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Songs of the day 28th of April

The Submarines - You, Me and the Bourgeouisie - Lovely swing, great song to start the day with. Found a review on the Washington Examiner. Her voice sounds quite a bit like The Cardigan's - Nina Persson. Or maybe Hello Saferide. Just beautiful anyway. ... "here we are in the center of the first …

Making use of IBM Laptop T40 – Part 4

Logging in! Wireless worked straight from the start. It says that my battery probably is broken (only 28% capacity). Some 2.6~GB is used by the default installation out of my 40GB disk. 1.6GB for swap. Step 1 - set up Synergy This is so I don't have to …

Music of the day – 19th of April + Go Detroit Day

Dog Days Are Over - Florence and the Machine - Just awesome. Satellite - Leila Boussard - Also quite nice. But not as nice as ^^ Happy Tuesday :) Saw the 3rd game in the Detroit - Phoenix Stanley Cup series this morning. Lovely to see Helm fight like a bull and the Mule got in a …

Music of the day - 18th of April

Allison Weiss - You + Me + Alcohol - Lovely. Upbeat. Fnun. Lots of more songs by here on there. Very very nice. Got stuck on this all day ;) Beautiful. I want more. More treats here: http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/site/

gnome-screensaver uses a lot of memory

Just checked out a memory useage script (because honestly I find top a but too complicated). I found one that looks good on asim.pk . The script is a nice little perl script. Just download it from the link and set chmod +x ps_mem.pl and you can run it …

NHL 2011 Playoff - Bets on!

Finally! Time for some not so good sleeping rhythm in the next 8 weeks! Bye - bye circadian rhythm. I like the 10.30pm games - means they start 5.30am here, which means early breakfast, watch game and then get to work :) Who will fall, who will crush who, who will …

Sofiero Mörk

Ahh. Beer. I'm not a connoisseur when it comes to beer, I just usually like it :) http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sofiero-mork-lager/65069/ Has some more discussions. Apparently it hasn't arrived in Sweden yet? Not according to my sources in Växjö anyway - or maybe they are a little slow over …

Finnish Idioms - not joking!

Very interesting and for some maybe expressing the frustration with studying a language - a website about Finnish idioms. Check it out :) One of my favorites: "viskata kirves kaivoon" - translates to *throw axe into well* - means *to give up* http://saaressa.blogspot.com/2011/01/finnsh-idioms.html

Update by bota!

https://www.guldmyr.com/last-irc-post-of-bota-for-a-while/ They're in Ontario :) Almost the same trip I took in the summer of 2008. Not that you have much choice going east. Also I did not do it in a moving truck :p A little update on their blog. Also a google map is here …

Last IRC-post of bota for a while

2011-03-30 17:00 < bo7a> well this shit just got real. taking down the desktop. I'll log in from the lappy before actually taking off 17:01 < bo7a> cheers fuckers The botashake and his wifey MJ is going on an adventure - live on an island! Does it get cooler than that …