Went to Regent’s Park yesterday. Posting some photos.

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Frog in gras, originally uploaded by Martin Svedén.

When visiting Sweden recently a family member spotted this little fellow in the grass. I went for my camera and took a series of pictures. This is one of the last ones and I think it came out best.

It’s a rather small frog, the body being ~5 cm. He looks like boss of the situation, cool dude.

My friend Dave’s got a new house mate, a kitten called James.

He is a funny little fur ball!

I took a series of pictures. It was a bit tricky to get good shots as he had a tendency to move around a lot but I think I got some good ones. You can find the rest of the pictures here.

Feel free to use any of the pictures on your site, just give credit by linking back to this page, thanks.

This weekend I was in Sweden at a wedding. Nice one, thanks! During the dinner I had the honor to talk with some very nice and interesting people. One of them was a doctor. Unfortunately I forgot to ask what kind of doctor he was but I guess there is some kind of general type, otherwise he would have said something a bit more specific, like brain surgeon.

During a speach, the speaker quoted a well known swedish football commentator that once said:

We’re going to warm up by running in rectangular circles.

Funny, because there is no such thing.

Afterwords, the doctor said something like “it’s okay, a circle is only a rectangle with an infinite number of corners”. Arghhh!!! Can a tech head let something like that slip? Of course not. Or actually yes, but I didn’t. I told him, politely.

No.

A rectangle with an infinite number of corners is not a rectangle. And even if a shape with a billion corners may look like a circle from a certain distance, it’s still not a circle!

I almost wished I hadn’t said anything. But I explained, politely, with a smile hoping to not come across as rude.

Luckily we didn’t get stuck on the topic. I think we both thought, “Arghh, engineers!”. Then we moved on to other topics.

One of my favorite things to say when someone points out a mistake I’ve made, that gives an explanation to why something doesn’t compile or behave they way I thought it would is - “Is it really THAT important” - to whatever it was. Typical programmer’s humor, only appreciated by… errh… programmers?

At a wedding, maybe a “rectangle” with an infinite amount of corners can be called a circle. It’s an occasion when it’s really not that important.

But still, it’s not a…

Coffee bars like to push why their coffee tastes better than anyone elses. I think this place has a funny selling point. At first I thought - why send baristas to a training course in Australia? But then I realized that it says that the baristas are trained by someone from Australia, not that they’ve actually trained there.

When did Australia become famous for good coffee?

A friend of mine just sent me a comment to the picture on my about page:

“Seeing your picture I can’t help but thinking of another great personality Jack Black whose magnificent snout is quite like that of your own.”

I’ve been told before that I look like Jack Black sometimes and the picture on the about page is a bit dated. Maybe I should put this one there instead.

It’s like watching a mirror. Thanks for your kind words the picture Perrolf!

I had heard that Virgin will give current 4Mbit/s customers speeds of 10Mbit/s and today on my way to work I saw their ad about it. They will start rolling out the upgrade in the next month, it will be automatic and they will not charge extra. That’s good news! It will definitely give the other ISPs something to worry about. I mean, if you can have Virgin broadband then why wouldn’t you? As far as I know, no one else offers that speed in the UK, yet.

I had 10Mbit/s five years ago in Milan supplied by Fastweb. It was fast.

What happens is that I come up with a topic that I just have to write about, an opinion or something else that I find interesting. Then I start writing a post but after a while I go back and read what I just wrote and start analyzing it. Is it good? How will that be interpreted? Is it correct? And so on. In the end I end up(see two “ends”, that looks weird) with a text that is full of comments about the text itself and fragments of half finished sentences that I’m happy with scattered all over the place and doesn’t work as a whole. After a while I feel like it’s taken way too much valuable time and gives it a rest for later. I haven’t gone back to finish one such post.

I used to be a good story writer when I was a kid, good imagination and all that. I’m also able to keep a conversation going and I can code(not relevant but anyway). So what is the problem? Possibly it’s because I feel that I can’t release anything that is not good enough. But the only judge of that if I don’t publish is me, and since I’m not a good blogger how can that count for anything?

So, here I am writing about writing. Something I promised myself not to do because I think it’s lame to fill blogs with topics like “ah I don’t know what to write” and that becomes a post about that there’s nothing to write, if you know what I mean. What happened was that I was writing another post and ended up editing back and forth just like I described and just had to stop and think about it for a minute. While thinking about it I wrote this. The good thing is, I didn’t go back and edit this(ok a little). See this post as personal exercise(for me) and in no less than in two minutes after I put this dot here. <- yes that one! …this post will go live!

Connectile Dysfunction - The inability to get a connection. Most commonly experienced when using a cell phone, but can refer to laptops with Wi-Fi cards, etc. If it persists for more than four hours, please contact your doctor. He can’t help your connectile dysfunction, but can give you something to ease your frustration.

Found on BuzzWack

After reading Paul’s post I had a look in my bag and here’s what I found:

• Asus Eee
• Umbrella
• Multicard reader
• Nintendo DS
• Glasses
• IPod Nano
• Camera + charger
• 4 GB USB memory
• Magazines
• Notebook
• Pencil

(Chargers and various cables excluded)

I used to carry around a 13″ Vaio in a bag that was just big enough to fit the laptop and not much else. It worked well but sometimes I need to carry more stuff so I bought a bigger bag. Shortly after that I got myself an Eee and that’s what I carry daily now because it’s only for taking notes and reading on the train to work. With a bigger bag and a smaller laptop there is plenty of room for other useful and not so useful things. Actually, when I looked in my bag now I had stuff in there that I had forgotten about.

This was a good exercise because it made me realize I don’t need to carry all that stuff everyday.