Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.
I was fed up with mixing native ISO-8859-1 content (generated by me) with external content (from del.icio.us etc.) containing UTF-8. So I used this script to translate all the ISO characters into UTF-8.
I’ll be keeping an eye on the content in the future to see if anything slips through.
Also, this post is composed in vi. Because anything is better than nano.
Posted at 22:43, in the scrivener category. Comments [0]
Grabbed from my del.icio.us links.
Posted at 21:01, in the links category. Comments [0]
The second part of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
Posted at 21:22, in the books » read category. Comments [0]
I hang on every morsel of humanity that is Dave Winer… both audio and text. It’s a disease, I think… like getting addicted to watching car wreaks or reading biographies of serial killers… you just can’t quite figure out what God is up to with Dave Winer. All that influence and such recklessness and generosity… A living conundrum.
This is so like me it’s scary. ¶
Posted at 01:15, in the observations category. Comments [2]
Grabbed from my del.icio.us links.
Posted at 00:39, in the links category. Comments [0]
Phew, this’ll be a tough one. Sweden’s first game is 10 June.
Posted at 22:37, in the alt » germany2006 category. Comments [0]
I grabbed an assortment of seasonal ales at [Systemet] today. I’ll be trying them out during the week, hoping that they’ll be around in two weeks.
Update 2005-12-13: added links, opinion on the Gouden.
Updated on Tuesday, 2005-12-13. Posted at 19:44, in the alt category. Comments [0]
Grabbed from my del.icio.us links.
Posted at 23:50, in the links category. Comments [0]
Rui posts some tips on how to manage your email more effectively with Outlook.
We’ve been using some of those techniques with the support box. I use “reply to all” for all mails, so we always get a copy of the reply in the same conversation. As we are two working with this, it’s a godsend to have a complete record of the conversation around the issue.
We use the nifty coloured flags to manage workflow. My issues are orange, my coworker’s are blue, issues awaiting answers are purple, escalated issues are green etc. This works pretty well, as you can easily spot issues that haven’t been addressed yet.
We have 2 archives, one based on the year’s quarter, and one where we put all escalated issues. Having mails sorted by conversation makes it easy to archive.
However, Rui’s tip about using a smart mailbox to combine your inbox and Sent items makes a lot of sense. It addresses the shortcomings of having to do a reply to yourself all the time.
We’ve worked around the limitations of Outlook’s default filtering by writing a little perl skript that counts the number of issues and alerts us if they are too old.
Posted at 14:40, in the comp category. Comments [0]
This book rests on a central premise, that an alternate 1959 Earth has been preserved like a fly in amber by some all-powerful aliens. In the far future, two warring factions of humanity stumble upon it and use the artifacts there to complement the forgotten history of the Nanocaust.
Reynolds skilfully weaves together “hard” S-F with a Simenon-like detective story. But if you ignore the technical mastery and the skillful plotting, the story is basically absurd. But it’s an enjoyable read nonetheless. I stayed up until one in the morning yesterday to finish it.
Posted at 13:41, in the books » read category. Comments [0]