My forearm really hurts!

This illustration is ripped from the web, but I think it really shows the pain. That red area, crazy. I've had this little injury every now and then since a couple of years back when I played an MMORPG game, but my current work is really making it hurt.

In Swedish the combined name for this sorts of injuries is 'musarm', which could be cynically translated into something like 'The hand that has been using the mouse too much', even though fifthen year olds finds it amusing to use it in a vulgar context.

Gash, I really need to find some help for this über-inflamed nest of of sinews. Gaah, the worst thing is that the health centre really just gives you a subscription of NSAID pills, which causes gastric ulcer and other painful conditions for side effects. It seems that there are no simple sollution. Once you have your "click sinew" wack, it will stay weak, with symptoms coming and going, depending [mostly] on how much time you spend behind the monitor.

Well, I think I'll get myself a specialist or some kind, very soon..

Anyways, here's an [open source] software application to remind you about regular breaks with animations of smooth exercises to avoid these sorts of strain injuries.

GNU Software: Workrave
Wiki: Repetitive Strain Injury

Movie: Shrek the Third

Finally got too watch it the other night. It was nice. Good morals, yet I would lie if I gave the jokes my full approvement. Nah, the quality was mediocre at it's best.



Anyways, we ate salmon with potatoes for late dinner.
Tasted delicious! :-)

Smooth Sunday

First of all we watched a movie that I've had in my DVD collection for almost two years without finding time to watch. "The Man Who Wasn't There" with Billy Bob Thornton. I had an idea about it being a great film, so this felt good.



It was a great story. Not really sure if that's what they call triangle drama (so I'll let » Wiki « decide that for me). Anyways, the film was awsome. Perhaps you could say it was a bit "slow" somewhere just before the middle, but then the twist with the mistress (using fuzzy expressions not to spoil) had a sudden twist, so the interest of the story was maintained.

The dinner then? Gosh I think I'll never go for a Mc'Donalds burger again. Yeah, you heard me. We made our own hamburgers, and they were NICE. I ate five of them, and it was really a moment when the saying "appetite comes with eating" came in it's full context. I ate five(!) hamburgers, the fifth and last was a double(!)burger with loads of cheese. Knock that one of the cabin if you dare, whoa! :-)

Pictures, in your honour..

Late night in the city

"Sounds a bit like Sex and the city"
--My fiancé (about my choice of headline)

Anyways, I've had a great night. People has been talking about this "Kulturnatta" event all week, and tonight it was finally happening. From what I've heard it was supposed to be a fest of fiftheen year olds, heavy drunk on moonshine. Scary, huh. Well, had to see it with my own eyes. Well, actually I wasn't so interested in the event itself, since I hadn't heard about any other artists than the Swedish legend Thomas Di Leva, which I have nothing against really, it's just that he's a bit too 'mainstream emo' for my taste. Anyways, we thought it would be okey to just check the pulse downtown, so we scheduled this event as tonight's big plan. Then what? After my beloved fiancé's awsome cooked dinner, I read the magazine with the artist listings. It comes to my knowledge that Afasi & Filthy, one of my favorite Swedish rhyme-swingers, is going to kick it live. I've never ever seen them live on stage, so I got all wired up. So we went. First thing we saw when we had left our bicycles were a fight. It took only a couple of minutes for the police to get there, so hopefully the bad guys had what they deserved. It was still half an hour until they would enter the stage, so we were just strolling around in the city. I took a pee in the alley, due to the waiting lines for the public toilets. Just before the band went on stage there was a clique of local emcees doing their preview-thing. I thought I recognized the guy behind the mixer as a guy I was corresponding with over the net a couple of years ago. Anyways, AFC got up front and everyone shouted. The crowd got bigger and the sound blew the speakers. Afasi started with a statement about how he was happy to be in U-town, plus that he had seen the - big - stage in the middle of the city (where Di Leva held his show), and that he was a bit dissapointed over the fact they had only this (which actually did(!) look a bit like something put up to hold open mic session). Anyways, they started kicking it.



I had been curious over if Afasi had it in him, the ability to kick it as fresh live on stage, as on pre-recorded tracks. He held up to my mesasure, so I was pleased. Snapped a couple of photos and a short [really poor quality] video clip, which I will upload later. Anyways, this text blog is on-the-run-uploaded over my cellphone's built-in GPRS modem, so it will cost me like a smaller fortune to upload megabytes(!) of video. Like I said, later.. Hope you all have had a great night!

The holy bike that went coco..

My sweet old machine has served me well for at least a year. Now destiny's faith went another direction. The rear tire has been behaving a bit odd now and then for the last month. It's nothing new, so I guess I should have been more prepared. Anyways, today when I was doing the daily trip from work and home, the chain fell off. My hands got dirty, but it didn't care, I fixed it. Just as I had driven my course for a couple of hundred meters, it happened again. Once again I jumped off, fixed it on spot. This time it was a bit more tricky, the chain was stuck in the centre of the wheel, the way it usually happens with old bikes. Anyways, fixed it, back on track. On the next hill it happened again. I was frustrated and sick of fixing it, it must really be something else, I thought. I was probably a bit uncautious, stressed on getting home. Suddenly, the chain splitted. Damn, damn, double damn! I was angry as I "peddled" my way home. As soon as I hooked up with my beloved fiancé, I went on about how important it was to get it fixed. I had a plan, 500 SEK, and this was going to be alright. The first step was to clean the wheel, which like I said had been sounding strage. So I unattached the rear tire, and went up to my apartment with it. Weee, into the shower, where I stood and just let that hot water drain off myself and my tire. It was fabolous; something between disgusting and faschinating, really. Seeing all those [some of them perhaps 40 year old] layers of bike oil wear off. I added some washing-up liquid, aswell as So we hurried down to the local bicycle shop, asking for the price of a new chain plus the labour. First of all he seemed like he didn't know whether to laugh or cry about me, cleaning off bike-oil using H2O, 'cuz that is obviously not the way you're supposed to do it. Actually, "I could not possible have done anything more wrong", he replied, hrhrhr. When he had looked on the bike, he established that the "spike wheel" (<-- lame attempt to translate; without having a dictionary as I'm "blogging offline") was really worn, which had caused it to have sharp edges (actually, quite like little spikes), which would cut a new chain in pieces. "If I was really unlucky, it could brake apart just as I crossed the street" (after the fix). Hmm, I was feeling emptiness. My bicycle is a big part of my life, how would I manage this tragedy? He must have seen the sad look in my eyes, 'cuz he suddenly offered me a new chain lock, and said "If you fix this old chain, which probably has 'grew into' that spike wheel, making it hold on well", you could have just a few more good years with the machine. Well, actually, that time perspective (those "years") was hopefull-thinking, he didn't really say it ;) Anyways, I was glad to get a chain lock (free of charge, just like he wanted me off his store with my lame ol' machinery). So, me and my beloved one walked back home. Then what? Well, I took the broken chain up, first I cleaned it with "YES" washing-up liquid, then I added lots of fresh bike-oil. So, time for some mechanical engeneering ;) I went outside, and believe it or not, but everything went smooth as ice. I got the new chain-lock to snatch into place, without even reading a manual. Oboy, you must think I'm a total fool. Well, let me put it like this.. I'm better at building i386/AMD computers sets than working with the adjustable spanner. Anyways, I made this go well, all the way.. weeee! So, now the bike isn't just running again, it sounds smooth as ice. Oh my god, I really need to get some photos to show you this piece of sweet sherry machine. I just need to get it washed first, so It'll be ready for some model inc! :) Gosh, my English in this blog must really be a laughing matter.. Especially this time, since I'm typing it offline in a simple notepad session, I can't even use Google/online dictionaries, trying to avoid worst cases of gramar/spelling faults. Anyways, it's said that a great laugh extends life. So, now go have a pleasent weekend! Enjoy life! :-)

The newly installed cable plug

Doesn't look like the adapters that apartments with Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget is equipped with, but I guess it'll still do the trick. However, see how the plug is actually wired to the phone plug. Strange, just hope this isn't some strange DSL hoax of some kind ;)

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS!

It's been a couple of years since the last time I ran Linux. Already back around 1997 me and my friends used to fool around with shell accounts, running Slackware on our own desktops, mostly 'cuz it was considered teh most l33t of operating systems around the time being.

However, since the dependence of ordinary [non multi-platform] Windoze software eventually took over my heart and soul, so now I've been strictly into Windows for a couple of years, apart from a short period when I tried the Mandrake plus Redhat distributions.


However, it's said that the best and most user-friendly distribution out there right now is Ubuntu Linux, so I really felt I need to try it out. I've actually had ~10 gigabytes of non allocated partition space for the last two years or so, cluster space that has just been lying there; waiting for a chance to operate over ext3/reiserfs. Now it's finally come off.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest Ubuntu install ISO package from their official site. Burned it on a CD and installed it the very same evening. So, I've not looked upon even half of the - most visible - features yet. But it looks really awsome.

So, bigups on this one!

Oh guys, you think Linux is really just a command prompt for geeks, with no actual graphical interface to speak about? Then think again!

My next step may be to download and install Ultimate Edition, which (watch some screenshots on the site) looks awsome. I hope it'll not be too heavy for my system.

Overheard in the lunchroom

Today I heard my colleagues talking about the Facebook phenomenon. One of them didn't want to "end up with his photo on anyone's Facebook". I understand him, I wouldn't like it either, although I'm - voluntary - up with a profile picture (talk about double morals, huh?). Anyways, I think the community is straight up bullshit. Back around the millenium shift, we had a popular - Swedish - online community called Lunarstorm. It's still there, yet not as trendy as it was back then. Anyways, I can't see one single thing that's greater with Facebook than good old Lunarstorm. It's like the Americans is making the "Lunarstorm thing" trendy around ten years later, not only that they do it - they do it with success(!). Madness, if you ask me.

MySpace is alot the same, despite the fact that the original concept with MySpace was to market new artists. So, I can't really judge them alike. Anyways, thumbs up for the good old Lunarstorm community, now even having released their site from just about every "premium account only -services". So, if(!) you really want to stay absent from the real world, chose Lunarstorm - so we can strike Facie of the map! Gettin' so sick about hearing about it over the radio, real life, everywhere..




Btw, those subcontractors has installed my new broadband plug into my flat. However, a paper note made it clear that it will not be in service until they've done the whole block. Gah, like I care! ;P

Newspaper on demand!

Heh, it feels good to have in the good old way, right through the mailbox. Nah, seriously, I bet you're wondering "WTF?", especially since a subscription of DN really costs a smaller fortune, and is not a very economical alternative since every newsflash is on the web nowadays. So, just wanna make clear that I would never pay for something like this.

Anyways, some web community came with the oportunity to get a one month subscription for free. So I did. And damn, it's like a small book(!) in the mailbox every morning. Hmm, does anyone(!) subscribe to [paper] news nowadays? Bet my neighbours is wondering who is in the house around ~4 AM every morning, haha.

XP SP3 is here!

Yeah. Published a couple of weeks ago (5/6/2008), I know. But I'm not as up to date on software and stuff like I once used to be. Anyways, the SP3 seems awsome. My guess is that all the people who buys Windows XP henceforth, will get the SP3 version. So, I must recommend y'all to check it out at your nearest software store. Because of the Vista release, prices on XP licenses isn't much to talk about any longer.

Anyways, I must take advantage of this moment to cast some angry looks onto Microsoft Vista, because I really don't like it. I would _never_ use it on my own computer. Unfortunally, they use it at work, so that was my first gaze on the OS. It's slow as hell, and has lots of shitty Kindergarten features that I had difficulties solving at first, like for instance how to disable the UAC. Anyways, the OS is slow and dumb. Now when Microsoft has - finally - made release on Service Pack 3 official, I can't do much other than just salute the whole Bill Gates firm, because they've made a really great work on this one! ;)

Here's the summary..

What's really up?

Well, yesterday when I got home I found a piece of paper slipped in the letterbox.


"We will be installing network ports for broadband (Internet) in all flats in this building.

PLEASE NOTE thast we will access your flat using a master key and any additional locks will need to be left unlocked. If you are not willing to allow this, you need to contact the subcontractor above no later than 3 pm the day before the scheduled installation. Please also let the subcontractor know if you have pets."


Hmm, what can I say. Very interesting, indeed very interesting. Until now, the Internet solution has been using a cable-tv modem, allowing speeds up to 2/1 MBits, which is kind of slow if you ask me.

Anyways, I havn't felt the need for a connection, having 'full employment' (figuratively speaking) and all. So, guess I won't connect even after they've installed this new 'hole in the wall', but it's neat anyways. I take it you will be able to subscribe for Internet instantly by hooking an IP over DHCP, going through an automatized process over a web interface, kind of like my old ISP - Bredbandsbolaget. So, this is good news, really. Those subcontractors was going to do this work somewhere between Thuesday (today) and Friday, between 7.30 AM - 4.00 PM.

Otherwise?
Well, not much.
This morning I heard the sound of a big vehicle outside. I looked out and saw this yellow sand-removing piece of ship slowly moving along the asphalt. So nice. I've yearned this for quite some time. Until now there's been lots of sand (mixed with small pieces of crushed glass) out there. Those evil pieces of glass, ugh..

Bacteria festival over heaten mayo?

My lunchbox contained some mayonaise. I microwaved the whole box as if it was the only thing. Then it crossed my mind, is this healthy? I thought about those magical microwaves, working on the already melted eggs. So, I found a exact topic match over Yahoo answers.

Is it safe to microwave mayonnaise? - Yahoo! Answers

So, what's my conclusion over this?
Hmm, I'm still unsure about how my stumach likes it.

A delicious [late night] dinner!

This one was hard to describe in words. You should have smelled it, you should have tasted it. You would have loooved it. I'm telling you, the steak we had tonight was the bomb. It wasn't planned. It's going towards that time in the month you know, when you've run a bit low on liquidity, for what it's worth ;D

Anyways, we took a trip down to the superstore. So, by luck, we saw this exclusive steak, wrapped with a special marinade. This one I bet usually costs like > SEK 100. However, the BBD was set tomorrow, so they had it down to like half the price. We bought over two pounds (2 x packages with around 500g in each). The late night dinner was now set to become a great success!



I so wish that I could have captured the smell when this one was in the frying pan, 'cuz I bet it would have made your mouth water, big time! So, here's the pics.





The least I can do..

Movie weekend!

The weekend's been great on us. Three movies.


88 Minutes



Knocked Up



Juno


Awsome, all three of them, actually.
Michael Cera is probably the next generation's Zach Braff.

Saturday night's dinner - a killing!

It was marvelous. I'm telling you. Whoa! My beloved fiancé told me about this recipe that her father used to make her, one of her favorites. She had never tried making it herself, but she felt it was about time. So, armed with the recipe and the ingridients, she rumbled the kitchen. Oh, my queen is a real chef, that's one thing for sure. When this was ready, I found myself having quite some difficulties behaving over the table. It felt like these pieces flew into my mouth like tiny little Yaeger planes during the 40's. Whoa, I'm telling you. This was the bomb!






So, what was in it? Soy sauce, peanuts, fresh pasta and chicken.
Once again, outstanding!

Movie: "Smokin' Aces" (2006)

It's no longer in the just-released-on-DVD stage, even though it feels like it's still just around that time. I worked in the local video store back then, even had a promotion t-shirt with a cool print on the backside. A couple of weeks ago a colleague my tee and he was like: "Whoa! You must admit - that movie rules!"

I almost felt ashame when saying "Erhm, err, well, actually, havn't seen it". So, after that day I knew I just had to go rent it. So, the other day we did, me and my beloved fiancé, the latest [released] film by the man who directed the well tributed movie Narc around five years ago. This was going to become interesting.



www.smokinaces.net/

So, yesterday evening we watched it. It was OK. To be honest, I feel out of sorts when watching a movie that starts with hundreds of fast cuts, dunno if it's like I'm acknowledging a weakness, but I just can't help that I get easily confuzed under those circumstances. This was one of those moments. Almost half an hour into the film I started feeling really inflamed, twisting around in the sofa. Yeah, I'm admitting it, I'm just an ordinary human being; a human being that sometimes needs at least a little time to parse any input that goes through my mind. So, who was on who's side? And those faces, was those the three brothers? Erhm, hmm..

Anyways, the pieces fell into place (like they usualy do) a while later, and we watched the silly act for over 1 hour and 50 minutes. Well, what can I say. It wasn't as groovy as I'd hoped. Anyways, now it's on the SEEN-list and that was that.

I've heard about a new Pacino flick called 88 Minutes.
Interesting.. :-)

Hope ya'll get a sweet weekend!
Can't stop hoping for them hot degrees to come now, I wanna ball..

Today's great discovery

An online utility which converts Wiki material (such as articles) to PDF files. Nice looking context layout aswell. Really smooth.

»» mediawiki2pdf ««

I believe that the source-code for this utility is named WikiPDF.

Source: sourceforge.net/projects/wikipdf

Movie: "El Laberinto del fauno" (2006)

I saw this film about a year ago. At first, I was unsure about what was really gonna be in it. I had barely read the plot, and at first I was a bit confused. However, the more fantasy elements that was involved, the more I managed to relax and just slip into the world of magic happenings.


This time I was prepared for what was coming, I really just wanted my fiancé to see this piece of film, 'cuz it's actually one of the better fantasy movies I've seen.

The plot? For those too stressed to take a peak on the IMDb summary? Well, a young girl is on her way to a mill in the country-side with her mother; who's carrying the evil captain's baby. This man is like evil itself, something that Ofelia soon will notice. She escapes into the world of fantasy beings. Ferries, faunos, and living roots is not stranger than fiction. My fiancé thought it was weird that Ofelia didn't get shit scared already when the first ferry popped into the picture. Hmm, a good question. Perhaps because children hasn't become to strictly directed into what's real and what's not.

However, this is a really great film that everyone should see.

http://www.ellaberintodelfauno.com/
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/

Document Archiving

TIFF over ITU-T Group 4 FAX Compression (CCITT T.6)

Really smooth way of compressing scanned documents. It must be the best way there is, actually. I've had quite some difficulties with finding the optimal way of archiving A4 documents (meaning bitmap compression before it turns PDF*). Until I found this one, the LZW compression over TIFF was the best I found. But still, I kept on wondering how some has gotten them to become so tiny. There just had to be some better way of compression, I thought.

Today I found my answers. Reading from this article, I understand that fax machines uses this compression world-wide. B/W images only, makes sense. Weee, another great — personal — discovery has come to my reach, although this ITU-T Group [fax] compression seems to have been around since the late 60's. And the T.6 version (that I use) has been in use since the same year as I was born :)

It's unbelievable how small the image gets. I tried just painting a 1x1 inch area wave with the brush, saving/compressing. The testresult.TIF ended up at 346 bytes(!). Amazing, isn't it? ;)

digitalpreservation.gov/

Two awsome video players!

Heh, I'm one of those guys who's never really adapted myself to VideoLAN's VLC Player, when it comes to watching video files. The built-in multi-purpose decoder/renderer seemed a bit on the edge. I can't say I notice any changes in quality watching i.e. an XviD file with the regular codec from watching it with the VLC package. But still, it's just a feeling, that it's just not the right way of doing it.

However, a couple of months ago I was irritated by a YouTube-ripped clip not being played in my default video player, which used to be the not-so-known Crystal Player (making sure that I always have the latest codecs). Then, I trying playing it through VLC, and everything went well. After that moment, I hang on to the VLC player. Then, I played around with some transcoding software, being interested in this - reasonable new - Matroska (.MKV) file format. From what I've heard, it's principally made for high resolution video. Anyways, a colleague told me that VLC used a really shitty renderer for high resolution video, in particular regarding Matroska. He gave me a tip about another free player called Zoom Player, not being shipped with built-in codecs, but a feature that at the first time the player being run, offering to download the required codecs, where it's designed to choose well-performed optimized(?) packages. Neat, huh.

I downloaded the player and tried it the very same day. Besides from a GUI design that I thought to be a bit shady, it worked well. Anyways. Now, I suddenly feel more familiar with modern codecs and splitters, so I no longer feel the need for that this Kindergarten player that makes most of my choices.

So, what's out there? It was actually way back in the day I first heard about MPC, but unfortunaly I didn't take the time investigating this player. Really sad, 'cuz it's the bomb. So compact, so neat. The native features that a media player needs, with it's core taken from the Media Player 6.4.x (Windows / mplayer2.exe).


This is a great player, that as of yesterday changed all default file associations for video files to. For this, I use ffdshow for a codec filter. No longer a need to stay updated on several codecs. This is a great all-in-one solution which I feel that I should have discovered ages ago.

Another option? In one point of view, this one is almost more interesting. It's a Windows graphical interface for the MPLAYER (UNIX/Linux). It works great and has an own set of built-in DirectShow filter that doesn't seem to have a problem with just about any video file. Awsome! A big plus is that this is really just a GUI / Windows front-end; which of course makes the package include the core command-line player, which may come in handy for more than one purpose. If not other, it feels so g33k to use command-line software ;)

Related links
ffdshow.info/
mpui.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

The video store didn't have The Matrix in Full HD, so we decided to rent 'Free Jimmy' instead. Heh, a few laughters here and there, but it really only reached up to a mediocre level. However, the gfx was well done.

Dinner is easy

It doesn't have to be all fancy and expensive. This was easy, and the story behind is a laughing matter so I keep this only to look back upon and keep myself from, well, I know, only I know! :-)





Noodles, some cheap beef, with bearnaise to spice it up.
Yummy! Right Carl..? :P

Lazy Sunday - as usual..

It was really lay-back.
We're through with Oz.
6 seasons - 56 episodes.
..to an end! :)

The tin of glass was the ultimate exclamation mark. Or, to be honest it could have been some sloppy work in addition for the author not to have figured out any more satisfactory sollution to the series. However, it feels pretty damn good to be through with it. Havn't decided what to come next though, we'll see..




Oh, by the way. Here's snapshots of today's both lunch and dinner. My apetite is so severe, food must be one of God's greatest gifts to all life forms out there.

Tomorrow we gonna watch The Matrix in Full HD :)

Weekend's here!

Time to relax. We've just two episodes away from having seen all 56 episodes of Oz. It's gonna happen tonight. Then what? Unsure, thinking about Kyle XY (where we left of, in the beginning of season 2), or herhaps Lost. The 4400? Gash, I mix up with Lost. Havn't seen one whole episode of any of those series anyways. Prison Break then? Hmmm, I followed it as the episodes (first season) was aired in the US, up until ep. 13 where there was a break for like two months. That was too long for me, by that time I was up in something else. Anyways, rumours says that both Prison Break and Lost were really great from the beginning, but that both series now suffers from 'plot roundings', that seems to keeps the story just about intact, but motionless. So, we'll see, we'll see. One thing for sure is that it ain't gonna be One Three Hill or O.C. Not saying that they are bad tv entertainment, just that it's more of a social thing to talk about in the lunch room, than that pure excitement that urges you to see the next episode just right away. What I mean is, the plot won't (can't ever) get at such a far out edge as in series like Prison Break. So, we'll see.. Oh, I almost forgot. Heroes? I watched it for a couple of episodes when it was aired on Swedish television, and it really held me tight to the chair. So, like I said, we'll see..

The corner table!

First of all, a big salute to my friend Johan who gave me a lift to the furniture store. I don't know how I had solved it if it hadn't been for him. I was so anxious to get that table so I would probably had borrowed a trolley from the store, pushing the package all the way home (lots of kilometres). Anyways, didn't have to do that :)

So, when Johan and his brother saw the table they was like "Shit, it's gonna be a mess putting that thing together, having to hold pieces while working with others, etc". I knew the deal, I must admit I had my worries too. Anyways, the same evening me and my beloved fiancé started with the big project.

At first, it was a hell. We thought we wouldn ever get it right. But [as I had excepted] things started to fall in piece one by one, and it got easier the more pieces of the structure we had fixed in order.






The result!



Awsome. I'm really satisfied..

A bicycle that caught my interest..

Check this perl out:

"The most important bike we've ever designed." --KONA Bikes

New from KONA. A really strong marketing quote is attached to the front image for the bike, which seems interesting. The bike itself looks fantastic, I must say. It strongly reminds me about my own piece of military wheels. Oh, I'd love to take this one out for a spin. Too bad it'll probably take a year or so until it's melting city heat in Scandinavia.

Precious little piece of cell

Here it is - The Samsung X480..


I bought this phone back in 2005, this summer it'll be three years ago. It's been holding on good. A couple of scratches here and there, but vital externals like the key, plus internal vitals like the system routine itself, still works fine. I havn't felt the need for something more advanced. I can even connect this phone to my computem (over the COM-port) and get online.

This feels like being back on a 28.8kbps modem, but it's still a cool feature for one who doesn't have DSL or other high-speed connection. Not until now. Since this phone has been good to me, always, I feel an invisible urge for another Samsung phone. However, I'm aware that SonyEricsson [still] holds the best battery standby. So, I'm thinking about something not too fancy, but still OK.


So, the SonyEricsson S500i has had great reviews all over the net, and seems really ok. The external memory card slot is an important feature, having it seems to open just about endless possibilities. The slim design is fairly good.

The built-in camera with 2 megapixels seems flawless. I have a digital camera (KonicaMinolta X60 / 5 MP) which is a couple of years old, but I never(!) use more than the second lowest resolution on the pictures anyways, so a top limit of 2 megapixels will be fine. Besides that, the possibility of snapping a photo whenever an opportunity gets up - awsome!


The other option is the SonyEricsson Z320i. The built-in camera on this phone is only(?) 1,3 megapixels, but that's fairly enough, really. My fiancé had a Z310i (which unfortunately got stolen), and she was pleased, only that she thought that the speaker volume was a bit low. Of course I will find out if this possible "bug" is fixed in the Z320i before buying it.

Anyways, I've just reach the thinking-about-phase, so it'll probably take some time (a couple of more years? ;D) until I actually go buy myself something new.

Papa Dee releases new album

It's been a while since the last drop from this visionary man (host for a [public service radio] reggae programme in Sweden), but now he's soon off to the beat again. The album is recorded at the island of Jamaica, in collaboration with "gräddan av öns legendariska kompmusiker", quoting the blog where I just recieved this newsflash.

Source: Color Blind's blog at Skawars community.

Lazy Sunday..

It's been good though, really good. Got up around eight, the routine trip down to the superstore (which is only approx. five bike-driven minutes away) to buy breakfast bread and yoghurt.

In the afternoon we watched three episodes of Oz (we're now into the sixth season), followed by some television documentary about mentally challenged people and whether they should be entitled rights of having children. And if so, how much support from society is needed? It was quiet interesting, actually. A woman, now in her 30's, had been the result of two(!) mentally challenged persons relationship back in the 70's. One thing I just couldn't drop was the fact that our nation force-castrated those mentally challenged folks back in the days. This was not constitutionality forbidden until as late as 1976. Also, these MC's had found great difficulties in adjusting to society when they was released from the institutions (where our nation kept those until around the same year). No one would 'take the heat' on these poor fellows. Why? Well, according to the social journalist being interviewed, they were considered as unproductive, thus of no good. A truly disgraceful view on human being. It woke a few question marks in my head thought.



Anyways, later on we decided to watch the 9 O'clock film. It was 'Two For The Money'. I remember I'd seen it on the top-50 shelf on the video store where I used to work, but although I've seen both D. J. Curuso's other films, I've missed out on this one. So, we watched it. It was OK, not much of a thriller (as the tele text refered to it as*) though. Anyways, worked for entertainment.

Congrats..

..on your birthday!

Unfortunately you were taken away from this world way too soon.
May thoughts be with you.

Liv Ilse Karlsson 1985-2003
R.I.P

Market adjusted rents - strictly a downside to it?

I'm unsure, but I sure don't like the sound of it. As such, the rents for living in Sweden is pretty low generaly speaking, but the income isn't above the clouds either, so the raise by those around thirty thirtyfive percent leads to anxiety by all means.

Walpurgis - detestable!

..except for the luxuary food indoors, that is! ;)

The dinner was awsome. We wished ourselves only the best, and it was so nice. The taste, can't describe it with words. We had a load of grosseries to work with.






Me and my beloved lady took a bicycle tour around town. On the campus area people were poisoning themselves, only deep inside them knowing what pity they would be laying in ten hours later. The campus ground was mad crowded though. I snapped a couple of photos of course.




The sweet thing was later that evening, sitting in the sofa with my wonderful lady laying in my lap, watching television. There was a current newsflash on polluted children(!), being taken into de-tox rather than custody for their behaviour. It was sad watching it, yet informative.