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UK Championship 2007

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007


BBC SPORT | Other Sport… | Snooker | UK Championship 2007: Ronnie O’Sullivan

I’m home with a flu again. This time it wasn’t much of a surprise as Camilla was home from work a few days last week due to what is most likely the same flu.

With a lack of anything better to do and with no energy to actually do anything else I’m spending the afternoon watching Snooker on Eurosport. The first session of the second round match between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark King just finished 7-1 to Ronnie, so there won’t be much of an evening session there…

Now they are showing Marco Fu vs Joe Perry. I’ll watch that and wait for Camilla to get home with the ice cream. Whisky and ice cream is the perfect medicine for a flu!

Julbord

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Igår åt vi julbord på Odinsborg i Uppsala i sällskap med några vänner.

Idag är vi mat-bakis. Jag kan inte komma ihåg när jag senast åt så mycket mat! Allt var gott och jag var givetvis tvungen att prova det mesta, vilket resulterade i en överfull tallrik varje gång jag gick för att fylla på.

Kanske inte det smartaste man kan göra men det var gott!

Flu

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I haven’t been sick for ages so I guess it was about time. Sunday evening I started to feel a bit feverish, but I shrugged it off, went to bed and went to work on Monday feeling quite alright. Monday afternoon I started to feel the same fever symptoms again combined with a headache.

In the evening I went to the climbing gym, fully realizing that I would probably not be able to climb anything but I thought that if I tried I can easily feel if something was indeed wrong and of course it was. As soon I tried anything that required a bit of power there was none to have at all. So I settled with just doing some easy routes not even breaking a sweat and mostly acting belay-monkey when Camilla climbed.

This morning I felt no better so I decided to stay home from work. It’s been a bit up and down during the day. At times I’ve felt almost fine but other times I’ve felt hot like a sauna radiator with someone banging a hammer inside of my head, so I guess I’ll be home at least another day.

Well, it gives me time to catch up on the laundry and some tv series, so it’s not all bad!

Julgrisen

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Julgrisen

När jag vaknade av att klockan ringde så var det helt vitt ute och otroligt kallt. Inte direkt något väder som får en att längta ut och springa i skogen. Men det var dags för den årliga handikapptävlingen i min orienteringsklubb, Julgrisen. Den viktigaste tävligen på året!

Det är en intern tävling med ett vandringspris där vem som helst kan vinna. Formen på tävligen varierar från år till år. Ibland så sätter arrangörerna handikappfaktorerna, så att den som gissningsvis har bäst dagsform startar sist, oftast uppemot 20 minuter efter den som startat först på den ofta runt 3 km långa banan.

I år var det dock en annan variant. Först fick alla lämna in sina klockor, sedan fick vi kartan som ni kan se ovan. Banan utgjordes av fem mindre banor som skulle springas i ordning. Vi skulle innan man fick springa i väg uppskatta hur lång tid man behövde för att springa banan. Sedan gällde det att pricka in den tiden. Varje minut som man missade med gav ett straff-tillägg, felstämplade eller missade kontroller gav ett dubbelt straff-tillägg.

Jag var optimistisk och gissade på att det skulle ta mig 31 minuter att springa banan på runt 2,7 kilometer. Det jag inte riktigt tog i beaktning innan var att kontrollerna satt väldigt tätt, ofta var det tre kontroller inom 50 meter. Givetvis var det inte stora orange-vita kontroller heller, utan de små decimeterstora pappersvarianterna. Så när man tyckte att här borde kontrollen vara så fanns det två eller tre att välja mellan.

Min sluttid blev 36 minuter, så jag missade min gissning med fem minuter. Inte direkt så bra, men det räckte till en andra plats! Då sumpade jag bort två minuter efter att jag hade varit vid rätt kontroll men läste fel kodsiffra på stämplingsenheten. Klantigt! Annars så hade jag nog vunnit…

Serious bug in Nokia phones

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Last night I did what I usually do. I set the alarm on my phone (a Nokia N70) and I went to sleep.

This morning something strange happened though. The alarm didn’t go off. Instead I woke up 20 minutes later when Camilla’s alarm started beeping. First I was a bit surprised. Then I started to wonder what had gone wrong, so I got up and looked at the phone. All it said was:

Invalid SIM-card

Lovely. A reboot of the phone and it’s back to normal but the annoying thing is that it actually failed to wake me up. I usually use my phone as the only wake up device but now I need to get another one as backup. Who knows when the phone will decided to not wake me up the next time!

First snow!

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Where are you headed?

When I walked home from the train Friday night after a late after-work at work which included quite a few beers and some poker, I was surprised because it was snowing!

I was even more surprised this morning when I woke up and it was still white on the ground. I had expected it all to have melted away. Anyway, later on I went out to my dad’s place to change to winter tires on the car and I took a walk with my brother and shot some photos of the snow in the sunset.

The photos can be seen on flickr by clicking the image above.

OmniFocus

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

About a year ago I bought David Allen’s Getting Things Done book. I started to read it but I never got through it. I’m not really sure why, but it just didn’t stick to me for some reason. However, I liked the idea behind the book and I’ve come across GTD in blogs and articles since then.

Due to a reorganization at work I have now suddenly got a lot more things to do. The first few days it felt like chaos. Emails kept dropping in and people were standing in a queue with questions they wanted answered or with requests for things they wanted to get done. It was overwhelming and I felt like I was going mad trying to keep track of everything.

This gave me a reason to give David Allen’s solution another try. I googled around a bit for a program to help me get started and people were writing about this new piece of software from OmniGroup called OmniFocus. I read more about it and it seemed like the perfect match for me but it is still in closed beta and not available for anyone to try.

Fortunately they pick people from the mailing list for the beta, so I signed up for the mailing list and the next day I got an invite in my inbox!

The first time you start the program it’s easy to feel a bit lost. The good guys at OmniGroup have thought about this and made an introduction video that explains the basic usage of this powerful application.

I haven’t even used the program for a week yet and already I can’t imagine life without it. It’s a life-changing experience to finally be able to relax safely knowing that I don’t have keep all loose-ends in my head any more. They are all captured by the system and OmniFocus makes it’s a breeze to handle it all.

Autumn look

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I felt it was time for a bit of a change here on the blog so the last few days I’ve been playing around with K2 and this the result. It isn’t that different from the stock K2 style, but I’m going with release early release often and I will continue to make changes. I bet there is quite a few things that either are missing or don’t work as expected but that’s just normal for now.

The biggest difference compared to earlier is the huge logo at the top! I felt it was about time to promote myself from the sidebar to the header and I like the photo of me from a bouldering evening early in the summer. It feels quite me.

What do you think?

Streaming video with an Airport Express

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Yesterday I removed the cable connecting my modded-xbox running Xbox Media Center to my router and instead connected the xbox to the Airport Express I use to stream music to my stereo system.

This morning when we tried to watch a Seinfeld episode while having breakfast we noticed quite unbearable delays. Every few seconds the screen would freeze for half a second or a second before continuing again. It made it impossible to watch the episode without going nuts.

I tried around a bit and some video files seem to work better than others. It probably depends on the type of encoding of the video and audio parts but I’ve failed to found any cure for the problem.

I was so happy to finally get rid of the long cable going through 2.5 rooms but tomorrow I have to put it back.

Dammit.

Dark and cold

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Now we’ve reached the time of the year again. The time when it is dark in the morning as I walk to the train and it’s dark again in the afternoon when I walk home. If that wasn’t depressing enough, this morning it was for the first time so far this autumn below zero degrees outside.

It was a rude awakening to walk in the -2.0 degrees Celsius down the dark empty streets to the railway station. The first cold is always the worst and I always wonder how I will survive the winter. Now it won’t be warm again until March.