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WordPress 3.0-RC3

This blog is now running WordPress 3.0-RC3 with a customized Sandbox theme. Seems to work well.

A Short Introduction to the City of Chicago

Scripts to alter DNS settings

My NetGear router has been acting more and more weird the last months. I don’t really know why, but sometimes the DNS resolver inside just locks up and misbehaves something wicked. It would be a lot easier if it could just forward the DNS settings through DHCP, but it doesn’t do that, it just always [...]

And Webshots Is Gone

I realized today that the newest update of Webshots (a program that displays wallpapers on your PC) includes a new Python 2.5 service that installs and runs in the background. Not that I have anything against Python in itself, but I really don’t want Webshots running a Python service on my computer. A service? For [...]

End of Windows Scripting

There will be no web hotel scripts for Windows. It’s impossible, or at any rate simply not worth it. Pray we don’t get a lot of ASP.NET customers.

Tuesday Pictures

Just two pictures… Stepped out of my apartment today only to stand eye-to-eye with three sheep peacefully walking between the houses. They looked at me with the same kind of surprise that I looked at them, and then resumed walking past me. I got a good shot of them with my camera as they passed [...]

Sometimes I wonder

Found this email in the “to-do” folder in my inbox… A personal reminder, I guess…

Hmm

The domain “romanticsuckers.com” is still available. I wonder if I should register it.

Wish List for 2008

On my wish list for 2008: A version of the movie “Tenku no shiro Rapyuta” (Laputa: Castle in the Sky) by Steven Spielberg.

Random Clippings

… while intended to help this particular parasitic segment of the corporate world to behaviorally model the psychological predispositions of software developers at their work in an unrealistically simple way, it has instead turned into a system of limitations that developers have begun to impose upon themselves to the detriment of the advancement of software [...]

Challenge-Response

En god vän gav mig en utmaning. Vad gjorde du för tio år sedan? Åääuuhh…. tio år sedan? November 1997? Jag satt nog på JAK och gjorde konstgjord andning på ett banksystem som var sådär. Dessutom hade jag några månader tidigare gjort min absolut första resa till USA, till Reedpoint, Montana. Awesome. Vad gjorde du [...]

From an Introvert’s Perspective

I am an introvert. I say this with some kind of trepidation, because I know the world looks at us introverts with strange and sometimes unforgiving eyes. We do not always rise to the social standards held in common. We do not flash our big smiles, show off our success, our fancy cars and pretty [...]

More Pictures from Skärhamn

Following on the success of the last picture essay from Skärhamn, here are more pictures. When I leave my house and walk down to the harbor – which really just starts a few hundred feet from my house, and stretches for a long, long way all into downtown, this is what I see. This is [...]

Pipelines and Seagulls

Pipelines are cool. So are seagulls. Except that seagulls wake me up in the morning, pipelines don’t. On the other hand, seagulls can fly, whereas pipelines are anchored in the ground. Maybe they’re anchored in the ground, because otherwise they’d fly away, like seagulls. “Oh, that I had the wings of a seagull”, the mighty [...]

Disaster Follows Me

Funny how coincidences can stack up in your life. If they really are coincidences. For instance, every trip I have taken to the United States since 2001 has been followed by some kind of disaster. My first trip on this side of the century, in May 2001, was to Florida. It included a journey of [...]

Summertime at the Office

And once again, it’s the time of the year when temperatures climb – not outside, inside – to 28 degrees. Swedish houses are built to contain heat and not let it out. Which means that whenever the sun comes out and summer temperatures roll in, all the houses become little saunas. Our office does the [...]

A jQuery Assistant?

Falling in Love with JavaScript

JavaScript is one of those gray areas in my life that I tend to stay away from. I’ve fiddled around with it once or twice, but it’s never had much of an appeal to me. That is, until I found jQuery. And Interface. I think this is the first time I’ve fallen in love with [...]

Sweden, Be Proud

I have an American flag hanging on my wall at home. I keep it there for a few reasons; one, which I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, I’m practically half-American anyway, and I might as well fly the colors of the nation I love; two, the colors blend nicely into my living-room; and three, because [...]

Komm ja, kleine Katze

I brought a cat to work. Of course it’s not a real cat, it’s a fake one. But it lies so silently and comfortably on my desk that when people pass by and see it, they jump out of surprise to see a cat there. And then they move closer, carefully reaching out and petting [...]