Monthly Archives: May 2008

Sång för ett webbhotell

Mitt webbhotell det rullar på Och ingen downtime vill jag få För servrarna tickar lugnt och skönt Kontrollpanelen lyser grönt. Yeah, yeah, ingen kan bli vrång, När jag sjunger min webbhotellssång. På webben kan man surfa runt Även om det mesta liknar strunt Men vem bryr sig när allt är fritt Som delas ut från [...]

Things That Smell Good

Color film Gunpowder Trains Mowed grass Newly baked bread Coffee What else?

Influences

I suppose it was inevitable. Still, very strange. Today I’ve read a book by Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) and listened to Arvo Pärt‘s Fratres. Who says you don’t get influenced by other people?

An Invoicing Song

Off to a good start, hmm? Invoicing can be a pain When it’s just a thing That you’ve been told to do And all the numbing mindlessness Of daily chores done nonetheless Exciting as the flu I wish instead for meadows green And things that I have never seen And happiness and bluer skies to [...]

Passion

My CEO recently described me as “something as unusual as a technician with a sense for design”. It flattered me; because I’ve never seen myself as a technician. Although I am a software developer and build computer systems for a living, sort of, there’s a hidden quality that rests within me that perhaps is not [...]

00:04

I’m not really tired, I tell myself. And I don’t feel like I want to go to sleep. Although I notice that I’m making a lot of speling errors. Gosh, it’s more difficult to write than I thought. Filed my taxes tomorrow. Can you say that? Mixing imperfect and future tense in the same sentence [...]

Old Pictures

Going through the archives, and I found a couple of oddities that I think I might save… The above is a design I made for a remoting layer in our switchboard application. It provided the means to transparently switch search facilities from a local, threaded approach to a remoting approach, each using the same database [...]