I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More

A lot of the giants have changed focus or lost whatever it was I liked from the beginning. ... Read More

For some time now I’ve felt the need to start a different place where I can write about whatever interests me, not just IT stuff related to what I do professionally. The result is InferredLogic, there I will probably reflect on the current state of humanity, futurism and transhumanism for some time as that is what currently interests me in general. Therefore the Venus 2.0 post has been transferred there.... Read More

This post has been moved to InferredLogic where I write about non IT related stuff... Read More

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Hello Kathy, I just discovered Creating passionate users, a tad too late it seems. I’m writing this because I really, really like your content and I want to you to start writing again. I’m sure you’ve already got a lot of emotionally supportive letters and so on so I’m not gonna go there, because obviously they didn’t succeed. Instead I’m gonna take a practical and proactive approach.... Read More

I recently had a comment from a guy named Daniel about the code separation plugin I’m using. First I felt inclined to answer in a comment but I feel that the problem he is talking about deserves it’s own thread.... Read More

I currently work on a project that is not my own, to implement new functionality all over the place. This project is basically done in a level 2 style with a lot of static function calls. It’s totally procedural with class names to separate different areas of logic. And the SQL is there for all to see.... Read More

Lately I’ve started to tentatively monetize my content. One of the first things I realized was how crappy my click rates were for adsense in the sidebar.... Read More

A few years ago when I attended a program in Engineering Nanoscience something strange happened during a programming course in Java. By the way, if you are considering studying abroad then I can recommend LTH and KTH, especially if you are into materials science or nanotech. Beware though, the level of difficulty can be higher than US equivalents, Swedish technical institutes don’t give much of a rats ass if you fail or not.... Read More