It’s time again for a vacation! This time we’re going to the Azores, or São Miguel to be more specific. We’ll be back late next Monday and in the meantime I’ll shut down the server. Adios!

Despite the early frustrations with Rosegarden, I’ve actually made some significant progress. By reading the great but simple tutorial on UbuntuStudio on how to set up things like JACK in Ubuntu, I am now able to use Rosegarden with the included synth plugins to actually play .wav samples and sequence it to resemble something that [...]

Here’s a mail conversation with a fellow Firefox user. Let’s call him George:
George:
first of all i would like to say i do give donations to mozilla. with that beign said, i would like to know 2 things:
1-every single day for the past 10 days i am interuppted with new firefox updates, and have to stop [...]

I’m annoyed. I’ve spent the whole evening tinkering with Rosegarden and after four hours I still haven’t managed to connect a MIDI note to a sound! Has anyone used this before? As a nerd, I feel insulted when I can’t master an application after so many hours of googling, configuring, and tweaking. I just want [...]

I downloaded and tested WengoPhone 2.0 beta today. While I was impressed by the fact that it offers free IP-telephony and basic chat support for MSN Messenger, AIM/ICQ, Yahoo, and Jabber/Google Talk–all in a Free open-source application–I was shocked by its memory usage. As I’m running an aging Dell Inspiron 8500 with 512 MB of [...]

While I liked the previous design created from the flower photo I took with my new camera, it was a bit too dull, blurry and noisy. I’d rather have a theme with sharper edges and a not as integrated title image to go with it. This time around, I’ve got help from a professional who [...]

I installed a Wordpress plugin called SecureImage that helps protecting against spam by forcing commenters to enter some random numbers and letters, making it harder for spammers to get through. The plugin seems to work fine, but for some reason it won’t work with my customized theme. It works for the first comment, then when [...]

Dell: en man med “europeiskt” utseende skall köpa en dator, han Ã¥ker motorbÃ¥t frÃ¥n sitt rustika sommarhus pÃ¥ gotland, sedan sitter han pÃ¥ en buss genom ett land som ser orientaliskt ut, och det ser ut som om han spiller kaffe, sedan stÃ¥r han framför ett skyltfönster i en dammig exotisk stad, och slÃ¥r sig [...]

Staying on the subject of broken betas, I installed beta 3 of Gaim 2.0 for Windows, but it can’t seem to connect to MSN from my workplace. It seems this bug has been reported, but there is no fix or resolution to it. Too bad, because I prefer Gaim over Miranda IM. In this case, [...]

I downloaded the latest nightly build of Lightning and a recent Thunderbird 2.0 alpha build, and I simply cannot get it to work with .ics files. Maybe I’m just stupid, because it isn’t even mentioned in the FAQ but there seems to be no way to add a web calendar.
You can click on the New [...]