Why Michael Moore has a point about Swedish Healthcare

Privatizing “Public Healthcare”, or clearing obstacles to allow it to be partially privatized has always been controversial. Now that the current Swedish government seem to be walking down the privatization path, it’s no surprise its actions have people running for positions. What is surprising is …

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Why smartphones aren’t clever

On Wikipedia, and from other similar sources, one can read something to the effect of A smartphone is a full-featured mobile phone with personal computer like functionality. Most smartphones are camera phones that support full featured email capabilities with the functionality of a complete personal …

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Slomo at joho’s

Well.. things are slowly but surely moving back to normal since the fabulous incident with my leg. Recovery of the leg is going faster than the recovery of or return to a normal working rythm. It’s amazing how much work can build up when you’re …

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Delphi for PHP

So Borland (or CodeGear) finally realized the web was a place where old Delphi developers may hang around on, and decided to release Delphi for PHP (!). I haven’t looked at the product myself, other than screenshots, but it sounds like someone at Borland or …

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Guidelines for focusing on learning

Caught on a website today, while browsing for something completely different. I realize some or all of this is hard to accomplish, and I am by no means trying to imply that I follow any of the below 🙂 But it’s an interesting thought nevertheless. …

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Need small icons? Go FAMFAMFAM!

Finding large, zillion-color, icons for various use has really turned into a no-brainer these days. The imagination and creativity of graphics wizards around the world never cease to amaze. While this is wonderful in environments like “regular” web sites, or in situations where only a …

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The coolest SFF around, the FSC Q5000 rocks!

When Fujitsu Siemens released news about the Esprimo Q5000 SFF family, I was really curious to see how it would stack up in tests and reviews. How it would handle when it got hot, how good performance it really had, and so on. I checked …

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The Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 surfpad

Spicing up an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 (well, 4360 to be precise) for Filip, it struck me as very odd that there aren’t any affordable “surfpads” with similar performance. At least I haven’t seen any. Granted, the PIII-700 in the 4360 is a bit …

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SwiftMailer 3

“Swift is a fully OOP Library for sending e-mails from PHP websites and applications. It does not rely on PHP’s native mail() function which is known for using high server resources when sending multiple emails. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a …

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Bust a cast

After three weeks with a really annoying cast, and crutches, it was time to remove the cast! After a few hours at the hospital, I was introduced to what I refer to as my Darth Vader Space Age Cast. I think the product’s actual name …

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