Niklas' blog

I’ve gone from writing a personal diary on the Internet to becoming a sort of dictionary-esque version of geekness – as if there aren’t enough of such repositories available on the Internet. As you can see to your right, snow’s still heavy in Stockholm, and it’s not slushy! Very nice. Anyway, I’ve time for being lazy at the moment, so here’s a few links I wanna spread out.

Lebron James does 51 points with a sore knee? Oh, frikkin’ Mamba. Lebron is now the youngest NBA-player ever, to have scored more than 5000 points.

BBC are running a documentary called “The World according to Google”, which is very interesting. It delves into what the corporation has done in very little time. Did you know they made 1.5 billion USD during July-September 2005? That’s a wad. Check the article and mind you, while there you can actually see the entire television-programme.

I’m trying out AppRocket, a very nice program used to launch programs, find folders and files with. Very helpful! More info on it here.

Working a lot with notes in Windows? Check out Steganos LockNote, a freeware program that you don’t have to install to be able to run, giving you the possibility to write notes that are encrypted in 256-bit AES. From the maker:

Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required.

I just got word about Veetro. I’ve been looking a lot for an online helpdesk tracking software, and of course, I’d love to run eGroupWare at work – but my lovely, blighting colleagues aren’t interested – so I think I’ll run the free version of Veetro for a while and see what I think of it. I wanted to try Trac for bug-hunting (and general ticket-handling) but it requires Linux. I’ve tried Groove with very favourable results, but it’s for teams. More about Veetro from the maker:

Veetro is an online team and business management system that helps you to work more efficiently and become more profitable. Including tools such as electronic timesheets, projects, billing, sales pipeline, helpdesk and document management, Veetro makes your organization work better.

whonu is another interesting search-engine, although I prefer Clusty to it; mind you, whonu-searches incorporate Clusty.

Do you live in the USA and are about to give birth? Check this before you do – and make sure you don’t have to sue your local hospital to get to know how come you came there to give birth, and left the place with no limbs left. Utterly insane. I salute the lady (and her husband) for fighting the idiots of that hospital. Get this: the hospital tells her she has to sue them to get to know why they cut her arms and legs off.

Oh noes! If the police of Keene, USA, don’t upgrade their wireless computer connections – they won’t get any doughnuts! “Officers need to disable their computer modems to avoid interfering with the Dunkin’ Donuts computer system.” All about that, here.

Need a towel? Wanna get high? Well, if you add a couple of drops to this pill, you’ll get it to grow. Carroll-ish enough?

Oh Lord. I really want the coming Gibson Flying V, designed to match one that Jimi Hendrix painted – and played. More info at Gibson.

I really like the “Top 10 List of Stuff I Want To See Happen & Also Go Away in 2006” courtesy of The Low End Theory. Check it if you’re into music.

If you’re into music and happen to own a 5G iPod, the 60GB model, you might be interested to know it will kill your headphones.

Now it’s time for me to leave this spot and go and make some pizza. Mmm.