Niklas' blog

Evgeni Plushenko has won the gold medal at the 2010 European Figure Skating Championships, setting a world record score in the short program in the process. All in a day’s work, I suppose. Film of his free program is included.

Easter’s gone by and we’re all happy people now, having spent it with relatives in Flen and in Hallunda. Mia and I were officially spent after that period of time.

Mikaela’s brother has fought his first shooto-match which is here presented in glorious YouTube. Morrissey has written a scathing, sour-grapes-ish letter published on True To You and I want the coming 10.2 mp Nikon DSLR.

There’s a preferential Björk-box out, a tea-kettle that can be activated by SMS, Babyshambles release b-sides digitally, Pitchfork have compiled a list of “100 awesome music videos”, Bill Simmons (a.k.a. The Sports Guy) has compiled his list of fave YouTube-moments, the best counter-scam against a Nigeria-scammer has been performed (with pictures of wooden, carved stuff that the trying scammer actually sent the counter-scammer), Beck’s next album will be hip-hop again and produced by Neil Godrich, Stabby McKnife makes a grand tee and Zoho Show is out to rival Thumbstacks and MS PowerPoint.

Finding a good online to-do list would be as hard as turning “Knight Rider” into film…hang on, it’s being made! The downside: Miramax makes it. Anyway, TechCrunch has stepped up the game with this good article on available online to-do lists. Their winner is Tadalist, a free online to do-list which is simple, neatly built and easy to maintain; check a film of the interface (QuickTime, appx. 1MB in size) here. I’m still happy with how 30 Boxes works with their newly introduced to do-list. They don’t have a little film showing how to do it, so I made one to show you how it works, right here (flash, 240KB). Give or take a few misguided clicks, it shows the functionality. It looks as though 30 Boxes is here to stick around.

Speaking of lists, mynoteIT looks like a good list-maker for students.

It looks as if we will be able to use OpenDocument-files in MS Office 2007 after all. Wonderful.

Thanks to this guide I installed Munin today, to check how it monitors activity from my Ubuntu machine. Worked wonderfully, monitoring a lot of stuff out of the box. It’s quite like OP5.

Steve Mason, former frontman of Beta Band, has vanished utterly, by his own will. The debut album from King Biscuit Time, Mason’s latest moniker, is out on Monday, and the planned tour is now cancelled. It appears that Mason has quit music altogether, but let’s hope that’s not the case.

I’ve got to lay a lot of love on D.R. Harris. I first came across them when I purchased their Arlington Bath & Shower Gel at Nitty Gritty, but as they no longer seem to care to re-stock D.R. Harris-products (at least not re-stocking any of their products that have gone out of stock for the past three months, as far as I have seen), I decided to use the D.R. Harris site instead.

Even though the menu-system of the site itself is a bit of a hindrance, it’s all forgotten once you know the following. First, I could have my products within three weeks. Fair enough, I thought, until I received my stuff yesterday, less than an entire week (week-end included) after ordering them. Second, the products were really carefully packaged. We’re talking a package embedded inside another package, filled with foamy bits to protect the, er, gel.

The next time I’m definitely ordering more. This is delivery and service at its peak, when having ordered something online. I just hope they keep the great work up.

The only thing that makes me merry about the film based on the book “The Da Vinci Code” is that it’s ruffling catholic feathers. Will christians start bringing movie-studios to court because of this? I hope so. It’s like hating Kobe Bryant: even though he’s everywhere (even though Steve Nash and his hoods kicked Laker-ass very recently in the play-offs) he’s still worthy of hate. By the way, you have to read that article, even if you loathe basketball.

Oh, I’ve just finished “The Wire Season 2″. I love that series. I love that series. I haven’t seen anything like it since I was totally into “Twin Peaks”. True, with loads of thanks to George Pelecanos, it’s very macho and even bordering on burlesque, but keeps quite tight due to a great cast, and a fantastic script. And Omar Rules.