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"Some time ago I got a new IBM X40. It is now running Ubuntu Hoary and I must say that it is really an excellent piece of hardware. Everything but the SD card reader works out of the box, which of course also goes to show what a great distro Ubuntu is. Get’em both."

"I feel I just have to try Ruby on Rails, I mean everybody else is doing it and I don’t want to feel left out. So I started setting it up on my X40 which runs Ubuntu. There is still no deb available for it, you have to use the Ruby Gems system to set it up. I dont know if this is good or bad - it seems like a Ruby CPAN and my feelings towards Perls CPAN are mixed."

"Like so many others, I have read Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. And, surprise, I find it highly recommendable, like everybody else. The following are a few thoughts about I jotted down while reading: Why, oh why, in the name of mad page flipping are the footnotes placed in the back? I am surprised that Pete McBreen of Software Craftmanship fame is not mentioned - in my opinion they are making the same case against “Computer Science” Contrary to common XP belief Paul Graham favors code ownership."

"I’m spending some time getting into Fit style acceptance testing and I’m liking what I see. My biggest problem so far is translation. For all you non-Swedish-speaking out there, most techie lingo gets a very crude translation, basically by not translating it at all and using the english word as is. So a unit test in english is also a unit test in swedish. But I’ve bit my tongue at least 10 times today saying “Fit tests” in swedish."

"Lavalamps in action Originally uploaded by mahnve. We’ve finally got our act together and got ourselves a pair of lavalamps. They are controlled by CruiseControl and green equals all tests passed. When reading about other people doing this, they say that these things need to be turned off every ten hours or so. The only warning notice on ours, bought at Clas Ohlson, says to not drink the fluid - duh."

"Now - is this good or bad? What Famous Leader Are You? personality tests by similarminds.com What Classic Movie Are You? personality tests by similarminds.com"

"I saw this on Boing Boing and it is just staggering what people can do. As mentioned you have to watch the video clip. And think about what you buy."

"I’m in the subway on my way to my moms boyfriends daughters birthday party, using the time to test blogging from my Palm. Seems to work quite decently actually."

"I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.5 and the upgrade was really a breeze. The problem with the new default theme is that it is probably too good looking - people won’t change it and my blog will look like everybody elses. Dammit."

"Alef Arendsen ponders on whether to switch from Ant to a Ruby build tool. At Lecando we just this week finished migrating away from a Ruby based build system we called Raven. Our former employee HÃ¥kan speaks in his blog entry from way back then about the enthusiasm we shared. Of course, Håkan speaks of our migration from Maven, the build tool from hell of which one should not speak."