Norway’s most famous actress, Wenche Foss, died Monday at the age of 94. She was hailed as all of Norway’s dive for as long as I can remember, and she had strong political views with regards to mixing religion and politics, gay rights and the rights of people with Down’s syndrome. I’ve seen her myself […]
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Firefox 4 is out!
Quite a few people are waiting for the Messiah. And so have we. We have waited, watched and speculated for one and a half year now, and FINALLY! The day has come! I’ve had 4 crashes since the upgrade! W000t! Who’s betting for a 4.1 release by the end of next week? ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod! […]
Scariest picture of the day: My New Pumas
When I work out I sweat out of my feet like my life depended on it! And if you’ve watched Bear Grylls you know that foot sweat can kill up to 10 people per ounce per day and half-way injure any nearby wildlife just for the heck of it.. So I had to buy separate […]
Maxtor OneTouch III USB 2.0 E14H300 disassembly & repurposing
Back in 2005 I bought a couple of Maxtor 320GB external disk drives (E14H300) of the OneTouch III series with USB 2.0 connectors, for those of my clients that wanted to backup large datasets without the delays of the network drives. Maxtor is Seagate now, there’s been a financial crisis, and 320GB is simply not […]
Japan vs. 8.9 Godzilla
An 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan caused fatalities, injuries and damage, then it triggered a ten-meter-high tsunami higher than many islands in the area when I walked into work this morning. As we watch the images from live Japanese television, I can only think that Japan is one of the countries where you’ll […]
Unpacking the SheevaPlug "plug computer"
I recently learned about the TonidoPlug personal cloud, thanks to the FLOSS Weekly podcast. TonidoPlug is a wall-plug PC featuring low power usage, low cost home server services based on a GHz ARM processor. It sports a set of Tonido software that enables the personal cloud branding. You can read more here. I am all […]
Happy Birthday Koew!
My younger brother Koew turns 24 years old today! Jingle; Happy Birthday Koew! I can still remember being 24 even though it’s like 3 years ago. It seems just like being 27, only that you are less fat at 24. In any case it means you’re growing up just fine, one year after the other, […]
Weird work-related dreams
I very much dislike these winter months. They are dark and extremely cold, so you simply move from building to building, and live and breathe in fluorescentlit hallways, offices or bathing in the LED light of your widescreen telly. I’m very much a bear, and I should be hibernating now, not running around with ethernet […]
Faithless: To All New Arrivals & The Dance
Last night I listened through the last 2 Faithless albums that had completely escaped me: To All New Arrivals (2006) and The Dance (2010) If you were ever into this electronica/jazz/dance/house mix of voices from an equally diverse and interesting cast of musicians, you will know that they "already had" their great heyday with […]
Working with PDF Files
The software referenced in this article is either Free or Open Source software and should be available to, at a minimum, both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. In Linux, I recommend installing software through your package manager, unless you need the latest and greatest. Most of my information can be found in and was […]