Author Archives: aft

Riccardo Guasco

Once again Coilhouse brings an amazing artist to my attention. This time Riccardo Guasco. I would so love to own one of his pieces. Share

Moskau!

I had no idea that Black Messiah had made a cover of Moskau. It is fabulously entertaining! If you don’t know the original by Dschinghis Khan then here it is: Did I mention the original was horrible? Share

Google +1 button

Goodbye to the old Add-to-Any plugin and hello to Social Sharing Toolkit: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-sharing-toolkit/ And now I only there are only sharing possibilities for the only two networks I care about. Google+ and LinkedIn. The loading of off-site images did however mess with the SSL validation so have now turned SSL off for my site. Note [...]

Tom Waits

I can warmly recommend the Tom Waits collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. Nanna got me it for my birthday earlier this month and it is wonderful. I am a huge Tom Waits fan and these rare tracks just made me an even bigger fan. Share

The Sisters of Mercy

Thanks to my sweet girlfriend Nanna I have become a huge Sisters of Mercy fan. By far, my favorite song is A Rock and a Hard Place. This is gothic rock’n’roll that will make you wish you were just half as cool as the lead singer’s voice sounds Enjoy. Fun fact: Most of the code [...]

Sennheiser CX 300-II Precision

I have been looking for a good pair of in-ear earphones with proper bass for a very long time. I finally found some! Obviously from Sennheiser and at the very affordable price of only 399DKr (approx. 53€). Check out the Sennheiser CX 300-II Precision. Share

Curriculum Vitae; now only via LinkedIn

I finally dropped the old PDF curriculum vitae. LinkedIn has all that I need for my CV and the nice “PDF”-button gives me an easy way to email it anyone should I ever need to do that. Share

Weirdest Japanese pop music video ever

This video defies any description. Once again I thank the Coilhouse blog for bringing it to my attention. That blog is made of awesome Share

Finland, once again, you are FULL OF WIN

Coilhouse said it best! (See topic). Now feast your east and ears on this! Finland FTW! Share

Adobe Photoshop CS5

Finally a Photoshop version that runs great in Linux without much hassle. Unfortunately getting the installer to work is tricky (tried a bunch of various tricks and nothing seemed to work) so you have to install it in Windows and copy it from there. Just follow this simple how-to: Install Photoshop CS5 in Ubuntu Maverick [...]