Archive for 'Geek'

Say what, Facebook?

Opening Facebook after lunch today I was presented with the following nonsense. No idea if it’s an actual language, or just some new Facebook jibberish

Happy 15th birthday, Opera!

The Opera Web Browser is celebrating it’s 15th birthday these days! I’ve been using the browser for 7 of these, and never once regreted it. It’s solid, it’s lightning fast and I’ve been able to use most features other browsers are announcing as “innovative” today, for many years. Recently I’ve also become a frequent user [...]

iTunes Agent 1.3 is here!

It’s been almost a year since the last release, but it’s finally here! I’ve just released version 1.3 of iTunes Agent, one of my open source projects over at Sourceforge. This release is mainly a bugfix release, but one of the fixes is so significant we decided to bump it to 1.3. The most important [...]

Twitter

I’ve started using Twitter lately. Actually I have had an account for about half a year, but it was not untill a few months back when I really started to use it. I was one of those Twitter-sceptic people. Looking at it saying, “naaaaaah – what’s the use of that?” Why would people want to [...]

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, [...]

jaranweb.com has moved!

After strugling to get my domain released for transfer for over a week now I have finally managed to make the move. The site has moved to a new home with a Norwegian hosting provider – this should speed up the site quite a bit for most of my readers I have also made some [...]

Feeling the Wrath of the Lich King…

Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion pack for the MMORPG World of Warcraft, was released last week. I was not one of those standing outside the retailers at 12:00am to secure a copy, but I had definitively been looking forward to the game I have had about a 10-month break from World of [...]

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 [...]

Gears of War 2

Morten and I just finished Gears of War 2 yesterday evening. We’ve spent about two and a half evenings playing it (~10 hours I think), and what a blast! We played through the orignal in co-op as well, and even though I found the original more scary, GoW 2 was like one looooong sci-fi action [...]

JavaZone 2008

This year’s JavaZone is over and I am safely back in the office. My head full of new ideas and cool technology to have a further look at. This year was my second at the conference and I must say it was even better than last year. Topics were great, most of the speakers were [...]