Journal Ebba’s first weekend We just adopted a bengal cat named Ebba, and this is her first weekend in my home and care! I bought her a catnip toy, which she went mad for as you can see in the view below.
Tech Offsite backups using CrashPlan – review With the World Backup Day [http://www.worldbackupday.net/] in our rear-view mirror, giving a second thought to our backup needs become utterly apparent. Most computer professionals probably have some kind of nagging voice inside their heads reminding them of creating backups, which works fine to some extent, until realizing
Productivity Thoughts on OmniFocus There are plenty of applications out there claiming to end the chaos and make sense of everything. One of the schools is GTD [http://www.davidco.com/what_is_gtd.php], which focuses on next-actions and context. This makes a lot of sense in my opinion, and I have been
Productivity A new approach to calendars I have been thinking about ways to make my current GTD setup more efficient. One thing that makes it hard to keep on track and focus are interruptions and the way one has no control over them. At work, we use the standard calendar features which let us invite each
Tech Forced to use the iPad for better or worse What happens to most users at least once, has now happened to me too. A couple of days ago, when resuming my Macbook Pro from sleep, it woke up as usual, but the screen would not come on. I digged around a bit and found that this is a common
Photos Brighton 2010 Brighton somehow conveys the feeling of vintage, so the post-processing of these photos are made to reflect the feeling of walking around the beaches and piers.
Tech Say hello to the iPad I was considering buying an iPad, but I have to say that I was very sceptical about what it can do and whether I would have any use for it. After some deep pondering and a bit of gambling however, I decided to get one anyway. The 32Gb 3G model
Tech Rethinking Email I have been a long-time Gmail user and prefer using their web interface for my personal email, which I love for a number of reasons. For instance, when receiving a new reply to an archived email, the entire conversation is always shown, regardless of where the individual emails are located.
Productivity Going from Things to Omnifocus I have been a heavy Things [http://culturedcode.com/things/] users since the beginning, but there have always been certain features that I have found lacking, such as sub-projects and a distinction between areas of focus. Omnifocus [http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/] has had all necessary features since I
Tech Modern source control using Mercurial Version control has historically always used the traditional client/server model. This means that the server is always the "master", and clients may commit updates to this central repository. The information available on the client is generally minimal, with the base revision for easy diff and status checks. The two
Photos The Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk I talked about the Worldwide Photo Walk earlier, and I ended up going to the “early bird” walk which started at 4 in the morning. More people turned up than I expected and it was all great fun! All pictures taken on the walk and entered in the competition can
Journal Change the front disc brake pads on the VFR Changing the front brakes pads on the VFR is an easy task which should not take more than a copule of minutes. First locate the front brakes, which should hopefully be fairly obvious. Once you are situated, remove the rubber cap and unscrew the pad pin. Be sure to catch
Journal PAIR and Flapper mod, with bonus snorkel mod for VFR The Honda VFR is a beautiful machine, but its full potential has sadly been restricted to comply with different laws and regulations. There are fortunately some easy steps you can take to remove these limitations and get the full potential of the 800cc V4 engine. All the mods are easy
Productivity Things vs The Hit List vs Omnifocus I have been using Things for a long time, both on my Mac and iPhone. While being very good at what it does and being visually beautiful, I have lately been having lots of trouble finding a good solution for a “Waiting For” focus, planner, setting a starting date, subtasks
Tech Spotify — the future of music Spotify, now in public beta, takes a whole new approach to music. All music resides on the Spotify servers, and as a user, you stream the music using the internet. Where it gets interesting is that you can either pay a fixed fee and listen all music you want without
Tech First impressions of the Nokia E61i I recently got my new Nokia E61i, which is a smartphone running Symbian 9.1 series60 3rd edition. I have earlier been using the Sony Ericsson P990i, which is also running Symbian but with the UIQ3 frontend. The differences however, are huge. Not only is the graphical interface of series60
Tech Lock and unlock your Gnome screensaver using your Bluetooth phone I have created a small shell-script which monitors the Bluetooth space around you for a phone or other bluetooth device. If you step outside the perimeter with the device, your computer will automatically be locked. When you later walk up to your computer, it will unlock automatically. You need bluez-utils
Photos England 2009 I recently went to England for a week, and I of course brought the camera. The following are some of the pictures from Brighton, London and the countryside.
Tech Mail server HOWTO – Postfix and Dovecot with MySQL and TLS/SSL, Postgrey and DSPAM This guide describes how to setup a mail server where Postfix is the SMTP service, and Dovecot provides IMAP and POP services. The users may be virtual and stored in a MySQL table, or real system users, or both. The primary focus for this guide however, is a fast and
Journal New domain Here is my new domain, and I am trying out WordPress [http://wordpress.org/]. Hopefully, this will replace my former Plone site, which was too big for me as a single user. As Wordpress is made in PHP, I can use an accelerator to store compiled versions of the pages
