Yesterday was a terrible day, we had to put Lussebullen one of our cats down. He was old and started getting lots of problems and he fell asleep quietly in our arms.
But the sadness, oh, the sadness. We miss him terribly and keep seeing him in the corner of our eyes whenever we turn around. It has been a long and hard day. It is strange how much you get attached.
Rest in peace Lussebullen.
I have today activated the two-step login verification for my Google account. It was not complicated at all and not hard but it raises the security quite a bit when it comes to getting your accound hijacked. The principle is easy and I will explain how it works here.
For computers that you use to access your GMail account, Picasa account, Google+ or any other other services that runs through your Google account it means that if you are using a new computer at a friend’s house, at the internet café or at the library you should bring your phone. When you log in a code is sent to your phone by text message that you need to enter as well as your chosen password. This way it becomes much harder for someone to hack your account.
Other devices that are using your Google account, such as smartphones, pads and so on can be given separate passwords that are hard to guess and remember and can be revoked at any time. If you loose your phone, you can revoke the password and your phone can not be used to access your personal info any more.
If you are in a place where there is no coverage there is an app that will generate time-based one time logon passwords for Android, iPhone and Blackberry. You may also in advance print a list of one time codes on paper and take with you when you travel, allowing ten computers on your trip access.
At your Google accounts page you may also input alternative mobile phone numbers, create security questions and alternative e-mail addresses in case you need to recover a lost account.
Do not hesitate, go and sign up for your two-stage login now. Every day people get their accounts hijacked, they have someone they know spy on them because they forget to logout and so on. If your account gets hijacked it means your documents at Google docs are lost, your mail as well and so on…
Therefore it is time to activate the 2-step verification right now. Click here and get your business in order! accounts.google.com
One of the best Pinot Noirs I have had the pleasure to be aquainted with. I just had it with dinner and some strong cheese afterwards. The cheese where cave-stored Gruyere, a well done Brie, Saint Agure and a piece of Chistera.
The best cheese with the wine was the Gruyere followed by the Saint Agure which made lots of flavours come through.
The wine is recommended for lamb, bird and pig dishes. The taste has tones of oak, plum, ripe strawberries, coffee, mint and chocolate and a faint tone of leather and caramel.
All in all it is an excellent reason why Pinot Noir are by some considered the noblest of all the grapes. I also believe you can store this wine and it will be even greater. I have another bottle that I will bring down in the cellar to store for a while and decant in another five years perhaps.
My wife has got me a wonderful gift. I hate boiling eggs because I like them well done, so to speak, and the times people say never really works. And it depends on the altitude you are at, in the cabin at 450 m the time is different to when we are in Stockholm at 30 m above sea level.
So she’s got this wonderful egg timer for me. It is a piece of resin plastic that you put in the pot where you have the eggs that need boiling. As the warmth reaches further and further into the timer it goes white. There is a scale that shows how hard boiled your egg now is and so it makes it very easy to keep track of it.
This is what it looks like when put in before boiling starts
This is what it looks like after a minute of boiling
Eggses are now well done!
Oh and as you can see, one of the eggs cracked but did not spill. Adding a bit of salt to the water helps and vinegar also works for coagulating any spill if the egg cracks. Just a tip.
According to this article both British and German persons and organisations have been trying to aquire one of the worlds most curious museums on Iceland. It is known as the Penis museum that is being moved to a new location in Iceland from Húsavik to Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital.
Apparantly this lead to some interest and someone in Germany has offered more than 30 million Icelandic crowns for the rather unique collection. Las year the museums collections of Iceland-dwelling land mammal penises got completed as the then 95-year old Pàli Arason donated his penis to the museum.
Several foreign men have also asked to have their genital remains donated to the museum, and the proprietor, one Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson, have declined being part of a talent TV show saying that it isn’t really a talent collecting phalli.
Two days in the new job we packed up and went to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It was a very long time since I was there the last time and that was a completely different thing. Now that I am back in Sweden again and in the office and have had some time to think I realize how much more fun it is to work in a small company than a huge gigant.
Barcelona was great, 20-21C in the middle of the day, a bit chilly at night but not enough to prevent us from going to some really nice restaurants and having a good time. Couple of nights out was pretty late but mostly we got back in time to attend the booth at the fair the next morning without to dark bags under the eyes.
The picture is from Sunday evening, when the exhibition was not open yet and we were putting everything together before the show opened Monday morning 9 am. It was hectic and full of life and we had a pretty great time, met lots of interesting people and quite a few from Sweden (the RF business here is not *that* big really) and it was all fun.
I’m at Deltanode Solutions if you don’t know. Hey, if you need RF repeaters or Fiber-DAS, give me a ring!
Vänner på Amigalistan släpper en ny platta och den tycker jag att ni kan lyssna på och köpa om den faller er i smaken. Sådär 30 spänn är inte för mycket för en skön platta med space-synth på.
Friends from the Swedish Amiga List have released a new album and I think you should listen to it and then buy it and download… About €3.50 is not too much for this piece of work.
Have fun!
I love typography, enough to violate the standards at work to get me in trouble by delivering reports written in LaTeX instead of Word and therefore much more pleasing to the eye.
I hate bad typography. Someone told me that if you really hate someone you should teach them to “see” bad kerning. Well, I get upset by bad kerning and missing ligatures in texts and so on. I can live with it on the web. But not in print.
And once in a time I stumble over a font family that turnes everything upside down and puts the fun back into typography again and I get a warm fuzzy feeling all over. This is a moment like this.
Enter: Air — a superfamily of 18 fonts
Just look at them. From extra-thin penciled straight sans-serif to super-fat extra-bold. I want them, I want them all, pretty please with sugar on top.
After finishing up the last bits of the project to install coverage in the Stockholm underground Metro system there has now been a drive test conducted.
This is a short video showing some of the activities and some pictures from this more fun side of the job.
For the more technical people out there I can tell you that we are actually measuring several radio services:
Train communication radio
We also had a visit from the mobile operator Tre that conducted drive test measurement on their 3G network with good results.
The test equipment consists of the following:
Dear President Obama
I am disappointed in you and I will make this letter very short as to why.
Your recent signing of the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows you to detain people indefinitely on any grade of suspicion alone, barring them from proper legal counsel, is something that you do not expect from civilized countries, even a country as paranoid as the US has become.
In fact I was very relieved to hear you, not so long ago, speaking of how you would work hard to close down the shameful Guantánamo base, you gave the world hope that US would step up and take responsibility. Instead you now do the opposite and you open for even worse travesties and detention of people, even your own citizens indefinitely without trial.
As a world traveler I feel more and more hesitation, is it really worth it to visit the US? Even if you personally will not use the law to detain people wihtout proper suspicion, nothing will stop the next regime from doing so!
I am very disappointed and quite the bit disgusted with your actions. And I had such great hopes for the US lead by the first intelligent president in decades, but now I understand that there is no way of stopping this snow ball that have started rolling down a very slippery slope, be it Republican or Democrat — there is nobody that can stand up to the fear mongers who undermine people’s rights in your country any more.
The terrorists have truly won.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Swedish Citizen
