Yesterday I found that electronic components share a characteristic with buttered bread: they always land upside down when they drop. Also, when you turn them around, they are always the wrong way. Then, when you try to turn them right, you drop them again.

Yes, I'm making electronics at work. It goes so-so. Hopefully I'll learn to do it better.

Party at work Friday night ( Read more... )

Yesterday's interesting adventure was a live broadcast from Ljungaverk. This is a project of my boss's: local television ( Read more... )

Today I saw the rhubarb was coming up ( Read more... )

I have, for years and years, never found the need to use an usb device on my computer. This may be in part because the usb slots are all on the back of it, and I'm not that fond of crawling on the floor when it isn't necessary. I have configured the kernels for it, but never tried it out ( Read more... )

I caught an exception today. A fairly normal exception, with a hideous-looking stack trace, and an error message. But the error message said: Ämnet är skrivskyddat. I positively jumped when I saw it. Then I felt a strong wish to drop a minicomputer on top of someone, preferably from a great height ( Read more... )

I'm at my second full week at work, and I feel like I'm catching up. I write software for controlling street lights; our customers are municipalities all over Sweden ( Read more... )

Work starts on Thursday.

It looks like I may have a job coming up. A programming job, no less. Here in Ånge. In a small firm that builds control systems for street lights ( Read more... )

That was four hours of election. I feel like a parrot: 'Hello, may I see your voting card, here's an envelope, go behind one of the screens, they'll want to see your ID at the table'. Over and over again ( Read more... )