There has been significant activity in space recently, first with the Chinese mission and also SpaceX (a private company founded in 2002) who on their fourth attempt just achieved a successful orbit in space. Nice! 8)
Archive for September, 2008
SpaceX successful launch into orbit
Posted in space, technology on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Swedish wiretapping war, part two
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Update 00:30 : fixed an erroneous statement about the “special court”. See also: part one ; demonstrations. All references below are in Swedish, so you may want to use Google Translate. There’s an enormous amount of information available in Swedish blogs and other media, but not so much translated material. Nikke Lindqvist has gathered links [...]
Microsoft’s black screen of death
Posted in humour, microsoft on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s very hard to resist making fun of Microsoft. This is such a time, as you can see in this Open Malaysia blog entry. Enjoy two new kinds of BSODs…
Demonstrations against Swedish surveillance
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m posting some thumbnails of pictures I took of a demonstration in Stockholm on Tuesday, coinciding with the opening of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) after the summer. It was cold and cloudy; moreover the event lasted the whole day (similar demonstrations also occurred in Göteborg (Gothenburg) and Malmö), so these things may have contributed to [...]
Linux distributions explained (sort of)
Posted in humour, linux on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just discovered an interesting take on common Linux distributions. (Having some familiarity with them helps, but I take no responsibility either way… 8) )
