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I have absolutely no clue as to why David Heinemeier Hanson would hold any suspicious thoughts toward Sun. To me, given the big boys in the playground, they are the good guys. But reading it made me realize that I have not heard of IBM in a very, very long time.

Big Blue was quite quick to join the Java bandwagon, remember VisualAge for Java? But in the new world of dynamic languages IBM, apart from a few developerWorks articles, is not to be heard from.

Eurocard really wants you to close the window. (“Stäng fönstret” is swedish for “Close the window”)

In todays edition of all things gossipy in IT Sweden, aka Computer Sweden, swedish union SIF manages to make complete fools of themselves. They actually attach a physical CD to an ad supposedly containing their latest tv ads. Filmed by famous-in-Sweden director Felix Herngren no less - it says so on the cover.

SIF just spent a lot of money saying that they basically have no clue how modern communication is done (YouTube comes to mind) or that they from an environmental point of view do not mind some 50 000 cd’s thrown away.

Trying out the VimPress plugin, posting directly from Vim. Seems really sweet.

My name is Marcus Ahnve and I am an iPod addict.

My iPod died on me the other day. That is when I realized that I am an addict. I got physically cold and I immediately realized that my next subway ride would be iPod less. I cannot ride the subway without an iPod.

I had plans for this iPod. We were going to spend the fall and winter together, waiting for the iPhone to reach this dark corner of the world sometime next spring. Now I was left alone with no one to turn to.

I am currently on my way home from northern Dalecarlia, and I am making full use of the 3G card. I had received a couple of update mails from our central Mercurial repo, so I tried to do an ‘hg pull’, and expected it to take a while. Lo and behold, I got all changesets within 15 seconds! This says a lot about Mercurials protocol, as the reception was so-so; no surprise as we are driving here:

I accidentally found out that all ahnve.* domains where down today. It has been three years since I last renewed them, so I had forgotten all about it. The big problem was that the contact emails where being sent to an old address, so I never got the warnings I assume GoDaddy sent out.

According to Feedburner, some people have tried to reach the site and failed, sorry about that. It is all good now. But I got quite a scare as we are about to go on vacation, which will make me internetless.

I signed up for a two year plan for mobile 3G internet from Telenor, which also happens to be my current cellular carrier. Their current offer is really good, SEK 200 a month, fixed price.

However, the link they provide to download drivers for Mac points to an old version which does not install on my machine. To get the latest and greatest. go to Option: wireless technology

Update: Never mind. Globetrotter Connect is truly useless. I gave up and purchased Launch2Net, very expensive but it just works.

This tutorial on RubyOSA is great. I have never got around to learn AppleScript, and now it seems like I never will.

I was listening to the podcast of the interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and this one thing struck me. When asked to predict the future, Bill Gates provided some insightful guesses, while Steve Jobs simply answered “I don’t know”. Twice. Steve’s explanation was that five years ago he would not have predicted what we have today, so therefore he does not trust himself to say what the next five years will look like.