Whiteboard-animation

Såg detta på YouTube idag. Rätt cool video där en kille tecknar på whiteboardtavlan en musikvideo. Synd bara att jag inte kan teckna sådär, men finns andra som kanske blir inspirerade...

Afternoon light

Afternoon light
Originally uploaded by Roselea.

Just found this one on Flickr. Great shot, isn't it?

Zune eller den nya Shuffle?

Idag introducerade Microsoft Zune och CNN har lagt upp en rätt så bra video där de pratar lite kort om den nya MP3-spelaren från Redmond. Kan vara värt att se om man inte har en aning om vad Zune är (vill vara?) men vänta mot slutet, då den kvinliga reportern tar fram sin nya iPod Shuffle och alla börjar hylla den. Slutar med att hon frågar "Why would I buy that [ Zune]?", och Microsoft spelare blir kallad för "clumsy"... Kanske bäst att önska Microsoft lycka till! ;-)

Kononowicz

I helgen var det ett val i Polen (till bl.a. kommuner, landsting och stadens presidenter). Och som alla val så hade även detta föregåtts av en valkampanj. En av kandidaterna, Krzysztof Kononowicz, hade så trevlig presentation av sig själv att han nu har blivit en kändis på YouTube.

Varför? Han ser ut som han gör, han pratar "om enkla saker med ett enkelt språk", och han vet hur man ska "eliminera brottsligheten, eliminera droger, eliminera alkohol, eliminera ALLT!". Dessutom vill han öppna fler arbetsplatser "för folk, ...och för ungdomar".

Det och mycket mer, kolla in själva, nu med engelsk undertext! Get it while it's hot!

Tröja och rakhyvel

Så här års tar man ofta fram sina vinterkläder, vilket bl.a. innebär en del tjockare tröjor. Speciellt ull är skönt att ha på sig pga dess förmåga att värma när det behövs men ändå undvika att bli för jobbigt varmt, då man är inomhus. Så jag tog fram några ulltröjor idag och... guess what? Noppor. Och det finns ju inget som ser mer ovårdat ut än en nopprig tröja. Så jag tänkte bara dela med mig av ett tips på hur man blir av med nopporna.

Lägg tröjan på ett hårt underlag. Ta fram rakhyveln. "Raka" tröjan. Det som stannar på rakhyveln tas bort med handen (försiktigt så det inte blir en massa blod...) och samlas upp i exempelvis en skål med vatten (så det inte blir fullt av det i luften). Tänk på att rakhyveln ska vara lite slö, annars är risken stor att man tar bort lite för mycket material på sina ställen... Annars är det bara att köra på. Ta i. Jag märkte att jag gjorde lite för lugnt i början och fick göra om jobbet på de ställen. Måste förresten säga att det kan ta en stund, så försök inte med det på morgonen innan ni ska ge er ut till jobbet/plugget.

That's it! Ut nu och fixa era tröjor så vi slipper se noppriga kläder i höst!

iChat, MSN, Jabber - A big mess

So I thought it's time to solve the problem. Here in Sweden everyone uses MSN (except from some "geeks" who go with a way better alternative: Jabber). "So what?", you think, "all my friends use MSN too and there's no problem with that". As long as you stick with a Microsoft products - MSN and Windows - everything works pretty good, I agree. But here, on Mac OS X, although it exists, the MSN client from Microsoft sucks really bad. I'd like to compare it to...hum, let's say Windows Messenger version 4.5. You've got the text messaging. You've got emoicons. And...that's pretty much all. Well, there is some file transfer support, but it uses the old MSNP4 or maybe 5 (or maybe something else?), which means that the files are transfered via MSN's servers insteand of peer-to-peer as in the newer versions of the protocol. The result? Speeds like 4-5 kb/s. That worked in 1999 perhaps, but try sending a gillion-something megapixel photo image with it today. Add no support for all the new "cool" effects as well as no audio nor video support. That's the reality for Microsoft's official MSN client for Mac OS X, 2006. No wonder folks try to go different ways.

Yesterday I found this excellent tutorial which I had time to follow today. To sum up: it gives iChat (the default Mac OS X messenger client) an ability to connect to a MSN account via Jabber. I'm not going to get too technical here so if you want more detalies, just read the first paragraphs of the tutorial.

The result? I'm not sure, but it looks like everyone I ever had on my MSN contact list and everyone who ever had added me on their got notified about me adding them (requested authorization). Since I haven't changed MSN account since 1997 you can imagine how many people got affected.

I'd like to say sorry for the inconvenience, it was completely unintentional. I'm not blaming anyone, I just hope you all understand now that even if you are happy with Microsoft and their products, it is still concerns you whenever they can deliver quality products for all supported platforms (after all, MSN on Mac OS X is officially supported by Microsoft), or not.

Oh, and by the way, since MSN - like it or not - is the de-facto standard for IM in many countries, why can't Microsoft just open up the protocol? It's not like they are making any money on this... Or are they?

Showtime!

The Mando Diao show last night was great! The show was at a local club located in a basement so the whole thing wasn't too big which resulted in a special atmosphere inside, between the band and their fans. Mando played about 13 tracks (though I didn't count so this is probably wrong) from all three albums released so far. I had the feeling the volume of the show was at some moments to high. Or was just the place too small? Nevertheless, it was a fun night well worth the money spent!

Friday

Can't really get used to it: not even 7pm yet but already dark. Anyway, it's been a nice day, to a long walk on the beach with Jeanette. I have to say that although we're already in the middle of October, it doesn't feel like fall. It was still warm in the air (even if the water was colder, I guess) and I was totally comfortable wearing only a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. We even saw a nude guy sun bathing! (Not the most pleasant sight I must admit...)

Now we're getting ready for a concert this night, Mando Diao is in town. More on this later!

First post

End of a long and busy day. Trying out a new Blogger widget for OS X which I found on Google's Mac-site . Not much to add for now, so I'm just going to post this now. Bye!