Archive

Today’s observation

I really like the contrast in this couples choice of footwear

I was wrong, Sean was right: Yesterday, I started to read Sean Tucker’s Parable 6 which talks about different personas we take on. I came to the sentence. Every London photographer knows Soho George, for example, and we all have shots of him somewhere in our back catalogue. — Ha, I’m not a real London photographer, …

Am I doing this PoE thing right?

Last morning in York, soon time to head home

For me Cloudflare is a huge source of irritation that costs me a lot of time …. arghhhhhh

Morning tea at the AirBnB

The good old times

A well deserved rest during lunch break

The street musician

Sigh, I wonder if I need to set up an instagram account again, it’s like a “business card” and everybody assume you have one. Need to think about this (and no, Flickr, Pixelfed, doesn’t really work)

”We have noticed that you haven’t read our emails for a while …” I’ve read them, I’ve just turned off you tracking me

A chess festival in London today, a lot of chess players seemed to have fun

It’s warm in London, but I doubt this will help

Trivsamt när de spärrat av delar av London för biltrafik (löptävling)

Köln

Hamburg

Köpenhamn

Köpenhamn

Absolut inte imponerad över detta. Jag trodde det var allmän kännedom att folk kan spåras via Strava, det har ju varit åtskilliga fall med militär och “hemliga” personal tidigare men “Säpo var inte medvetna”!!

Spending a part of the day doing important road maintenance

This will interesting, it could either end as a rather positive experience, or a complete failure. Going abroad for two weeks and I had planned to bring along my Nikon Z6 iii + 4 lenses (2 quite small), but a few days ago I changed my mind and the plan is now my Ricoh GR iiix … and nothing more 😬

I don’t know if I’m unique, but every time I’m reading about people switching from a smartphone to non-smartphone I just go “But why?” To me a smartphone is a communication device, and I very, very rarely use the phone part of a smartphone. So, buying a regular phone …

😖

I haven’t posted much lately, partly due to me working too much, but also that there are so many conflicts everywhere - I’m getting seriously tired of seeing this. I don’t know how many conflicts I’ve seen in my timelines, different “sides” claiming that their …

It’s still a bit early to say anything definitive, but it might be that the M4 MacBook Air is the best laptop I’ve ever used. But so far it feels fantastic.

It’s one of those days

It might not come as a surprise to anyone, but the low-light capabilities of a 45.7 megapixel camera from 2018 is worse than from a 24.5 megapixel camera from 2024. Who could have guessed?

Springtime

I wonder if someone took the chance to clean their clothes

Where does this end up

I’m loosing all of my CS credibility, in the list of processes on my machine I read “codesign” as “co-design” not “code sign”. I’m getting old.

Shit happens 😝

Time to leave work

On Friday, I went to an event to take photo. I asked people if someone didn’t want to be in the photos and then “can I take a photo of you so I remember that you don’t want to be in the photos” 😁

The irony of a company selling “from EU” but shipping from outside EU … that’s the part I want to avoid.

Where did things go wrong??? Total number of chars in email: 13653 Headers: 11666 chars, 85.4% Message: 54 chars, 0.4% Cited content: 1933 chars, 14.2%

Notion and I have a very different interpretation of the word “wiki”

Photographed a PhD defense today. Quickly went home to make a print for the party, my plan was a strong portrait. But when I viewed the photos I ended up with a sequence of photos showing the different stages of a defense ohh no, I’m gonna fail and die here ohh no, why did they ask that question ok, …

Sigh, sometimes there isn’t much you can do ☹️ My task was to take some photos from a course at the university that wasn’t boring photos of students doing presentations … well, it turned out that the only photos that could be taken was boring photos of students doing presentations …

The toilet for those who have extra long arms

Warm up

I love hi-tec solutions

Is “forced use of Microsoft Teams” a valid reason for early retirement?

Many years ago, I wanted to become an independent software developer. It never happened … for which I’m very grateful. Reading different user forums just makes me sad/angry, some users seem to have no perspective of life. Here is a hug for all independent software developers.

Om Malik In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.

That was interesting, I cleaned out my bookshelves a bit and put the books I didn’t want in the corridor. It was mostly books on software engineering, object oriented programming, databases, a surprising number of books on operating systems, realtime programming, computer architecture, C, Java, …