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If this is your first visit to my blog, you may want to read about my distro-hopping. Debian is my main distro. I have used Lenny, Squeeze, and maybe for the last year or so, Wheezy, which is the current testing. Wheezy is in freeze state, getting ready to reach stable status. I used to …
I have read Metro 2034, the follow-up to Metro 2033. One character from the first book is one of the main ones in this. The main protagonist in Metro 2033 does not appear in 2034, unless the shortly mentioned person with the same name, actually is the same character. This book is not as surprising …
The other day I made Swedish Yule bread ("vörtbröd"). I call it Yule bread since in Swedish we say "Jul" for the holiday. Even Christians call it "Jul". There is no literally corresponding Swedish term to "Christmas". The term, if not the tradition, is readily usable by all: atheists and non-atheists of all colours. Except …
Every year (at this very date) there are the Nobel Prize festivities. The ceremony, and the feast later in evening, are rather illustrious. The prize is handed over by the King of Sweden. That reminds me of the old joke: "will you please step forward and recieve the hands of His Majesty the King". The …
I always put away the garden furniture in autumn, but for some reason, or no reason, two of them were left outdoors this year. It has been snowing heavily since yesterday, and this evening, nature (together with my slacking) has created this (almost) stilleben: Could be used as a image of climate change…
I read another Russian sci-fi recommended to me by the younger generation. It’s been quite much reading of modern Russians for me lately, such as Nick Perumov. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2033 is his first novel, originally published on the web for free (as in beer). I have read the official Swedish translation, …
If this is your first visit to my blog, you may want to read about my distro-hopping. Caution: This review is short as the drive I had installed it on was acutely needed for other stuff. So I used Deepin for only a few days on and off. "Review" is an exaggeration, the follow is …
When I was making dinner, by necessity, the Cajsa Warg principle had to be applied again. I really had only one thing to make a decent dinner from: frozen pieces of salmon. Yeah I know, a rather boring form of salmon, but good to have when living in the countryside, the shop is far away, …
One of the more famous creators in free culture is Nina Paley. In my humble opinion, she is brilliant. She recently published some new Mimi and Eunice cartoons. Here is one: <img src="http://mimiandeunice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ME_530_Sorry-640×199.png" alt=""Eunice says to Mimi: I am sorry you make me so passive-aggressive" /> Source. I thought that was mind-bogglingly hilarious. Then I …
I just finished Piknik na obochine (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. I read the Swedish version Picknick vid vägkanten (transl. Kjell Rhenström). The English title is Roadside Picnic. My sci-fi reading has over the years been rather limited, so I hadn’t even heard of the brothers. The book is very good. It is truly …
Schpam schpam schpam! Recently most s p a m that is (attempted to) be placed as comments here are about stuff I’ve never written about. It is not even the usual crap about v i a g r a, fake e x a m s and genius b u s i n e s s …
If this is your first visit to my blog, you may want to read about my distro-hopping. I once tried installing an earlier version of OpenSUSE, but it was extremely slow. That was on my previous hardware (processor and motherboard), where quite a few distros failed to install or were just bad in one way …