not hustling to catch the tram, now waiting for the next one

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actually my mistake was standing in the aisle in the subway instead of near the exit, small things that can cost valuable seconds

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cd /usr/src; make installworld && make installkernel

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hmm #tircd is reporting twitter api limit reached. That’s never happened before…

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interesting to read about the #OiNK trial, music industry seems to want to keep a low profile http://is.gd/6bi9j

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pondering getting a bunch of disposable contacts for when I want to do some serious shooting, as per @jedrek’s suggestion #photog

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using Twitter’s web interface while @tircd is fubared, pretty slick nowadays!

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Dear lazyweb, I want a solution where a box full of media is in a closet and you can watch said media on a TV. Wiring no problem. Ideas?

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so Pat Robertson thinks the Haitians should have been happy slaves under the French and there would have been no earthquake… what a douche

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The The’s “Infected” is a fitting soundtrack to this morning’s commute

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Weird to see people using their superexpensive winter jackets not as ridiculous fashion statements but as instruments of survival.

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these black Dockers chinos I have are pretty damn worthless. Will not buy again

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I started VS2008 twice by accident. Now I have 2 huge unresponsive windows

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sky is like the world’s biggest flash diffusor… literally #photog #badmetaphors

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seriously I have no idea of how to expose, it’s like being inside a giant tupperware container

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back on the mean streets of Baltimore with “The Wire”

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I now understand why people warned my from getting hooked on The Wire

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2 new updates from @dantestellacom, late xmas presents! #photog

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ser fram emot att kunna byta till röd linje vid Gamla Stan när det blir varmare #snartblirdetvår #sl #fb

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found a weird bug in our app, wish I could say this is an uncommon occurence

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today’s dose of PHP bashing http://www.steike.com/code/php-must-die/ (HT @codinghorror)

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managed to drain my D200 battery to the point it won’t even show the number of remaining shots #worrying #photog

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I’m facing the uncomfortable fact that the problem lies in Crystal Reports, otherwise know as Cthulhu’s reporting framework

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still getting a little kick out of using a headset… how weird am I?

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finally subscribed to http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

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I need some hot-weather shoes….

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on a blogging tear this evening http://is.gd/65lPo http://is.gd/65lNv

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sigh looks like the entries-cache part of my blosxom is acting up again… I hate that

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NYRB illustrator David Levine has died, that’s sad

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damnit, every link to the nybooks.com website causes Google Reader to freeze

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correction, it freezes Google Chrome

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yay Independence Day on TV tonight

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Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank’s Americans http://is.gd/5Y45H

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wow our internal license file handling is woeful

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Windows Undead Search window won’t respond to any input…

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I feel crap, runny nose, upset stomach, headaches

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great post about 365 projects http://is.gd/5UsBn #photog

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re-reading “Love and War in the Appenines” – Eric Newby at his best

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protip: cameras are cameras, not computers. Treating them like computers will not help your photography

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Vafan står mitt tåg helt still på Gullmarsplan för? #sl #fail

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håller helt med klagomålen mot #SL Access-terminalerna, dom är helt värdelösa #touchscreen #fail #fb

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back in the office, forgot the code for entrance, no wired network, outlook slow as a dog #snafu

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-16C this morning. Thankfully I haven’t thrown out my ancient fugly Clarks winter boots

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I wonder if I’ve read this Stross story already http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=58511

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starting my 7th year of blogging: http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/index.html#archives

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mmm Max hamburgers

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damnit, work tomorrow

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Checked out, waiting for the bus

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Leo’s whining on us to buy him cigs have really harshed the mellow of our last day

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Safely arrived at Arlanda

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Home after some waffling over the keys. Cats are a bit standoffish

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a quick look at my shots from Egypt show an abysmal keeper rate

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Burj Dubai is finished! Definitely gonna visit it when I get there

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Last night here in Makadi I want to start packing but we have a shared bag and my wife is better at it anyway #antsy

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Also dreading the queues tomorrow at Hurghada airport, thanks underwear bomber

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Yet another sunny day in Makadi Bay. Only 3 whole days left :( Tomorrow: quick trip to Cairo

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Saw two dolphins while snorkeling by the hotel this morning, pretty awesome

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Waiting for the bus to Cairo (<01:15> local time)

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Lobby is hopping with people checking out, poor sods #fuckingearly

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