I jumped out of bed today at 06:18, realizing I had overslept and was in danger of missing my train 06:53. So I jump into the shower, dress in a mad rush and hop on my bike to go down to the train station. As I arrive I realize I must have missed the train [...]
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January 25, 2007
08:29
08:29
January 1, 2007
00:20
00:20
Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Skövde 2007!
December 29, 2006
15:57
15:57
Apartment Woes
As most people know by now, I’m trying to move from Skövde to Stenungsund because I’m changing jobs. However, that turned out to be not quite as easy to do. It turns out that the apartment market in Sweden is, in a word, terrible – at least here in the Western part. I’ve been trying [...]
December 15, 2006
23:42
23:42
Christmas Trees
I couldn’t hold it. I had to put up my Christmas tree, although I know I’m breaking many an unwritten Swedish rule by doing so. Merry Christmas!
November 30, 2006
17:01
17:01
CAPTCHA
I got tired of all the comment spam on this blog. I don’t think anyone has noticed anything because of the terrific Akismet plugin that catches pretty much all of it, but right now I have 755 spam comments killed by Akismet so far. It’s tiresome. And every once in a while I have to [...]
November 29, 2006
00:30
00:30
Unemployed
Last Friday was my last day at work. Since then, I’ve been temporarily unemployed — that means, I have a new job starting January 8th, but until then, I’m free as a bird. It’s a very strange feeling to not have to get up out of bed in the morning and go to work. It’s [...]
November 1, 2006
11:15
11:15
Snowfall
The first snow fell yesterday night. The national weather service talks about people stuck on roads and trains as a snow storm swept in over the country. I noticed rather little, except that the wind was blowing strong last night. But as I got out of bed this morning, the entire country was swept in [...]
October 24, 2006
14:23
14:23
Perks of Working for a Software Company
Free soda. :) I’ll be going for the Coke and Fanta. I hope my dentist doesn’t see this.
October 13, 2006
18:53
18:53
Unix: Shooting Yourself in the Foot
I stumbled across this little gem today. If from a page of how to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language. It was full of how to shoot yourself in the foot in Visual Basic, Prolog, C++, and many others. But this one was the best. UNIX: % ls foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c [...]
October 4, 2006
09:24
09:24
Spoils of Cannibalism
Our fish tank has already shed its first victim. Who knew that the peaceful, tranquil aquarium that glimmers so beautifully in our hallway, actually is a wild, bizarre deathtrap where those fish who aren’t fast and furious become lunch for those who are? It is a relentless hierarchy of fish. Between those who eat, and [...]
October 2, 2006
14:32
14:32
More on Miss World
My three favorites of them all were… well, of course, as already mentioned, Miss North Ireland. But Miss Iceland and Miss Belgium really made an impression as well. Miss North Ireland Miss Iceland Miss Belgium And, also, a picture of Catherine Milligan performing in the talent contest, winning it with a “haunting interpretation of the [...]
September 28, 2006
17:19
17:19
Aquarium at Work
Some nice guys came by today and installed an aquarium at my job. It’s right outside of my room, so I can sit and look at it all day. Looks neat!