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A random geekpost
Read more: A random geekpostI haven’t posted a tech/geek post in a very long time but now I just feel I have to. As many of you know, I switched to Mac a while back and I must say I am fairly happy with the switch. Together with the switch to mac and getting an iPod came the switch…
Jesus Geek meets Ubuntu freak.
Read more: Jesus Geek meets Ubuntu freak.Today I spent half the day upgrading my computer to the beta version of ubuntu linux. Ubuntu linux is a [[Linux distribution]] funded by a [[philantrope]] who wants a good easy to use home user operating system to be spread out to the masses, and hopefully with it the ideology of ubuntu. Ubuntu linux also…
Blood is thicker than water – the birthday reflection
Read more: Blood is thicker than water – the birthday reflectionTurning 50 is a divider that cuts through life with the sharpest edge. It calls for contemplation and reflection more than it conjures up visions and dreams of the future. When my father turned 50 he lightheartedly announced that he was now in the “death half” (döhalvan) of life. It is the time when (hopefully)…
Bringing Eros back to spirituality
Read more: Bringing Eros back to spiritualityGod is love, the divine source of all. Eros is a fundamental aspect of that divinity. “Eros is the outrageous love, which moves the sun and the stars, which is the very heart of existence itself.” When Eros flows in a person, out of a person, between people, it becomes a sacrament, a manifestation of…
Relationship as a spiritual discipline
Read more: Relationship as a spiritual disciplineThere are many that would balk at the notion of spiritual discipline as discipline in itself has almost become a bad word in todays society. We talk about disciplining our children as a bad thing (especially in the Scandinavian countries) as we equate discipline with violence or physical force. Other will embrace the idea of…
Kiss me, I am a Christian!
Read more: Kiss me, I am a Christian!So I was looking at one of my favourite geeky webpages when I found this T-Shirt that said: “Kiss me I’m elvish”. Which of course is a rip-off of the old “Kiss me I’m Irish” slogan. And it got me thinking…Today Christians are so afraid of any physical contact, because we have fallen into the…
Pirate box!
Read more: Pirate box!So last week I started my little geek project and after much ado it is now finished and our kafé has a pirate box with the potential to viraly spread ideas thoughts, documents freely. The package arrived from iSupply.se within days with the tiny wireless router TL-mr3020. I was astonished that such a small thing…
What would you put on your Pirate Box?
Read more: What would you put on your Pirate Box?Geek as I am, I have stumbled upon “Pirate Box” and realised i must build one (and I shall, and I will, and it will show up at a cafe near you, if you are anywhere near Malmö, Sweden.) However as I am home still something sick and I can’t start this exciting project right…
Beta testing bumptop
Read more: Beta testing bumptopA lot of geeky posts right now, for that I appologize. But beta testing is fun. It is even more fun when people are doing old things in new and exciting ways. I have had my eyes on bumptop for quite a while. And now the mac alpha version has come out and I have…
Multiwinia THE mac game of the year.
Read more: Multiwinia THE mac game of the year.Every now and then I must post a geeky post. It is just not possible not to do it because I am a geek. So I was looking for a game to play and blow off some steam. I was delighted to find a port of Neverball for mac but as great as the game…
iPod shuffle trouble in Feisty and an easy fix!
Read more: iPod shuffle trouble in Feisty and an easy fix!Yesterday at Hannas request I gave her an apple and a hug for her birthday. It turns out Hannas brand new pink iPod shuffle doesn’t play well in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn despite what a superficial google scan might tell you. Jump straight to the summary if you are impatient…. I tried to add songs to…
The non uniform-uniformity
Read more: The non uniform-uniformityIn reply to my article yesterday Emanuel Karlsten, High profile Youth leader in the Swedish Salvation army wrote this reply (I appologize to those of you who do not speak English). In short he says that he would not wear the uniform as it looks today (on account of todays uniform looking geeky) but would…
Time for techspeak…
Read more: Time for techspeak…As much as I try to deny it I am a true geek in all the senses of the word, and I have tried to keep technical (IT) blog posts of this blog andkept it all on a secret blog out there but alas, time to cave in and show my true colors so I…
Wishlist
Read more: WishlistLess than a month to my birthday and people are asking what I would like to get, and I am always ata loss to answer well here is the comprehensive list. And yes this is my dream list, it’s the one time a year I get to dream shamelessly about gadgets and gizmos….. You have…
To dress or not to dress, is the uniform important?
Read more: To dress or not to dress, is the uniform important?So today we had a visit from our TC, Hasse Kjellgren. One of the topics that was discussed was uniform, some people got agitated because they like the uniform and some got angry because the uniform should not be a big deal and therefore, a waste of time to discuss. The argument for the uniform…
My story
Read more: My storyOnce a geek always a geek i guess. Since I was a kid I have always been (no matter how I tried to be cool) a real geek. When my friends in first grade liked James Bond and action heroes, I was all into Ivanhoe, knights and chivalry, they read comics, I read books, they…
