Jag har idag på morgonen sett att flera av mina vänner, på Facebook, lagt upp och upprörts av Nerikes Allenahands artikel om en lärare som förbjudit pepparkaksgubbar i Luciatåget med någon slags motivering om att det kan vara kränkande mot vissa etniska grupper. Hela historien är så dum att den knappt borde diskuteras annat än …
Last week Peter Criss, founding member and original drummer in KISS, released his biography; ‘Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss’. I bought the book on Wednesday last week and I just finished it this morning. As a long time KISS fan I really enjoyed this book. The two first chapters, about …
Swedish post today. Use Google translate if you want read it in another language. Click here for English translation. Jag tittade på SVT debatt i veckan och såg även ett tidigare inslag i nyheterna där man debatterade om man skulle införa åldergräns på surfplattor och Internetanvändning för barn. Jag blev först mållös och sedan lite …
The Artist here and these are my thoughts on the new KISS album called Monster. In this post I try to offer a little different review then your normally album review you will find on the web. I assume that you know a little about KISS and its members already, if not, this review might be a …
Today I visited the IBM Smart Business 2012 event at the very nice Stockholm Water Front congress centre. It was one of those free seminars that some of these huge companies can afford to throw and I was lucky to get an invite. I do get a lot of this type of invitations (not always …
The philosopher here. Post in Swedish about the web’s so called ‘filter bubble’ that is debated at lot in some areas. I’m just reading a book in Swedish about some companies like Google and Facebooks usage of our personal information as currency in the ‘free service’ economy. Jag skriver detta då sitter jag på Amsterdams …
The Businessman here at the Milan airport on my way home. Processes are important and can really make a business or situation so much more efficiant and productive. For that to happen, the processes, which is written in the past, and reality, that is happening now, have to be fairly similar. If not, then there …
Have you ever noticed that you sometimes wish that your colleagues, friends or spouses would use Google instead of asking you the questions that you know they would very quickly and easily find just my typing it in to Google? I mean very often we have to go to Google anyway to be able to …
It is Nerd fest tonight. I’m glued to my Mac’s (yes both of them) and watching Cnet live stream and Engadget live blog. I’m not sure if it is a marketing trick by Apple to not stream their own events live and instead give everyone the chance to bring the own “live” news out on …
Hi The Nerd here. On the 6th of February I saw a tweet in my Twitter flow from @RonaldYau where he promoted a cloud based To-do service called Workflowy. It made me curious since this is something I constantly struggle with and I have not yet found a solution that covers all my needs. I decided …
Hi The business man here. Last week I came back from a business trip to China where I visited two cities, Yantai and Shanghai. I have been to various countries in Asia many times before and always been amazed by what is going on there but China takes the price for me. I’m not quiet sure …
The Philosopher here. I have just finished an audio book called Infinite Reality by Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Baileson. It was a very fascinating book about what the future will look like when we combine our grounded reality with virtual reality. The most interesting idea the authors put forward is what reality really is and …