http://edward.aschan.org Edward Aschan's confused musings about life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend I went out to visit my parents and siblings on the farm. My first encounter was with a nine week old Cocker Spaniel pup so I was off to a good start. It's always great to come out to the farm and wind down with some country life ... http://edward.aschan.org/2008/02/17/time-wasted-battling-poorly-configured-software-and-networks/ I finally got enough courage to update my Wordpress installation from 2.0.4 to 2.3.2 and although time consuming it worked almost out of the box. The pages didn't render at all at first. After activating my plug-ins the pages rendered but included several messages begining with "Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation ... http://edward.aschan.org/2008/01/30/updated-wordpress/ ... often lead to unwanted experiences. Currently I have to take the Stockholm undergrounds blue line north out of Stockholm in order to get to my customer. This line forks of into two different directions a few stations before my station. As it is I should only take trains that ... http://edward.aschan.org/2008/01/24/a-switched-of-brain/ I boldly stole the concept from my friend Mika and his blog Mind Matters. The concept is to challenge one self into changing a bad habit or trying a new habit for a while. As it is I don't take particularly good care of myself. I eat too much, I exercise ... http://edward.aschan.org/2008/01/22/the-first-30-day-trial/ Well, there hasn't been very much winter in Sweden this winter. Luckily for me my old job, or rather a bunch of enthusiast at my old job, planned our annual ski trip to the north and I hadn't been spurned for changing my allegiance. This years trip went to Norway, ... http://edward.aschan.org/2008/01/21/i-saw-some-snow-this-winter/ Good thing I'm writing this today and not yesterday when I was out shopping, or at least trying to shop, or a lot of very very bad words would have been published on the Internet by yours truly. I have previously tried to buy furniture for my kitchen at IKEA in ... http://edward.aschan.org/2007/12/04/a-really-bad-day-for-shopping/ Since I have sold my bookcases, and most other furniture, in conjunction with this move from Linköping to Stockholm all my books live in cardboard boxes (as do most other things as well). This limits my access to the books some what at the moment. Add to this that the ... http://edward.aschan.org/2007/11/22/status-of-raubitb/ Sometimes I am truly amazed by human stupidity, or rather lack of reasoning. Recently I sold some stuff on Tradera which is a Swedish branch of Ebay. Among the items sold where bookcases in various sizes. Today one of the buyers, or rather the buyers boyfriend, came by to pay ... http://edward.aschan.org/2007/11/21/51/ It'll be a gargantuan task to find the time but I must upgrade to a later version of Wordpress and Akismet. As it is my comments in moderation fill up in no time with useless spam. And I should probably do something about the theme as well. Oh well, ... http://edward.aschan.org/2007/11/20/must-update-blog/ What ever you do don't let me near any of your critical systems. I break things just by being. In fact I don't even need to be present as crash number 2 will show. Crash 1: As I and my brother and some friends eat dinner the computer hick-ups and reboots. ... http://edward.aschan.org/2007/11/06/disk-crash-bonanza/