700 year aniversary

As I promised in yesterday's post, I'm going to upload pictures form the trip to Borlänge very soon. First though, I'd like to get this one online...

I took a walk to the town centre today, to see what's going on with the 700 year aniversary celebration in Halmstad (it meens it's been 700 years since Halmstad got the status of a town (btw, the city was Danish at that time - intressted in more history, search the Wikipedia and/or the Web)). I snapped a couple of photos downtown, check them out below. By the way, if you'd like to view high(er) quality/download any of these pictures, right-click on it and select >Download. Bye!

Back, for a little while

Hi folks!
Just recently, I returned from the short vacation in Borlänge. Beautiful scenery, I've got tons of pictures which I'll try to upload during the next few days. As I returned, I read a couple of interesting news stories that I'd like to share with you.

First of all, there's a new "thing" on iTunes Store called iTunes U. It looks like a co-operation between Apple and some universities and colleges in the States, and the result is a lot of classes, from schools like MIT, PennState or Berkeley, available online - for free! There's a broad range of classes availeble and if your interessted I recommend you to check it out at iTunes Store->iTunes U.

The other news is the introduction of something called Microsoft Surface. I saw a demonstration of this kind of device about a year ago at some Internet TV Channel on Democracy. Then, it was a scientist introducing a working device, and it made a huge impression on me. Now it looks as Microsoft is rolling it out in the winter of 2007. Go to the website and check out those three short video films now! It's seriously cool stuff...

Guajira y son

I just finished watching the 1999 movie "Buena Vista Social Club" (IMDB). I love watching it over and over again, even though the spoken language is Spanish while the subtitles are in French. Since it's a documentary about Cuban musicians, most of the movie consist of recordings and live performances, so it doesn't really matter that I (officially) don't understand what they're saying/singing. I think that when it comes to music, there's always a way of understanding each other. So, I highly recommend you watching it, although it can be hard to get your hands on a copy Good music is (with some exceptions) not the same as popular music, but we all knew that already.

Tomorrow's the P-Day ("P" as in Presentation. Funny, huh...? Erm...whatever). I'm kinda excited about it, especially what our opponents will say. It's really hard to know if we've done the entire project "the right way" (if there's any "the right way"). Well, guess I have to wait and see. Time for a break, ciao!

A big update.

The second time I woke up today was at 2pm - exacly the same moment as Apple introduced its new , speed-busted MacBook update. You see the connection? No...? Neither do I. Anyway..

The first time I woke up today was about six hours earlier, at 8am. You might think that's late, but considering the amount of work I've lately put into a damn project at school, and the fact that I came back from school at 1.30am that night, you may understand. The project was pretty much done today at 11am, so after handing it in to the project leaders, I felt that a quick nap might be just what I need.

What else can I say? My life has been circling around that project lately. Wake up, workout, think about what needs to be done today, get to school, work, eat, work, eat, work, get back home, think about what else could have been done if there was more time, eat, try not to think about the project, fail not to think about the project, eat, hit the pillow, try not to dream about what needs to be done tomorrow...

Aw, I just figured out that there's a short description of the project online. Feel free to check it out over here, under "Student Projects" -> Health Check.

I feel kind of guilty about not updating this blog in almost a month. As I realized the visitors number dropped to below 1 person/day I thought it's time to lighten things up again.

One more thing (I almost forgot that one): photos from the "celebration" of Valborg, over two weeks ago, are online. You should see them in a box below. These are un-edited so don't expect too much quality this time. I just wanted to put them online so I could get rid of them and stop answering those "when-are-you-gonna-upload-the-pictures"-questions.


That's it for today!