My fiber to the home connectivity saga continues and here is a summary:
1) Last winter the computer support division at the University (DC) tells me that there isn’t any problem in buying a VLAN solution via LuNet between my home and the University. Great. I order the fiber.
2) During the spring I get informed that this is no longer the case due to DC thinking it is to much hassle to take care of it. Instead I should order normal Internet connectivity via e.g. Tele2 and during or after the summer local peering will be arranged.
3) Last week I get my fiber and the I have to decide which ISP to choose and now DC tells me that it doesn’t really matter as none of them have local peering and there are no immediate plans for local peering. Sigh.
Yes, I get upset with this. Solution 1 is technically simple to arrange as LuNet already have a switch inside the main switch room at the University. Why cannot service organizations be more service minded?
I know I am saying negative things about DC, but I feel that they disappoint their customers so often it is validated. And I have worked there as well so I know the inner workings, or actually the inner “non-workings”.
Anyhow, good morning everybody.
I tried the Google’s News Alert on a tip from mymarkup.net and it seems to work OK. I tried Parnes, nanotech, marratech and Luleå. The latter didn’t work though as it seems to look for “lule” instead and that matches some activities in Africa.
Today the Anticimex “terminator” is coming after lunch to kill off all our horse ants. Stay away from my house, you critters. Before lunch the family is taking a bike ride to Kvantum for some food shopping.
But before that we need breakfast. “Guggemux” and the. A salad consisting of tomato, cucumber, egg (loads) and sour cream (“gräddfil”).

I spent the the morning with Tovah cleaning the wood behind the wood. After she moved the first 70cm stick she said, “Sigh, that was hard work.” 🙂 She is 3. Anyhow we started a fire and burned about 2 m^2 of sticks, leaves and other woody things. For lunch we had pasta with meat (kassler) in red curry sauce with a green salad. Yummy.
After lunch the whole family went for a bike ride around town. First stop was the playground at the Arcus Camping. Me and J were sitting under a tree reading and T was climbing and running around the place. Tovah is a good climber, so good she makes her father’s heart stop from time to time when she is really high up and her father is afraid that she is going to fall down. Hint, father = me. I was reading my first nanotech book. That is an interesting area. Anybody have nanotech job for a assistant professor in computer science.
After about two hours, T said she was hungry and wanted a hamburger. Of we went and on the way we stopped at Inneting. They have some really nice decorating things there and I will definitely go back soon.
We headed into town and bought a hamburger and fries at McDonalds for Tovah and cycled on to Casablanca where we bought a large family pizza. Just as we left the pizzeria with the LARGE pizza box in Tovah’s lap it started raining. Where can one hide from the rain and eat a pizza? Hmm, we headed to the southern harbour and ended up on a loading dock where we had a nice small picknick with hamburgers, fries and our huge pizza.
Then home we went but we did a quick cruise around S.O.D.A. where there was a gathering of big American cars (raggare) and I wasn’t really sure if they were looking more at our cool cycles or we on their cars 🙂 That was fun. Yes, I am an exhibitionist.
We got home at 20.00 and after watching Dharma and Greg it is now time for some reading in bed. The story in “Ont blod” continues about the American serial killer in Sweden.
Update: added images above.

test of azure
Azure is a Java based blog client that allows me to post from my Palm and my phone. The latter remains to be tested. This is written on my Palm Tungsten C.
breakfast time…

A fun episode today, I wanted an ice cream and I asked Johanna if she wanted a “G” as in glass which is Swedish for ice cream. Anyhow, before Johanna gets a chance to answer Tovah says, “I want ice cream”. So much for speaking in code.

We just got back from 7 hours down town. We had lunch at Baan Thai, Swirleys at the northern harbour, 6 visits to the bathroom with Tovah, and way to much time shopping time. We didn’t actually buy that much. Johanna bought a Esprit top, a piece of metal net for her lamp we bought in Egypt, 1l milk and 1l sour milk.
20 of the 40 roses I bought for Johanna last week withered after 1 day so I complained about it and guess what, I got 20 new roses. That is nice service. Or as Tovah would say: “Oj”.
“Pappa, jag måste bajsa. ….. Det kommer inget…. ” times 5.

It is my fathers birthday today!

Morning all appreciated colleagues in the weblogging business!
Yesterday Jennifer told us that the ants we had on the porch were actually horse ants, the Nordic termite. Oh no, my house is going to fall to pieces. I sent an email to my insurance company and right after 8 this morning they called me up. Had a quick talk with them and they referred me to Anticimex, an the exterminator (Arnie is that you?) will come on Thursday afternoon. I just hope they won’t have to use strong chemicals that will prevent us from being there or even prevent us from not allowing Tovah to be outside. It is summer….
Breakfast time and after that we are heading down town. We are going to buy wick for J’s new oil lamp, go to the employment service, eat lunch (Waldorf perhaps?), buy some clothes for J and other things I cannot think of right now.

I have gotten accustomed to reading other people’s blogs and it isn’t just random blogs but I follow about 15 blogs, mainly written by fellow Swedish bloggers. I feel like I get to know these bloggers very well. You know what they do, what they like, what they eat, what they hate etc. etc. I especially enjoy Andreas, Niklas, and Malin, but there ar emany more…
I have one question though, what do you call the writers? Friends? I have never really met them and friends is something mutual, right? I mean, I don’t know if they like my writing and I have definitively never met them (with one exception, Tina).
Anybody have any suggestions?

Woke up around 06.30 from thunder and heavy rain. The thunder was really close and you could feel the massive sound from it in the bed. The power of nature…
Around 06.50 I picked up my Tungsten C and wanted to check my email but there wasn’t any network to the rest of the world. Oh, well. During thunder things usually break, but normally it is on the other end, at the university. That was not the case today. After we got up and showered I started looking for the error and found that the 16 port switch on the second floor had stopped working on the auto-uplink port. A quick switch to a 5-port brother solved that part, got a link light but still no conectivity to the rest of the world. Hmm, let us verify the 8-port hub downstairs. No link light to the switch upstairs. That port on the hub was broken as well and I moved the cable to another port on the hub and it all started working. Verified the 16-port switch and yes it was broken. Called Netgear and I am getting a new one, again. This is will be the second time it is replaced with a new one.
Everything felt OK and finally I could eat my breakfast. Half way through Johanna wonders where Jennifer is and she heds up to check her email. “Gubben, I have no net.” Hmm, I have net on the other computer but not on hers. Some detective work shows that the ethernet card on her computer is broken and after a quick swap her computer is up and running again. Update the DHCP server to give her the right IP-number. All great.
Hmm, perhaps I should fix Tina’s blog so the RSS-feed gives the full entry? Hmm, I cannot change anything on her blog. Log in as Tina. HUH, she doesn’t have any permissions at all on her blog besides posting new entries. That is strange. After 1 hour I give up. I cannot increase her rights and I cannot add myself as an admin to her blog. That blog is living on its own in cyberspace.
What a day. And it is only 11.10… I really hope nothing else got lost during the night.