Things I couldn't find elsewhere

update 2018-02-09: VLC 3.0 has just been released.

It's somewhat easy finding modern software able to read ancient data formats (note, "somewhat").

-You’re getting a 3D printer?

It's retro computing time again!

I just did a writeup on how to replace the original PSU in an Atari ST/E with a modern picoPSU .

One of the first components to show symptoms of age in an old computer is the power supply unit.

Why my Mac Mini from 2008 (model 2,1) went from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mavericks in the last 24 hours.

The L2311c monitor is a "desktop hot-swappable" monitor to which you connect USB devices and ethernet, where you're supposed to only then have to connect it to your computer via a single USB cable to access all of its functionality.

This page describes how a still produced little piece of hardware can add real time clock (RTC) functionality to our old favourite computer systems.

Seasonal Affective Disorder - SAD. wikipedia also known as winter depression, winter blues […] or seasonal depression, was considered a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms…

All software contain bugs.

Bitcoin press has gone through the roof in the last few weeks.

As I’m writing this, I have 20 tabs open in my web browser.

A report from the World Bank is making rounds in media today.

An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action.

In the spring of 2008 I sat in the audience at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, watching Clay Shirky on stage.

Följande text skrev jag den 5e september 2003 för eventuell publikation i en svensk tidning.

Swedish news papers are launching digital versions on Apple's iPad - and seem to be somewhat surprised that they're now going to have to comply with a set of rules that are very different from what they're usually operating under.

A few months ago I had to give up using my Mac Mini as my primary personal computer.

Idag lät Sydsvenskan ungdomar bedöma valaffischer - vilket en del verkar förlöjliga eftersom ungdomspanelen så tydligt uttrycker helt andra åsikter än de politiskt rationella i sina val.

Häromdagen råkade ett svenskt par ut för att någon kopierade ett fotografiskt verk de skapat och använde utan korrekt licens.

Apple might like to polish their user interfaces, but sometimes the logic underneath is … less polished.

(In Swedish at least for the time being.

Spotify , seen by many as the music service Napster should've been and thus would have saved us from the last 10 years of evil piracy, has a darker side to it as well.

While I’m sure I’m going to cross post some of the things I write about, the more mobile related posts will appear at Sony Ericsson blogs instead of here.

A pretty informal study made the global headlines a week back about how 40% of everything posted to Twitter amounts to just "pointless babble".

Here is the text broken up into paragraphs: In our daily exposure to science, we’ve been told that there exists a quality metric that allows us to distinguish between "bad science" and "good science".

I have a problem.

Jag röstade pirat i EU-parlamentsvalet 7e juni 2009 Nyckeln till att kunna rösta pirat även i riksdagsvalet 2010, och i nästa EU-parlamentsval, ligger i att kunna förklara det skifte som redan har inträffat inom politiken både för våra egna väljare och för

_Speed of information - or - don't kill my Intarnetz!

I’m currently paying a group of people to further a political agenda I find important I’m currently paying someone to continue digging into the facts behind important political decisions I’m currently paying the initiator of a cause to continue exposing m…

If you belong to generation X , this might apply to you.

A few days ago I bought my second Playstation 3.

…is this diagram.

Here is the text broken up into paragraphs: I’ll admit, I hadn’t read [Getting Things Done](http://www.davidco.com/ "Getting Things Done") until now.

I've just spent 1.5h this day before Christmas Eve doing something I wholeheartedly recommend everyone else to do as well - reading Bjorn Lomborg's book on climate change.

Here is the text broken up into paragraphs: I like forums.

Yes, humans are going to end up in life sustaining pods, fed nutrients through an automatic delivery system and with our nervous system connected to a huge computer network.

Erik Starck skriver ett mycket välformulerat inlägg ang. varför förflyttning av vår fysiska kropp i många sammanhang kommer att bli mindre viktigt, framöver.

[it’s teh book review] A few weeks ago I read an interesting book; I am a strange loop - by Douglas Hofstadter.

Here is the text, broken up into paragraphs: Six months ago, to this day exactly, I bought an album on iTunes.

Många är vi som muttrat om att ökad övervakning och frihetsinskränkning införs med motiveringar som är svåra att våga säga emot - men som senare riskerar att användas för helt andra syften.

Uppföljning: Efter att jag hade skrivit det här inlägget skickade jag även ett mail till Skånepolisen där jag ifrågasatte hur trafikpoliser fick bete sig i trafiken.

Today the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri have an interview with Christian von Koenigsegg, the owner of the Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg famous for their extreme super sport car.

Jag får inte se mina resor på http://www.sas.se .

[it's teh book review] I've just finished reading Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking - a book dealing with the common mistakes us humans often make when judging events in the world around us.

There have been rumours about this for quite some time, but it’s getting traction now.

I've just finished watching The Great Global Warming Swindle - a Channel 4 documentary that basically states that something we've begun taking for granted, is really resting on shaky scientific grounds.

USA har avvisat en begäran från Europarådets parlamentariska församling om att få besöka fånglägret på Guantanamobasen på Kuba länk En domstol i Milano beslöt på fredagen att 26 amerikaner, de flesta förmodligen CIA-agenter, ska ställas inför rätta länk A…

De senaste veckorna har det kommit många rapporter om Irans urananrikningsprogram.