Archive for '42'

The Hunt for Gollum

I’ve just finished watching “The Hunt for Gollum” – an independent movie made by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and his work. The producers claim to have spent only $3000 on the film, and I must say I would have believed them if they said 10 times that. The movie was released on May 3rd online, [...]

Spotify invites

I’ve been terrible at updating my blog lately, but I am planning on a Winter-summary post in a short while – just want to get my hands on some pictures first On another note, I’ve got two Spotify invites, so if anyone wants to try it out give me a shout and I’ll consider giving [...]

Blackout

In support of The Internet Blackout Campaign.

The Seamless Music Experience

With all the sources for music we have today, one thing has struck me: The hassle of playing the music you want – when you are never able to find everything you want in one place. As you know, I am using Spotify for most of my musical experience these days. However, there are a [...]

JaranCharts for 2008

Following Aleksander’s example I thought I would post my music charts for 2008. These charts have been recorded by Last.fm and  does not include tracks played on my iPod and some quite heavy use of Spotify without scrobbling during December. However, the charts should give a fairly accurate picture of what was hot on my [...]

Radio Jaran

I’ve been using Spotify for a while now and I am still loving it. I am guessing more and more of you are starting to get invites (or have bought access) as well, and thought I would let you in to my own very very sacred playlist! Radio Jaran (HTTP Link) This is the playlist [...]

The sweet bug-fix relief

I think in many ways the relief you feel when you manage to fix a hard-to-find bug can be compared to the feeling of intense pain going away – like painkillers when you have a terrible toothache. I have been working on locating and fixing a bug in our crawlers at Integrasco, on and off, [...]

Wishlist for Christmas 2008

As every previous christmas that this blog has lived through, I publish my wishes here on my blog so that you more easily can go out and buy me stuff Christmas 2008

Multiple desktops setup

After reading this blog on multiple desktops setup , I realized I should really try to make use of this neat feature in Ubuntu. Since Ubuntu 8.10, Compiz is also much more more compatible with Eclipse, which means that it does not screw up my dual-screen Eclipse setup, which was mainly the reason I did [...]

You’ll be a criminal either way

It’s just a matter of paying to become one, or becoming one for free. I just love today’s xkcd comic and had to share it.