Give up on DRM already

Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | No Comments »

“With Ubisoft’s fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them”

Slashdot Games Story | Ubisoft’s Authentication Servers Go Down

When do they learn that they should focus on making great games that people are willing to pay for instead of crappy games with horrible DRM implementations?


Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »
  • Soon off to the dentist. #
  • Sometimes I hate Spring MVC #
  • Swedbanks Verified by Visa lösning har teckenkodningsproblem och kan inte visa åäö i hälsningsfrasen korrekt. Stabilt! #fail #
  • Done with an exhausting afternoon meeting after an exhausting stressful morning. The day has passed quickly at least. #
  • Hungry on the way home #
  • I hate excels csv/tab import but hopefully displaytag's optional poi export will save the day! #
  • yay, displaytags optional poi export fixade biffen #
  • Back from climbing and my finger is finally (I hope) getting better! I #climb ed a few harder routes without feeling any discomfort or pain! #
  • Beautiful winter morning today. lost the feeling in my fingers when biking to work, but the sun is shining so it's still spring, right? #
  • Vasaloppsfrukost i soffan är ganska najs #vasaloppet #
  • Feeling all done for after biking, bouldering and shoveling snow today. #

Wide angle winter

Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: photos | No Comments »

Yesterday when I woke up the sun was shining from a blue sky so I decided to postpone the planned trip to the climbing gym and instead take a long walk with my Nikon D40 and Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 lens.

I’ve had the Sigma lens since midsummer last year and even though I’ve used it quite a bit I still find the framing to be difficult with such a wide angle lens. I guess it just takes a while to get used to, or maybe you need to be a better photographer to use it right, I don’t know.

Anyway, I got some decent photos and a lovely walk in the spring warm sun. The Sigma lens seems to give some artefacts when shooting straight into the sun. I guess I shouldn’t be doing that but it’s hard not to when I haven’t seen the sun for months!

Landmark

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Untouched snow

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Tracks

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The photo I’m the most happy with I didn’t take with the Nikon though but with the Canon S90 using the macro mode. I think this will be my new desktop wallpaper after the Uppsala by night photo I’ve used for a while.

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iPad Available in US on April 3

Posted: March 6th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: apple | 2 Comments »

iPad will be available in Wi-Fi models on April 3 in the US for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB.  iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.

iPad will be available in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. International pricing will be announced in April. iPad will ship in additional countries later this year.

iPad Available in US on April 3

Unfortunately it looks like we have to wait a bit longer for the good stuff here in Sweden.


Amazingly cute dogs!

Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: misc | No Comments »

Makes me almost want a dog, but the 7am morning walks in the winter snowstorms are such a bummer.


Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »
  • First and hopefully last time this winter that I fell off my bike when going to work this morning. #
  • heja anna! #vinteros #
  • Skicross är faktiskt kul att se på #vinteros #
  • MacGyver finns på riktigt? #vinteros #
  • go anna! #vinteros #
  • trist :( men nu kan jag gå och sova #vinteros #
  • Spent the whole morning doing a horrible deploy with millions of manual steps and copy&paste. One click release ftw! #
  • Homemade vindaloo for lunch second day in a row. Maybe time for a change tomorrow? #
  • Finally got around to installing the XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress and PC Robots.txt plugins. #
  • Now time for the question of the day. What to eat for dinner? #
  • Shit vad northug kör #vinteros #
  • Gasa gasa #vinteros #
  • Woha! Guld till sverige! Grymt jobbat! #vinteros #
  • Is it just me or is the 3rd season of Californication a bit too over the top? #
  • The cat walking on the keyboard is a better coder than me! #
  • Spännande skidskytte #vinteros #svtos #
  • Kör nu björn! #vinteros #svtos #
  • tittar på curling men sitter och gäspar. Hur länge håller en curling-final på? #vinteros #svtos #
  • En dålig carolina af ugglas imitation? #mel2010 #
  • Bäst hittills, men ändå kanske inte direkt bra #mel2010 #
  • zzzzz #mel2010 #
  • Ska man rösta på Dolph ikväll kanske? #mel2010 #
  • Först låtsas tävling i melodifestivalen, nu riktig tävling i OS tremilen. Hyf #
  • Först låtsas tävling i Melodifestivalen, nu riktig tävling i OS tremilen. Hyffsad kvalitetsskillnad #vinteros #svtos #

2119 resor till solen

Posted: February 24th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: misc | No Comments »

flygtillsolen.se indexerar just nu 2119 sista minuten resor till solen. Med tanke på det senaste snöovädret i Sverige så är jag lockad att boka en plats till en varmare destination.


Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Posted: February 21st, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: internet | Tags: , | No Comments »
  • Trying to figure out if I like Google Buzz or not. #
  • Lunch done, now time for meetings the rest of the working day. Bha. Me no like meetings. #
  • Got cold-hot treatment for my finger for free this morning when cycling to work. All fingers where numb on arrival. #climb #
  • Beauty sleep! #
  • Timoteij är en modernare version av Ainbusk Singers! #
  • Jag vill också rösta på Blue man group! #mel2010 #
  • Crucified Barbara var ju nästan bra och Darin har ju hyffsad röst, så kanske inte så illa ändå, förutom Timoteij fadäsen då. #mel2010 #
  • Ser ut att vara för varmt och lite snö i Vancouver. OS skulle ha varit i Sverige istället, här finns det en massa snö! #vinteros #
  • Nej nu dissar vi OS och ser på film istället! #vinteros #

Melodifestivalen – Göteborg

Posted: February 21st, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: music | No Comments »

Deltävlingen i Göteborg var den första deltävlingen av melodifestivalen 2010 som vi tittade på och ingen av oss var väl direkt så imponerade av något bidrag. Det som dock gjorde upplevelsen underhållande var att jag på slutet började följa #mel2010 på twitter. De dräpande kommentarerna, sågningarna och sarkasmen tillförde en ytterligare dimension till tv-programmet. Rekommenderas varmt till nästa vecka!

Blue man groups uppträdande var grymt. Synd att man inte kunde rösta på dom! Nedan är ett klipp från Las Vegas.

Utöver det, så är melodifestivalens höjdpunkt Timo Räisänens covers på gamla vinnarlåtar.

Stad i Ljus

Och bäst hittills, Eloise


Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks

Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Author: Joakim Andersson | Filed under: asides | No Comments »

“The Daily Mail has a story about a study looking into women’s preference for men. More specifically, about how women say they want one kind of man, but really want another. From the article: ‘Most women claim to be attracted to tall, dark and handsome men, but a new study has revealed that facial stubble and a geeky personality are their biggest secret turn-ons.’”

Slashdot Science Story | Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks

Hah! I knew it.