Skandiabanken offline, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Has the hack attack on Sony reached into the world of Swedish Internet banking? Probably not, but it is weird that in the midst of the outage at Sony my Internet bank is suddenly…
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Don’t the would be pundits watch “The West Wing”?
This picture has prompted many comments, at least here in Sweden. In the Swedish version of “Thought for the Day”, the radio program with religious commentary, one person denounced President Obama and Hillary Clinton for watching the killing of Osama…
Apple Killed My iPad
The ios 4.2.1 upload, runnlng on my work computer, totally froze my iPad. When I hooked it up to its primary PC at home, the only solution was a complete restore, erasing everything. So now I have to reinstall all…
Social Media as Career Opportunity
eBookstores Not Ready for Primetime? No Nobel
Often when the Nobel Literature Prize is announced, I run down to the fairly large bookstore near work to see if they have anything by the new laureate in English. Sometimes they do, often the don’t. So I was looking…
Transcending the Kindle
Are eReaders the savior of newspapers? In the latest issue of “Wired” Steven Levy argues for the usefulness and more serious role of the Kindle compared to the iPad: “But longer, deeper plunges into literature—what the critic Victor Nell calls “ludic…