Posts tagged with "funny"

I took the train home to Stockholm from Skövde yesterday. The train was to my very small surprise late, somehow Swedish trains have a hard time dealing with snow.

The more interesting thing was how Swedish train company SJ calculates when the late train will arrive at its destination. The train started in Gothenburg, and had continuously become more late as it approached Skövde. But according to SJ, from Skövde and on we would not only start going faster, we would actually be going faster than normal.

Not everybody was following the Euro 2008 final:

Congrats to Spain for a well deserved win anyway. I’ll tell Peter about it over lunch tomorrow.

Projektplatsen.se reminds me that it has been more than 8 years, or 2932 days to be exact, since I logged in the last time. So I agree with them when they say that a lot has happened since then :).

I have never programmed anything using Microsoft products, but if I did, heroes happen here and source fource would make me feel embarrassed. Who are they targeting?

For all the good reasons, yak shaving is the thing to do these days.

There is an iPhone for sale on the swedish site Blocket:

Funny part translated from swedish: “… I can include the telephone number to my friend who helped me unlock it”

They actually do say that, here in Sweden. In a brochure handed out at SIME07, Google provides a little glossary for the technically challenged, and to my amusement JavaScript is described as follows:

JavaScript - scripting language for those who are not programmers, in first hand intended for creating web pages.

The translation is mine. The original text in Swedish: “JavaScript - skriptspråk för de som inte är programmerare, som i första hand är avsett får att skapa webbsidor”

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.

I am trawling for a hosting company and came across this gem of a web page:

The page won’t load at all if Javascript is disabled, has no doctype, won’t render umlauts in Firefox on Mac (and this is Sweden, we actually use them.)

The final nail in the coffin is that it states “Web hosting for gourmets”.