Taking off the shorts!
Well, it’s the time of the year again, when I get that moment of sadness realizing summer is over. So it’s off with the shorts and on with long pants . Oh well; who knows, if we keep it up, Sweden may have summer all …
Dinosaur cancels TV
So we once had a nice Sony 29″ Trinitron TV. So I wished I could keep it going for another two to three years and patiently wait for the next generation LCD TV:s to arrive. So Sony didn’t take the DINO FACTOR into account when …
How Microsoft Lost the API War
I just stumbled across a really good article; good in the sense that it made me feel interested and glued to its contents, also good in the sense that it took its time in describing why the author thought this or that. It’s related to …
Building with Kapla
So Alexander has gotten into his Kapla building sticks again. He forgets them from time to time, and then he remembers he has them and can’t get enough of them. It’s odd how most things he builds are symmetrical in shape. Don’t know Kapla building …
Thirty-six weeks have come and gone
Well, it’s now an official (?) 36 weeks since I was a “using nicotinist”, I guess in the tradition of AA, I’m now a non-using or sober nicotinist 🙂 Here’s at seven weeks, and here’s at fifteen weeks. GOOD ON ME!
Network for Traditional Aikido
A new network for traditional Aikido sees the light of day in the form of Traditional Aikido United (TAU). Read more about it on www.aikishuren.se. The purpose of TAU is to promote training and studies of Traditional Aikido (read O-Sensei).
Happy Birthday Mom!
Had she been alive, she’d be 58 years young today. Damn I miss her! Happy birthday, Anna Catharina.
Tre Kronor af Stockholm
The Brig, Tre Kronor af Stockholm, was put to sea today; and we were there to watch, courtesy of Dataphone. More reading here and here. A very cool event. I’m glad I was present. You’ll find some of my photos here; this was a full-day …
Canon to unleash the EOS 5D!
There’s a lot of hot stuff cooking at Canon! Last in a number of recent product announcements comes the not-so-unexpected (it seems Canon enjoys “pre-releasing” aka leaking, quite a bit) announcement of the EOS 5D D-SLR camera. The biggest news? It sports a 12.8 megapixel …
Joshua is back!
Want to play with the computer that let Joshua communicate with Mathew Broderick in the 1984 movie WarGames? Well, now you can! The Fischer-Freitas Company, formed by a couple of IMSAI employees, have decided to release a vintage IMSAI, able to supply some more “up …